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(via Giant Tower Of Babel Sculpture Made of 30,000 Books: Pics, Videos, Links, News)
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A while back I stumbled on this limited edition $350 hand-crafted wooden car from Auditorium Toy Company. Could it possibly survive and be an heirloom my baby boy might pass down? Sure it could. But I’d much rather drop $349 into his college fund and spend $1 on a Hot Wheels car. (And I also…
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Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters – Slashdot
Why Google Choosing Arduino Matters – Slashdot
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There just aren’t enough high-quality games that also serve serious purposes effectively. Making games is hard. Making good games is even harder. Making good games that hope to serve some external purpose is even harder (via Gamasutra – Features – Persuasive Games: Exploitationware )
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Joshua Yaffa profiles Edward Tufte for The Washington Monthly. After the publication of Envisioning Information, Tufte decided, he told me, “to be indifferent to culture or history or time.” He became increasingly consumed with what he calls “forever knowledge,” or the idea that design is meant to guide fundamental cognitive tasks and therefore is rooted…
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Academic libraries have been beset by changes that have led some observers to wonder whether they have a future at all. Their budgets have been hit hard even as the cost of buying and storing information—whether print monographs or journal databases—continues to climb. Search engines have replaced librarians as the go-to source of information for…
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Academic libraries have been beset by changes that have led some observers to wonder whether they have a future at all. Their budgets have been hit hard even as the cost of buying and storing information—whether print monographs or journal databases—continues to climb. Search engines have replaced librarians as the go-to source of information for…
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Peeped on Sideshow Toys are the RAH Naked2 Body and RAH Massive Body (both “males” tho) Priced at US$45.99 each and with a 3rd-quarter 2011 ship-out. A tag pricey indeed, but seems one of the only ways to score a RAH body (besides hobby shops who part out the box, maybe?). You decide 🙂 (via…
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drawnblog: More from illustrator Jason Levesque, as he shares a time lapse colouring of one of his pieces in Photoshop. Here’s the finished version below: (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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This September, a new charter school called ChicagoQuest will open on North Ogden Avenue and challenge kids to play more games as a core component of the curriculum, which also includes game creation. Parents worry that their kids play too many video games. Even U.S. President Barack Obama has cited Xboxes and PlayStations as distractions…