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We extol celebrity at a time when it has never seemed more fleeting or meaningless. A lot more people are famous now for doing, well, nothing—and, so what? Fran Lebowitz in her Empire HBO documentary (Produced by Graydon Carter! Directed by Martin Scorsese!) complained—and I’m paraphrasing—that what has really been lost in American culture is…
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Huge congratulations go out to our dear friend and rockstar founder of Adafruit Industries, Limor Fried, on being the first female engineer featured on the cover of Wired magazine! (via Hardware Hero – Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories)[emphasis added]
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emmacooper: Charlotte Moorman performing Nam June Paik’s “TV Bra for Living Sculpture.”
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susanfairchild: make it perfect: .Lego Sack Tutorial.
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sneezypanda: Carcassonne | Image | BoardGameGeek Carcassone rubix cube O_o
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illillill: PEACE CORPS/Retro Corporate Logo
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…we got wired coverage but it’s not like it’s ‘96 and people still read wired. Hacker News | I sense a backlash growing. It seems like the only time people take you seriousl…
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Game mechanics encourage users to engage with your content on a much deeper level. Users will stay longer, come back more often, and generate more revenue for you. Here are some tips, links, and definitions to get you started! Gamification 101 | BigDoor
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[image from Citizen Kane] Borges concluded by quoting Chesterton, “there is nothing more frightening than a labyrinth that has no center.” [72] I wondered about the labyrinth with no center. For me, it is a mystery without a solution. A murder without a murderer. A world without answers, without truth or falsity. It is the…
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Trading Atoms for Bits The most basic way to make materials more ecologically friendly is to simply use less of them. Digital technology, for example, allows us to put songs, books, magazines, newspapers, TV shows, movies, most any kind of media, onto increasingly smaller computer chips. By trading in the atoms of the books, CDs,…