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“Famous sounds” are sounds that have been created or used by somebody, liked and then copied by many others, and thus earned a “classic” status. I’d like to open this section of Synth Mania utilizing as a starting point portions of an article appeared in the October 1995 issue of Keyboard magazine, titled “20 Sounds…
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Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Design Fiction Workshop: Failures It was a relatively short workshop — a couple of hours in total. Initially I was nervous that there would be not enough guidance to allow the participants to grab onto the material enthusiastically. That proved to be wrong. After an initial presentation that…
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Peyton Lindley Executive Director, UX Design and Technology – EffectiveUI
Peyton Lindley Executive Director, UX Design and Technology – EffectiveUI
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Meet Erik VanBragt, Dir. of Technology at Zynga (via bestjobsever) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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New Gorillaz Album Recorded Entirely on an iPad
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Bunnie “Chumby” Huang, whose Hacking the Xbox is a reverse-engineer’s bible, has been asked to testify at the trial of Anaheim’s Matthew Crippen, who faces three years in prison for jailbreaking Xbox 360s (that is, modding them so that they could run software that Microsoft hadn’t authorized). But federal prosecutors have asked the judge to…
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Fast Company plans to put a woman on the cover sometime in 2011. Unlike women on the covers of other tech magazines under recent fire, she will be a technology executive and she will be wearing a shirt. (thanks Maggie) Fast Company seeks “Most Influential Women in Tech” nominations – Boing Boing
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Cindy’s Take on Tech» Blog Archive » An Open Letter to Wired Magazine Come to think of it, the last time that a woman was featured on your cover, because she was being featured in the magazine for an actual accomplishment, was way back in 1996 when it was Sherry Turkle, the academic and author.…
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Help Wanted: Internet Killed the Video Store – Boing Boing
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The example of computer art shows that the computer can be used also in a humane way in the true sense of the word. Seen in this way, it could be considered an example of that ‘gentle’ technology which in future years should gain more and more importance and which, even today, deserves our attention.…