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Bruce Sterling’s design future manifesto: viva spime! #10yrsago
mostlysignssomeportents: Bruce Sterling has written a fantastic nonfiction book about the future of industrial design and society, and it’s the most thought-provoking thing I’ve read all year. Sterling is a brilliant science fiction writer. Virtuoso novels likeDistraction have earned him an indelible place in the field. But as good as his novels are, I like…
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Four principal wizards inhabited my childhood. These were, in order of discovery, TH White’s Merlin, JRR Tolkien’s Gandalf, Susan Cooper’s Merriman Lyon and Ursula K Le Guin’s Ged, more commonly known as Sparrowhawk, true names being a serious business in Earthsea. Other magicians and witches also lived on my boyhood bookshelf, but even at 10…
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code drawing catalog
I’ve spent the last ten days creating a comprehensive catalog of my code drawings. I’ve set up an infrastructure so that I can catalog my other projects as well. First the drawings from 2015. Then the posts for the drawings from 2013 and 2014 were backdated to the date of the creation of the respective…
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RafaelFajardo / code drawings
RafaelFajardo / code drawings I’m building a comprehensive catalog of my code drawings at my website. come over for a visit.
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DoJ to Apple: your software is licensed, not sold, so we can force you to decrypt
mostlysignssomeportents: The DoJ is currently trying to force Apple to decrypt data stored on a defendant’s Iphone, and Apple, to its great credit, is fighting back, arguing that on the one hand, it doesn’t have the technical capability to do so; and on the other, should not be required to do so. A new filing…
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What did older students see in ScratchJr that kept them experimenting, revising, and sharing? Perhaps ScratchJr gets right its tools for personalizing characters. Its drawing tools are intuitive and fun. Only a few students drew characters completely from scratch (like an arrow that players could tap to control another character), but many students used the…
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Fichter For Understanding: ScratchJr: What Can It Offer Older Students?
Fichter For Understanding: ScratchJr: What Can It Offer Older Students?
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There are no enemies in the game and nobody is killed, and yet since its launch in April 2014 Monument Valley has sold 5 million copies and generated $13 million in revenue by attracting a broad base of fans beyond hardcore and experienced gamers including kids, old people, families, and newcomers. (via Secrets behind the…
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Batchelor: For those who somehow missed Apple’s announcement last month, what is 3D Touch? How does it work? Wafer: 3D Touch is a new screen technology that Apple developed for the iPhone 6S and detects variable pressure placed on the screen. It works by using capacitive sensors, which can measure microscopic changes in distances between…