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design-is-fine: Lego System, City / Maps, 1955-67. Scale 1:87. The first Lego System was launched 1955 in Denmark, based on a city map, at first it included trains as well. Source 1+2
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fruitsoftheweb: “Simulation of a man falling into a tank of water using Lattice Boltzmann techniques.”
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I worry that we’ll have two classes of transportation: We’ll have the elites, who’ll drive in Uber blacks, and we’ll have the poor, who wait longer and longer for the public buses that never come because the public system has basically become even more underfunded than it already was. That’s still working itself out. The…
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The NYTimes Is Becoming An App
stoweboyd: At long last, the NYTimes has introduced following of contributors: All media companies have to become software companies, and get appified. I think appification is oversimplification. But maybe that’s a strategy that can be allowed to run its course and then proclaim a new container.
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hyperallergic: Ever since Edward Snowden leaked top-secret National Security Agency (NSA) documents that revealed the extent of the US government’s surveillance program, the response from the art world has been vast and varied. In the past year alone a large statue of the whistleblower was erected in Manhattan and a controversial bust of Snowden —…
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I suppose it was the worst book any man has ever written. It was a colossal tome and faulty from start to finish. But it was my first book and I was in love with it. If I had the money, as Gide had, I would have published it at my own expense. If I…
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By creating millions of networked people, financially exploited but with the whole of human intelligence one thumb-swipe away, info-capitalism has created a new agent of change in history: the educated and connected human being. Paul Mason, The end of capitalism has begun (via johnborthwick)
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The great technological advance of the early 21st century consists not only of new objects and processes, but of old ones made intelligent. The knowledge content of products is becoming more valuable than the physical things that are used to produce them. But it is a value measured as usefulness, not exchange or asset value.…
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If You Can Picture A Tarot Card, It’s Because of These 3 People
If You Can Picture A Tarot Card, It’s Because of These 3 People for the attention of andreblyth
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code drawing 85 various states by rafaelfajardo