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hyperallergic: ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, New York — The original Oklahoma! musical from 1943 is set in the 1900s, during a much “simpler” time. Happiness was a field of wheat, 50 dollars was a significant sum of money, and a seven-story building was a skyscraper. Based on the 1931 play by Lynn Riggs, the musical now playing at…
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Possible Problems of Persona Politeness
hammersley: One of my AIs is funnier than the other. This is proving to be a problem. But first, consider how the amazing becomes normal very quickly. It feels like I’ve been using Siri on my phone my entire life, Siri on the iPad charging by my bed since forever, and Siri on my watch since…
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Eric Carle wrote a children’s book 10 Little Rubber Ducks inspired by the Floatees (Harper Collins 2005, ISBN 978-0-00-720242-3). At least one other children’s book has been written about the ducks, and the toys themselves have become collector’s items, fetching prices as high as $1,000. In 2004, Sandpiper published Ducky, written by Caldecott award winner…
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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)