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thegetty: Happy Pi Day A calligraphic guide to constructing the letters of the alphabet using circles. Useful and beautiful. Start with A here. Letterforms and illuminations by Joris Hoefnagel, 1591-96.
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moma: Today, several cities across Latin America are hosting a Latin America InstaMeet in celebration of the upcoming MoMA exhibition Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980 (March 29, 2015–July 19, 2015). Local Instagrammers and architecture enthusiasts will photograph buildings featured in the exhibition. The goal of the project is to show the current context of…
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alfiusdebux: W. H. Matthews. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments, 1922
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The old Porsches, the old Mercedes-Benzes, they had some integrity, some value for the Morlocks, for the third owners, for the hobbyists. They endured. They were like old Rolexes; expensive to run but durable by design. That’s no longer desired, if it ever was. Avoidable Contact: the watery Big Bang, the 32-step power steering fluid…
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MIT Media Lab guys building tech from cyberpunk novels
brucesterling: http://hackaday.com/2014/03/15/remembering-the-future-scifi-novel-tech-seen-at-sxsw/ “Remember the days when the future was console cowboys running around cyberspace trying to fry each other’s brains out? MIT Media Lab remembers too. They have a class called MAS S65: Science Fiction to Science Fabrication in which students are trying to create hardware inspired by technology imagined in the works of legendary…
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A war game that helps child survivors of war
mostlysignssomeportents: Rather than focusing on the heavily armed soldiers who populate most war games, This War of Mine made headlines last year by simulating the experiences of a very different group of people: civilian survivors. Now its developer 11 Bit Studios is going a step further, with new downloadable content whose proceeds will benefit the…
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reluctantconquistador: Day 220: Little animation I made on Flipnote of my brother’s (estebanfajardo) game because I was so excite yesterday. Background music of Anamanaguchi. This is awesome! (Source: http://reluctantconquistador.tumblr.com/)
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It is reported that at certain times when Drivers attempt to release the doors at the station, the Train Management System (TMS) indicates that the beacons cannot be detected, preventing the doors from opening. The location of the train then needs to be inputted into the TMS, allowing the doors to open. In some instances,…
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It just isn’t actually true that Silicon valley is an “ecosystem for the development of ‘disruptive technologies’ whose growth and success can be attributed to the incessant formation of a multitude of specialized, diverse entities that feed off, support and interact with one another,” to borrow a rather breathless quote from some starry-eyed urban researchers…