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We Should All Step Back from Security Journalism
We Should All Step Back from Security Journalism protoslacker: I’ll Go First I admire Quinn Norton very much. She is a fine journalist. This essay is extraordinarily important. When a reporter of stature writes that she cannot write about a vitally important subject, which she is eminently qualified to write about, because the status of…
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magictransistor: Tarocchi Genoves
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The Georgia Institute researchers started with plain old printer paper, onto which they glued sheets of aluminum foil and Teflon. Then it was just a matter of folding the stuff into different shapes and seeing what might happen. Of particular interest was the Slinky-shaped configuration, which you can see above. As the different rings come…
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federicoantonini: This book #3
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flavorwire: Tarot Cards Inspired by Decemberists Lyrics
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Making, gender, and doing
mostlysignssomeportents: Deb Chacra, a brilliant engineer, teacher and thinker, explains why she doesn’t identify as a “maker” — because when we elevate “makers” over maintainers, carers, and do-ers, we carry on the tradition of elevating traditionally male work over traditionally female work. Read the rest…
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dobooks: Disobedient Objects Catherine Flood From political activism comes the art of protest, symbols, and designs that defy standard definitions. This timely book shows how objects can change the world by out-designing authority. Included are items from protest movements over the past three decades from around the globe: papier-mâché and cardboard puppets made by the…
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freddymerken: Señor de verdad.
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dobooks: Fully Booked – Ink on Paper: Design and Concepts for New Publications Young designers and publishers are ringing in a new era for printed books—one that is likely to be the most exciting in their entire history. Digital media are disappointing for books. All books look the same on an iPad, for example. On…
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futurescope: Drone carrying three kilos of meth crashed in Tijuana A small drone carrying approximately three kilos of crystal meth crashed in a Tijuana parking lot less than a mile from the border with San Diego on Tuesday night, police said. [via vice news]