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Rosie Revere, Engineer: picture book about intergenerational makers
mostlysignssomeportents: Rosie Revere, Engineer is an absolutely wonderful kids’ picture book about a young girl who loves to invent, but finds herself crushed by the laughter of adults — until her great aunt Rose explains the relationship of failure, invention and perseverance. Written in delightful verse and filled with sneaky histories of women in aviation,…
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Theorizing the Web 2015 CfP
Theorizing the Web 2015 CfP Abstract submission deadline: 11:59 pm (EST), Jan 18, 2015 Conference dates: April 17-18 2015 Conference venue: Intl Center for Photography’s new home in Lower Manhattan, NYC, USA
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I know exactly where I was: sitting on a tattered couch in the living room of my rental house in Austin, Texas, 1989. The ninth issue of the experimental comics magazine RAW, edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly, had been released, and I’d bought it at a local comics shop and brought it home…
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gifsboom: Video: MorpHex MKI
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magictransistor: The Texas Zephyr, 1940.
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Nalo Hopkinson’s Report from Midnight
mostlysignssomeportents: PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series is a wonderful line of chapbooks introducing the work of radical science fiction authors; each book is a short mix of essays, interviews and novellas and short-stories (they honored me by producing The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, based on my work). The newest volume is Report from Midnight, by…
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tmagazine: David Freid for The New York Times Esteban Cortazar on Where to Eat, Sightsee and Shop in Cartagena See more here
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Touching Media
ourrisd: In the Center for Integrated Technologies (CIT), Kmee Kim MFA 16 DM (pictured above) and Yeahyun Shin 15 GD use a keyboard to control the fluttery movements of a two-dimensional bird attempting to cross a digital landscape filled with natural obstacles. Once the bird lands safely on the edge of the computer screen, a fictional email is fired…
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A large part of their success is due to the world’s most popular YouTuber, “PewDiePie”, playing their app in a recent video. A similar video prompted Flappy Bird’s meteoric rise earlier this year. How Andy and Matt are making a motza by wasting your time with Crossy Road (via iamdanw)
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nowonlyghosts: sixpenceee: Margaret Hamilton is a computer scientist and mathematician. She was the lead software engineer for Project Apollo. Her work prevented an abort of the Apollo 11 moon landing. She’s also credited for coining the term “software engineer.” Those stacks are the code she wrote for Apollo 11. Incredible.