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obsessedbythegrid: Franca Hornschemeyer, Dystopic door drawings
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…I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates. John Hodgman (via azspot)
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daveortega: Hacienda and other comics and zines will be available at the Art Books/ Book Arts Today Book Fair at Yale University Galleries Friday, Dec. 6 at 1:30pm.
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Right now, we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximise corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship. […] Books aren’t just commodities; the profit…
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Requiem for Rod Serling
Requiem for Rod Serling Throughout this search, I was reminded of the ingenuity of television’s most provocative voices at the midcentury mark. As noted by the late John Frankenheimer, who directed several Serling scripts for big and small screens, there were no old days when he and other television pioneers like Serling got their start.…
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lehaaz: The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all its limitations remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labour for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows…
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gewyns: Solar Reserve by John Gerrard. Every day on my way to and from work I pass this digital simulation. During its first days I stopped to appreciate it. Then the clouds approached the scene and it seized my attention. This contrast is unbelievably breathtaking. The juxtaposition of a modern display representing humanity’s technological advancement in an iconic city,…
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Driving a legobot with a simulated worm nervous-system
mostlysignssomeportents: More news from the Openworm project, whose Kickstarter I posted in April: they’ve sequenced the connectome of all 302 neurons in a C. Elegans worm, simulated them in software, and put them to work driving a Lego robot. The legobot’s sensors and motors are connected to the software in a way that corresponds to…
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explore-blog: Italo Calvino was offered the 1985–1986 term of the prestigious Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard. He died weeks before he was scheduled to deliver his lectures, but working on them, his wife recalls, was the obsession of his final months. Calvino’s manuscripts for the lectures, in which he looks back on “the…