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warrenellis: The thing I did for MIT arrived. View more Warren Ellis on WhoSay
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kenyatta: boingboing: Digital tools have a mind of their own: yours Clive Thompson’s says that there are three principal biases that today’s digital tools introduce to human thought. First, they allow for prodigious external memory: smartphones, hard drives, cameras, and sensors routinely record more information than any tool before them. We’re shifting from a stance…
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bookporn: beth-akd: 100 Aniversario del Nacimiento de Julio Cortázar Happy Birthday, Julio Cortázar!
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foxadhd: Atlantic City police now have body cameras This illustration is an interesting take on the symbol of authority also being the technology of accountability.
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bookporn: Rayuela / Hopscotch Julio Cortázar
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nyugamecenter: wsong: BOSS A game about the interaction between a player and a hostile, blinded enemy. Developed with Zack Zhang & Vanessa Briceño as semester-long project – Spring 2014 The player must draw the attention of a large, mechanical monster that guards the mine by making sounds and directing its violence towards her location –…
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(Russian fortress chess) a team-based four-player variant.
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Input: Fonts for Code — Preview
Input: Fonts for Code — Preview Input is a flexible system of fonts designed specifically for code by David Jonathan Ross. It offers both monospaced and proportional fonts, all with a large range of widths, weights, and styles for richer code formatting. It has generous licensing terms, and a great deal of flexibility. A tremendous…
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Ultimately, the team hope soft robots will be able to manipulate the bricks themselves, leading to self-replication bots that could swap parts in and out as needed. Journal reference: Advanced Materials http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201401642/abstract (via Squidgy ‘click-e-bricks’ will let robots fix themselves – tech – 07 August 2014 – New Scientist) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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But your recruitment will be based in love, not on wages. The mentions come rapid fire, culminating in the grand pronouncement from one employee: Blizzard employees are “just a bunch of geeks,” just like you. This is a window into how the industry as a whole views employment. As one of us has written about…