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(via Lost Garden: What are game mechanics?)

July 4, 2014

(via The Best World Cup Ever! by Alma Guillermoprieto | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books)

July 4, 2014

3D weaving produces strong, flexible solids

mostlysignssomeportents: Oluwaseyi Sosanya, a Nigerian American student at London’s Royal College of Art, produced an amazing technique for 3D weaving, computer-controlled weavers to produce stable, three dimensional topologies. Read more…

July 4, 2014

martinlkennedy: All you ever need to know about computers. From The Computer: A Ladybird How It Works Book (1979 edition)

July 4, 2014

If you’re using the Internet, you are being experimented on. Period. Pop Loser No. 5: Watched with the detachment of god. (via krislane)

July 4, 2014

Why Hate Soccer?

Why Hate Soccer? But as journalist Franklin Foer observed in his 2004 book, How Soccer Explains the World, it’s not really about soccer. Soccer simply offers a new turf to play out the “culture wars” between cosmopolitanism and traditionalism. It is a divide, driven by globalization, between a relativist worldview that embraces diversity and global…

July 4, 2014

robertreich: THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF INEQUALITY: A LECTURE TO THE TOP ONE-TENTH OF 1 PERCENT Here’s the Aspen Lecture I gave recently at this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival. The irony of talking about inequality with an audience composed almost entirely of the richest one-tenth of 1 percent of Americans was not lost on me.…

July 4, 2014

christianmccrea: http://www.martin.nerurkar.de/games/sushi-hands/sushi.html Totally into how this looks, an awkward quick-hands party game called Sushi Hands, coming out of the Lyst game jam on sex and love.

July 4, 2014

mattahan: Cannot be stressed enough.

July 3, 2014

emergentfutures: Foothill grad earns degree entirely online A Berkeley-bound student who earned his associate’s degree entirely online is among nearly 1,000 students who will graduate from Foothill College Friday, June 27. From his home in Mendocino — or occasionally sitting in a Mendocino café or library — James Sommermann completed 23 Foothill classes online in…

July 3, 2014