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Fwd: Save Dot Art #savedotart
From: e-flux > Date: May 22, 2014 at 6:00:23 AM MDT Subject: Save Dot Art SAVE DOT ART An Open Letter to the ICANN Board and the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) www.e-flux.com www.deviantart.com www.icann.org Throughout the history of humankind, art has always been created both inside and outside of structures of government and management. From…
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Can These $20,000 Houses Save the American Dream?
Can These $20,000 Houses Save the American Dream? protoslacker: Rural Studio, the celebrated undergraduate program of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture at Auburn University, has been educating citizen architects since it was founded in 1993 by D.K. Ruth and the late Samuel Mockbee. Rural Studio at Twenty: Designing and Building in Hale…
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People who sell seeds have always struggled with an inconvenient reality: Their merchandise reproduces itself. Lisa Hamilton quoted in an article by Nicola at Edible Geography. The Carrot Hack (via protoslacker)
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brandx: mothernaturenetwork: 12-year-old invents Braille printer using Lego setThe Braigo printer cost its inventor about $350, making it more affordable than other Braille printers that can retail for more than $2,000. And because I seriously side-eye this Western journalism trend of never crediting and NAMING the actual inventors in the headlines (especially when they’re young…
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mashable: The AirPenguin, created by German automation company Festo, is an autonomous penguin-like drone that can move around freely in a defined air space through a microcontroller.
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brucesterling: *This may be your last big chance to arrest them all before they do to everything what Napster did to the music biz
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kickstarter: Project of the Day—Lil’Bot, the Little Robot That Could. Man. Look at that thing. Just balancing, a subtle happy face, a couple yellow wheels. Perfect for a kid (or anyone) to learn Arduino-based programming. Also, its facial expression can change.
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Here is how the internship scam works. It’s not about a “skills” gap. It’s about a morality gap. 1) Make higher education worthless by redefining “skill” as a specific corporate contribution. Tell young people they have no skills. 2) With “skill” irrelevant, require experience. Make internship sole path to experience. Make internships unpaid, locking out…
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The Barbie Effect
The Barbie Effect “Psychologists Aurora Sherman of Oregon State University and Eileen Zurbriggen of the University of California, Santa Cruz enrolled 37 girls aged four to seven years in their study on “Effect of Barbie Play on Girls’ Career Cognitions.” Each girl was randomly assigned to play with either one of two types of Barbie…
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Screen caps from 1979revolutionGame.com website. The crowdfunding pitch has language that is, in parts, fascinating and repellant to me.