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brucesterling: *The wife’s new novel is out — in the Italian edition. It’s a magic-realist memoir of her life in the vanished Yugoslavia. *She’s signing and speaking in Torino today. Feltrinelli, Piazza C.L.N, Torino, Mercoledi 7 Maggio, 6 pm http://www.infinitoedizioni.it/contenuto.php?tid=4519 (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Placing art in opposition to that kind of functional practicality gives art an important kind of power, the capacity to reveal a world beyond utility – a world we lose sight of all too often in the need to justify everything via claims to usefulness. Chris Bateman, about Oscar Wilde’s notion of the uselessness of…
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newyorker: The cyberhacking that hit Target last year illustrates a weakness shared by many retail C.E.O.s: the problems that they’ve spent decades learning to solve are not the problems that they face today: http://nyr.kr/1j0hqlU Photograph: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty.
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futurescope: PaperFold: Foldable Smartphone Shows Shape-Shifting Future for Google Maps PaperFold is a shape-changing smartphone allows users to fold open up to three flexible electrophoretic displays to provide extra screen real estate when needed. Displays are detachable such that users can fold the device into various shapes that can range from an ultra notebook shape…
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“You must be either a game or art”, the fence demands, “you cannot be both.” Sadly, many of those who claim to passionately defend games have become the greatest obstruction to recognising games as artworks! Chris Batemanhttp://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2014/05/the-value-of-art.htmle (via notgames)
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Anatomy of the Corporate Soldier
Anatomy of the Corporate Soldier azspot: If you were a fictional villain, bent on subjugating the population by coaxing them into inactivity, you couldn’t build a better group than this. They’re smart, they scowl at the unconventional, they are great at their jobs but are functionally neutered outside of work—it’s a tyrant’s dream. It’s a…
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new-aesthetic: You Love Pinterest. Find Out Why The Police Do, Too : All Tech Considered : NPR, via Will W. Eight hours after posting on his department’s Facebook, Twitter — and the Pinterest page the agency launched in February — Stahler received information from not one but three people who helped identify the owner of the bracelet.…
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visualizingmath: Cubes fall through “Flatland”. On the left is a view of the cube in perspective; on the right is a view from directly above which represents what a two-dimensional person viewing the cube from within the plane would be able to perceive. The top animation shows a square falling through flatland on its face. The slices…
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txchnologist: Meet The CHIMP Carnegie Mellon University’s Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform took third place in last December’s DARPA Robotics Challenge. The team behind the four-limbed highly capable bot will compete against others during this December’s Finals. DARPA is sponsoring the challenge to develop robots that can help humans respond to natural and man-made disasters in human-built…
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masterworksinteractive: caramelzappa: We we keep seeing AAA games getting bigger and bigger budgets fail, and now we hear that Destiny has a budget of 500 million. At this point this kind of thing is just the most expensive joke. Hopefully 100M of that goes directly to marketing, in which case I think it will do…