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The FCC Chairman’s Lame Excuses for Slaying Net Neutrality
The FCC Chairman’s Lame Excuses for Slaying Net Neutrality thisfeliciaday: A few years ago, Internet users, democracy activists, and entrepreneurs got wind of a proposed law, SOPA, that would have changed the Web’s basic architecture to the benefit of a few media giants. So they organized protests for several months to oppose the law. Faced…
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skunkbear: 50 years ago at 4 a.m., a Dartmouth student and professor ran the very first BASIC program. In the 1950s, if you were at Dartmouth and you wanted to run a computer program, you had to translate that code into a bunch of little holes on a punch card, drive the 125 miles to…
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A humanities culture that prizes thinking and writing will tend to look down on making and building as banausic—the kind of labor that can be outsourced to non-specialists. Digital humanities gains some of its self-confidence from the democratic challenge that it mounts to that old distinction. “Personally, I think Digital Humanities is about building things,”…
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2014 IndieCade Submissions | IndieCade – International Festival of Independent Games
2014 IndieCade Submissions | IndieCade – International Festival of Independent Games IndieCade 2014 Submissions CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR GAME! IndieCade was established to create vibrant festivals and showcases dedicated to independent games and open to the public. It is our goal to showcase exciting and innovative new work, host productive networking environments, hold important…
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Playful Arts Festival 2014 | OpenCall (EN)
Playful Arts Festival 2014 | OpenCall (EN) Playful Arts Festival 2014. Open Call for Playful Projects Submit your project via: http://bit.ly/PAF14Call In the third week of June, the historical city of ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands will become a playground for people of all ages. Playful Arts Festival invites game designers, artists and others to submit…
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explore-blog: Pixar cofounder Ed Catmull on failure and why fostering a fearless culture is the key to groundbreaking creative work – absolutely fantastic read.
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Theatre is fundamentally about moving players around a three dimensional space, without having to consider how this is reduced to a two dimensional space like film. Dan Pinckbeck, in response to Rainer Siglhttp://videogametourism.at/node/1967 (via notgames)
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I was a person of color in a workshop whose theory of reality did not include my most fundamental experiences as a person of color—that did not in other words include me. Junot Díaz reflects on the whiteness of the MFA program: http://nyr.kr/1fzDYPu (via newyorker)
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tacanderson: Kid Wearables? LeapFrog Debuts Fitness Tracker for Training Wheels Set The LeapBand, designed for kids ages 4 to 7, gives kids commands like “wiggle like a worm” or “pop like popcorn” and then rewards the activity by giving points that can be used to unlock special game features on the band. When kids get…
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Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away. Frida Kahlo (via anemptyspace)