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milwaukeestat: A friend pointed me to The New Yorker’s interactive tree map of API data fields available by social network. I really wish Tumblr served geo data on its API.
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notational: otnld: Her: Love In The Modern Age Her: Love In The Modern Age, chronicling reactions to Spike Jonze’s Oscar-nominated film, Her. The documentary, directed by Lance Bangs, features stories and reflections from writers, musicians, actors and contemporary culture experts, including Olivia Wilde, James Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis, on the film Her, and their…
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theparisreview: “When I was a young man I was always hunting for new metaphors. Then I found out that really good metaphors are always the same. I mean you compare time to a road, death to sleeping, life to dreaming, and those are the great metaphors in literature because they correspond to something essential. If…
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laughingsquid: Chogokin Hello Kitty, A ‘Super Alloy’ Hello Kitty Mech Figure
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I touch you, I am created in you somewhere as a complex filament of light. Margaret Atwood, from “I Was Reading A Scientific Article” (via death-suit)
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It was becoming clearer and clearer to me that I didn’t want a viewer, I wanted a participant, or at least an interactive agent. I wanted there to be some transaction between me and you, particular viewer. But the thing that made the project possible… also made that interactive activity impossible. Vito Acconci (via thenewobjective)…
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stoweboyd: analyticisms: Yes, teenagers are leaving Facebook (mostly for Twitter and Snapchat it seems) but we wouldn’t say Facebook has a “problem”: they are gaining a lot more users in other age groups than they are losing teens and the buying power of these new users is much greater, which is what Facebook advertisers want…
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cinoh: Steve Porcaro with a Modular Synth Polyfusion. ekkolalia quote: Spent five minutes figuring out why my headset made some weird sound. Forgot I had been working on a song and a microscopic sound had just kept looping and gaining volume. Time well spent.
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If you’ve never experienced it, “free” just seems like a lower number on a slider that has “half-price” in the middle. But free is not a number. If you paid for your education, you’re likely to understand education in transactional terms. In straightforward economic terms, it means that if you charge some money, you can…
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pitchgrey: technologyisreadytowear: “To create the dress, a 3D-scan of a person’s body forms the basis for a digitally modelled garment, to which the tessellated pattern is applied. The rigidity and behaviour of the final dress can be controlled at this stage by altering the configuration of the triangular hinged mesh: the way the material will…