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new series in Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities (Ashgate)
Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities (Ashgate) Series Editors: Marilyn Deegan is Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Fellow at King’s College London. Lorna Hughes is University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections, National Library of Wales. Andrew Prescott is Chair of Digital Humanities, King’s College, London, UK. Harold Short is Professor of Humanities Computing,…
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The emergence of a new object of study or creation should always be seen as an opportunity to change the way that all academic disciplines — and the institution itself — work. When a new discipline emerges, universities should experiment with mechanisms that allow this new discipline to produce art, scholarship, archives, and teaching in…
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Could we engage ‘Digital Humanities’, with its separate IT staff who will deal with the technical details for clueless arts and humanities scholars? The concept of Digital Humanities might be useful for retiring linguists but is deadly for the media studies environment. The humanities itself should try to overcome its distance from computer science and…
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A Wilderness of Contradictions
lareviewofbooks: F.X. Feeney Christopher SorrentinoDeath Wish Deep Focus/Soft Skull Press, November 2010 Jonathan LethemThey Live Deep Focus/Soft Skull Press, November 2010 “Is Death Wish a good movie that ultimately fails, or is it a bad movie that succeeds brilliantly from time to time?” Christopher Sorrentino asks this at the outset of his brief study of…
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My introduction to the field of design came when I stumbled upon one of Paul Rand’s books while I was an undergrad at MIT. It was a little over a decade later when I had the fortune of meeting Mr. Rand at his studio in Connecticut in the mid 90s. He was alone, and that…
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Advertising Degree Zero
lareviewofbooks: Sherryl Vint Golden Calf 1 © Irving Norman, 1957 William GibsonZero History Putnam, 2010. 416 pp. “The future is already here; it is just unevenly distributed,” is one of William Gibson’s most famous dictums. Zero History, his most recent novel, is perhaps best understood as science fiction of the present, a representation of this…
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albotas: Every single Pokémon 3D AR marker. pokedex3ds: Here is an image that has them all in! From the good guys at GBAtemp.net. I’m going to include all the codes against names later. Note that you can only collect three new Pokémon a day so the rest will just show as shadowy outlines. Fire up…
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dinosaurparty: (via Bit Pilot for Mac – download now available! #games #openframeworks / ver 2 for iPhone/iPad – tonight! game by Zach Gage (@helvetica) | CreativeApplications.Net) Bit Pilot is one of my favorite games for the iPhone, and I am so excited to play B.P. 2.0! Zach Gage has just announced that Bit Pilot 2.0…
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DataBot mouse and HDD concepts give weight to files, encourage data purges (video) — Engadget
DataBot mouse and HDD concepts give weight to files, encourage data purges (video) — Engadget Mice have been a computing mainstay since pretty close to the dawn of the PC, but they don’t offer much in terms of information about the on-screen data you’re interacting with. What if they featured physical feedback to tip you…
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A visitor to the Rotten Tomatoes site can check out the data for individual Hollywood careers—that’s how Tabarrok came up with the Shyamalan graph—but there’s no easy way for users to measure industrywide trends or to compare different actors and directors side-by-side. To that end, Rotten Tomatoes kindly let Slate analyze the scores in its…