February 2012
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“We’re heading to a world where there are just a handful of influential...”
– Seth Godin - Who decides what gets sold in the bookstore? - The Domino Project
Computer Security when Traveling to China →
Interesting paragraph from Schneier on Security:
End your addiction to brain crack. →
One minute of transforming advise from Ze Frank. You can Kickstart this sage.
via @robinsloan
What did you learn in middle school?
Rob Greco did a bit of a remix using the aims of his TCS middle school program and Christopher Fahey’s list of What I Learned in Art School. Whoa, imagine yourself in possession of these skills and practices! Note: Colleagues = students and teachers!
How to champion and defend my ideas.
How to distinguish between a personal critique and a critique of work.
How to respectfully and...
“ Technology that monetizes your attention turns the virtue of curiosity into the...”
Flowers grown from 30,000-year-old fruit →
… buried by ancient squirrels.
Read the whole article at Discovermagazine.com
“Male privilege has been with us for — how long? Ten thousand years? A hundred...”
– Sara Robinson, on “Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control — And Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now”
Everyone should read this article.
(via coketalk)
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Hulletta- a fashion project on Kickstarter
In April, student/designer Hayley Martell, is participating in a fashion show titled Transcend. I think she will. See more of her work with fabric, fiber and detail.
— image by Olivia Robinson And, from her own introspective thoughts I seriously suggest this tag for her garments:
Hand wash in cold water. Lay flat to dry and put aside fear, desperation and unknowing. Let your imagination take...
The Era of Robotic Warfare Has Arrived – 30% of... →
In case you have been thinking about drones. Lots of info in this article.
Looks like an update is needed here.
“In cities and towns across the U.S., a familiar story is replaying itself:...”
– The Case for Publicly Owned Internet Service: Susan P. Crawford - Bloomberg
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How Companies Learn Your Secrets - NYTimes.com →
One study from Duke University estimated that habits, rather than conscious decision-making, shape 45 percent of the choices we make every day …
It seems we are habitual in our consumer selections as well … likened to “rats in a maze”. Predictive analytics departments are devoted to tracking, identifying and helping us establish the right habits — early!
This is a...
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Oh.
Greece has been a huge burden on the financial system. It’s borrowed an enormous amount of money from banks, hedge funds and other investors and that’s how it’s kept its economy going — but those investors will want their money back. So on March 20th, Greece is facing a big payment: 14 billion euros. And this bailout is just purely to let Greece make that payment. If...
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“None of us belong here. But we are here. And there’s not enough time. Cut...”
– Umair Haque
Why Love Matters More (And Less) Than You Think - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
Skull Poem
It’s very popular now and I love it … considerably more personal then the standard medical notes. At my age, I have many skulls but no one in my life unit has ever included a skull poem for the engraving. I’ll be the first! It must be ready to include at the will signing tomorrow and I intend to write a dandy.
— micro-fiction by Betty Ann (photo via Hyrtl Simulacrum by Jeanne...
Final Transmission
I actually left the Empire in 1996. All around me the old services and eateries were collapsing, giving way to chain outlets like Starbucks and GAP. I threw my computer and clothes in the trunk of my car and moved permanently to Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, and later on to Santiago de Chile. But, it cast a wide digital shadow — went to sleep to Grammys tweets, woke up to Grammys tweets.
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“This is the axe my grandfather made.
My father replaced the handle,
and I...”
– Proverb (via bestmadeco)
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“The problem isn’t that kids expect praise for everything they do. The problem is...”
– Criticizing (common criticisms of) praise - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
I LIKE THIS!
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“As an alternative to the idea that we teach “subjects,”… what we really...”
– Dr. Michael Wesch at Digital Ethnography -Subjects or Subjectivites?
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When We Build - Wilson Miner on Vimeo →
This is where Wilson takes us.
Design is the choices we make about the world we want to live in. We choose where to live, what to surround ourselves with, what to spend our time and energy on. We make our world what it is and we become the kind of people who live in it. … everything we make takes up space, creates noise, competes for attention. What do we want to spend more time with...
SOPA, ACTA and WIPO: where is the copyfight... →
Stephen Colbert's SuperPAC hurts the Supreme... →
“I knew in that moment this book was somehow going to create more space inside my...”
– RAWing in the Rain, by Maja D’aoust - Boing Boing’s RAW Week Bonus A sweet little very short story.
“The day goes on picking
the meat from its teeth.”
– Erika L. Sánchez from her poem The Loop via Anti-poetry.com
“Anti- is contrarian, a devil’s advocate that primarily stands against the confinement of poetry in too-small boxes. ” — about Anti-
Super Bowl Chili Recipe with Beer, Black Beans,... →
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The Ceremony of the Whole... at Woolgathersome →
I love little posts like this one. They are like small teachings where words and image create a moment of luminance, awareness … a door.
And then this one and this one.
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“With an entire body at your command, do you seriously think the Future Of...”
– A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
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Today's Smile →
Sounds like it’s from Etsy or Pintrest but it’s not.
via prosthetic knowledge
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A New Chile is Possible » Counterpunch →
Chilean students question the education system as commercial and elitist because it reproduces existing social inequities and makes them worse. But they are not just asking questions: They are practicing the kind of education they have spent years dreaming about and struggling to obtain. “If workers can manage a factory, we can manage the school,” says Cristóbal, 17, as he flashes a smile.
“…rather than scale up successes (the fruits), we should focus on scaling up the...”
– Ewen Le Borgne
Clever-folding tyvek San Francisco map, with... →
Bought one as a gift. Now, I need one of these European bags to match it.
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