September 2011
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“For the function of art is never to illustrate a truth—or even an...”
– Alain Robbe-Grillet, “The Use of Theory” (via senseofchampagnechic)
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“[What] I find jarring about this formulation is the same thing that bothers me...”
– Joe Moon on Facebook Timeline and Google’s Dear Sophie video. (via The Rhizome Frontpage)
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“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be…when I look at a...”
– Carl Rogers (via atramentum)
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#OccupyTogether: The Best Among Us →
There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human...
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An MFA Degree For Designers Who Want To Change The... →
So you want to change the world? Cynics may send you off to Wall Street or a white-shoe law firm. Those with gumption will look for another way. The new Master’s of Fine Arts in Design for Social Innovation has opened its doors just for them.
“We’re adamant this not be a program where people sit in a classroom and talk about how great it’s going to be when they go out and change the world,”...
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luke simulacrum: Occupy Wall Street Is About to... →
megasloth:
From Gawker:
“The Occupy Wall Street protesters — who the New York Times and other such venues had told me were too vague, too in need of glitzy PowerPoint presentations with concrete goals, too poorly dressed, too busy playing drums, too hypocritical because they used…
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WatchAmanda Cox - Eyeo Festival 2011 (by Eyeo Festival
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I missed this talk at the Eyeo Festival this Summer. Looking forward to watching it. She’s brilliant.
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minimaxwell:
Beautiful.
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“We need to remember that the process of learning is much more important for our...”
– Process and Product (via gjmueller)
Princeton bans academics from handing all... →
tingletech:
/via hackernews http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3046651
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Watchnprfreshair:
Something for your afternoon: Every year there’s a contest online for grad students to “dance their thesis.” Four of the “Dance Your PhD thesis” videos are now posted. Above, my personal favorite: Anna Robson dancing to her PhD thesis, “Nanosensing protein allostery and peptide interactions using SERS.”
“Allow Us to Introduce Ourselves Who are we? Well, who are you? If you’re reading...”
– We Are the 99 Percent - Allow Us to Introduce Ourselves
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Noteshelf →
onethingwell:
Take handwritten notes or sketch on your iPad, export to Dropbox or Evernote.
App Store
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WatchBlogmix September 27 2011 (by Justin Lincoln
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I’ve been making these blogmixes off and on for awhile now. This one is an attempt to refine the resolution and color. Feedback?
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Disquiet →
A great blog about sound as art.
Watching Hello Etsy Berlin - Douglas Rushkoff http://t.co/8wAMy6KX via @livestream
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“Much like our memories, Facebook Timeline understands that some moments have...”
– #dubious #curious
You’ll freak when you see the new Facebook - CNN.com
(via slavin)
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ifttt →
onethingwell:
ifttt—short for ‘if this then that’—lets you write simple rules that convert activity on one web service into action on another.
So, for example, you might say to ifttt, ‘If I save a bookmark on Pinboard tagged ‘tweet’ then post the link to Twitter’. Or you might want ifttt to post to Tumblr when shares in Google drop below a certain price, or have ifttt call your ‘phone whenever...
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“What disqualifies war from being a true game is probably what also disqualifies...”
– Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media (via dropouthangoutspaceout)
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“We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation...”
– David Graeber at the Guardian, in the best piece I’ve read yet on Occupy Wall Street (via judyxberman)
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“Comics can now embrace their natural tendencies to be quiet. They’re like...”
– Craig Thompson (via puzzleoverit) 