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Twitter Engineers Flag Gender-Specific Posts, and Some Are Doozies - SocialTimes

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 06:02 -- rprice

the list of tweets meant to show off Twitter’s success pointed out some of the sadder aspects of human nature.

Edward Chen listed real tweets that help differentiate women from men, and nobody came out looking good. Not women, not men, and not Twitter for looking for gender in such stereotypical places; and for missing some of the sad ironies of the gender signifiers it pointed to with an implied, “Eureka! I’ve found it!”

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Twitter Engineers Flag Gender-Specific Posts, and Some Are Doozies - SocialTimes

Thu, 11/01/2012 - 06:02 -- rprice

the list of tweets meant to show off Twitter’s success pointed out some of the sadder aspects of human nature.

Edward Chen listed real tweets that help differentiate women from men, and nobody came out looking good. Not women, not men, and not Twitter for looking for gender in such stereotypical places; and for missing some of the sad ironies of the gender signifiers it pointed to with an implied, “Eureka! I’ve found it!”

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TheDailyCity.com: Center for Emerging Media Opens Fall Exhibition Season with Packet Switching

Mon, 10/01/2012 - 13:30 -- rprice

the artists wrote custom software that deconstructs a 3D model's source code and produces unique fragments. They further remixed these fragments using an original application created in Processing. The resulting images become limited edition prints, wall-sized paintings, animations, and most recently, a permanent public art installation at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communication, opening October 19, 2012.

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Cassini

Wed, 09/19/2012 - 12:13 -- rprice

What would the world be like if the land masses were spread out the same way as now - only rotated by an angle of 90 degrees?

—Socke

It would profoundly alter our biosphere in general and public radio in particular.

Socke asks what would happen if the Earth’s surface were slid around by 90 degrees, putting our current North and South Poles on the equator. We’re not changing the tilt of the Earth’s axis; we’re just imagining that the surface were arranged differently.

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Hi-Tech Textiles at IFA « adafruit industries blog

Tue, 09/11/2012 - 08:21 -- rprice

video… recorded from the TV channel DW, providing a view of wearable technology at this years IFA as well as an interview with Wolfgang Langeder.

According to DW, at the IFA 2020 we will see electrified clothing enter the mainstream market, where Hi-Tech fashion probably will occupy much more exhibition space, building a more common sight compared with the current novel status of wearable technology.

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Instrument Maker - DIY

Wed, 09/05/2012 - 05:57 -- rprice

The unique skill and taste of an Instrument Maker is what sets the stage for great music. Any object that makes sound can be an instrument, but true music starts with expert design and craftsmanship. Before Miles Davis could play his trumpet, there was a Maker who built his sonic tool.

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Welcome to HOPE Number Nine - HOPE Number 9

Wed, 09/05/2012 - 05:45 -- rprice

Join us for three full days and nights of activities, including more of the provocative and enlightening speakers that the HOPE conferences are known for. In addition, we have access to a massive amount of space to put together all sorts of hacker projects and assorted fun stuff. In the past we've had huge hackerspace villages, film festivals, Segway rides, lockpicking villages, a wide variety of vendors, art installations, live radio, vintage computers, robots, ham radio installations, electronics workshops, book signings, and the country's biggest supply of Club-Mate.

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Why we need Open, Hackable Materials now – An Interview with Catarina Mota « Meedabyte

Wed, 09/05/2012 - 05:45 -- rprice

She is, no doubt, amongst the most eminent representatives of the Hacking movement. To me, it’s extremely impressive though how one of the leaders of this revolution is coming right from outside the technological world and actually has a communication sciences and film college background. When I asked her to tell me a brief recap of her experience of hacking, she gave a really insightful and detailed story.

Catarina’s first contacts with electronics and programming was at ITP-NYU in 1998:

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Photo Gallery: collide*scope at Urban Rethink | Orlando Weekly Blogs

Wed, 09/05/2012 - 05:39 -- rprice

Thornton Park's Urban Rethink creative co-working center hosted the August edition of their collide*scope collaborative experiment. Each month, a small group of diverse interesting individuals is assembled by event curator Anna McCambridge Thomas, and tasked with tackling a significant issue in only a week.

The quartet were charged with developing a new weapon in the war against homelessness, and the idea they came up with was both innovative and provocative. In fact, one audience member became so agitated by the Q&A; that followed, that he had to be escorted out.

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