Junk Drawer: Archive

Feb 13th

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Jan 31st

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“Here’s how it works: You snap a photo of your meal and caption it. The app...”

– I don’t know if this is the answer, but it’s original and insightful. It’s the most promising approach I’ve seen in the emerging world of comparable approaches. Massive Health iPhone App Gets You To Eat Better, Using The Crowd’s IQ | Co.Design (via slavin) I’ve been using this app to...

Jan 25th

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AMERICAN GODS US Kindle $1.99 edition...

neil-gaiman: It looks like no-one at Amazon has noticed and taken their American Gods Kindle Special down yet. It’s http://say.ly/Qrj1i92 and was only meant to have been a 24 hour special, so may not last for very long.

Jan 22nd

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Jan 20th

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Jan 17th

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Jan 17th

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suspenders-n-bowties: thissniggah: Haha love it. This has to be CGI, right?!?

Jan 16th

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Jan 12th

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Jan 12th

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Jan 7th

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John McCain Accidentally Endorses Wrong Candidate

newsweek: “With the leadership and the backing of the American people President Obama will turn this country around.” — John McCain accidentally endorses the wrong candidate. “That one.” (via kileyrae) Freudian slip eh!?!

Jan 6th

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Jan 5th

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Dec 27th

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http://blogs.clarionledger.com/jmitchell/2011/12/15... →

Nationally renowned architect to guide the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum design. (via clarionledger.com)

Dec 21st

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Dec 19th

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Dec 13th

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Dec 5th

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“The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the...”

– William Butler Yeats

Dec 5th

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Dec 1st

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Nov 29th

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Nov 28th

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SUPERMECHANICAL.BLOG: Twine: Twitter/SMS/email for... →

supermechanical: We have had our heads down working like mad (because we are mad) on our new project for months, and now we’re ready to announce it. Twine is the simplest possible way to get your objects connected to the Web. It’s a 2.5” square that uses internal and external sensors to tell you about… really cool project!

Nov 28th

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Nov 24th

Nov 22nd

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Nov 18th

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Nov 18th

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Nov 17th

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(SIGN THIS PETITION)HERE →

Check out this petition to stop internet censorship.

Nov 16th

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Protect The Internet →

Nov 16th

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bashford: Teleporter is an interaction design sketch by Peter Bennett. It explores how a teleportation illusion could be used to enhance digital communication. Part of the PATINA project. (via DanW) Bennett 1 does pretty cool stuff with stainless steel marbles. Teleportation is an intriguing physical metaphor for representing abstract interactions with digital objects physically. For...

Nov 14th

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onesmartblackboy asked: Why exactly do you think the matchup would make more sense in that way as opposed to how it is in the manga?

Nov 12th

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Nov 11th

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bashford: PPP (Permanent Play Project) introduces Tsumiki - a new way to play with toy blocks. Various images are projected onto the toy blocks depending on how you stack and place them.

Nov 11th

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Nov 10th

♥ / Houzz →

Houzz (the Wikipedia of home design) might be a valuable tool in finding/building/designing a home that suits both my wife’s tastes(she likes traditional) as well as mine(I lean modern).

Nov 7th

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Oct 28th

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Oct 17th

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Zoë Ryan’s Book List | Designers & Books →

Designers and Books is a website that asks designers to list books that have most influenced them. I think it will be a valuable tool in finding the good stuff I should be reading and contemplating versus all the derivative stuff I tend to read. I’ve read or wishlisted some of the books on this list by Ryan already, so I look forward to going further. Many of these books (e.g. Crade to...

Oct 17th

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Computers: Pianos not Radios

I’ve been abusing my computer sets 1 by using them too much as consumption devices as opposed to tools for creation and critical thinking. Lately my collections of feeds and streams have become like TV stations. It’s even worse than TV because I play a larger role in programming the content so to speak. It’s more addictive because I’m choosing which signals to tune to. And...

Oct 17th

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Oct 14th

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A girl, a camera, and know-how of hydrogen cells:... →

ions-anions-and-cations: One of the models I work with told me that she has encountered that a lot of the photographers will not shoot with her because she is dark skinned. In fact, she told me one photographer flat out told her he doesn’t shoot dark skinned girls because they’re hard to post process. Excuse me? I’m…

Oct 14th

Create more, consume less

I’m making that my mantra.

Oct 6th

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AudioWeb: motion control-based web browsing #assistivetech by @sojewell (via VHX)

Oct 6th

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