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Originally called “Where’s Dad?”, the web-based program was made to display Barnes’ current locations based on check-ins. The updates were shown directly on the screen of a spare iPhone he gave his son and were designed to look like an arrivals board from an airport. (via Arrivals for Foursquare Displays Check-ins on Old-Style Airport Board)
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
I have breached the Administrator of usa.gov yesterday. That was fun. I went through the directories and stuff. Me and my friend Sterlok breached the security. Then I did a live deface on UFC.com and UFC.tv. The live deface was on Tinychat. I was sharing my screen and people were watching me deface. Now I have XSS’ed OPOA, which is the Oakland Police website. I am going to release their stuff soon. So those were really important to me.
— Hackers Around the World: Australian RAT S3rver Enthusiast - Softpedia
2. I spend a long time studying the precedents. I look at every advertisement which has appeared for competing products during the past 20 years. 3. I am helpless without research material—and the more “motivational” the better. 4. I write out a definition of the problem and a statement of the purpose which I wish the campaign to achieve. Then I go no further until the statement and its principles have been accepted by the client. … 12. I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor. So I go to work editing my own draft. After four or five editings, it looks good enough to show to the client. If the client changes the copy, I get angry—because I took a lot of trouble writing it, and what I wrote I wrote on purpose. Altogether it is a slow and laborious business. I understand that some copywriters have much greater facility.
It from bit. Otherwise put, every ‘it’—every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself—derives its function, its meaning, its very existence entirely—even if in some contexts indirectly—from the apparatus-elicited answers to yes-or-no questions, binary choices, bits. ‘It from bit’ symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom—a very deep bottom, in most instances—an immaterial source and explanation; that which we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes–no questions and the registering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.
Heterosexual” was actually coined in a letter at the same time as the word “homosexual,” [in the mid-19thcentury], by an Austro-Hungarian journalist named Károly Mária Kertbeny. He created these words as part of his response to a piece of Prussian legislation that made same-sex erotic behavior illegal, even in cases where the identical act performed by a man and a woman would be considered legal. And he was one of a couple of people who did a lot of writing and campaigning and pamphleteering to try to change legal opinion on that matter. He coined the words “heterosexual” and “homosexual” in a really very clever bid to try to equalize same-sex and different-sex. His intent was to suggest that there are these two categories in which human beings could be sexual, that they were not part of a hierarchy, that they were just two different flavors of the same thing.
I think there is a lot of safety in categories. And there’s a hell of a lot of safety in a binary. When you can just say, you know, anything that is not this is automatically that. You know, it frees up a lot of spare time.
When you start operating on the principle that you indeed can divide people into sheep and goats, then there’s also the idea that you must divide people into sheep and goats and there are certain boundaries that cannot be crossed without reclassifying.
For Banzi, this is perhaps the most important impact of Arduino: the democratization of engineering. “Fifty years ago, to write software you needed people in white aprons who knew everything about vacuum tubes. Now, even my mom can program,” Banzi says. “We’ve enabled a lot of people to create products themselves.” Not all engineers love Arduino. The more persnickety ones bemoan the product for dumbing down product creation and flooding the hobbyist market with lackluster goods. Mellis, however, doesn’t see the innovation as devaluing the role of the engineer at all. “By providing a platform that lets the artist or designer get a little way in there, it makes it easier for them to work with engineers and say, ’This is what I want to do,’ ” he says. “I don’t think it’s replacing the engineer; it’s just facilitating that collaboration.”
In 1951 sent contained 52 cards (Red Backs and Blue Backs), like a deck of playing cards. The cards could be used to play a head to head game that would simulate the events of a real baseball game. (via 25 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About Topps Trading Cards)
There is indeed a common trait in the typical way creative thinkers approach challenges: They can comfortably hold opposing thoughts in their heads and get to work. At times, this trait can be misconstrued as “the magic of creativity” and especially in the design field I frown when I hear that label because it reveals a preconception that designers are industrial artists that purely rely on their intuition to give shape to their solutions. Not so.
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The Truth: Creativity Comes From Blending Dissonant Goals Into Radical Harmony
Collaboration vs Solitude isn’t the dichotomy that seems to have been the de jour talk over the last two weeks. Any form of work takes multiple methods to get to an end. The real challenge is how ideas are communicated no matter how ideation happens.
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Dusting off and turning on the machine, I pressed eject and found NBA Live 2005 in the tray, no worse for the wear. Then I examined the contents of the hard drive. As I suspected, my friend had not erased it. All of his gamesaves were intact, all missions ready to be resumed. The Xbox, the only console of its generation with an on-board hard drive, had a vast capacity for its day, and here was preserved his entire video gaming career. Had he given me a PS2 or a GameCube, which used 8 megabyte memory cards, I probably would not have seen all 100 saves he made in Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, which spoke to its hold over him on a weekend seven years ago, like a page-turner keeping him up into the small hours. Indeed, my friend was playing his Xbox mostly past midnight, probably when his wife was asleep. Nearly all of the gamesaves were stamped between 11:30 p.m. and 2 a.m.
Several years later, images and ideas collected on their trip would culminate in the seminal text Learning From Las Vegas, written by Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour. A central tenet of the treatise was the “duck vs. the decorated shed.” It summarized everything they had in fact learned from Las Vegas, in that the architecture they viewed on their trip was most commonly manifest as a commercial ad (as in the case of the Duck Hut), or as subsidiary to a commercial ad (in the case of a building whose sole purpose seemed to be supporting the signage it bore). (via Las Vegas Studio | Art21 Blog)
If we take man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take him as he should be, we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
