- Asian Art Museum Blog » Language of Cloth: Behind the Scenes
- [Batik] One begins by drawing on silk or cotton with wax, and then dying the fabric. You draw again, and dye again, creating another layer of ornament and color, picking up where the last design left off, incorporating new motifs and textures.
- Computer teaches itself English so that it can play Civilization | io9 • by Alasdair Wilkins
- Computers may be naturally fluent in binary, but how might they fare with learning human languages? Computers were tested by playing the game Civilization. Random chance let them win about half the time…but then they started reading the instruction manual.
- The Internet replaces little girl’s stolen TARDIS | io9 • by Meredith Woerner
- Last month some terrible villain stole a girl’s 300-pound, 6-foot tall TARDIS off of her front lawn. But the internet rallied and built this young Doctor Who fan a brand new blue box! The video will warm your heart.
- Frequently Answered Questions | Skepchick • by Rebecca Watson
- 8. A black person and a white person in the elevator is not analogous to my situation, unless you’re talking about a strange white person following a black person onto an elevator and then inviting him/her to his/her hotel room for fried chicken. In that instance, yes, I do believe that the black person is well within his/her rights to politely ask the privileged white majority…to not do that. …
- 10. Whether or not I continue discussing the topic publicly, the topic will continue to be relevant to me and to many other women who have contacted me to talk about the behavior that drives them away from the skeptic/atheist community. Not talking about it doesn’t make it go away for us, so we go away instead. Don’t get too excited, though: the most annoying of us will probably stick around.
- [Don't miss the incredibly pithy #11. -L]
- Designing and 3D printing 30 coffee cups in 30 days – Boing Boing
- Cunicode, a design firm specializing in forms for 3D printers, challenged themselves to create and offer for sale 30 different coffee cups in 30 days. The cups are output from a printer capable of producing glazed ceramics on demand. Shown here, a Klein cup based on the Klein Bottle …
- STS.007 Technology in History, Fall 2010 | MIT OpenCourseWare: New Courses • by Williams, Rosalind
- Today many people assume that technological change is the major factor in historical change and that it tends to lead to historical progress. This class turns these assumptions into a question—what is the role of technology in history?—by focusing on four key historical transitions: the human revolution (the emergence of humans as a history-making species), the Neolithic Revolution (the emergence of agriculture-based civilizations)
- 21L.000J Writing About Literature | MIT OpenCourseWare: New Courses • by Kelley, Wyn
- Students, scholars, bloggers, reviewers, fans, and book-group members write about literature, but so do authors themselves. Through the ways they engage with their own texts and those of other artists, sampling, remixing, and rethinking texts and genres, writers reflect on and inspire questions about the creative process. … Showings of film versions of some of these works will allow us to project forward in the remixing process as well.
- [Also, we will do essay assignments, so that you can get grades about writing about writing about literature! -L]
- Expanded rules for Rock-paper-scissors | FlowingData • by Nathan Yau
- We already learned how to win Roshambo every time, but there’s actually more to it. Eyemotive provides the expanded rules, namely tiebreakers and unconventional tactics. I hate it when someone lights my paper on fire. It hurts every time.
- Fish Photographed Using Tools to Eat | Wired: Science • by Wired UK
- [Notice the faux-innocent look on the fish's face. -L]
- Space-Time Cloak Possible, Could Make Events Disappear?
- It’s no illusion: Science has found a way to make not just objects but entire events disappear, experts say.
- According to new research by British physicists, it’s theoretically possible to create a material that can hide an entire bank heist from human eyes and surveillance cameras.
- …”interesting and exciting,” but he thinks that actually making such a cloak would be “really, really challenging.”
- [What has me excited is that he's not calling it flat-out crankery. -L]
[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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