how to receive updates
November 27, 2020
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This is a post to show you how to receive updates (or be notified of an update) to this website, but also to pretty much any website. It uses an old
chasing elvis
November 20, 2020
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A film by Hamish MacPherson and Simon Ellis Supported by C-DaRE — the Centre for Dance Research — at Coventry University
how a conversation is going to go
November 19, 2020
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Kate Murphy is a journalist and her book You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why it Matters is not a scholarly text. She does describe a
uncertainty and continuous updating
November 18, 2020
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Remember that when people announce they “believe science” they are believing in something which has features of uncertainty and continuous updating
how to disagree
November 11, 2020
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I don’t know how I happened across this website from 2008 but the opening sentence says so much about how much the web has changed since then: The
midlifing
November 11, 2020
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www.midlifing.net/ Eavesdrop on two friends having serious conversations about silly things, and silly conversations about serious things. A podcast
aroha
October 27, 2020
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The radical idea of aroha is replacing a neo-liberal mythology of life as a market based on egos pursuing their own interests, which in New Zealand
atkinson hyperlegible font
October 25, 2020
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Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson. What makes it different from traditional typography design
secret history of our enemies
October 12, 2020
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. – Henry
popcorn popping
September 27, 2020
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More in the slow-motion-is-amazing series (also reblogged from kottke.org)
long form documents
September 17, 2020
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Word processors are powerful tools which are mostly used like very expensive electric typewriters. Remember those? What follows are eight
installation view
September 16, 2020
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In August 2019 I went and saw Olafur Eliasson’s In Real Life exhibition at the Tate Modern in London. The exhibition was a large collection of
three applications for research
September 14, 2020
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Last week I posted a set of three principles for a research system. At the end of the post I mentioned that I use the same collection of plain text
asking questions
September 13, 2020
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In Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana outline a method for turning classrooms around so
research systems
September 8, 2020
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It’s autumn in the northern hemisphere and this means — among many others things, and even in spite of a certain pandemic — that the new University
there is no cloud
September 7, 2020
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There is no cloud, it’s just someone else’s computer. This is a sticker created by designer Chris Watterston that went “global”:
dial-a-spectacle
September 6, 2020
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Emilie Gallier is a French artist based in the Netherlands. This is the call-out for her performance work called ‘Dial-a-Spectacle’: Dear all, I
nick cave and mercy
August 30, 2020
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Nick Cave’s The Red Hand Files is a site online where Cave responds to a huge range of questions from his fans. His responses are at various times
failed institute of failure
August 16, 2020
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The 2001 Tim Etchells and Matthew Goulish online curatorial project called “The Institute of Failure” is/was an amazing collection of ideas to do
slow motion
August 2, 2020
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Fantastic introduction by Phil Edwards at Vox into how slow motion works and how seductive it is. reblogged from
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