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The Adobe and Pantone Color Apocalypse: Frequently Asked Questions — Userlandia
Adobe has let their license for Pantone colors lapse, with the hues disappearing from their apps. Pantone wants you to pay them for digital color libraries with a subscription scheme. What does this mean for digital content creators and the design industry?
Prof. Dr. Style
It is difficult to estimate how many web pages created in 1993-1994 made it into the new millenium in their premordial way. If you manage to find something that was put online that time, it would in the best case display a 1995-1996 skin. But there is a way to find pages that live for ever in 1993.
Ejecting A Floppy Disk in Zero-G - Why NASA Flew A Mac on the Space Shuttle
The story behind the free floating floppy video clip from a 1990's space shuttle mission. NASA has flown many computers during the space shuttle program, they were used to run experiments and run software which didn't fit into the main flight computer. On STS-41 a Mac Portable was flown as part of a test of used interfaces in zero G, and this was repeated on STS-43, with the computer also being used to send the first email from space!
STS-41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXaUzko8wYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur64SrpMFkA
STS-43
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unciwu-NzQo
STS-58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO6GkD71Zrs
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Reflecting on Data, Power, and Pedagogy — Civics of Technology
Autumm Caines and Michelle Ciccone consider how visualizing surveillance data via DigiPower creates opportunities to learn about surveillance, privacy, and our own feelings of ambivalence, exhaustion, or despair around these topics.