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James Schirmer : Institutionware
James Schirmer : Institutionware
A series of tweets by @betajames spotted by @cwodtke. Instititutionware is about preserving the institution as it is and has been, enhancing/supporting rather than challenging/threatening.
·storify.com·
James Schirmer : Institutionware
James Fisher: Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor (Medium)
James Fisher: Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor (Medium)
Wikipedia has a declining population. Their own research identifies the editing process as a significant barrier to entry and as a reason for leaving. Their solution to this was a WYSIWYG editor, which failed for the basic reason that it denies the fact that Wikipedia is a program. I suggest a more conservative solution: as a program, Wikipedia needs an IDE that embraces and understands the Mediawiki language. That IDE should make rapid feedback its priority: realtime compilation, realtime diff viewing, and realtime correspondence between source and HTML.
·medium.com·
James Fisher: Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor (Medium)
Spencer Kornhaber: Making Peace With Music That Everyone Loves But You (The Atlantic)
Spencer Kornhaber: Making Peace With Music That Everyone Loves But You (The Atlantic)
Part of maturing, I think, is realizing that charges of acting in bad faith are often themselves made in bad faith, an attempt to explain away gaps in understanding between two people rather than trying to bridge them, or even make peace with them. That's as true in politics and in relationships as it is in music, but in music—arguably the strangest and most subjective art form there is—the best option often is "make peace." Not everything is for you, even you of eclectic tastes and voracious listening appetite. That doesn't mean others are lying about their enjoyment.
·theatlantic.com·
Spencer Kornhaber: Making Peace With Music That Everyone Loves But You (The Atlantic)
Nathan Rabin: Your Childhood Entertainment Is Not Sacred
Nathan Rabin: Your Childhood Entertainment Is Not Sacred
The entertainment of your childhood is not sacred. Adults, our childhoods are over, and waxing apoplectic over Michael Bay’s Transformers or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies won’t do anything but broadcast our inability to move beyond the silly, entertaining ephemera of our youth, or understand how it might appeal to a younger generation with a different set of ideas about how entertainment works.
·thedissolve.com·
Nathan Rabin: Your Childhood Entertainment Is Not Sacred
Jessica Hopper: The Invisible Woman: A Conversation With Björk (Pitchfork)
Jessica Hopper: The Invisible Woman: A Conversation With Björk (Pitchfork)
I have nothing against Kanye West. Help me with this—I’m not dissing him—this is about how people talk about him. With the last album he did, he got all the best beatmakers on the planet at the time to make beats for him. A lot of the time, he wasn’t even there. Yet no one would question his authorship for a second.
·pitchfork.com·
Jessica Hopper: The Invisible Woman: A Conversation With Björk (Pitchfork)
Garann Means: Wednesday, 16 July 2014 (The Pastry Box)
Garann Means: Wednesday, 16 July 2014 (The Pastry Box)
Working in tech–and especially trying to advance within it–asks of us our support for the self-defined mythology about our industry and the people within it. You don’t go around telling people you only code for the money while you still need a coding job, that’s suicide. You have to say you code for the challenge at minimum, or the beauty of naked logic or the unlimited power to create, if you want to really sell it.
·the-pastry-box-project.net·
Garann Means: Wednesday, 16 July 2014 (The Pastry Box)
Emily Witt: Are You “Internet Sexual”? (Matter)
Emily Witt: Are You “Internet Sexual”? (Matter)
The site offers a very clear picture of a society where wages are so low that they are no longer worth striving for, where ambitious young people cannot advance their educations without going into debt, and where the misfortune of illness results in financial catastrophe. For the people in phases of their lives where they had to serve as a caretaker to an ill partner or relative, the sex work offered flexibility, even if their earnings were often unpredictable or paltry.
·medium.com·
Emily Witt: Are You “Internet Sexual”? (Matter)
Eddie Smith: The Ascent of Failure
Eddie Smith: The Ascent of Failure
If complexity and connectivity are necessary conditions for the perceived success (the complement of failure) of any given technology, it stands to reason that the risk of technological failure will increase over time, not fall. I don't see this as a dystopian inevitability though. I think people are at their best and truest selves in the moments following failures. And to a simplistic extent, the human experience is one of either solving problems or creating problems to solve.
·practicallyefficient.com·
Eddie Smith: The Ascent of Failure
Andy Beta: New York Nights (Pitchfork)
Andy Beta: New York Nights (Pitchfork)
Andy Beta scours New York—from a museum to a summer camp upstate—trying to locate the essence of classic dancefloors via memory, imagination, and bass.
·pitchfork.com·
Andy Beta: New York Nights (Pitchfork)
Paul Ford: Dear Kids (The Awl)
Paul Ford: Dear Kids (The Awl)
I’m worried about those things but more worried about getting you out of bed and dressed in the morning. I’m worried about looking out the window one day and seeing a column of fire but more worried about teaching you to be sad when I could be teaching you to be happy. I’m worried about the college teacher writing for the New York Times who also works as a waiter. I want you to have careers and cats; I want you to have apartments without roommates in your thirties.
·theawl.com·
Paul Ford: Dear Kids (The Awl)
DIY Geometric Concrete Bookends
DIY Geometric Concrete Bookends
With the help of recycled cardboard and quick-drying concrete, these modern bookends with high-end appeal are budget-friendly and easy to make at home.
·ehow.com·
DIY Geometric Concrete Bookends
Archive.org: Software Library: MS-DOS Games
Archive.org: Software Library: MS-DOS Games
Thousands of MS-DOS games playable in-browser. Software for MS-DOS machines that represent entertainment and games. The collection includes action, strategy, adventure and other unique genres of game and entertainment software. Through the use of the EM-DOSBOX in-browser emulator, these programs are bootable and playable.
·archive.org·
Archive.org: Software Library: MS-DOS Games
Jeremy Bushnell: Music Without Scarcity
Jeremy Bushnell: Music Without Scarcity
@jbushnell muses on what it means to be able to stream everything. Guest appearances and useful proddings by @debcha and @mathpunk
·storify.com·
Jeremy Bushnell: Music Without Scarcity
Dog Park Etiquette: Rules to Help Dogs Get Along
Dog Park Etiquette: Rules to Help Dogs Get Along
Proper dog park etiquette is important if you want your dog to stay out of fights when playing. Anyone who frequents the dog park and knows about dog behavior probably has a few horror stories to share. Here are some basic rules to keep your dog out of trouble.
·drsophiayin.com·
Dog Park Etiquette: Rules to Help Dogs Get Along
Aerial Wallpapers
Aerial Wallpapers
Hello! I love satellite imagery and topographic maps so I made several wallpapers with those gorgeous pictures.
·aerialwallpapers.tumblr.com·
Aerial Wallpapers
Leonard Richardson: Bots Should Punch Up
Leonard Richardson: Bots Should Punch Up
If you make a joke, and people get really offended, it's almost certainly because you violated this rule. People don't get offended randomly. Explaining that "it was just a joke" doesn't help; everyone knows what a joke is. The problem is that you used a joke as a means of being an asshole. Hiding behind a dummy or a stage persona or a bot won't help you.
·crummy.com·
Leonard Richardson: Bots Should Punch Up
Foster Kamer: On the Rapture of Dancing Alive
Foster Kamer: On the Rapture of Dancing Alive
Any band who goes on Letterman for the next month, at least—like the one that was on last night—has been completely screwed to hell by this one.
·fosterkamer.com·
Foster Kamer: On the Rapture of Dancing Alive
The Arcade: Episode 42, Featuring Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Arcade: Episode 42, Featuring Ta-Nehisi Coates
On writing, being wrong, and understanding that maybe, just maybe, you’re not crazy–that what you think is happening, is happening. Hazlitt contributor Anupa Mistry speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic’s famed national correspondent and author of The Beautiful Struggle.
·penguinrandomhouse.ca·
The Arcade: Episode 42, Featuring Ta-Nehisi Coates
Mike Monteiro: These 8 Tricks to Selecting a Design Partner Will Amaze You
Mike Monteiro: These 8 Tricks to Selecting a Design Partner Will Amaze You
Selecting a design partner is a pain in the ass. Designers can be difficult. And the process is a mystery. And let’s face it, designers do a crappy job of explaining it. But for those who have to do it, getting it right can mean the difference between their organization doing well and going under. I want to help you do it well.
·medium.com·
Mike Monteiro: These 8 Tricks to Selecting a Design Partner Will Amaze You
Parable of the Polygons
Parable of the Polygons
A playable post on how harmless choices can make a harmful world. These little cuties are 50% Triangles, 50% Squares, and 100% slightly shapist.
·ncase.me·
Parable of the Polygons