May 2012
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Google Wallet: one year later →
A brief look back at Google Wallet’s first year and the state of mobile payments, for Engadget.
May 26th
May 26th
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“Cyberpunk today is mainly like a Pantone chip in the Pantone culture-wheel....”
– William Gibson On MONDO 2000 & 90s Cyberculture (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #16)
May 23rd
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How to be classy in three easy steps:
I recommend Toronto Standard’s tweak on this. the-vashta-nerada: Open this tab. Open this tab. Open this tab.
May 22nd
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May 14th
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Media Lab Conversations Series: Howard Rheingold
May 14th
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prostheticknowledge: Children of Men - every shot 45 seconds or longer  Visual compilation from Refocused Media of the famed long-shots featured in the film. Don’t watch the video above if you haven’t seen the film already (highly recommended, one of the best films of the last ten years). It was recently revealed that Alfonso Cuaron’s upcoming film, “Gravity”, will not only have a 17+ minute...
May 8th
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May 6th
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May 5th
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April 2012
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Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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A classic from the NFB. Universe, directed by Roman Kroitor & Colin Low. 1960.
Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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TEDxEverywhere
TED Radio Hour on NPR starts April 27th. 
Apr 25th
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Computer Games →
Some great stuff here. tetw: A Tetw reading list Spacewar by Stewart Brand - How one of the first video games was instrumental in the development of computer technology. Video Games: The Addiction by Tom Bissell - A classic personal essay about the irresistible lure of the joypad. Working for the Man by Steven Poole - Are video games really a leisure activity? Or are we working for our...
Apr 25th
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“We live in the physical world, and for a long time there was no digital world....”
– From the Distro interview with Microsoft Principal Researcher Bill Buxton, now also on Engadget if you missed it in the magazine.
Apr 23rd
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Apr 1st
March 2012
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Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and...
A few weeks ago, Fox News breathlessly reported that the embattled WikiLeaks operation was looking to start a new life under on the sea. WikiLeaks, the article speculated, might try to escape its legal troubles by putting its servers on Sealand, a World War II anti-aircraft platform seven miles off the English coast in the North Sea, a place that calls itself an independent nation. It sounds...
Mar 31st
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Google dives into personal analytics with new... →
Interesting development from Google today. See also: Stephen Wolfram reveals the personal analytics of his life
Mar 29th
Engadget: Researchers develop new plastics that... →
Mar 28th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 25th
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Inside The World of Virtual Reality, Popular...
Still amazed by what you can find on Google Books.
Mar 25th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 18th
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Mar 18th
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The Longform Guide to Early Computing: As the new... →
Mar 17th
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Mar 17th
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Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends →
Good piece on the (often tired) state of web design from Smashing Magazine. /via The Loop
Mar 16th
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Mar 16th
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Videophones in film, from BERG’s Joe Malia.
Mar 15th
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Wikipedia Didn’t Kill Brittanica; Windows Did →
Print will survive. Books will survive even longer. It’s print as a marker of prestige that’s dying. Tim Carmody for Wired.
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Mar 2nd
February 2012
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Redefining Windows
It seems like a lot of folks aren’t exactly enthusiastic about Microsoft’s new Windows 8 logo. I like it quite a bit. It’s simple, meaningful and extremely flexible — none of which you could say about the previous logo — and it manages a feat that’s really quite hard to pull off with a logo.  It is what it says This is a window. It is what it is This...
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January 2012
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Jan 27th
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Jan 23rd
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Don't call it an ultrabook →
Latest editorial for Engadget. Every year at CES, the tech-watching masses engage in a bit of trendspotting — an attempt to identify the one or two big themes of the show that may or may not come to define the year in technology. Some years those are easy to spot (tablets and 3D TV were two big ones recently), and other times they involve a bit of guesswork. This year, one of the most...
Jan 20th
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Jan 18th
“Such is the power of his prose that when I glanced up from the pages of this...”
– Pagan Kennedy on William Gibson’s “Distrust That Particular Flavor,” The New York Times.
Jan 13th
December 2011
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Dec 23rd
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