December 2011
28 posts
Maria Popova's Beautiful Mind →
via mother jones
The World, by Paula Scher →
via 20x200
Book Pickings.. by the fabulous Brain Pickings →
Postscript: Christopher Hitchens →
by Christopher Buckley, via the New Yorker
Steven Johnson: Anatomy of an Idea →
I Work For The Internet →
“So when any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the...”
– from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s remarks in Recognition of International Human Rights Day
More than just digital quilting →
via the Economist
It is easy to laugh at the idea that hobbyists with 3D printers will change the world. But the original industrial revolution grew out of piecework done at home, and look what became of the clunky computers of the 1970s. The maker movement is worth watching.
“When righteousness withers away and evil rules the land, we come into being, age...”
– From an Occupy Wall Street protest at Lincoln Center, on Dec. 1, 2011. A performance of Philip Glass’s Satyagraha at the Metropolitan Opera has just ended, and in the first three minutes of the video protesters try to get operagoers to ignore the police, walk down the steps, and join the...
