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Posts from August 2009

Links For Friday 28th August 2009

On systems, and what they do « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
This one's done the rounds like a bastard over the last few days, but just in case you haven't seen it. Stuff on systems, American healthcare, and Project Cybersyn, all of which are worth learning about.
(tags: systems evil_empire health history)

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Links For Thursday 27th August 2009

Five Geek Social Fallacies
Let us play a fun game, in the name of encouraging clear thinking, and making us all better and more functional human beings. The above website is a list of five basic errors of thinking that geeks often make in regard of social situations. So: go, read, then cam back and [...]


Links For Wednesday 26th August 2009

A Virtual Tripod with Photoshop CS4 Extended « Imaging Professional
Shit, I may have to investiagte getting a copy of this. I've managed to avoid potatoshop for a couple of years now, and just work in Lightroom, but this could be really useful.
(tags: photography photoshop)

but does it float
Just go and look. A blog of [...]


Links For Monday 24th August 2009

A Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention: Observatory: Design Observer
Absolutely fascinating thinking. Cognitively speaking, there are only two scarce resources – bandwidth and attention and the economies of a post-scarcity future (if we can get there without blowing ourselves up of fucking the environment beyond recovery) are going to have to be mediated [...]


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