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Annoucement: GraphGear 1.2 Available
How does the work move forward? Sometimes this is a strange question. Working on a lot of things, however, inevitably implies that some things get left behind in the wayside. Graph Gear ...
Lighting the World
While on sabbatical visiting Nepal's University of Tribhuvan, University of Calgary professor David Irvine-Halliday became concerned about the availability of lighting and its effects on education and health. Local schools lacked adequate illumination for students, ...
Filth
Dust, grit, and grime provide foundations for two very different examinations of progress. Beginning with the mundane and unpleasant, Joseph Amato uses dust as a symbol for our understanding of scale and ...
Where do ideas come from?
I was reading for The Rise of Modern Science and it references Einstein and his theory of relativity. It raised an interesting question about how Einstein could have come up with ...
Reycled Canvas 1.0 is Now
Sorry for the delay but there is a lot of stuff going on here. In addition to the squeaky visual improvements and all of the basic features like: Clean simple theme in two ...
Preserving the preservers.
Art is not always easy to keep a hold of. NPR discusses the issues with preservation of digital art. Many of these issues come from the inherent connectedness of the medium. ...
Notes from the recycling center (week one)
A few days into our recycled experiment and there are already some neat things happening. We've seen quite a few downloads (500 or so) of the theme both from here as well ...
Additional notes on Recycled Canvas
I just wanted to write some additional notes to anyone downloading the theme to try out. It is customizable, and the view you see when you install it isn't the only option. The ...
Coffee: Disrupting Social Order Since 1511
Yesterday Calestous Juma spoke to the OLPC class about "social responses to radical technologies". He's a very interesting and engaging speaker who has been thinking a lot about the integration of radical ...
Almost ideal…
I'm looking around my room now. When I first set the layout. I was pretty happy and decided that would be it for the year. I look at it now, and already ...