GIF-TY
Design concept for a camera that can print out a series of small prints to create a flipbook - video embedded below:
Via Yanko Design:
This unique camera allows you to print out short flipbook animations, so that you can physically keep the memories of precious moments alive in a fun way. GIF-TY’s Animations can be physically edited, and clipped on a separately designed module. Nametags can be attached to those clips just like old videotapes.
Technologically: GIF-TY is a combination of a burst-shot camera, and a ‘Zero-Ink’ Printer.
Paper Bits
Digital, Paper, Notes, Bits.
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2013-05-18
Source: yankodesign.com
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2013-05-17
Tumblr Backup python script (GitHub)
tumblr_backup.py is a script that backs up your Tumblr blog locally.
The backup includes all images from photo and photoset posts. An index links to monthly pages, which contain all the posts from the respective month with links to single post pages. Command line options select which posts to backup and set the output format.
By default, all posts of a blog are backed up in minimally styled HTML.
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You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.
— When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
(via notational)
Source: bostonreview
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2013-05-16
Intelligence is all about context, and when computers get better at providing it, they make us smarter.
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Yes. A thousand times, yes. [≈ the first page of comments on Randall’s blog]
Source: blog.xkcd.com
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2013-05-15
What the system is supposed to be doing when everything is working well is really beside the point because that happy state is never achieved in real life. The truly pertinent question is: How does it work when its components aren’t working well? How does it fail? How well does it function in failure mode?
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2013-05-14
The larger and more complex the system, the less the resemblance between the true function and the name it bears.
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Also known as the principle of functionary’s falsity.
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Any change in status quo prompts an opposing reaction in the responding system.
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Le Chatelier’s principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Or, systems fight back when you try to change them.
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2013-05-13
As long as a system exists only in the head of its creator, we would agree that it might be knowable in all its implications. But once that system is translated into the real world, into hardware and people, it becomes something else. It becomes a real-world thing, and mere mortals can never know all there is to know about the real world.
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There is a world of difference, psychologically speaking, between the passive observation that things don’t work out very well, and the active, penetrating insight that complex systems exhibit unexpected behavior.
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The former is paralyzing. The latter is predictive.
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2013-05-12
This is an example of what happens in a market-based system: any clash between generating profit and protecting the natural world is resolved in favour of business, often with the help of junk science. Only those components of the ecosystem which can be commodified and sold are defended.
— The Self-Hating State (via burningfp)
Source: burningfp
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All the components in a smartphone — the sensors, the GPS, the camera, the ARM core processors, the wireless, the memory, the battery — all that stuff, which is being driven by the incredible economies of scale and innovation machines at Apple, Google, and others, is available for a few dollars. They were essentially “unobtainium” 10 years ago. This is stuff that used to be military industrial technology; you can buy it at RadioShack now.
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Hardware startups - Chris Dixon (via iamdanw)
I remember sketching a networked device with a GPS in it circa 2003, and being told, “you’re never gonna be able to prototype that.” And they were right.
It’s pretty damn amazing, what’s changed in the last 10 years.
(via iamdanw)
Source: cdixon.org
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When we finally added thumbnail views we launched it with distinct “file not found” and the “image not digitized” icons. But there’s also a necessary third icon that no one in the museum world ever seems eager to talk about: An icon for images that have been digitized but that can’t be shown because they haven’t been licensed or some equally insane restriction.
— [this is aaronland] you’ll design thank us in the morning (via iamdanw)
(via iamdanw)
Source: aaronland.info
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2013-05-11
What’s impossible to ignore is how many of the individuals diagnosed with mental disorders are essentially anti-authoritarians. This was potentially a large army of anti-authoritarian activists that mental health professionals are keeping off democracy battlefields by convincing them that their depression, anxiety, and anger are a result of their mental illnesses and not, in part, a result of their pain over being in dehumanizing environments.
— Bruce E. Levine (How psychologists subvert democratic movements)
(via notational)
Source: zcommunications.org
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We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.
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Richard Feynman, born on May 11, 1918, on the role of scientific culture in modern society – timeless, remarkably timely read.
Pair with how ignorance drives science.
(via explore-blog)
(via explore-blog)
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Smart bookmark
This object was in common use in medieval libraries, even though very few survive today. It’s a bookmark - and a smart one for that matter. As with our own bookmarks, it tells you where you are in the book: the rope was attached to the binding and placed between two pages. The reader subsequently pulled down the marker along the rope to the line where he had stopped reading. Since an open medieval book often presented four text columns, the reader then turned the disk to indicate in which column he had left off. In this case we read “4” in medieval Arabic numerals - the column on the far right. So this tiny piece of parchment marks it all: page, column and line. That’s what I call smart.
Source unknown, likely 13th or 14th century
(via awesomearchives)
Source: erikkwakkel
