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Wendell Berry Earns Highest Humanities Award, Lectures on Economy and Imagination | Sojourners

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 04:35 -- rprice

“Even so, land and people have suffered together, as invariably they must. Under the rule of industrial economics, the land, our country, has been pillaged for the enrichment, supposedly, of those humans who have claimed the right to own or exploit it without limit. Of the land-community much has been consumed, much has been wasted, almost nothing has flourished. But this has not been inevitable. We do not have to live as if we are alone.”

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Wendell Berry Earns Highest Humanities Award, Lectures on Economy and Imagination | Sojourners

Tue, 09/22/2015 - 04:35 -- rprice

“Even so, land and people have suffered together, as invariably they must. Under the rule of industrial economics, the land, our country, has been pillaged for the enrichment, supposedly, of those humans who have claimed the right to own or exploit it without limit. Of the land-community much has been consumed, much has been wasted, almost nothing has flourished. But this has not been inevitable. We do not have to live as if we are alone.”

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CodePen - Front End Developer Playground & Code Editor in the Browser

Tue, 02/03/2015 - 09:23 -- rprice

CodePen is for Web Designers and Front End Developers. It is an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code editor in your browser with instant previews of the code you see and write. It is a searchable trove of your own creations, and a world of other people's creations. A place to troubleshoot, to teach, to learn, to test, and to grow.

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21 Inspirational Collaboration Workspaces | Turnstone

Wed, 12/17/2014 - 12:44 -- rprice

If your company isn't thinking about collaboration and creating an office design centered around collaboration, chances are that the office you've built is stuck in the doldrums. These days everyone wants to collaborate with other - it can help improve work by getting more minds thinking about the same problem, and it can be a fun, social experience where employees build community ties. According to a recent Gensler study, top companies tend to organize offices using collaboration as a key building block.

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Green Honey

Thu, 12/04/2014 - 09:41 -- rprice

Keep testing different models and learn something new from your dataset. There is a way of thinking that treats visualization as a magical process that prettifies the output, yet the only way we can make a meaningful graph is when we discover something meaningful during our research. People are relying on us to see the world. Out of everyone, we are the ones who need to have these interesting tests / models / questions / hypotheses at hand because if we don't know the color “red,” our story will never have “red” in it.

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Space Colony Artwork 1970s

Fri, 07/11/2014 - 08:03 -- rprice

Three space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. These have been scanned and are available here as small, medium, large, and publication quality jpeg images. Scans by David Brandt-Erichsen. Images are not copyrighted. Please credit photos to NASA Ames Research Center.

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DavidByrne.com - How Music Works

Thu, 06/26/2014 - 09:26 -- rprice

How Music Works is David Byrne's remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he's spent a lifetime thinking about. He explains how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and how the advent of recording technology forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music. Acting as historian and anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, he searches for patterns—and tells us how they have affected his own work over the years with Talking Heads and his many collaborators.

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I Got Paid to Be an OKCupid Ghostwriter - The Bold Italic - San Francisco

Fri, 05/23/2014 - 10:52 -- rprice

So for a meager $55 a week, plus an invaluable party story and a $10 bonus for every woman I successfully got to agree to a date, I provided El_Zorro's wooing material. But, I was no Cyrano pouring my heart out into beautifully crafted missives – instead, I was an inbox-hack, strategically spamming a handful of Roxanes a minute. While a touch of style, good grammar, and humor are important in online dating, effective messages are more formula than art. As OkCupid's blog points out, there's data to dating.

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Projecteo

Thu, 02/27/2014 - 11:32 -- rprice

Your own miniature slideshow. Sign in with Instagram and pick nine of your favourite images. We develop them on to a single frame of 35mm slide film which is inserted into a small black wheel. Your Projecteo and wheel of images will arrive together in the post.

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Projecteo

Thu, 02/27/2014 - 11:32 -- rprice

Your own miniature slideshow. Sign in with Instagram and pick nine of your favourite images. We develop them on to a single frame of 35mm slide film which is inserted into a small black wheel. Your Projecteo and wheel of images will arrive together in the post.

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