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  • A List Apart: Arti­cles: Artis­tic Distance

    “While I’m sure that some­one will dis­agree, these sites have proven that very few “pro­fes­sion­als” have the abil­ity or courage to pro­vide a well-​​constructed analy­sis of some­one else’s work (whether or not the eval­u­a­tion was solicited). My opin­ion has noth­ing at all to do with either web­site, but rather with indus­try pro­fes­sion­als’ inabil­ity to chal­lenge, or fear of chal­leng­ing, the sta­tus quo. Far too often, hon­esty is met with ridicule, shame, or out­right rage from peo­ple hid­ing behind elec­tronic media. As a com­mu­nity, if our goal is to con­tinue rais­ing the bar for design, we need to get to a place where objec­tive dis­cus­sion is wel­comed, not scorned or drowned in obse­quious­ness. I would love to see dis­cus­sion of basic design move past the super­fi­cial trendi­ness of emerg­ing web technologies.”

    cri­tique col­lab­o­ra­tion advice graphic-​​design not-​​just

  • - How We Will Read: Laura Miller and Maud Newton

    “LM: Lit­er­ary peo­ple, when they talk about books, tend to think of fic­tion first. But most peo­ple, when they think about books, are think­ing about non­fic­tion, which lends itself amaz­ingly well to some kind of enhanced e-​​book expe­ri­ence. As a piece of that, I’m skep­ti­cal of enhanc­ing fic­tion e-​​books. The essence of nar­ra­tive is this sense of causal­ity and mean­ing, and when you intro­duce a lot of arbi­trary or ran­dom branch­ing things into it, it actu­ally loses it’s core plea­sure. It’s a tricky issue.”

    pub­lish­ing ebooks read­ing edi­tor

  • Per­sonal Tech for the 17th Cen­tury — Suzanne Fis­cher — Tech­nol­ogy — The Atlantic

    “The university’s John Carter Brown Library has long held the “Roger Williams Mys­tery Book,” a book that pur­port­edly belonged to Roger Williams, the rad­i­cal reli­gious thinker and founder of Rhode Island. The book is miss­ing its title page and thus has lit­tle iden­ti­fy­ing infor­ma­tion (besides a sub­ti­tle, “An Essay Con­cern­ing the Rec­on­cil­ing of Dif­fer­ences among Chris­tians”) — but it’s cov­ered with exten­sive short­hand mar­gin­a­lia sus­pected to have been writ­ten by Williams him­self some­time in the mid 1600s. The stu­dents, who include his­tory and math majors, are using this semes­ter to deci­pher the writ­ing and to deter­mine whether or not the short­hand hand­writ­ing was Williams’s hand.”

    nanohis­tory mar­gin­a­lia early-​​modern puz­zles

  • atomo

    “atomo is a small, sim­ple, insanely flex­i­ble and expres­sive pro­gram­ming lan­guage. its design is inspired by Scheme (small, sim­ple core), Slate (mul­ti­ple dis­patch, key­words), Ruby (very DSL-​​friendly), and Erlang (message-​​passing con­cur­rency). it is writ­ten in and pig­gy­backs on the Haskell run­time, per­mit­ting access to all of its power (and libraries!) through a thin layer.”

    pro­gram­ming lan­guage

  • Jour­nal of Dig­i­tal Humanities

    “The Jour­nal of Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties is a com­pre­hen­sive, peer-​​reviewed, open access jour­nal that fea­tures the best schol­ar­ship, tools, and con­ver­sa­tions pro­duced by the dig­i­tal human­i­ties com­mu­nity in the pre­vi­ous quarter.”

    digital-​​humanities jour­nal open-​​access pub­lish­ing

  • [1203.4881] Com­pu­ta­tional Com­plex­ity Analy­sis of Multi-​​Objective Genetic Programming

    Some days I just want to take genetic pro­gram­ming away from the com­puter sci­en­tists. Then I real­ize I ought to just let them keep the use­less, rit­u­al­ized thing they imag­ine it is.

    facepalm multiobjective-​​optimization software-​​development-​​is-​​not-​​programming

  • - How We Will Read: Clay Shirky

    “That is one of the poten­tial shifts in social read­ing: Can I cre­ate value for other peo­ple by say­ing that I found this pas­sage by Bruno LaTour strik­ing — even if I never look at it again? That’s an amaz­ing act of what I called “frozen shar­ing” in my last book. Being gen­er­ous about things when you are offer­ing it out to the pub­lic, with­out it being either in a spe­cific time frame or for a spe­cific target.”

    pub­lish­ing read­ing social-​​capital project be-​​useful-​​to-​​one-​​another

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  • David Grae­ber: On the Inven­tion of Money – Notes on Sex, Adven­ture, Mono­ma­ni­a­cal Sociopa­thy and the True Func­tion of Eco­nom­ics « naked capitalism

    “At this point, it’s eas­ier to under­stand why econ­o­mists feel so defen­sive about chal­lenges to the Myth of Barter, and why they keep telling the same old story even though most of them know it isn’t true. If what they are really describ­ing is not how we ‘nat­u­rally’ behave but rather how we are taught to behave by the market—well who, nowa­days, is doing most of the actual teach­ing? Pri­mar­ily, econ­o­mists. The ques­tion of barter cuts to the heart of not only what an econ­omy is—most econ­o­mists still insist that an econ­omy is essen­tially a vast barter sys­tem, with money a mere tool (a posi­tion all the more pecu­liar now that the major­ity of eco­nomic trans­ac­tions in the world have come to con­sist of play­ing around with money in one form or another) [10]—but also, the very sta­tus of eco­nom­ics: is it a sci­ence that describes of how humans actu­ally behave, or pre­scrip­tive, a way of inform­ing them how they should? (Remem­ber, sci­ences gen­er­ate hypoth­e­sis about the world that can be tested against the evi­dence and changed or aban­doned if they don’t prove to pre­dict what’s empir­i­cally there.) Or is eco­nom­ics instead a tech­nique of oper­at­ing within a world that econ­o­mists them­selves have largely cre­ated? Or is it, as it appears for so many of the Aus­tri­ans, a kind of faith, a revealed Truth embod­ied in the words of great prophets (such as Von Mises) who must, by def­i­n­i­tion be cor­rect, and whose the­o­ries must be defended what­ever empir­i­cal real­ity throws at them—even to the extent of gen­er­at­ing imag­i­nary unknown peri­ods of his­tory where some­thing like what was orig­i­nally described ‘must have’ taken place?”

    eco­nom­ics ratio­nal­ity con­ser­vatism David-​​Graeber anthro­pol­ogy debt Austrian-​​school take­down pragmatism-it-ain’t

  • Wel­come to The Bessen­berg Bindery NEW web­site | The Bessen­berg Bindery — Cus­tom Case Bound Books from Thomson-​​Shore

    “The Bessen­berg Bindery has served the uni­ver­sity, med­ical, legal, pub­lish­ing, adver­tis­ing and book col­lect­ing com­mu­ni­ties in south­ern Michi­gan since 1978. We are a hand book bindery that offers a full range of sewn, hard­cover book bind­ing, cus­tom boxes, book repair, pro­to­type objects, cus­tom photo album and scrap books, port­fo­lios, and desk acces­sories. We quote on jobs as small as one book, or as large as 500. We are a craft shop and all our work is cus­tomized to meet our clients’ var­ied require­ments. In both orig­i­nal bind­ing and book repairs we stress attrac­tive­ness, proper fit and durability.”

    local book­bind­ing mak­ing project ven­dor

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  • Vaguery/​collegeJournalOfMedicalScienceSeptember1857 — GitHub

    “I’ve scanned pages of the Sep­tem­ber 1857 issue of The Col­lege Jour­nal of Med­ical Sci­ence, OCRed these to html (to pre­serve some for­mat­ting) with ABBYY FineReader 9, and am con­vert­ing those html files into LaTeX files. The lat­est PDF ver­sion (as con­structed on my com­puter) can be down­loaded (via “view raw”) from http://​github​.com/​V​a​g​u​e​r​y​/​c​o​l​l​e​g​e​J​o​u​r​n​a​l​O​f​M​e​d​i​c​a​l​S​c​i​e​n​c​e​S​e​p​t​e​m​b​e​r​1​8​5​7​/​b​l​o​b​/​m​a​s​t​e​r​/​w​o​r​k​.​pdf A col­lec­tion of scripts and check­lists is com­ing out of this: scripts to do the heavy lift­ing trans­lat­ing self-​​contained HTML to TeX intended to be strung together into a sin­gle work, and check­lists of small proof­read­ing and hand-​​formatting tasks that need to be com­pleted on each page. The indi­vid­ual page TeX files are stitched together and type­set in ./work.tex, using XeLa­TeX. Be sure to check the font assign­ments; I’m using pur­chased post­script fonts I own.”

    project type­set­ting dig­i­ti­za­tion exper­i­ment proof­read­ing

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  • Spaceweather​.com Time Machine

    “SOLSTICE SOLARGRAPHS: Last Decem­ber, the staff of the Philip­pus Lans­ber­gen Obser­va­tory in Mid­del­burg, the Nether­lands, invited mem­bers of the gen­eral pub­lic to join them for a solargraph-​​making party. A solar­graph is a sim­ple pin­hole cam­era made from a soda or beer can lined with a piece of pho­to­graphic paper. About a 100 cans were deployed around the obser­va­tory and, six months later, here are the results:…”

    solar­graph astron­omy pho­tog­ra­phy project Mak­ing

  • 6-​​month pin­hole solargraph

    “Much of pin­hole pho­tog­ra­phy relates to the use of time and being cre­ative with the light from the sun, sim­i­lar won­ders to that found in astron­omy. A 6-​​month expo­sure will enable you to image the arc of the sun as it rises or sinks through­out 6 months of the year. As well as this you will get some fore­ground detail and a cam­era to look at with awe as a small hole etches its 6-​​month expo­sure from your win­dow ledge, gar­den shed, lamp post, tree etc. Being able to cap­ture a period of time far beyond our own vision is incred­i­ble enough, but even more amaz­ing is how sim­ple it is to do. The final cam­era gives an extreme wide angle of view of 160 degrees.”

    astron­omy pho­tog­ra­phy Mak­ing long-​​now