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An installation at Kunthaus Zurich on the theme of media history, education, and the technology of attention. Some time ago, I was commissioned to write an essay about children’s media and the capture of attention by the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University. You can read that essay in full, but here’s an excerpt, which concerns the research done by the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) in the …

Before this poster was created hardly anyone had seen the word "Fitzrovia" in print and virtually nobody would have recognised "Fitzrovia" as the name of a London neighbourhood.The origins of Fitzrovia's name begin in the late 1700s when Charles Fitzroy began developing family land in Fitzroy Square and surrounding streets. The Fitzroy Tavern, took its name from Charles Fitzroy's developments. It became popular with the artistic and literary crowd that …

Léelo en español Years ago, I grew Stylidium debile in California. After a long period of not growing any carnivorous plants, a friend gave me this division, which just began to flower. Yes, yes, this is the most common Stylidium species in cultivation, and yes, it is exceedingly easy to grow. While that may reduce its cache with certain horticulturalists, it a pretty little plant. It features glandular carnivorous or …

The post Dieter Rams Braun Product Colour Palettes by Chad Ashley appeared first on Smithographic℠ All Original Content © 1996 – 2022 Smithographic.uk | Chad Ashley @cgpov has created these beautiful images of colour palletes created by Dieter Rams for the Braun product collection. Those colour buttons are just begging to be pushed, they are so yummy. ♡ Via: Present and Correct The post Dieter Rams Braun Product Colour Palettes …

In the previous article we showed how to automate the migration from callbacks to async/await for Mocha tests using jscodeshift. We started from the jscodeshift-ts-template repo and added the final implementation to the ts-codemods repo. We know by now that not all code can be automatically migrated. So is there anything else we can do? If you happen to use some known test libraries or frameworks that come with their …

The original hotel idea was first mooted in 1791, at a meeting in the Three Crowns, when the discussion of a new hotel, assembly rooms and coffee house was debated. This eventually resulted in the Assemby Rooms Hotel Street, as the hotel part hadn’t materialised in the original idea, one was builtadjoining the Assembly Rooms fronting Horsefair Street, August 7th 1801. Capital Inn and Hotel to be Let with or …

I've released a major update to my article, "A deep dive into CRT modelines and EDID editing". I've expanded on getting a VGA output using HDMI-to-VGA adapters (DACs), reading, writing, and editing EDID data on Windows, Linux, and Mac, and tuning modelines in CRU to improve geometry and sharpness. If you're interested in using CRT monitors on computers, be sure to check it out!

My family wasn't poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I was raised to avoid spending money whenever possible. I was also taught "it's a poor craftsman that blames their tools", which apparently means "take responsibility for your fuckups", but, to young-me, definitely sounded more like "you don't deserve nice things".

Puppy Love is a loving documentary about a healthy litter of Labrador puppies that suddenly become paralyzed. Their breeder, Cindy, is advised to put them down, but she resolves to make them better, taking back every dog that falls ill from their adopters to dedicate her time and resources to their health. In fact, her goal is not only to help them walk, it is to help them thrive as …

The sacking of Steve Bell by the Guardian after a row over a Netanyahu cartoon says more about the problems at the newspaper than it does about the veteran cartoonist. The Guardian’s page for the award-winning Steve Bell today The Guardian lost the plot two decades ago with the massively expensive decision to switch from its broadsheet format into the smaller Berliner size, halfway between tabloid and broadsheet. It threw …

Would you like to become better at crafting pull requests and reviewing code? Here are the 13 tips from my latest book that you can use in your daily developer activity.

The 1976 Fender Guitar catalogue was fairytale-themed. Lot of links today, not much commentary, just to get rid of a few open browser/mental tabs. Currently: Maybe part of it is just that you can hear what the characters are saying. Watching: All the President’s Men. The definitive paperwork movie. For a film that’s almost completely made up of people making phone calls and writing things down, it never feels slow …

(There are some photos, with appropriate warnings, at the end of this entry.)I started using a wheelchair on and off from around the age of 17 years until, eventually, I had to use it full-time; I made the conscious decision to stop walking on my 30th birthday, in 2003, and a consequence of this was that my feet would swell slightly due to the lack of use and movement. A …

Billions of exoplanets orbit their Suns in our galaxy and more than a few are likely to be habitable. But are any inhabited? The Habitable World Observatory is not being designed and developed to give our best answer to that question. (PHL@UPR Arecibo, ESA/Hubble, NASA) In a solar system far, far away, life of some sort is just waiting to be found. Or so the world of astrobiology sure hopes …

From the Whitney Museum of Modern Art: On the occasion of Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith, we spoke to Greil Marcus about the reverberations felt around the world after the 1952 release of Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music. “It was a sensibility—this set that Harry Smith created—that was passed on to people. Where it said to them, ‘There’s more in this music. There’s …