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Depending on the source, it is estimated that each American is confronted by 6,000 to 10,000 advertising messages every single day. That immersive media onslaught swelled as we started carrying little video screens around wherever we go, but invasive and obnoxious marketing has bothered Cincinnatians for much more than a century.For example, on 20 July 1871, a correspondent for the Cincinnati Times related an enjoyable voyage he had undertaken down …

“Daniel Pink is the author of seven bestselling nonfiction books [including] New York Times bestsellers “The Power of Regret,” “A Whole New Mind” and “When” as well as the No. 1 New York Times bestsellers “Drive” and “To Sell is Human.” Pink’s books have been translated into 44 languages and have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide… He and his wife live in D.C. and have two daughters and …

OEI, magazine, ISBN 978-9188829146, English, 366 pages, 2023, Sweden This is a double issue of OEI magazine edited by Michael Nardone, a poet and editor who explores the aesthetics of language and the materiality of writing. Entitled Aural Poetics, it contains a balanced selection of material that explores this form of poetics from a variety of compositional and critical perspectives. The ten sections, sometimes devoted to a single author, contain …

Beautiful 15th century Lambeth Palace is a strange London landmark - widely recognisable, with a stately position Thames-side and passed by a number of busy bus routes, it is nevertheless very rarely visited, most of the main structures off-limits as the Archbishop of Canterbury's official residence and despite the existence of an interesting little Garden Museum, the garden itself is only open to the general public two or three days …

DS097: Been a while since I did an animation. I thought that focussing on motion would mean I’d spend less time geting myopic about materials and lighting but no, it made no difference. There’s a lot of daily artists I follow who just seem to through up some simple shapes, add some fog and bam, beautiful render. I’m particularly annoyed today. I had a backlog of news and research to …

We’ve known for a while now that the TV rights package for the NTT IndyCar Series would be up for bid this season. NBC’s current contract runs out after the end of the 2024 IndyCar season. NBC has been the exclusive broadcast partner for IndyCar since the start of the 2019 season. NBC signed a […]

htmx has been pretty loud lately because it moves functionality, like swapping out DOM elements into declarative HTML. Love it or hate it, I think it's a "fresh" approach to the overcomplicated world of JS frameworks. <script src="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]"></script> <!-- have a button POST a click via AJAX --> <button hx-post="/clicked" hx-swap="outerHTML"> Click Me </button> Add the 14kb compressed file to your sites and create dynamic interactions. Everything's just a hx-whatever …

The Max Planck Institute hired Stamen a few years back to create a website to visualize increasingly complex urban transformations due to immigration for a project called Superdiversity. The site we created contains multiple interactive charts of census data to enable better research, analysis, and discussion of this novel phenomenon. Because diversity patterns in cities around the world change over time, the app needs to change as well to reflect …

A reader writes: We are in the planning stages of a bike trip in Europe – Oslo/Stockholm – Rotterdam-ish in the fall of 2024. We are experienced cycle tourers, so we are good on a lot of aspects of touring. One thing that I am looking into is the best plan for logistics to and from airports, especially when returning. I can figure out how to get to our departure …

As astrology was one of the very first scientific disciplines to be adopted by the ‘Abbāsid in their assimilation of Persian cultural it followed automatically that that they also adopted astronomy; you need astronomy in order to do astrology. Also, the practice of Islam itself required both the determination of the times for the five daily prayers as well as the qibla the geographical direction of the Kaaba in the …

So Cosma Shalizi and I have an article (messy pre-print) coming out Real Soon in Communications of the ACM on democracy, polarization and social media. And Nate Matias, who I’m friends with, has forceful objections. I’ve promised him a response – which is below – but am doing it as a blogpost, since I think that the disagreement could be turned into something more broadly useful. Cosma and I wrote …

In December I went to the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano to teach a seminar on Transformative Work as Livelihood for the Eco-Social Design masters students. Over three days, we explored potential pathways available to socially and politically engaged designers, how to balance financial stability with meaningful work, and feminist strategies that ensure that transformative practices remain open to many and viable in the long-term. Rather than focusing on strategies for …

Xenogothic exhumes a panel discussion from 2014 involving Mark Fisher, Lee Gamble, Kode9 aka Steve Goodman, Alex Williams, and Lisa Blanning - and bearing the title The Death of Rave - and does a public service by getting the debate transcribed.Go here for Matt's reasons for digging this up and reflections of how it relates to current glumness, state of clubbing and club music, as well as the transcription itself

🗺️ a continuation of writings on world-building. 🌸 this a new series on growing a vision. all of my visions begin as entries in my journal. I usually write them late at night, or in the early morning darkness, before sunrise, or while seated on a plane, or a boat, or scribbled as four words into a notebook, while on a long, meandering walk. more often than not, they come …