Excerpts from Alexander Patterns: (more)

There's a US$1B software Start Up (Unicorn) founded every 3 months! (more)

MakerBot Industries is a New York City-based company founded in January 2009 by BrePettis, Adam Mayer and Zach "Hoeken" Smith to engineer and produce 3D printers (Desktop Fab). MakerBot builds on the early progress of the RepRap Project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MakerBot_Industries (more)

http://www.hrweb.org/intro.html as declared by the United Nations in 1948. (I'll stick with Freedom as the general term.) (more)

Peter Gray on real Education Reform. For the most part, such reformers can be scaled along what might be called a liberal-conservative, or progressive-traditionalist, continuum... Over time there has been regular back-and-forth movement of the educational pendulum along this continuum. But the pendulum never moves very far... The pendulum never moves very far before it is pushed back in the other direction, because neither type of reform works... Real educational reform, as I see it, requires a fundamental shift in our understanding of the educational process. It requires the kind of shift that I have been advocating in the whole series of essays that constitute this blog. For starters, it requires that we abandon the idea that adults are in charge of children's learning. It requires, in other words, that we throw out the basic premise that underlies our system of schooling... A little "freedom" in a system where success is measured by tests doesn't work, because free children don't choose to learn the test answers. "Play" in a setting where children are segregated by age and are constrained in what they can play at is not a particularly effective learning tool. (UnSchooling) (more)

Jaron Lanier is skeptical about lots of Educational Technology. At school, Standardized Test-ing rules. Outside school, something similar happens. Students spend a lot of time acting as trivialized relays in giant schemes designed for the purposes of advertising and other revenue-minded manipulations. They are prompted to create databases about themselves and then trust algorithms to assemble streams of songs and movies and stories for their consumption (Consumer). Shared Curation is possibly the lowest level of Creativity, but it's something. The key is for parents and teachers to nudge them through curation. (more)

Built To Last? (more)

Founder of ArsDigita. (more)

Orson Scott Card book (more)

Mobile phone so big it's almost a Tablet (more)

Peter Shallard has been the ShrinkForEntrepreneurs (one client is Michael Ellsberg). (more)

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*OpenGL (Open Graphics Library)[3][4][5] is a cross-language, multi-platform application programming interface (API) for rendering 2D and 3D vector graphics. The API is typically used to interact with a graphics processing unit (GPU), to achieve hardware-accelerated rendering. (more)

Physical Fitness guru (more)

A content site inspired by FuckedCompany. (more)

Siri /ˈsɪri/ is an intelligent personal assistant (Intelligent Software Assistant) and knowledge navigator which works as an application for Apple Inc.'s IOS. The application uses a Natural Language (Voice Recognition) user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Web services. Apple claims that the software adapts to the user's individual preferences over time and personalizes results. Siri was originally introduced as an iOS application available in the App Store by Siri, Inc., which was acquired by Apple on April 28, 2010.[4] Siri, Inc. had announced that their software would be available for Blackberry and for phones running Android, but all development efforts for non-Apple platforms were cancelled after the acquisition by Apple.[5] Siri has been an integral part of iOS since iOS 5[6] and was introduced as a feature of the iPhone 4S.[7] Siri was added to the iPad (third generation) with the release of iOS 6, and has been included on all iOS devices since Fall 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri_(software) (more)

*Tor is a system intended to enable online Anonymity, composed of client software and a network of servers which can hide information about users' locations and other factors which might identify them. Use of this system makes it more difficult to trace internet traffic to the user, including visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages, and other communication forms.[5] It is intended to protect users' personal Freedom, Privacy, and ability to conduct confidential business, by keeping their internet activities from being monitored.[6] The software is open-source and the network is free of charge to use. (more)

Content Management System built on top of Word Press that makes it easy to collaborate with an editorial team, and to generate clean, well-formatted EBook-s in multiple outputs: EPub, print-ready PDF, In Design-ready XML, and of course HTML. (more)

Kathy Sierra on motivating your customers (Motivation). What do we want our users to do? And no, we don't get to say, "know more." That's not an action (Actionable, Real World). "Like us more" is not an action. Even my favorite, "KickAss" is not an action. How many people take a course in Design Patterns and then go right back to work and write the same clunky code, reinventing the flat tire? How many customers interact with a WebApp and then... just leave? How many people say they care deeply about a cause, but do nothing beyond bumper-sticker activism? How many people listen to a lecture on the dangers of smoking, but keep smoking? There is nearly always an action (or set of actions) you're hoping users will take, and most of you already know what that is. But we also know that this sometimes involves a change in behavior, something that's extremely hard to do. (more)

accomplish AweSome things (more)