[3 Aug 2011 | No Comment | 2,685 views]
How to Hack Paper Like a Pro, 1: Printing

Printing is printing: slow, dirty, and expensive.  That’s why everyone’s trying to move to working paperlessly, right?  Not quite.  Paper and printing technologies come in a wide variety that many are unaware of, and w

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[1 May 2010 | 3 Comments | 14,012 views]
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T reviewed (for Linux developers)

AMD’s Phenom II X6 has just been released, bringing six-core processing power within reach of students and others without thousands of dollars to spend on Intel’s Core i7 9xx series. 

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[13 Mar 2010 | 9 Comments | 4,219 views]
Code is Poetry, Pt. 2: Genesis

To begin my project to write history in Ruby, I’ve taken notes on a short passage on the Biblical account of

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[2 Mar 2010 | 4 Comments | 3,398 views]
Code is Poetry, Pt. 1: Prolegomenon

This blog has often focused on how an incomplete revolution in digital formats has prevented the birth of digital art, but recently I’ve been pondering whether the problem lies in the lack of dramatic narratives in digital media, or in other

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[1 Feb 2010 | 5 Comments | 2,576 views]
The iPad and the Future of Computer Innovation

Apple’s recent iPad announcement has sparked not only commentaries on its design, but also deeper reflections on the increasingly strained relationship between computer interfaces and innovation. Will the abstraction of interfaces and data kill off homebrew and how will that affect digital creativity?

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[12 Dec 2009 | 3 Comments | 1,393 views]
The Digital Need For a New Science

The world is witnessing an epochal transition from the codex to the computer screen as society’s main information paradigm.  Yet the true “digital revolution”, from using computers as information tools to liv