Tag Archive for 'technology'
This month is all about production.
Collaborative art with my boyfriend, making things happen in our apartment, and completing my master's thesis proposal. This last is the biggest news.
I found out several weeks ago that Harvard redeveloped my computer science degree program, changing the focus from Digital Media Arts and Sciences to Digital Media and Instructional Design. This is HUGE for three reasons: (1) the degree and its requirements now align… Continue reading
While this "pink turd" (to borrow and slightly tweak Gruber's lovely turn of phrase) is truly, truly hideous, it actually is pretty much on par with the kind of clueless-about-half-the-species sort of whiz kids who named the iPad.
Just my two thoughts on an item at digitaldaily.com
Just my two thoughts on an item at digitaldaily.com
In the last three weeks, my programming class has kept me too busy playing my hand at being Ada to put together a coherent piece on the order of last year's ALD post. But I'm already planning something all-out for next year. So this one's a quickie.
Much of tech right now is dominated by social media. And one of the big rumors floating around is that because women are… Continue reading
I wish Boston was hosting a funeral today. Via ie6funeral.com
A "playful paint program" that you can play with, at http://positdesign.com/media/paintplay/
This semester I'm studying Processing, a Java-ish programming language developed by and for visual artists. I churned out a couple of sketches last week, but this is my first interactive piece in the language. I'm really having fun in code; I'm learning; I'm absorbing the algorithms by osmosis, and just really, really happy with the class. When the professor described our assignments as like creative writing exercises, and
I'm there, too. It's what my whole master's degree and thesis project are about. Utterly LOVE this image.
Steve exceeded all expectations. Love that, too.
via Gizmodo
Steve exceeded all expectations. Love that, too.
via Gizmodo
Actually, frat boys, morons, and people entirely lacking taste buds drink Natty Light. But thank you for so misjudging me, Facebook. Continue reading
Why is your iPhone app free? It shouldn't be. Continue reading
Why takes the science out of programming. He says: learning programming is about learning grammar. This is, very literally, language I understand. Continue reading
I've only had my iPhone—has it really been just?—two weeks, and I already can't fathom life before it. This device isn't a luxury item, but a basic necessity for me. Continue reading
And I do. Madly.
Here's a new feature: "Basically, when you're annoyed enough to mark a message as spam but not enough to go and unsubscribe from the mailing list, Gmail now offers to do the more time-consuming part for you."
lifehacker.com | gmail offers to automatically unsubscribe you from mailing lists
In the meantime, look at how pretty the case I got to protect my darling is:
speck products | fitted case
speck products | fitted case
A mid-year check-in on my "Things that need to go away in 2009" post, to see how much progress we've made as a culture. Continue reading
Because I'm making art and words and websites and plans.FYI… Continue reading
When I was in high school, the American Taliban took over my town's school board.
One of their first moves was to create a policy banning the school from "encouraging, or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative." Continue reading
There are already well over ONE THOUSAND Ada Lovelace Day posts listed at http://ada.pint.org.uk/; I've been so moved by so many people's that I wanted to highlight a few that really touched me, whether they were well-written, moving, taught me something, or were just about really cool ladies. Continue reading
I explained two weeks ago that when I first learned about Ada Lovelace Day back in January, I was about halfway through drafting this post, my response to—and in some ways, retaliation against—the many "best"/"most influential" people in tech list links that were flooding emails, facebook pages, delicious networks, and print publications right around the turning of the new year. Continue reading
In ninth-grade science class, we watched a documentary about the discovery of the double helix, and it left me blazing indignant with anger. James Watson and Francis Crick, the two men who won the Nobel Prize for this discovery, had stolen essential research from the offices of an x-ray crystallographer named Rosalind Franklin, without which they never would have deduced the helical nature of DNA. Watching how she was treated… Continue reading
Completed my final animation project on Friday. You can see it right here; just make sure to have the volume turned up on your computer. The animation was done in Maya, which is the same software that Pixar uses! I mixed the audio in Audacity, and did all of the post-production work in FinalCut Pro. Continue reading
