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smarterplanet: How you and I could become nodes in the internet of things A group of French researchers believe that the sensors and transmitters we wear will route and relay data, not just collect it. We won’t just be connected to the network. We’ll be the network. Ever wonder what the network infrastructure of the […]

ikenbot: Cygnus Constellation The image depicts part of Cygnus, a northern constellation lying on the plane of the Milky Way. Cygnus is one of the most recognizable constellations of the northern summer and autumn, featuring a prominent asterism known as the Northern Cross (in contrast to the Southern Cross), dominated by Deneb (Alfa Cygni), a […]

spaceplasma: Chandra, Spitzer study suggests black holes abundant among the earliest stars The cosmic microwave background, shown at left in this illustration, is a flash of light that occurred when the young universe cooled enough for electrons and protons to form the first atoms. It contains slight temperature fluctuations that correspond to regions of slightly […]

You’re Too Cheap to Fly Faster — Lift and Drag — Medium But there’s a big difference between this hypersonic flight and the ever faster computers that have penetrated nearly every corner of society, and now travel everywhere in pockets and purses, and even on some people’s faces. We don’t get to use the really […]

Bootstrapping the Industrial Age — Editor’s Picks — Medium Let’s take a very sophisticated item: one web page. A web page relies on perhaps a hundred thousand other inventions, all needed for its birth and continued existence. There is no web page anywhere without the inventions of HTML code, without computer programming, without LEDs or […]

Nicholas Schmidle: Chris Kyle’s Tragic Quest to Help Troubled Veterans : The New Yorker A tragic story. Both in terms of Chris Kyle’s untimely death and the sad way our healthcare system fails our veterans.

Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America’s Prisons. | Mother Jones A look at California’s prison system from an unusual perspective.

Yahoo made a Flickr commercial. Nicely done.

The State Of Responsive Web Design | Smashing Mobile A look at the current and possible future of responsive web design

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Blogged by helloMuller. – On so-called Flat Design. This post provides some history for the flat design trend. (Hint: it’s been around for awhile.) Something that in itself has been around since the mid 90s, when it was simply interactive or web design that was labelled “minimal” or “clean”.

The Argument Isn’t Skeuomorphic vs. Flat — Design/UX — Medium In a world where more and more people are interested in the relationship between design and the internet, we’re teaching them to think that graphic design is nothing more than a style preference. The whole skeuomorphic vs. flat debate is really distracting from what matters. […]