Time Magazine uses Oklahoma tragedy to take deceptive potshot against "secular humanists" Wozniak on Jobs biopic Scenes from Turkey and Brazil Pac-man reimagined as survival horror Edward Snowden is on the move: headed Moscow -> Havana -> [Quito|Caracas] Is math real? UK cops knew that banks, lawyers, rich people and others routinely hired criminal hackers to spy on people, did nothing about it Pussy Riot members speak Mickey Mouse in Vietnam Photos of Space Mountain's construction Another trip down the Internet K-Hole Obama (candidate) vs Obama (president) on NSA spying Simo Lazarov, "UFO," 1981 Wilco's Solid Sound festival under way in Massachussetts My Little Droney "Jerry (rescued from kill shelter) loves to smell flowers" Time Magazine uses Oklahoma tragedy to take deceptive potshot against "secular humanists"
By Rob Beschizza on Jun 23, 2013 12:21 pm Writing in
a Time cover story about the virtue of service, Joe Klein took a religious detour: in the relief army helping Oklahoma recover from a barrage of tornadoes, he wrote, "you don't see organized groups of secular humanists giving out hot meals."
He's lying out of his ass, Hemant Mehta points out.
Read in browser Wozniak on Jobs biopic
By Rob Beschizza on Jun 23, 2013 12:01 pm With a new trailer out to promote Kutcher-starring biopic
Jobs, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has
new thoughts on the movie—not all of them negative.
Read in browser Scenes from Turkey and Brazil
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 23, 2013 11:55 am (A protester in Sao Paulo kisses a Turkish flag. Brazilians say they were, to a large extent, influenced by #occupygezi) Yup, they're still in the streets in Turkey.
Read in browser Pac-man reimagined as survival horror
By Rob Beschizza on Jun 23, 2013 11:55 am Mark Wilson at FastCoDesign:
I should feel safe in this moment of stillness, but I can't let my guard down. Because with every safe step I take, I know that I can only be one step closer to my unseen enemy.
Read in browser Edward Snowden is on the move: headed Moscow -> Havana -> [Quito|Caracas]
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 23, 2013 09:48 am The Guardian and South China Morning Post report that NSA leaker Edward Snowden has left Hong Kong on an Aeroflot jet heading for Moscow, aiming for Havana, and then, eventually, either Quito, Ecuador, or Havana, Cuba.
Read in browser Is math real?
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 22, 2013 11:37 pm Here's a great video pondering the objective reality of mathematics, and running down all the different schools of thought on where mathematical truth comes from -- does it exist outside of systems of codification by intelligent beings, as an eternal part of the universe; or is it something that we invent through codification?
Read in browser UK cops knew that banks, lawyers, rich people and others routinely hired criminal hackers to spy on people, did nothing about it
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 22, 2013 11:21 pm The Independent reports that the UK Serious Organised Crime Agency supplied secret evidence to the Leveson Inquiry (on phone-hacking by newspapers) saying that many other groups in the UK routinely engaged in criminal, invasive hacking through private investigations firms.
Read in browser Pussy Riot members speak
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 22, 2013 10:11 pm Two members of Pussy Riot have travelled to London under a cloak of secrecy to speak to the press about the plight of their bandmates in Russian labor camps.
Read in browser Mickey Mouse in Vietnam
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 22, 2013 09:16 pm The 16mm short film "Mickey Mouse In Vietnam" is an anti-war movie by Lee Savage and Milton Glaser, produced for The Angry Arts Festival in 1968.
Read in browser Photos of Space Mountain's construction
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 22, 2013 06:13 pm From the Imagineering Disney blog, a wonderful gallery of photos from the construction of Space Mountain at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World.
Read in browser Another trip down the Internet K-Hole
By David Pescovitz on Jun 22, 2013 03:46 pm Over at the
Internet K-Hole, Babs posted another glorious collection of personal and found vintage snapshots, mostly from the 1980s and some NSFW.
Read in browser Obama (candidate) vs Obama (president) on NSA spying
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 22, 2013 03:10 pm Here's Obama the Presidential Candidate debating Obama the Second Term President on surveillance; note how Obama the younger smashes through the cheap "privacy vs security" rhetoric of Obama the elder, showing the man for a thoroughly co-opted cynic who'll let the nation's spooks run wild.
Read in browser Simo Lazarov, "UFO," 1981
By Xeni Jardin on Jun 22, 2013 01:53 pm Bulgarian composer and keyboardist Simo Lazarov (Simon Lazar), performing his composition "UFO" in 1981.
Read in browser Wilco's Solid Sound festival under way in Massachussetts
By Xeni Jardin on Jun 22, 2013 01:47 pm If you're in driving distance of North Adams, Massachussets, Wilco's annual
Solid Sound Festival is under way, and a fabulous collission of music, art, food, comedy, beer, and beards.
Read in browser My Little Droney
By Xeni Jardin on Jun 22, 2013 01:21 pm "My Little Droney" by Christopher F. Smith, via
Murmuration Festival.
Read in browser "Jerry (rescued from kill shelter) loves to smell flowers"
By Xeni Jardin on Jun 22, 2013 01:03 pm A
Reddit thread of greatness.
(Thanks, Tara) Read in browser Meet SparkTruck, an “educational build-mobile” for the twenty-first century.
Dreamed up by a group of Stanford d.school students and funded through Kickstarter, SparkTruck is a mobile maker space currently traveling across the United States. At schools and summer camps and libraries around the country, the SparkTruck team offers workshops to help kids “find their inner maker” as they design and build projects like stamps, stop-motion animation clips, and “vibrobots.”
[video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmRKXqDwieY&feature=plcp]
This might seem all shiny and new. And it is—but only in part. What’s so striking (and exciting) about SparkTruck is the way it combines old and new. It does so in the tools it gets kids using, which range from pipe cleaners to laser cutters. It does so in its educational approach, which combines cutting-edge (get it?) STEM and design pedagogy with the fundamentals of an old-school shop class. And it does so in its method, which combines the iconic, century-old technology of the bookmobile with the hot new form of the maker space.
In doing so, SparkTruck joins a growing number of libraries which are combining time-tested principles (like equal access to information) with new technologies (like 3-D printers), putting in maker spaces and media production labs alongside bookshelves and meeting rooms. As I’ve argued over on bookmobility.org, these combinations make sense because reading and making actually have a lot in common. They’re both creative processes that take existing materials and combine them in new ways. Getting people engaged in those kinds of processes—through imaginative thinking, contemplation, hands-on problem-solving, and collaborative learning—is what both maker spaces and libraries are all about.
Taking that commitment on the road with scissors and hammers and 3-D printers and a great big bookmobile-like truck, SparkTruck serves as a laboratory for new approaches, as well as a reminder that trying new things doesn’t have to (and probably shouldn’t!) necessarily mean tossing old ones out.
After all, what would those vibrobots be without classically crafty pipe cleaners and tongue depressors? And what would a library be without the creative, participatory, straight-up awesome experience of reading?
SparkTruck schedule [sparktruck.org]
How to arrange a visit from SparkTruck [sparktruck.org]
SparkTruck YouTube channel [youtube.com]
Signature: --Derek Attig, bookmobility.org
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