My HD died with two days left on the warranty.
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"A skeuomorph is a design feature that is no longer functional in itself but that refers back to a feature that was functional at an earlier time. The dashboard of my Toyota Camry, for example, is covered by vinyl molded to simulate stitching" - N. Katherine Hayles
An Interconnected look at skeuomorphs.
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"Shaping a networked society is a design adventure. A public sphere in cyberspace will not emerge from technology itself. Rather, a public sphere must be designed. But design, in this case, is not only about the intentional design performed by professional and designated designers. To a large extent, the total cyberspace network, and even more so the part of it that can be seen as a 'public sphere', is designed through use. This paper is about that form of design."
Unintended Use: The Public Sphere Designed by the Public
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"This text proposes a series of definitions, the aim of which is to better circumscribe what is, and what is not, meant by writing under constraint."
Toward a General Theory of the Constraint
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"In the early 90s a group of people were attracted to each other because of their shared interest in the idea of time, and in the idea of responsibility for the future. This group of people came to call themselves the Long Now Foundation. [...] We felt that there was a need to create some new form of human thinking about Time. We were all aware that everything was getting faster."
Brian Eno talks about the Long Now Foundation. (Related: The Long Now Foundation)
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"Ever felt as though a piece of music is speaking to you? You could be right: musical notes are strung together in the same patterns as words in a piece of literature, according to an Argentinian physicist."
Tunes create context like language. (Related: Zipf's law and the creation of musical context, which discusses the extension of the notion of context from linguistics to the domain of music.)
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The Naropa University Beat Generation audio archives.
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Exactitudes, "an almost scientific, anthropological record of people's attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity".
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