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- What AI has in common with dogs economist.com
Back when dog technology was first being developed, it was far from obvious that it was safe for people—who were literally inviting wolves into their caves. They had to train them not to eat babies. Thousands of years later, dogs still sometimes escape and go rogue. But overall, people are happy with how things have worked out. (It did not end so well for the Neanderthals.)
Great analogy.
- Logo Modernism - TASCHEN Books taschen.com
Examine the distillation of modernism in graphic design with this vast collection of approximately 6,000 logos from 1940–1980. Ranging from media outfits to retail giants, airlines to art galleries, these clean, clear visual concepts may be seen as the visual birth of corporate identity.
For the sugggested re-reading order:
* Thousand Autumns * Cloud Atlas * Utopia Avenue * Black Swan Green * Ghostwritten * Number9Dream * The Bone Clocks * Slade House
- Open Library openlibrary.org
One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty but achievable goal.
- How to Make Sense of Any Mess howtomakesenseofanymess.com
- Hypermedia Systems hypermedia.systems
The revolutionary ideas that empowered the Web A simpler approach to building applications on the Web and beyond with htmx and Hyperview Enhancing web…
- Goodreads is right to divide opinions, wrong to boil them down theguardian.com
- Edgar Schein: Humble Inquiry (2013) | by Philippe Vandenbroeck | Medium philippevandenbroeck.medium.com
I am getting more and more convinced that big, systemic change takes root in conscious but modest shifts in behaviour and thought. The argument developed in this short book confirms this: asking the right questions, from an authentic attitude of respect and curiosity, is the basis for building trusting relationships; trust facilitates better task-related communication and, thereby, ensures collaboration to get the job done.
- Stripe Press — Ideas for Progress press.stripe.com
- Take Control of Apple Home Automation – Take Control Books takecontrolbooks.com
- My sci-fi novel recommendations - Noahpinion noahpinion.substack.com
- archives.design archives.design
An organized collection of graphic design related items that are available on the Internet Archives compiled by Valery Marier
- Library Extension - See book availability from your local library's catalogs libraryextension.com
- Lissen Every Thing Back by Kathleen Jamie - Little Toller Books littletoller.co.uk
What I’m wondering is this: can a simple act of attention be called political? Given the state we’re in, given the grotesque high-handedness of our so-called…
- 'The View from Fife: The Wild Life of Scots' by Kathleen Jamie ginkgoprize.com
This article first appeared in Irish Pages . This afternoon I took the dog and went down Gardens Road to the waterside, to enjoy the view northward over the…
- Making of Byrne’s Euclid c82.net
Creating a faithful online reproduction of a book considered one of the most beautiful and unusual publications ever published is a daunting task. Byrne’s…
- Introduction · Human Redux read.reduxbook.com
- An Interview with Nick Harkaway: Algorithmic Futures, Literary Fractals, and Mimetic Immortality lareviewofbooks.org
AS WE BARREL into an uncertain future, it feels like everything is spinning out of control. Governments around the world are locked in self-destructive…
- Read The Markua Specification | Leanpub leanpub.com
The Magical Typewriter Imagine you owned a magical typewriter. When you used this magical typewriter, you wrote with fewer distractions. You didn’t just write…
Fierce … Kate Bush.Photograph: Record Company Handout I ’ve been a fan of Kate Bush for nearly 40 years. Being a fan, like being in love, is giddying, it’s as…
- It doesn't have to be crazy at work basecamp.com
Get a free pack of "It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work" stickers It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work By Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson In the UK,…
Crossing boundaries … Tilda Swinton in the 1992 film adaptation of Orlando. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive. Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West were…
- The Kefahuchi Tract trilogy: A future without nostalgia newstatesman.com
The Kefahuchi Tract trilogy – Light, Nova Swing, Empty Space M John Harrison All published by Gollancz, £8.99 A place where all the broken rules of the universe…
- Which children's books define the Scottish identity? theguardian.com
Are the British and Scottish identities exclusive? What if you feel a blend of the two, as site member Firebird does? Photograph: David Cheskin/PA Archive/Press…
- DesignOps Handbook - DesignBetter.Co designbetter.co
Via Popular.
- Gene Wolfe: A Science Fiction Legend on the Future-Altering Technologies We Forgot to Invent | The Polymath Project thepolymathproject.com
Gene Wolfe: A Science Fiction Legend on the Future-Altering Technologies We Forgot to Invent You probably haven’t heard of Gene Wolfe. That’s too bad, because…
- Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks sciphijournal.org
Many years ago, a friend of mine who knows about these sorts of things handed me a book and said “Here, you have to read this.” It was a copy of Iain M. Banks’s…
Books Bus driver raises cash via Twitter to give ‘magical’ poetry and picture book to all 2,681 schools Shares 1,082 1082 The Lost Words: ‘If it helps close the…
- Zadie Smith: ‘I have a very messy and chaotic mind’ theguardian.com
Z adie Smith’s second collection of essays, Feel Free , could be described as a tour through her enthusiasms punctuated with diversions. She writes with equal…
- The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry theguardian.com
H uman beings are born too soon. Within hours of arriving in the world, a baby antelope can clamber up to a wobbly standing position; a day-old zebra foal can…
Progressive Web Apps - My new book is available! I am super excited to announce that my latest book has been published and is available to purchase ! A few…
- Watership Down author Richard Adams: I just can’t do humans theguardian.com
Bedtime chiller … Richard Adams, now 94, at home in Hampshire.Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian R ichard Adams, no stranger to terrifying children with his…
- Philip Pullman's swearwords are a useful lesson for children theguardian.com
No biting, hitting or screaming here … graphic of bad language.Illustration: youngID/Getty Images “ Philip Pullman Litters New Children’s Book With Swear Words…
Design Systems Many teams are now taking a more systematic approach to design. But why do some design systems thrive and others become bloated and fragmented?…
Last week, we learned that science fiction author William Gibson changed his next novel , Agency , after the outcome of last November’s election. We caught up…
Discerning yet hilariously unprecious … Jonathan Meades.Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian I t is an iron law of food literature that the people who think…
- Resilient Web Design resilientwebdesign.com
Resilient web design by Jeremy Keith Introduction Chapter 1 Foundations Chapter 2 Materials Chapter 3 Visions Chapter 4 Languages Chapter 5 Layers Chapter 6…
Movie screens are thundering with futuristic stories this year, from the final installment of The Hunger Games to The Martian . Both films started as books —…
- Texts in Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn publicdomainreview.org
At the time of his death in 2001 at the age of 57, the German writer W.G. Sebald was cited by many critics as a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.…
- Exploring ES6: Upgrade to the next version of JavaScript exploringjs.com
- Updating a classic - Charlie's Diary antipope.org
In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services —the predecessor of the post-war CIA—was concerned with sabotage directed against enemies of the US military. Among…
- What's a 'chuggypig'? Robert Macfarlane’s word search theguardian.com
Some of the letters and cards that were sent to Robert Macfarlane A few days after Landmarks was published last spring, the first postcard arrived. It was of…
- Pinpoint by Greg Milner review – how is GPS changing our world? theguardian.com
We have all had the experience of getting lost while being informed of precisely where we are.Photograph: Alamy I n early 2008, for quixotic reasons that…
- CSS Animations: A Pocket Guide - Val Head, Author cssanimationspocketguide.com
Book Information: 65 pages ISBN: 978-1-907828-18-8 Live example files CSS animations open up a whole new way to look at and use CSS to bring motion to the web…
- Home: Bubblin Superbooks bubbl.in
Home: Bubblin Superbooks Bubblin Flipbooks beta Sign up Login Sign in New user? Sign up Keyboard shortcuts Site commands ⌘ + K: See shortcuts ⌘ + G: Go home ⌘ +…
- Setting up ES6 leanpub.com
1. About this book 2. Deploying ECMAScript 6 2.2 Transpilation tools 2.5 Are there ES6 features that can’t be transpiled to ES5? 3. Babel setups for browsers…
- What Writers Can Learn From 'Goodnight Moon' opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com