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MY BODY
I hate my body
Weak & Thick
An awkward disgrace
Meant to be hidden
Sexualized too young
Objectified constantly
Only worthy when
A-PEAL-ING.
Food is not the enemy
Clothes are not the villain
My brain & society
Seeing nothing but
A WASTE OF SPACE.
I feel such grief
& pain over my body.
I numb with ignorance
& I numb with food.
The Book Thief (2013)
We’re hiding a jew.
Library Lends Helping Hand
The Half Hollow Hills Community Library made a prosthetic hand for a child on a MakerBot Replicator when patrons weren’t using it. “As the pieces would build inside the machine, staffers and patrons would walk by and ask what was printing,” writes Ellen Druda. ”It was a noble cause and a terrific opportunity to showcase what could be done with new technology.” (Library Journal)
The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library offers an exceptional encounter with antiquity. Using the world’s most advanced imaging technology, the Digital Library preserves thousands of scroll fragments, including the oldest known copies of biblical texts, now accessible to the public for the first time.
A librarian found the original 'Star Wars' script, and it settles one of the biggest fan debates of the film Ian Phillips, businessinsider.com
It turns out the answer to a question that has puzzled "Star Wars" fans for decades was hidden in a Canadian library.
According to CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), while trying to digitize the University of New Brunswick Library's scienc…
Sploot is a silly seagull pooping simulator in which you fly around a town eating bread and constantly crapping, aiming for pedestrians, buildings and cars as you try and get as high a score as possible.
Created from the ground up to work with Oculus Rift (but still playable on a standard screen), the controls are simple - just aim where you want to fly, look down and you’ll plummet downwards, look up and you’ll fly high in the sky. As you soar around the town, your aim is to get as high a score as possible. You do this by eating bread (to increase your multiplier) and pooping on as many high value objects as possible (especially the gold ones.)
With it’s simple, crude and silly gameplay, Sploot is a hoot. Soaring and defecating all over a defenceless town may not be the most noble use of emerging VR technology, but it’s certainly an enjoyable one!
Play the Full Game, Free (Compatible with Oculus Rift or Standard Screen)
3D Printing - five things you need to know
Is 3D printing an overhyped, niche hobby for geeks with to much disposable income or is it the beginning of a revolution in democratisation of home manufacturing?
1 - There are several different types of this technology.
3D printers come in a variety of flavours. Some extrude melted plastic and some create objects by firing lasers into a fine resin powder. The technology is at the VHS vs Betamax phase, and is moving rapidly.
For the home market, extruding plastic (a process known as Fused Deposition Modeling) is the simplest method.
This version of the technology pipes layer upon layer of melted plastic to build up the shape. Newer (more expensive) printers can use two or three different colours or types of plastic to create objects with complex features.
2 - You can print a gun with it, but there are plenty of better things to print.
The first thing people ask when you show the a 3D printer is, “what can you do with it?”. 3D printers are a technology whose possibility far exceeds the limits of its creators. Just as mobile phone companies never saw the possibilities offered by SMS, and 1980s computer manufacturers never saw the point of home computers, 3D printing is an idea that is waiting to really hit home.
Some things we’ve printed with ours: camera lens adapter, replacement foot for a Microsoft keyboard, helmet mount for a Sony actioncam, trophy, brackets for a fake greenhouse. Checkout www.thingiverse.com for a bewildering amount of open source models for printing.
3 - The revolution is going to change almost every part of the supply chain, from factory through to consumer.
Imagine you are a plumber. Rather than visiting a trade centre to buy a fitting for a central heating system, you simply go online and download the object you need and print it out.
The hospital that needs a specific piece of IV tubing, the car repair shop that needs a new bumper, the school that needs an educational toy… The real challenge is going to be monetizing the 3D models.
We may see 3D print businesses springing up, in the same way that copy shops were popular before home printers and scanners were affordable.
4 - 3D printing is just one of a number of digital fabrication technologies (that includes laser cutting, engraving and 3D sculpting). However it’s the only one that can be additive rather than subtractive (meaning that you can build things up, rather than taking stuff away). Many parts for consumer units can be made using other digital fabrication technologies (our 3D printer is made from laser cut plywood)
5 - Numbers around 3D printing:
A home unit costs between £900 and £3000
Plastic filament costs £30 a spool, which equates to roughly £1 per mobile phone sized printed object. However, costs are already coming down.
1981 - the year the first 3D printed model was created
2010 the point at which domestic units started becoming affordable
2 hours - about the time it takes to print out a moderately complex, camera sized object
Public libraries, basic human necessity or privilege for only the deserving?
Serious thoughts appreciated on this matter.
Thoughts?
I’m not sure about the who or the why behind this question and what kinds of perspectives they are looking for. I think you’d be hard pressed to find a librarian who would say that they are privilege for the “deserving” whoever the they are.
But I, at least, will admit to a lot of disparity between libraries in areas based on per capita income. We exist mainly on tax money gathered primarily from property taxes. Affluent areas with higher property prices and therefore higher property taxes often have beautiful libraries that are jewels of the community (and budgets to match.) Poor communities, if they have libraries, often have volunteers only staffing or maybe one part time staffer and not nearly enough resources.
But on the other hand the richest person in a poor community can use that library if they want, and the poorest person in a wealthy community can use their library too. This doesn’t equalize access to resources across communities though, and it never will.
This means that while public libraries should be a basic human right, definitely, the reality doesn’t match. I’m not sure that this is the right question to be asking. I think it’s a false dichotomy. Maybe the better question is how do we create a world where really great libraries exist for everyone?
This reminds me of a south suburban Chicago library I once went to. The demographics of the area were immediately apparent when I walked in, and I got a sense that the staff did a great job. Difficult situations sometimes result in fantastic libraries. I only say “sometimes” not “all the time” for a reason :(
I also remember visiting over-stressed libraries I felt needed help, and libraries that I felt went for opulence over function as well.
Death by Humiliation? How One Teen's Suicide After Dad Chops Her Hair Off on Camera Sparks Debate on "Public Shaming"
“So what the hell does [Andrew Rashbass] mean by ‘Lean Back 2.0’? Simple, really. He points to the fact that the use of tablets and e-readers is growing — at the expense of print and web use — and simultaneously also changing our reading habits. Unlike reading on a laptop, reading on an iPad or Kindle is a leisure activity. Unlike reading a print newspaper or magazine, you can access whatever the hell you like. We’re now combining the utility of modern tech with the enjoyment of reading as relaxation.”
(The Economist via Gizmodo)
Shakespeare's Rings
Me: “Has anyone here ever read any Shakespeare?”
One of my grade 9 students raises his hand.
Me: “What have you read?“
Him: “I didn’t read it. I saw the movie.“
Me: “That’s okay. His works were originally meant to be seen, not read.“
Him: "The Lord of the Rings."
Me: "I believe that’s Tolkien."
Him: "I always get them mixed up.”
Idk if I should laugh or cry..
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Technology areas to watch in 2012 through 2016
by nextbigfuture:
Energy Revolution - Mass produced fission, fusion, and maybe cold fusion
Memristors and other significant computing and electronic improvements.
Robotics
Urbanization Broad Group skyscrapers, Tata flat packed buildings
Space
Supersmartphones, exoskeletons and wearable systems
Hyperbroadband
Energy Efficiency - superconductors, thermoelectrics, improved grid
Additive manufacturing
Not so mundane - neuromorphic chips, quantum computers, photonics
Automated transportation (leading to robotic cars and planes)
Supermaterials
Improve medicine and public health
Synthetic biology and recombineering
Sensors everywhere
Education transformed and accelerated innovation
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Hololens...the future of library reference?
Beauty or brains?
Fuck that, it’s not a dichotomy. Let’s not act like mascara glues girls eyes so shut that they can’t read a word of Dickens or solve a trig problem. Let’s talk about how no boy has ever been asked if he’d rather get his Bachelor’s or get married; no boy has ever been told that he’s too handsome to run for office. So why cover up my tits so you can take me seriously?
Beauty or brains? I’ll take ‘em all, thanks.
Hmmmm.
