So much work is being done in the digital realm, from Facebook using members to translate pages for free, to Wikipedia’s volunteer reference work, to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program. Not to mention all the creative folk participating in contests for the off chance that their creation (usually based on hours and hours of work) will [...]
Posted on September 27th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Ok, this is probably my last Mad Men post, having done two already (here and here), I think I’m ready to be finished thinking about what doesn’t quite work for me about the show–even though I watch it pretty regularly.
Mad Men is all about details, whether in historical accuracy, beautiful sets, or subtle interplays between [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by DeepthiW
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All of the projects exhibited at the opening of Toward the Sentient City explore the future of the urban environment. Haque Design + Research created the Natural Fuse project, which wires plants into a network in order to both generate power and offset CO2 created by that power. The project addresses not only power generation [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 by DeepthiW
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