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Why Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media and Why Free Media Require Free Technology

November 7, 2012 dig

NewStatesman

October 19, 2012 dig

Current issue, mostly in Mandarin, edited by Ai Weiwei, is free and being distributed as pdf and via bittorrent, in order to get by/through the great firewall. via.

Page 20-23 might as well be Aventura or Downtown Miami or Brikell.

semicolon

July 26, 2012July 26, 2012 dig

Mary Norris on the semicolon, in the newyorker. And on profanity.

headphone

May 21, 2012 dig

This grado sr6oi is quite nice; sound is full and warm, a bit bass heavy. I recommend.

epistemic games

February 7, 2012 dig

… are computer games that are essentially about learning to think in innovative ways. They’re designed to be pedagogical tools for the digital age where the player learns to think like professionals by playing a simulated game of such professions as management, engineering, journalism or urban planning.

via kqed.

The article cites How Computer Games Help Children Learn by David Williamson Shaffer.