Exporting your visits – Cooper Hewitt Labs. “Probably the most tech savvy museum in the world is Cooper Hewitt, where pal, Aaron Straup-Cope (formerly of the original Flickr team), is involved in all sorts of very cool projects reconfiguring the museum’s collection into digital objects. The latest awesomeness from Cooper-Hewitt is: the ability to ‘export your visits’ as a little stand-alone, static website.” (Hugh for Alistair).
Chicken Grows Face of Dinosaur – BBC. “Every once in a while I read an article and think… yes, the future is going to be very different from today.” (Hugh for Mitch).
Wouldn’t It Be Nice? – The New Yorker. “Is there a chance that we don’t wind up using technology to create some kind of artificial intelligence that then turns on humanity, enslaves us all and then systematically destroys our species? If you watch TV, movies or whatever, it feels like an inevitable future. We’re doomed! Well, what if we’re all wrong? Maybe technology will actually make us nice and better and we’ll thrive? Read on…” (Mitch for Alistair).
The Kindle Finally Gets Typography That Doesn’t Suck – Fast Company. “Everyone who is a font nerd or a book worm will tell you that our current slate of fonts (as beautiful as they are) were probably never conceived to best applied to reading on a Kindle. Well, things are going to change. Amazon has built a font from the ground up. It’s called, Bookerly, and this typeface was created specifically to optimize the e-reading experience. That’s pretty cool.” (Mitch for Hugh).
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