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Functional Color
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Good color choices for information display. Sep 7th, 2010 Posted by Stone. On a recent trip, we stopped at Ft. Vancouver. Similarly, there is now strong evidence. That the pure white statues of Greece and Rome were originally painted bright colors. While modern taste admires the elegant simplicity of white marble, embellishments of richly colored pigments, some more valuable than gold, would have been much more admired in their time. In 1856, William Perkin. Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color.
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Where Did MOOCs Come From? | educationxpress.org
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Skip to main content. The publishing and community platform for digital innovation in education. Where Did MOOCs Come From? Where Did MOOCs Come From? This excerpt is the second chapter of Jonathan Haber's book MOOCs, from the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series. This early iteration of education by post created an industry that continues to this day. Those of us who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s may associate correspondence classes with invitations to draw Winky the Deer or Lucky the Duck appearin...
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The Chipotle Emphasis on "Throughput" is A Recipe for Continued Disappointment (talkin' to you, @ChipotleTweets) - brianstorms
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The Chipotle Emphasis on "Throughput" is A Recipe for Continued Disappointment (talkin' to you, @ChipotleTweets). Yesterday I read a Quartz article by Roberto A. Ferdman. Entitled " How Chipotle is going to serve burritos faster, and faster, and faster. What follows is an analysis triggered by a general fascination with how groups of people work together especially in retail settings. I blame it on the awesome Cognitive Science classes I took at UCSD with Don Norman and Ed Hutchins years ago. Esp...Hear ...
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Breaking up with @McSweeneys - brianstorms
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Breaking up with @McSweeneys. Lots of it. We all do. Sometimes we get email from companies and publications we like. But they send a lot of it. And sometimes there comes a day where you realize you're not even reading it, and it's just piling up, filling up your disk drive, and your backups, and the disk drives in Bluffdale. And who knows where else, and well, sometimes . . . you just gotta let 'em know enough is enough. February 9, 2014 9:35 AM. Thinking of posting a comment to this blog entry?
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PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community
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PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community. This article is also available at Just.Thinkofit.com. An earlier version appeared in the January 1994 issue of Matrix News. Two decades before the World Wide Web came on the scene, the PLATO system pioneered online forums and message boards, email, chat rooms, instant messaging, remote screen sharing, and multiplayer games, leading to the emergence of what was perhaps the world's first online community. PLATO Notes: Original Development. In the summer of 1973, Pa...
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brianstorms: April 2014 Archives
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It's Time for Ambient TV. Kottke recently wrote about the Slow TV phenomenon. Which I've been following for a while. YouTube also has great recordings that go on for hours of tropical rainforests during thunderstorms and things of that nature. Just aim the camera and record and come back in a few hours. Wonderful stuff. I call this stuff Ambient TV. What occurred to me was, why isn't anyone offering a live feed, in glorious HD, of the view of the Earth from the International Space Station? In time, you c...
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References for "The Future of Programming"
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References for "The Future of Programming". July 30, 2013. I gave a talk at the DBX conference called The Future of Programming. Below are links and quotes from some primary sources I used, as well as links to wikipedia and elsewhere where you can learn more. Much of the overall message and style of the talk was inspired by Alan Kay. For more talks with a similar message, I highly recommend:. Alan Kay - Programming and Scaling. Gerry Sussman - We Really Don't Know How To Compute! John von Neumann, when h...
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Bruce Wallace's Publications
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Links to Published Software and Articles authored by Bruce Wallace. For his book blog see Existential Programming. For his tech blog see PolyGlot, Inc. News. Not All Object Properties Are Created Equal. Did you know that 2500 years ago, philosophers like Plato and Aristotle were doing Object-Oriented Analysis and Entity-Relationship Modeling? More surprisingly, they were already more sophisticated than software developers are now! Not All Object Properties Are Created Equal. Part II: Says Who! JavaScript...
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