September 2011
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No Layout →
A digital library of independent art books and magazines. Yay!
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Misc. links Sep 12th - 26th
The fiction of the creative industries by Florian Cramer. From a Dutch perspective but translates well into the Portuguese reality. The gist of it - the ‘creative industries’ hype conceals centralism (and nepotism) under a veneer of advertising, and harms both non-profit Art and independent creative businesses. Agreed! (via Ricardo Lafuente) ¶
A Reddit group about explaining stuff in...
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If This Then That →
This is a impressive and (deceptively) simple webapp that allows you to route actions in a service (eg. liking a video on YouTube) to another (eg. tweeting about it). Granted, many sites offer this ability already, but I like IFTTT because it provides a central dashboard for all your routing while often being more customizable. Sure you could use Yahoo Pipes or Tarpipe, but those are just too...
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Learning++
A couple of months ago, I’ve wrote about how impressed I was with Harvard University’s OpenCourseWare, namely the Computer Science 50 online materials. Back then I had just started watching a few videos of the lectures; now I feel as if I just completed the course - which I could, since you can be graded for a (expensive) fee. I watched the lectures (fastforwarding through the web...
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Misc. links Aug 30th - Sep 11th
Free online courses by famous philosophers. Since I’m really getting into watching OpenCourseWare videos (at least until the fifth season of Mad Men starts), perhaps I’ll put some of these on my watchlist. ¶
Was Marx Right? A very relevant article, published not in some Pravda but in the Harvard Business Review. Mind you, I think the fact that the author spends the first three...
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“It is impotent rage and despair masked as a display of force; it is envy masked...”
– Slavoj Žižek: Shoplifters of the World Unite
Still on the subject of last month’s London riots (and beyond), Slavoj Zizek bests my ability to articulate a few (hopefully) nuanced thoughs. His indictment is complete: conservatives blind to the fact the riots were themselves a conservative...
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August 2011
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That which we have now, having never been →
An interesting post on urban renewal, real estate speculation, nostalgia and gentrification. This seems a pretty universal phenomenon: right now downtown Porto has a mix of successful (?) and not-successful renewal, in the form of new drinking establishments all over the place and costly overhyped low-quality apartments like those the article describes. The former are all too dependent on fashions...
