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The Dark Architecture of the National Security State - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/06/the-dark-architecture-of-national-security/529302/

When you design a biosphere and carefully nerf all the obvious paths to superintelligence, but some social mammals discover it anyway

second-order AIs amuse themselves by designing minds, sleek and efficient ones but also art minds that extract the greatest possible beauty

What the makers get out of it is well-tested and working colony designs and colonist communities that have already been seeded in-game

Are there any design documents i can’t find or do i need to read the java code?

Expression Web Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Microsoft Expression Web ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/expression-web/expression-web-4-tutorial-1.shtml

Elevator pitch: “We create custom symbionts for any purpose! We disrupt evolution!“↵- Intelligent Design LLC (trademark pending)

Anopticon: Architecture designed to resist surveillance, easily navigable but with as few long lines of sight as possible, sound-damping,

You can explore dreamtime in a bathysphere, dreamproof and designed to withstand great pressure. Or go native, grow gills, breathe ideas.

How to Make a Mobile-Friendly Website: Responsive Design in CSS ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/css/mobile-friendly-responsive-design.shtml

Dream’s temple, by design, is nearly entirely ritual, reflecting dreams’ intangible and ever-changing nature:↵https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/706999800437334016

He once designed entire cathedrals, but his clients ran out of money. Now he specializes in portable microtemples, no bigger than dice.

It would be nice to have a calculus (to account for translation, friction, perturbation, etc) to explore the design space programmatically.

Glowforge

We all need this. Watch the video and tell me if you do not feel amazed. It is pricey, but oh the fun one could have with one of those!

Glowforge is a wireless 3D laser printer that fits on your desktop, works with your favorite design programs, and stores your designs & data on a cloud.

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Gmail.app on iOS
I like Google and its services. Like is too little, I love them! Their mobile applications on the other hand — specifically those running under iOS — are horrible. The UIX is confusing and it does not follows Apple UIX design. Their choice of font is of poor taste and, again, does not match the rest of the OS. They lack of functionality and/or their functionality is limited by poor choices and, what is seems to be, a lack of common sense. I could describe and point out the problems on any of the … ⌘ Read more

Specialization is for Insects
From Robert Heinlein’s science fiction book, _Time Enough for Love_:

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure … ⌘ Read more

CSS Frameworks + CSS Reset: Design From Scratch http://tinyurl.com/29n97c

Too busy, too much money or…
Our College is trying to re-design. Our web manager has been assigned to some other project of more importance (Dean’s order), so he can’t tackle the conversion of the existing website to a full blown CMS driven one. Other than the locals we have seeing and sit through presentations and proposals, I sent emails –very brief ones, but to the point– to Dan Cederholm, [Dan Bejamin](http://www.hivelogic.com/ “Da … ⌘ Read more

Changing servers
As if weren’t enough my move to WordPress and my internal debacle on what to do with the site design, now I am getting ready to move all domains and files –physically– to another hosting company, on a real colocated server (not VS anymore).

The virtual server I have used until now (and that I still use now, for the time being) served me well, but it is getting o … ⌘ Read more

And on the seventh day he rested
Saturday is about over, at least for me. There is not much to tell about it, it just passed away silently, without much ado.

We went to the mall today, just to walk the kids around. The kids, you may ask? Well, we took Kent Martin and cousin Alyssa (six months younger) with us today. It was pretty tiresome to handle both of them, but it helped us to realize that we have enought with Kent Martin… for now.

On the new websites design topic, I already have on … ⌘ Read more