Creative thinking rules
Ripped from the web:Creative thinking rules
“…it appears to all come from an NPR story about Sister Corita Kent.
She was an art teacher who influenced many creatives, including Buckminster Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, John Cage and Henry Miller, and is perhaps most famous for the 1985 love stamp.
- Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
- General duties of a student: pull everything out of your teacher, pull everything out of your fellow students.
- General duties of a teacher: pull everything out of your students.
- Consider everything an experiment.
- Be self-disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
- Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.
- THE ONLY RULE IS WORK. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
- Don’t try to create and analyse at the same time. They’re different processes.
- Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.
- ‘We’re breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.’ - John Cage.
Helpful hints: Always be around. Come or go to everything always. Go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully often. Save everything, it might come in handy later.
Love it! You can see some of her work online or check out the recent book about her work.
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(Via scottberkun.com.)
1 commentWhat is Better than Free?
If digital technology makes it difficult to own and control information, thenthis essay suggests how the future should be handled.
No commentsHow to Make an Earbud Cord Caddy - wikiHow
I hate paying for things that I could make with my meager skills, and I hate hate hate when someone hasn’t invented a much needed product yet. What are you doing inventors! Luckily, wikihow has an article onHow to Make an Earbud Cord Caddy - wikiHow: ”
So you’ve got an iPod… or other MP3 player, but that crazy earbud cord is too long for you?
Here’s a cheap, easy alternative to paying $3-7 USD for a cord caddy at the electronics store…
[edit]Steps
Discarded Foam ‘toy’ blocks.
Gather your materials. Abandoned children’s foam puzzle pieces work very well for this project, as do cheap ‘flip-flop’ or ‘zori’ type shoes.
3×4 inch piece of paper.
Fold in half.
Then fold in quarters
Sketch your idea.”
etc…
One Tower to House Them All
I really hope the future has some of this: Concept Architecture: A Two-Mile High Eco-Tower to House One Million People, 12 Lakes, and a Vertical Train. Way cooler than killer robots.
No commentsTracing Data Visualization
Cool article tracing the history of data visualization. Love it!
1 commentWhy not Wikipedia on your iPod
Hackzine points out, you finally have a use for that iPod:
Yes that’s right. Thanks to iPodLinux, you can now have the entire Wikipedia encylopedia on your iPod. Clocking in at only 1.7 GB of space, it is a very handy tool if you have the sudden uncontrollable urge while out at the shops to discover the capital of Mongolia or the mating habits of eels. The Wikipedia file is updated approximately once every 6 months so you won’t have the most up-to-date version but hey it’s free and Mongolia isn’t going to change their capital anytime soon.
Note that new iPods, the iPod Video and Nano devices as well as the Touch and iPhone are not yet supported by iPodLinux. If you have a slightly older iPod, however, it’s a simple hack to turn it into a full pocket encyclopedia.
Encyclopodia: the encyclopedia on your iPod - Link
How to Install Wikipedia on Your iPod (Windows users)- Link
Encyclopodia Installation Guide for OS X and Linux - Link
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(Via Hackszine.com.)
No commentsTime is Going by Really Really Really Slow
This is an actual 911 call from a Dearborn cop who used drugs. This proves that drugs are bad.
1 commentThe Force Still Matters
NASA will launch Luke Skywalker’s light saber into space. I think I rest my case.
No commentsLook! Taxes!
This poster purports to show where our federal tax dollars go, in terms of proposed annual discretionary spending for 2008. The summary? 2/3rd for military, 1/3 for the rest. These colors, do indeed, not run.
No commentsButter Floor!
Careful Kids! This one has curse words! In an attempt to prove to some friends that physical humor is pretty universal, I present you with butter floor:
Chainsaw!
Alright, youtube surfing can last forever, but I keep getting them from my friend Joshua, who loves to stumbleupon such things. If you’re a firefox user, you can stumbleupon things via plugin. Regardless, here is an awesome magic trick:
It’s just a Thriller!
If you haven’t seen it, this video of Asian (Filipino?) inmates doing the Thriller video for kicks:
Where You From, Where You At?
Find out, based on a very unscientific quiz, where it is you belong or might be happy in America. Flint is not even on this list?
No commentsSpam.. a Lot
I’m not speaking about the play based on the work of Monty Python, but the issue of comment spam, quite a problem for blog owners. I’ve installed a very effective spam catching tool called Askimet, which honestly catches about 95-99% of comment spam. I’ve just installed another tool called reCaptcha, which should help eliminate the rest. reCaptcha aims to solve the issue of spam created by malicious bots, while at the same term being capitalizing on the 10 seconds a human actually employs to defeat the countermeasure.
In the past, when signing up for an account, or to add a comment to a blog or forum, you may have been asked to type in a string of numbers. The numbers appear directly next to the entry box, but have been warped so that a computer cannot determine what they are, but a human easily can. The designer of this system, Luis von Ahn, designed the new tool to help with the process of digitizing text for public use. So, if you ever deign to comment, dear reader, know that in being asked to type two words, you are defeating spam and serving humanity. Well done!
BTW, this is a description of why comment spam is bad.
Finally, some of you have noted that updates have gone beyond an appropriate amount of time. I’m working on something to make updates more frequent, basically tying them to my del.icio.us account postings. Del.icio.us - if you’re unfamiliar - is a bookmarking tool that allows you to tag entries semantically, based on the topics they address. It’s quite good.
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