Reading Robert Putnam, _Our Kids_, together online

Article note: I’ll be following along and decided to buy the hardcover copy. It’s been a long time since a read a real book and it’s a habit I’d like to get back into.Last week I mentioned wanting to read Robert Putnam’s new book, Our Kids (Simon & Schuster, 2015).  That’s because it’s an important, attention-winning […]

Reading Robert Putnam, _Our Kids_, together online

Article note: I’ll be following along and decided to buy the hardcover copy. It’s been a long time since a read a real book and it’s a habit I’d like to get back into.Last week I mentioned wanting to read Robert Putnam’s new book, Our Kids (Simon & Schuster, 2015).  That’s because it’s an important, attention-winning […]

Cocoa for Web Services

Article note: Between this article and Caulfield’s recent slew of posts on a “storage-neutral” future of applications I’ve been enjoying the theory of where applications are going in relations to web-based services a lot.Brent Simmons: The cloud is more than just a file system. It’s data plus code.

Vogel.

Article note: Archive.org isn’t enough, but they are one of the best and most capable orgs to handle this and I hope we can find a way to. We’re losing much of the history of the web everyday as companies close their doors.We need a web design museum.

KamerMaker Begins Printing a House

Article note: I’m all for experimentation but FDM doesn’t seem like the right direction to go for 3D printing at this scale. But perhaps I’m missing the larger point. The KamerMaker is the world’s largest portable 3D printing pavilion built out of a shipping container — it has started printing an entire house out of plastic.

MRRF: Repables, The Nonprofit 3D Object Repository

Article note: I really need to get my stuff off of the Thingiverse one of these days and I truly want another repository to succeed. I don’t know if this is the one though. In typical RepRap fashion almost everything on the front page is parts for 3D printers and other machines and no compelling […]