When Destiny launches next week, 10 million players will be let loose in an intricate, beautiful, interplanetary gaming playground.
READ MORE: Destiny: behind the scenes of the worlds most expensive video game | Art and design | The Guardian.
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Free Live Webinars for Librarians [September 2014] | OEDB.org
48 Free September Webinars for Librarians READ MORE: Free Live Webinars for Librarians | OEDB.org.
You may want to bookmark this OEDB webpage as it will be updated on a monthly basis, as indicated here.
How to attack a woman who works in video gaming | theguardian.com
A culture of hate and suspicion has descended on the games industry, and at the centre of the vortex is a familiar foe: women. Ask Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn.
READ MORE: How to attack a woman who works in video gaming | Technology | theguardian.com.
Scary. As librarians we have a responsibility to uphold the right to intellectual freedom. For situations such as this, there has to be checks and balances that hold criminal behaviour, such as harassment and death threats, accountable. Brings up all sorts of questions about social media and freedom of speech, anonymity, censorship, privacy and trolling.
Readers of new book The Endgame trilogy by James Frey can win $1.8m in gold coins | Mail Online
After looking for £500 gold bars on a Kent beach now comes the real treasure hunt: Readers of new book trilogy can win $1.8m in gold coins
- Trilogy of books give away $1.8m: $500,000 in gold coins in the first book, $1m in the second and $1.5m for the third
- Author James Frey was inspired by Kit Williamss 1979 book Masquerade
- Publishing rights have been sold to 27 countries and there will be 3 films
READ MORE: Readers of new book The Endgame trilogy by James Frey can win $1.8m in gold coins | Mail Online.
Typography and Type Design | infophile
I’ve added a new webpage here on infophile for resources, tools and discussion/history related to Typography and Type Design. Hope its useful and informative!
This Clever Image Search Could Change The Way You Find Pictures Online | Gizmodo
Compared to searching for text, searching for images is super hard. But a new way to index and navigate through averaged images—those blurry composites that pull together millions of images into one—could radically change the way that we search for photos or products online.
READ MORE: This Clever Image Search Could Change The Way You Find Pictures Online | Gizmodo
How Being Grateful Can Change Your Life | Fast Company
Recent studies show that practicing gratitude can positively impact your life–and researchers believe it may help us break our bad habits. Read the Full Story: How Being Grateful Can Change Your Life | Fast Company | Business + Innovation.
How to Encrypt Everything | Gizmodo
[T]he Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF and Fight for the Future—offers instructions on how we can all avoid mass surveillance. But it also offers a “Privacy Pack” for the average user. Its simply a bundle of free software to help you encrypt your data and communications. You should download it right now.
Encryption doesnt require coding knowledge or math skills, but it does demand some attention and care. The Privacy Pack is a great starting point, but if you want to cover all of your bases, there are few more things you need to do. Weve put together a little guide that includes details on the software in the Privacy Pack and a little bit extra. In case youre not quite sure what encryption is or how it works, EFFs Surveillance Self-Defense site is a great place to start.
READ MORE How to Encrypt Everything | Gizmodo [Phone, Email, Browser, Everything Else]
7 Tech Upgrades to the Old-School Science Class | Mashable
Technological breakthroughs have flooded into classrooms, changing the face of K-12 education. From smart boards to smartphones, these digital trends have become useful educational tools in the teaching process. While todays kids are learning the same lessons and concepts, they are absorbing in different ways.
With new apps and interactive sites, science class, in particular, has received a few upgrades. We took a look at how science technology has evolved over time, and what adjustments have been made.
READ MORE: 7 Tech Upgrades to the Old-School Science Class | Mashable
Library of Congress cooks CDs in quest to save them | CNET
CDs may not be the first thing to come to mind when you think of the Library of Congress, but it houses more than 500,000. The extensive collection includes everything from music to maps and labs where researchers are destroying CDs to learn how to preserve them, CBS News Jim Axelrod reports.
In 1982, Billy Joels album “52nd Street” was the first commercial compact disc to be released. Since then, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold worldwide. Once the latest music technology, the CD is now a collectors item, replaced by digital downloads. But those who built up music libraries in the 80s and 90s may wonder how long will those discs work? Fenella France, chief of preservation research and testing at the Library of Congress, is hoping to figure that out.
READ MORE: Library of Congress cooks CDs in quest to save them | CNET
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