Shape Type, the letter shaping game

These are so rad 🙂

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New Currency Frontiers: Beyond Quid Pro Quo

“I would contend that the quid pro quo social contract is a pioneer species in the social realm. Imagine you are meeting someone for the first time. Early interactions with this person are most likely in the quid pro quo space. Perhaps you try to talk for no more than half of the time. Perhaps you alternate who pays for the meals you eat out together. Perhaps you trade a ride to the airport for a day of dog sitting. In all cases, quid pro quo is used because you arent familiar with the person yet. As you become more familiar with each other, the ride to the airport probably doesnt have strings attached, the meals become less formally tracked, and conversation may ebb and flow more naturally. Quid pro quo created the conditions for the other more advanced social contracts to emerge. “

http://www.openmoney.org/go/cc.html

“One user establishes an account, and creates – “establishes” – a currency, just like opening an email group – pick an short but distinctive name for your currency. Let the other users know the currency name so they can similarly establish an account and register to use that currency. All users who register to use the new currency can trade around on line in a virtual way. “

open money: sophia

“When communities can create their own currencies, they don’t have to export their own wealth to get money to use for trade. They can start trading right away and export later if they so choose.”

New Currency Frontiers: Money Can’t Buy You Love…or Trust

“In other words, money lets us transact value even though we don’t trust each other.”

The Core of MetaCurrency: Composable Abstractions for Wealth Building | The MetaCurrency Project

“All along, we knew there had to be a way for currencies to reference other currencies, and even be contained in other currencies.”

Intro to Currency Platforms | The MetaCurrency Project

‘What if creating a currency was, as Linton says, as simple and easy as starting an email group? ‘

Something’s Hiding In Here

“the amazing ladies at bash please asked us to make a custom collection of bow ties for a private party.”

Le Noeud Papillon

these bows are so chunky and foxy.

Hark, a vagrant : 297 – 1980’s Businesswoman Comics

Wouldnt It Be Cool if Shakespeare Wasnt Shakespeare? – NYTimes.com

“First they came for the Kennedy scholars, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Kennedy scholar. Then they came for Opus Dei, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Catholic scholar. Now they have come for me. “

David Orr – What Is Education For?

via anne p. “The plain fact is that the planet does not need more “successful” people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every shape and form. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these needs have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.”

The Book Bench: It Chooses You : The New Yorker

qwantz: totally just invented the best format for music EVER

Hard to be humble when you stuntin on a jumbotron – I’m glad everyone likes our poster campaign 🙂

Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations And People Always Die, And Life Gets Faster | Conversation | Edge

Revealed the capitalist network that runs the world – physics-math – 19 October 2011 – New Scientist

Quantum Levitation – YouTube

Best comment: “He would so get hanged if this was 1629”

Making Wrong Code Look Wrong – Joel on Software

Kinds of things vs types of things 😉 “Every line of code can be inspected by itself, and if every line of code is correct, the entire body of code is correct.” “And if you see xl = cb, well, blow the Bad Code Whistle…” Oh Joel Spolsky

dojo/on: New Event Handling System for Dojo

Next Mobile Features Notes from Kriss Journey

“I wanted to suggest a few features that I believe could be significant in the mobile (web) space…”

Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better? : The New Yorker

Infectious Salmon Anemia Reported in Wild Pacific Fish – NYTimes.com

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