The Marginalian
The Marginalian

Reads tagged with “software”

Retrofuturism Revisited: The Past Imagines the Future
Retrofuturism Revisited: The Past Imagines the Future

Flying cars! Spinning buildings! Voice AND color! …or what Disney has to do with Eve.

read article

Visualizing Enlightenment-Era Social Networks
Visualizing Enlightenment-Era Social Networks

Why Mark Zuckerberg has nothing on Voltaire.

read article

projeqt: A Creative Storytelling Platform
projeqt: A Creative Storytelling Platform

The new language of the creative polyglot, or what tweets have to do with portfolios.

read article

7 Image Search Tools That Will Change Your Life
7 Image Search Tools That Will Change Your Life

What martinis have to do with reverse art lookup and obscure German calendars from the 1990’s.

read article

SwiftRiver: Intelligence for the Information Age
SwiftRiver: Intelligence for the Information Age

What humanitarian crisis management has to do with brand monitoring and natural language.

read article

Economy Map: Visualizing the Eco-Impact of Industry
Economy Map: Visualizing the Eco-Impact of Industry

What crude oil production has to do with interface design and public advocacy.

read article

American Software: The Titans of Silicon Valley in 8-Bit Animation
American Software: The Titans of Silicon Valley in 8-Bit Animation

read article

FORM+CODE: Eye & Brain Candy for the Digital Age
FORM+CODE: Eye & Brain Candy for the Digital Age

Computational aesthetics, or what typography has to do with Yoko Ono and Richard Dawkins.

read article

PICKED: IDEO Imagines The Future of Books
PICKED: IDEO Imagines The Future of Books

read article

Facadeprinter: Graffiti Meets Paintball
Facadeprinter: Graffiti Meets Paintball

Automating anti-establishment, or what street art has to do with disaster relief.

read article

View Full Site

The Marginalian participates in the Bookshop.org and Amazon.com affiliate programs, designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to books. In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book from a link here, I receive a small percentage of its price, which goes straight back into my own colossal biblioexpenses. Privacy policy. (TLDR: You're safe — there are no nefarious "third parties" lurking on my watch or shedding crumbs of the "cookies" the rest of the internet uses.)