W.E.B. Du Bois’ hand-drawn infographics from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” kottke.org by Jason Kottke W.E.B. Du Bois was an American author, sociologist, historian, and activist. Apparently Du Bois was also a designer and design director of some talent as these hand-drawn infographics show. White nationalists seem to have manipulated Google search results for ‘Boasian … Read more
Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects The Intercept by Dan Froomkin In the wake of the Paris attack, intelligence officials and sympathizers upset by the Edward Snowden leaks and the spread of encrypted communications havetried to blame Snowden for the terrorists’ ability to keep their plans secret from law enforcement. Yet news emerging from … Read more
First video made entirely of emojis: Don’t Emoji and Drive Osocio Weblog by Marc van Gurp Emojis are very popular on our smartphones and it also inspires a lot of creative people around the world for a variety of purposes. Drones, IBM, and the Big Data of Death The Intercept by Jon Schwarz LAST WEEKThe Intercept published a package of … Read more
That’s how it works here in Turkey… They do not seem to know that both drinks belong to same company… Pro-AKP circles started a campaign to boycott Israeli products and their first product to boycott is Coca Cola. Although the latter is not an Israeli company, they believe that Coca Cola “helps” Israel. Thus comes the boycott. … Read more