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Here’s a detail of my Space Show piece just for the heck of it

Jaw Cooper. Paintings by Jaw Cooper that draw heavily on nature for inspiration and thus seem organic themselves, as living things willed to make us dream: Jaw Cooper: Website See the...

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Curious about how people use "geek" and "nerd" to describe themselves and if there was any difference between the two terms, Burr Settles analyzed words used in tweets that contained the two. Settles used pointwise mutual information (PMI), which essentially provided a measure of the geekness or nerdiness of a term. The plot above shows the results.

In broad strokes, it seems to me that geeky words are more about stuff (e.g., “#stuff”), while nerdy words are more about ideas (e.g., “hypothesis”). Geeks are fans, and fans collect stuff; nerds are practitioners, and practitioners play with ideas. Of course, geeks can collect ideas and nerds play with stuff, too. Plus, they aren’t two distinct personalities as much as different aspects of personality. Generally, the data seem to affirm my thinking.

Or maybe pop culture (geek) versus education (nerd).

If there's one thing Foursquare actually does right, it's fantastic visualizations of where we've all collectively checked-in. The latest, called the Time Machine, focuses squarely on you and not everyone.

Click here and you'll be transported back in time to your first check-in. You can slide forward and backwards in time of every check-in and even see infographs based on all your stats. It even claims to predict where you'll be going next, which I'm very skeptical about because I'm so unpredictable!

I don't know about you but I only use Foursquare to keep track of where I've been. But until now it wasn't that easy to go back in time, unless you subscribed to Timehop. This is something in between and it's pretty awesome. Not bad for a sponsored piece of content either. [Foursquare]

Capybara Games and composer Jim Guthrie, two of the three parties behind mobile adventure Sword & Sworcery, have this week unveiled Below, a desolate, moody adventure game for the Xbox One.

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Audrey Kawasaki.

New, incredible work by Audrey Kawasaki for Thinkspace Gallery’s SCOPE Basel show.

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Known for his rich, detailed paintings inspired by the Renaissance and contemporary culture alike, Nicola Verlato (featured in Hi-Fructose Collected Edition Vol. 3) creates artworks that visualize dramatic catastrophes. Time comes to a stand-still and characters are frozen as they hurl through space like atomic particles. Director George Langworhty recently created a time lapse film of Verlato at work on a massive canvas in his studio. Take a look at the video on the Hi-Fructose YouTube channel and check out a few of Verlato's other recent paintings after the jump!

Oh God. FreeCiv, the open source "tribute" to the classic strategy series, now runs on HTML5. Meaning it can run in browsers. And on your phone. Play here. Thanks PC Gamer.

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