My date titles continue to get blurrier. The range of stuff covered gets wider. VCU is moving any course with over 50 students to the online format. We’re supporting that move in a variety of ways. Our little R&D group is trying to answer the non-standard problems, questions, media desires. To some degree we are […]
Bankrupt Hertz Wants In on Robinhood’s Investors – BloombergThis theory is that the stock market is a fun casino, and you should buy stocks because they will go up and down in exciting fashion and might make you rich quick. This is a very old theory, and I suspect that for much of the history of financial […]
Leaflet Storymaps with Google Sheets and Scrolling Narrative | Hands-On Data Visualization Sorting | Grid.js […]
So lots of random work going on. We’re trying to knock out a variety of projects prior to some work on flexible course design with a bunch of people. I spent a lot of time in meetings. I spent a lot of time building content, some grant writing stuff, and rearranging various websites. Thee following […]
Canon U.S.A., Inc. | EOS Webcam UtilityWon’t work with Zoom but tempting . . . Chapter 1 | Chatting with Glue Sa11y – accessibility quality assurance assistant – Ryerson University Queer Paranormal ????? on Twitter: “Listen, I just need y’all to read this https://t.co/lrM1jGGTIC” / Twitter Automated – IBM Accessibility Teaching Online by Going Offline: […]
elizabeth ballou on Twitter: “NYU made a bizarre attempt at an MMO called “Grad Alley” that recreates parts of campus for graduating students. I cannot describe how bad it is. a random assemblage of textures. auto-generated usernames. nonsensical tools. e How we organized one of the largest virtual U.S. journalism events to dateOne approach to […]
This X Does Not ExistUsing generative adversarial networks (GAN), we can learn how to create realistic-looking fake versions of almost anything, as shown by this collection of sites that have sprung up in the past month. Gut Check Rule of Fives / Elite FTSBe prudent, and AVOID VOMITING. That is no marker of intensity; it […]
More random work. Much of this week was Protein Viewer for WordPress It has been interesting to look back over how this has evolved and the span of technologies involved. I’m still looking at the sheer number of options for molecule viewing. The plugin is on github but is still a first-draft. It does use […]
Hero Shrews’ Extreme, Superstrong Backbones Are the Stuff of Legends | Smart News | Smithsonian MagazineEach of their vertebrae are dense and heavily reinforced—features that make the spine sturdier—and fringed with fingerlike projections that interlock the bones together when the shrews contract their muscles. 3Dmol.js – A modern, object-oriented JavaScript library for visualizing molecular dataA […]
Here is more recent work of a random nature. Some tours, some examples, basically a few highlights from this week that seem like they’d be vaguely interesting to someone. Protein Molecules Talking to one of pharmacy faculty about interactive 3d options led to his sending me a Blender file for a protein molecule. Initially, I […]