Normally we finish our projects in anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks. Digital Histology has been the exception to that rule. I can see a reference to the site going back to Nov. of 2016! That doesn’t mean we’ve worked on this site continuously for years. The gaps have been frequent and […]
Remote Attendance – CHI 2019You can hire a human proxy to bring you into the conference remotely through a wearable tablet and video conferencing software. The image below shows an example human proxy setup. Human proxies represent a lightweight way for you to be present and move throughout the conference venue for meeting other attendees […]
I had the opportunity to work with Ryan Smith again recently. He’s been putting in serious work on on his website (Richmond Cemeteries) and is now turning a portion of that work into a book (Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond’s Historic Cemeteries). Ryan came by to talk a bit about pictures for […]
The Movie CorpusThe Movies Corpus contains 200 million words of data in more than 25,000 movies from the 1930s to the current time. All of the 25,000+ movies are tied in to their IMDB entry, which means that you can create Virtual Corpora using extensive metadata — year, country, rating, genre, etc. The TV CorpusThe […]
Here’s a neat little pattern that might interest others. We got a version of the question below yesterday. Is there a way to automatically get the links from the search linked below into a spreadsheet? https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aedu+filetype%3Apdf+syllabus+education&oq=site%3Aedu+filetype%3Apdf+syllabus+education Then, from there, is there a way to automagically get the pdf files into a Drive folder? Step 1: […]
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Voice Thread’s embed code should like what you see below. For non-super admins who have iframe embed rights we were getting this instead (once the post had updated and been cleansed by our friend kses). It still mostly worked but we needed to tweak things to let in those additional variables (allowusermedia allowfullscreen allow). You […]
Gravity Forms lets you set up user registration via an additional plugin but it require some setup. It’s not hard to run into a scenario where you though people were getting registered but they were not. Not a big deal if it’s a handful of people but not pleasant if it’s more than that. I […]
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Tree Profile: Aspen – So Much More Than a Tree – National Forest FoundationOne aspen tree is actually only a small part of a larger organism. A stand or group of aspen trees is considered a singular organism with the main life force underground in the extensive root system. Before a single aspen trunk appears […]
Ran into an interesting bug today on the Motherblog plugin. Despite being in use for a number of years this is the first time we’ve run into this particular issue. It seemed that if a student was using their blog for two different courses and the two courses used identical subcategories for assignments the subcategories […]
Wrest control from a snooping smart speaker with this teachable ‘parasite’ | TechCrunch“We looked at how cordyceps fungus and viruses can appropriate and control insects to fulfill their own agendas and were inspired to create our own parasite for smart home systems,” explain Karmann and Knudsen in a write-up of the project here. “Therefore we […]