Modern PHP Cheat Sheet – Front Line PHP Seeing The Web As it Looks Without Image Alt Text – CogDogBlog How do death rates from COVID-19 differ between people who are vaccinated and those who are not? – Our World in Data […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-11-14
Led Zeppelin’s 10 Boldest Rip-Offs – Rolling Stone Vizio’s profit on ads, subscriptions, and data is double the money it makes selling TVs – The Verge Where the numbers keep growing is in its number of active SmartCast accounts, which are now over 14 million, and how much money it makes from each user on […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-11-07
The perception gap: how well do you know your country? Take our quiz | Social trends | The Guardian They Draw It! Home – Mu Collective We are a research lab working at the intersection of information visualization and uncertainty communication. Our mission is to combat misinterpretations and overconfidence in data by developing visual representations […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-10-31
Mid-Century Modern Matchbox Labels From Eastern Bloc Countries (1950s-1980s) Elemental haiku A review of the Periodic Table composed of 119 science haiku, one for each element, plus a closing haiku for element 119 (not yet synthesized). The haiku encompass astronomy, biology, chemistry, history, physics, and a bit of whimsical flair. Click or hover over an […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-10-24
Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm – The Santa Barbara Independent McFadden disagreed sharply with what the university has described as “Charlie’s Vision” for the benefits of a “close-knit” living experience. “An ample body of documented evidence shows that interior environments with access to natural light, air, and views to nature improve both the […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-10-17
TAPoR Create and search a text corpus | Sketch Engine Sketch Engine is the ultimate tool to explore how language works. Its algorithms analyze authentic texts of billions of words (text corpora) to identify instantly what is typical in language and what is rare, unusual or emerging usage. It is also designed for text analysis […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-10-10
Pluralistic: 13 Oct 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow The problem with solutionism isn’t that technology is irrelevant to problem solving – it’s that technology developed in a vacuum by people who will never have to use it will only ever make problems worse. The Rent Versus Buy of Career Growth – Accidentally […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-10-03
Criticalcommons.org h/t Luke Phelan Event Delegation Such a nice simple way to deal with dynamically generated elements. Easy and obvious if you know it, otherwise you do some really messy, stupid, complex things that still haunt you to this day. Teaching by filling in knowledge gaps Obviously I don’t actually think it’s bad to make […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-09-26
Steampipe | select * from cloud; Forrest Fleischman on Twitter: “In the last week I’ve started to receive inquiries from people running tree planting programs wanting my help. I am suggesting that they shut down their programs. Here I will explain why:” / Twitter Nice exploration of all kinds of things that frequently happen between […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2021-09-19
Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever – The Verge —Gets a bit hyperbolic (you can’t understand instagram? really?) but does get at some of the tension between skills/understandings that are needed vs patterns that might be changed Garland thought it would be an easy fix. She asked each student […]