This Magical Software Makes Facebook Profile Pictures Come Alive “What Facebook will do with this–I don’t know.” It’s reasonable to imagine that Facebook would like to incorporate such a fun feature into its platform as soon as possible. h/t Matt Syndicating annotations – Jon Udell Although it sprang to life to support ebooks, I think […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-11-19
What city is the microbrew capital of the US? Using scrollama (or something close to that. h/t Jeff Megalopyge opercularis – Wikipedia “grid-like hemorrhagic papular eruption with severe radiating pain”. — I played ring-around-the-rosy with a tree that had one (maybe more) of these on it when I was around 5 years old. An Introduction […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-11-12
Strange and Curious Wills of the Georgian Era in the Canterbury Court – Geri Walton WILLIAM SHACKELL, ESQ. – Governor of Plymouth – 12 October 1782 “I desire that my body may be kept as long as it may not be offensive, and that one of my toes or fingers may be cut off to […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-11-05
Various – Don’t Trust Your Neighbors: Early Albanian Traditional Songs & Improvisations, 1920s-1930s (Vinyl, LP) at Discogs Various ?– Don’t Trust Your Neighbors: Early Albanian Traditional Songs & Improvisations, 1920s-1930s In the Land of Vendettas That Go On Forever | VQR Online Prenga burst into the station with his brother and a cabal of associates, […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-10-29
Theme 1: The information environment will not improve. The problem is human nature | Pew Research Center Theme 1: The information environment will not improve. The problem is human nature Why an (interactive) picture is worth a thousand numbers – O’Reilly Media Miriah Meyer explores how interactive visualizations can help us find meaning in mounds […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-10-22
The Massively Friendly World of Competitive Giant Pumpkin Growing – Atlas Obscura “We’re to the point where we pass out seeds, hand out information, invite everybody to come to our meetings and tell them everything we know,” Jutras says. “If people want to do the work, I hope they do and grow a personal best […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-10-15
Suspect In Would-Be Airport Bombing Nabbed With Help From REI : The Two-Way : NPR There was no video footage this time. And again, the man paid cash. But, Anderson writes, “the individual … used an REI membership number when paying.” An REI membership entitles a customer to 10 percent back on purchases every year. […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-10-08
youtube-dl/README.md at master · rg3/youtube-dl download youtube videos with many options from terminal h/t Wes Bos Typography in ten minutes | Butterick’s Practical Typography : if you learn and follow these five typography rules, you will be a better typographer than 95% of professional writers and 70% of professional designers. (The rest of this book […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-10-01
This band used Facebook Live’s lag to loop their song / Boing Boing We rearranged each instrument on “Bear Claws” to fit Facebook Live’s delay, with each loop getting more complex, adding instruments, rhythms, and melodies. Additionally, by projecting the video live from a soundstage we created an infinite tunnel consisting of all the previously […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-09-24
BBC – Future – The deadly germ warfare island abandoned by the Soviets A year later, the corpses of two missing fishermen were found nearby, drifting in their boat. It’s thought that they had caught the plague. Not long afterwards, locals started landing whole nets of dead fish. No one knows why. Then in May […]