Why School Reform Is Impossible “…before the computer could change School, School changed the computer.” just getting the original quote Tilt.js – A tiny parallax tilt effect for jQuery The high-tech war on science fraud | Science | The Guardian The comparison is apt. The exposure of fraud directly threatens the special claim science has […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-01-22
Joaquin Baldwin on Twitter: “I lined up the Getty Images source file to the White House print. It’s a warp deformer, look at the helicopter behind it. https://t.co/kJB2T8U5yh” What a world. What a world. Why I’m Leaving New York to Live in a Large Pile of Garbage That’s On Fire – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency We […]
Photography – Week 150-ish
I’ve missed a few weeks. No guilt. I am playing around with more phone photography. I doing some stuff on Instagram but have mixed feelings there. Lots of ‘likes’ and what not but I’m not sure what else. Given a chunk of the missed time was over break you’ll see a lot more nature shots […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-01-15
Rogue Scientists Race to Save Climate Data from Trump | WIRED At Penn, a group of coders that called themselves “baggers” set upon these tougher sets immediately, writing scripts to scrape the data and collect them in data bundles to be uploaded to DataRefuge.org, an Amazon Web Services-hosted site which will serve as an alternate […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-01-08
Peace sign selfies could let hackers copy your fingerprints Posing for a picture while holding your hands up in a peace sign could pose a security threat, with hackers able to recreate prints that are the key to phones, computers and tablets. Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics (NII) have found that fingerprints can be easily recreated […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-01-01
I Can’t Answer These Texas Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems | The Huffington Post How many stanzas are in this poem? Where are they located? I would appreciate your help. Thank you so much!” Oh, goody. I’m a benchmark. Only guess what? The test prep materials neglected to insert the stanza break. I […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-12-25
Cosmic JS | Cloud-Hosted Content Management Platform, API-First CMS Cosmic JS offers an intuitive API that can deliver content to any website or application. This gives you the freedom to build your application using any programming language and allows for easier scaling within your development team. twosigma/beaker-notebook: Web-based, polyglot research platform. Beaker is a code […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-12-18
An Open Letter to the ISTE Interim CEO and Board — re: Seymour Papert – Medium I am grateful to David for bringing attention to ISTE’s non-existent response to the life and death of Seymour Papert. It is worth noting that the father of our field, Dr. Papert, was never invited to keynote ISTE or […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-12-11
New MLB rookie hazing rules ban dressing as women, offensive costumes MLB vice president Paul Mifsud said Monday that the new rules resulted partly “in light of social media, which in our view sort of unfortunately publicized a lot of the dressing up of the players … those kind of things which in our view […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-12-04
ChronodeVFD: A Cyberpunk Wristwatch | johngineer The ChronodeVFD is a personal project I’ve been working on for a couple of months. It’s a wristwatch built around the IVL2-7/5 VFD display tube. I originally purchased a few of these tubes to build a standard desk clock, but after playing around with them, I realized I could […]