Playbook for universal design – Universal design methods for more inclusive solutionsI like aspects of the webdesign as well. The 27th Annual Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race – 3100 Mile RaceThe Self-Transcendence 3100-Mile Race was conceived by Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007), a spiritual teacher, athlete, artist, musician, poet, and humanitarian. His emphasis on self-transcendence and […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-08-13
Special counsel investigating Jan. 6 sought Trump’s direct messages from Twitter, court transcripts reveal | CNN PoliticsA lawyer representing Twitter, now called “X,” similarly confirmed in court that Trump’s account had several private messages between users on the platform. Twitter was able to find both the sent direct messages and deleted messages for prosecutors, according […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-08-06
Webpage archive archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet – GyrovagueDo you like reading articles in publications like Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal or the Economist, but can’t afford to pay what can be hundreds of dollars a year in subscriptions? If so, odds are you’ve already stumbled on archive.today, […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-07-30
Hazel Green Walmart mural removed | rocketcitynow.com“Ma’am, this is a Walmart in Hazel Green. We do not have a mural here,” the representative on the phone said. An Insider’s Guide to the Daniel Boone National Forest | Kentucky Tourism – State of Kentucky – Visit Kentucky, Official SiteNaming the forest was probably the most contentious […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-07-23
Garry Knight: “Using AirPods as a Hearing Aid…” – Toot.CatI got a pair of AirPod Pro earbuds and set them up for my personal hearing needs. Later that day I went for a walk in my local woods and literally gasped out loud at hearing the birds I’d been missing for some years! The way […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-07-16
ProsePlayh/t Alan Levine Bot or not? How to tell when you’re reading something written by AI – CNN.comID bot writing by . . . very carefully researching the facts of the article and elevating your bar for internet writing. My A.I. Writing Robot | The New YorkerWhereas a model like OpenAI’s ChatGPT is “trained” on […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-07-09
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman WorldFor the first time, ORBIS allows us to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the main navigable rivers, and hundreds of sea routes in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-07-02
House Republicans walk out, block bond bill over Seaford charter amendment | Delaware First MediaSeaford is not the first Delaware municipality to consider extending voting rights to artificial entities. Roughly a dozen already allow some types of artificial entities — often trusts — to vote in certain municipal elections. Rehoboth, for instance, allows LLCs and […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-06-25
Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated – YouTubeDigital madness. Making a pinhole camera in Blender. MakerStudioPeda: Materiality, Maker Practices and Design Studio Pedagogy at the Digital Age, 2020–24 — EmpiricaMakerStudioPeda will examine the design studio pedagogy for design and craft teacher students’ at two different levels. First, micro-level investigations will focus on students’ creative working and […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-06-18
Inside the AI Factory: the humans that make tech seem human – The VergeThe anthropologist David Graeber defines “bullshit jobs” as employment without meaning or purpose, work that should be automated but for reasons of bureaucracy or status or inertia is not. These AI jobs are their bizarro twin: work that people want to automate, […]