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Horseradish Quotes by Lemony Snicket
““Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.”
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“_why’s primer, the (poignant) Guide, was only a slight improvement. Dada or post-postmodern, is perhaps a more apt descriptor for the guide than poignant is. It starts with a cartoon of a cat, standing alongside an “elf and his pet ham.” The text opens with a note from _why saying he included an onion in the center of the guide. Why an onion? Because everyone will learn to write code so beautiful they will want to cry.
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The death and life of great Internet cities
“The sense that you were given some space on the Internet, and allowed to do anything you wanted to in that space, it’s completely gone from these new social sites,” said Scott. “Like prisoners, or livestock, or anybody locked in institution, I am sure the residents of these new places don’t even notice the walls anymore.”
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In other words, we stopped being frontiersmen and started being consumers, conceding the role of maker in our Wild West to corporations. And build they did.
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Kitty Ireland: Grandma was a Lifelogger | Quantified SelfQuantified Self
Grandma was a Lifelogger History, nothing new under the sun etc. etc. http://t.co/MNXQbYBW1E
— Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) December 1, 2013
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Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek – Multimedia Feature – NYTimes.com
If you haven’t seen this, you should take a look.This is a bit old but worth seeing if you like webdesign/journalsim/media http://t.co/yJm4BdPzYH #ds106- Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) December 4, 2013
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“The discontinuities of color, texture and frame tell the story of the inaccuracies in reproduction, forming a tapestry of beautiful half-truths. “
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Wind Map – Visualization by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas
Blurring lines between data and art (as reflected in the price as well)
“Still visualizations of wind map are captured by the artists from real-time data and exported at the highest possible resolution. Interpolation algorithms are used in order to preserve the original lineforms. The images are then reproduced at true 2880 resolution as museum quality giclée art prints. Each print is accompanied by a card signed and numbered by the artists.”
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Letters of Note: May I submit UTOPIAN TURTLETOP?
I have always been a fan of Marianne Moore.
Would go well wtih http://bionicteaching.com/mediocrity-2011-car-names-for-vocabulary/
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How The Platypus And A Quarter Of Fishes Lost Their Stomachs – Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science
“Blind cavefish still have the right genes for making eyes, and if you cross-breed populations from different caves, you can actually make sighted individuals. Toothless mammals still have genes for making enamel—they just don’t work anymore. And birds also have tooth-making genes—relics from their dinosaur ancestors. “You can go to the chicken genome and find that most genes involved in the formation of the enamel are still there, just where you would expect to find them,” says Puente. They’ve been inactivated, but not lost. With the right genetic tweak, you can switch on these dormant programmes and produce chickens with teeth.”
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If you ever need to send HTML emails in gmail or the like. . .
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WordPress › WP SIMILE Timeline « WordPress Plugins
An alternate way to visualize/navigate WP posts- lots of possibilities here.
.@jimgroom or @cogdog interested in installing this on #ds106? http://t.co/4ZHc69UzkR I’d like to see it on a mother blog.
— Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) December 2, 2013
WordPress › WP SIMILE Timeline « WordPress Plugins An alternate way to visualize/navigate WP posts- lots of pos… http://t.co/kB37z8E9D4
— Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) December 2, 2013
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Things You’re Not Supposed to Do With Google Glass – Google Glass Dating – Esquire
“Maybe I can put these interruptions to good use. I once read that in ancient Rome, when a general came home victorious, they’d throw him a triumphal parade. But there was always a slave who walked behind the general, whispering in his ear to keep him humble. “You are mortal,” the slave would say.
I’ve always wanted a modern nonslave version of this — a way to remind myself to keep perspective. And Glass seemed the first gadget that would allow me to do that. In the morning, I schedule a series of messages to e-mail myself throughout the day. “You are mortal.” “You are going to die someday.” “Stop being a selfish bastard and think about others.”
I’m waiting in line at the pharmacy when I get a message from myself: “Think about what you are thinking.” I’m stewing about how this woman can’t figure out which way to swipe her debit card. Glass is right: This is not how I want to be using my brainpower.”
Things You’re Not Supposed to Do With Google Glass – Google Glass Dating – Esquire “Maybe I can put these inter… http://t.co/4yXHo0TR2Q
— Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) December 2, 2013
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Nigerian Scam Emails Now in Bottles http://t.co/d3Dw3uJ2W6
— Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) December 1, 2013
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XKCD’s Substitutions: the Chrome extension that makes reading the news more fun – Boing Boing
XKCD’s Substitutions: the Chrome extension And this is why the Internet is so amazing http://t.co/Jo65CTyuHm
— Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) December 1, 2013
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A Fishy Feast | Symbiartic, Scientific American Blog Network
“I think this is wonderful not only because of the drawing itself which is frickin’ adorable, and not only because it’s an instance of a science communicator and visual artist interacting in an unexpected, fun way, but also because it is instructive.
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A Fishy Feast | Symbiartic, Scientific American Blog Network “I think this is wonderful not only because of the… http://t.co/fXUXqfNVU5
— Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) December 1, 2013
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Auden’s quest for “truth” not nearly as popular as simpler “lie”
Parallels earlier uncanny valley journalism post . . .
““We must love one another or die.” Auden later reflected, “That’s a damned lie! We must die anyway.” So in the next version of his poem, Auden altered the text to read, “We must love one another and die.”
Even after making the change, Auden continued to despise the line. In subsequent versions, he resorted to cutting the entire stanza, and eventually decided he wanted to do away with the piece altogether: “The whole poem, I realized, was infected with an incurable dishonesty—and must be scrapped.””Auden’s quest for “truth” not nearly as popular as simpler “lie” Parallels earlier uncanny valley journalism po… http://t.co/mR8CqQF6IV
— Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) December 1, 2013
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““One of the things I learned about the world of art,” Teller says, “is there are people who really want to believe in magic, that artists are supernatural beings—there was some guy who could walk up and do that. But art is work like anything else—concentration, physical pain. Part of the subject of this movie is that a great work of art should seem to have magically sprung like a miracle on the wall. But to get that miracle is an enormous, aggravating pain.” To see Vermeer as “a god” makes him “a discouraging bore,” Teller went on. But if you think of him as a genius artist and an inventor, he becomes a hero: “Now he can inspire.”
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Boil Up- 3d modeling of a bait ball
Boil Up- 3d modeling of a bait ball The problem solving broken down here is worth seeing. http://t.co/THEDG1BUwQ
— Tom Woodward (@twoodwar) December 1, 2013