Alister MacLean’s Force 10 From Navarone is another old hardback I bought at the Senior Thrift store in Pine, Arizona mainly as decoration for my bookshelf. But like Casino Royale and Sands of the Kalahari I end of enjoying them more off the shelf. Published in 1968, this version’s pages are yellowed; it is stamped […]
Our team is actively refining the specifications for the Creative Commons Core Certification and the derivative versions for Libraries, Government, and Education based on discussions our meetings in May in Washington DC. In that meeting we worked from a Draft 1.1 version developed in May 2015 by a Creative Commons team, represented in a spreadsheet […]
Nothing I can write here can do a better job of taking down the assertion “All Lives Matter” than the brilliant 3 panel comic by Kris Straub. The clear message it fits into three panels of a drawing needs little explaining. Does it? Can anyone refute this? Yet the response “All Lives Matter”, sounding purely […]
This image is from the imagination of Bryan Mathers who releases similar sketched ideas under a Creative Commons license on his Visual Thinkery site. As he describes his work: These visual thoughts are usually a result of a conversation, stumbling across a blog post or someone tweeting some verbiage at me. All these images are […]
Often in my web work, I need to extract a logo or element from another web site. The old right/control click does not work if the image is set by a more elaborate CSS extension (e.g. the background image for a header). Today I used a trick I know I have done before, but hey, […]
Is a country merely constituted by a census of number of supposed inhabitants? It memes so. Via, I believe a recommendation on YouTube (based upon algorithms that absorb my activities), last night I watched the english translation of the documentary Facebookistan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCyO5uT9XfU In this country, there are people who delete their content, but on request […]
Go ahead and snicker with derision when I say the words “Second Life”… I hear ya. I am not sure why I thought of this, maybe it was Audrey Watters recent critique of the zombie like revival of VR — (Marketing) Virtual Reality in Education: A History. I am hear not to praise Virtual Reality, […]
When I followed the link from this tweet from Alec Corous Dr. Alec Couros “Young me, now me” from @zefrank https://t.co/RMemkHgJvW #ETFOAQInnovate — Dr. Alec Couros (@courosa) April 15, 2016 I knew I had to make it into a DS106 Daily Create. Sure it was from 2008, and I am not sure if Ze Frank […]
You could smell the self-righteous fuming over the intertubez when Evernote announced changes in their free plans. Here is a little lesson in human nature. No one likes having something taken away from them by someone else. It’s easy to predict the reactions: Outright anger from people who used a product for years without paying […]
How much surprise comes out of a thin little book! I’ve had this hardback copy of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale on my shelf for a number of years. To be honest, it was from a batch of old books I purchased mainly for having a variety of old books to fill a book case. Published […]
