Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
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 […]
NEWS FLASH! My wayback is back! Pretend you have found memories as a kid gawking at the dinosaur fossils on exhibit in the great hall of the Field Museum in Chicago. Your family vacation trip is planned to Chicago, and you wish to have your kids share the same experience. You know that Gorgeous George […]
This is a true story of a photo. Maybe not amazing, but it gave me pause, even a stop, to smile. My own tiny little bit of internet self serendipity. Yesterday I sat down at one of these WordPress screens to compose a post for the Creative Commons Certification site I’m working on. Like my […]
NEWS FLASH! My wayback is back! Let me first say that the Internet Archive is one of the most important, impressive crowning achievements we have for preserving and understanding what is truly a transient information space. And I rely regularly on the WayBack Machine to research, discover, and fall into interesting rabbit holes. And let […]
Score another one for having a personal archive. Or having a shred of a memory. I cannot say I follow the European Football Championships but did pick up a sense of the surprise victory by Iceland over England (skip all Brexit puns here). But something triggered when I saw this tweet that Pat Lockley re-tweeted […]
