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Force 10 From Mom Memory

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 […]

Creative Commons Certification, Syndicated

Sketching a Process for Sharing / Getting Feedback on Certification Drafts

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 […]

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Little Web Inspector / CSS Tricks

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, […]

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What do you mean “If” Facebook were a country?

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 […]

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Young Me Now Me

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 […]

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Twas Never Forevernote

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 […]