When I first came across the reCapctha project, then at Carnegie-Mellon, now a Google owned product, I thought the concept was one of the most clever things ever. Those two scrambled word things you have to type into a box on a web form were there to make it harder for bots to pretend to […]
A photography friend is making a trip to the Salton Sea, and I was trying to remember the name of this odd place I had heard about nearby that was worth recommending. Except I forgot its name. The thing I did remember is that a participant in a workshop I helped with back in 2004 […]
You don’t [usually] pay for an open course. You don’t depend on it for a grade. You have nothing at stake except your own interest in a topic. “Failure” and “dropout” are words without meaningful meaning here. But we cannot help ourselves, Not reaching the finish line is something we apologize for. We measure ourselves […]
This is not my photo, but I have driven past a Mexican restaurant in Payson, AZ that has the same label Does this mean other Mexican restaurants without an “authentic” label are inauthentic? Or am I confused with the Japanese style Mexican food? It just seems funny to me, almost as if the reason to […]
I have no idea how to even blog what culminated today for headless ds106. Maybe it was because what was in the boxes. Trying to write this up sells it short. But one ought to try. This is in lieu of a more comprehensive it-might-be-blogged-one-day-before-the-sun-burns-out post for what has happened the last 15 weeks since […]
It’s almost here; a double headed blow out event that brings together 2 strands of Headless ds106 together. It’s a GIFtastic camera and a campfire! And we burn some old media! You can tune into these LIVE on ds106 Radio. The emergence of the GIFaChrome phenomena and its interest amount ds106ers has enabled us to […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine The ds106 radio has been silent for 2 days. The station doors were locked shut, lights off, and only faint sounds of scurrying and muffled electrical tools were heard. But as reported by Grant Potter, the ice weasels were successful in rebuilding a […]
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I might lose my Keep on Reclaimin’ bumper sticker, but there are sometimes when I chose (or am asked) to help on a WordPress.com hosted site. Yes, you are limited to their themes and plugins. And yes, they try and up sell you services. It was my choice to put the Cory Doctorow For the […]
As part of the ramp up antics for the ds106 headless double header extravaganza Friday, I managed to get a video that represents a real problem for the GIFaChRome folks The full story and innuendo has been published there by possbile rogue or double agent BB. The silliness does not stop, the shark is not […]
