12548 #steps today
12548 #steps today
Unusually large police presence in Reykjavik today (as in, there were 20 of them) and metal fences around Althingi. It seems that even here, new governments are afraid of the people who elected them.
9624 #steps today
Crispin Walker congratulations! So, what’s next?
If all cats belonged to everyone then no cats would ever go missing and we wouldn’t have to kill loads of trees printing out “Missing Cat” posters #catlaws #pseudophilosophy
@julien51 #indiewebcamp on freenode! Would love to chat about PuSH and SubToMe and other such things
7888 #steps today
Digging through some mailing list archives I pulled recently revealed some familiar faces, some interesting stories and SO MUCH amazing information lost in the depths of the web.
measuringworth.com is an excellent — if somewhat confusing — tool for calculating the relative historic worth of currency #bookmark
I was astonished to learn that the 2012 value of the $30 Henry David Thoreau spent building his house beside Walden pond in 1854 could actually vary from $846 to $128,000!
7792 #steps today
Sjómannadagur timelapses with #gurdy accompaniment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-llMLfE56-k
Two timelapses I took whilst on a boat trip on Sjómannadagur (Fisherman’s Day) 2013-05-03 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Soundtrack is my hurdy gurdy and some ambient sounds.
Sound effects CC licensed from freesound.org by inchadney, juskiddink, IEDLabs and Eelke — thanks!
14263 #steps today
8270 #steps today
New recording: You Can’t Measure Chaos With A Yardstick on #gurdy
9505 #steps today
It just occurred to me that I’ve had my 2nd gen Vio #gurdy built and playing for a couple of months but I’ve never posted a photo. Here you go:
Beware debates about implementation that weren't preceded by debate and agreement on the desired outcome.
Particularly relevant to the #indieweb and #fedsocweb
/by rjs
It’s funny — people are saying so much about the #indieweb/federated social web not being a “Facebook Killer”, and yet it’s killed my usage of FB beyond occasional passive consumption.
So, implementors: build stuff which kills your own FB usage before trying to kill facebook.
Another #indieweb creator has commented on Laurent Eschenauer’s famous thread with a new implementation — congratulations benwerd!
What we refer to as “culture” is actually just a bunch of recursively nested in–jokes #latenightthoughts