Amber Case:
8 hours of hand beading later... Actually that was quite relaxing! Doing something in the real world is a very nice counter to software.
@caseorganic beautiful! Yup, it’s very healthy and grounding to make physical things after computering a lot.
@aaronpk whaaaaa
You realise that in my mind this attitude basically makes you some sort of fearless adventurer wizard hero, who, ARMED with his MAGIC LIGHTS, fears not the CHECK-IN DESK and FLYING METAL BOXES and requires no A4 SHIELD to ward off the spectres of GETTING LOST IN SOME OTHER COUNTRY
Aaron Parecki:
@BarnabyWalters You still print your boarding pass on paper? ;-) I stick to magic lights all the way through.
@aaronpk oh wow, I would be terrified that the magic lights would break or not work or run out of power or get lost or crash. I trust paper waaaay more than magic lights and can’t travel without my wad of A4 pieces of paper :)
Smári McCarthy:
Internally, always use PGP fingerprints. Externally, we need to invent new ways to visualize them coherently and accurately.
@smarimc Chernoff Faces! waterpigs.co.uk/notes/4SvFU9
@erinjo indeed. At least they’re neutral about it rather than Vimeo, which actively blames users for using Firefox :/
bruce lawson:
Reading list 80, a little early as I cram my flamenco mankini and moose repellant into my suitcase http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2014/reading-list-80/
@brucel regarding linking to arbitrary point in a document, check out indiewebcamp.com/fragmention
Capybaringkindness:
I FOUND A SPOTIFY PLAYLIST ENTIRELY DEVOTED TO SONGS WITH DRAMATIC KEY-CHANGES
https://play.spotify.com/user/bobbyfinger/playlist/1WqfgAL0Lc9hBXqRCtMbe0
@crispinDGWalker fortunately the office is deserted so I can listen to this without people worrying when I burst out laughing
@erinjo perhaps the difficulty in creating an effective icon stems from the fact that the physical metaphors associated with “share” do not map well to the online behaviour associated with the term, allowing the word to be used successfully but making giving it an image a challenge.
My theory: the most basic usage of “share” generally refers to organising mutual access to some resource between pre-determined, consenting participants (he shared his food with him, she shared her connection with her coworkers, the schools shared a playing field). This holds for more abstract non-physical use of “share”, as in “she shared her story”, ”they shared a secret”.
In some cases (e.g. private messaging [where the verb “message” or “send” would more often be used] or posting to a group) the “known participants” facet holds up, but not so much the pre-determination and/or mutual consent/awareness present in the physical examples — unless for example the context is an online group set up explicitly for the sharing of links to resources about a topic.
In the common case of “sharing” as it’s characterised online (posting a short text post containing a link and optionally some comment, typically with a link preview, broadcast to a wide audience on a whim with no mutual pre-determination), not much of the original metaphor holds up, and I’d argue that “post” is a more suitable term (“publish” less so as its use connotes posting of a thought-out original work).
None of this is backed up by actual data though — I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on it.
@tommorris I like how @t’s DataIntegrity page can be interpreted as “simplest solution: live in Arizona and NEVER LEAVE or communicate with people outside the state”
Capybaringkindness:
Last time around, the folder all my work was in was called "Hey Diddle Dissertation," I need a new pun for this one
@CrispinDGWalker “mmmm, dessertation”
Bret Victor:
How can you call the web a publishing medium when your bookshelf can just vanish? URLs and HTTP are a disaster. Doesn't have to be this way.
@worrydream “bookshelf” is completely the wrong mental model. A “list of links” is like a list of postal addresses of places (hence web “address”) as a physical analogy, or the contents of their authors brains as a human analogy. Complaining about their contents changing/disappearing is as complaining that space/time/humans are “a disaster” (which admittedly may broadly be true).
“your bookshelf” is whatever personal archives you make of your favourite things (analogies: photos, notes, physical books), and therefore the solution is better personal archival tools. I’ve made a start — my website automatically takes an archive of every page I link to and stores it as HTML+HTTP headers in the filesystem, which has proven to be a quite robust format.
Of course if you actually have a practical idea about how to improve on the infrastructure of the web, speak up and/or build it :)
Edit: reflecting on this, “completely the wrong mental model” is incorrect, and better expressed as “a mental model which is inconsistent with reality”. There are no “wrong” mental models, only a variety of co-existing metaphors with varying levels and areas of consistency with reality.
Ben Werdmüller:
21st century politician to watch: @stellacreasy (whose icon is her dressed as Boba Fett), v actively engaging on social media. The future.
.@benwerd talked to any politicians about Known? I realised recently that politics is, broadly speaking, the battle for ideas, fought with language on the field of mass media. I’d much rather the field was platforms which belonged to citizens, rather than states or corporations. Social media is a start, but #indieweb principals can go much further.
Erin McKean:
so might there exist a histogram of the distribution of <h1> through <h6> on the web? (perhaps @ftrain knows?)
Smári McCarthy:
Randomized Macs when scanning for WiFi: good idea! http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/09/ios-8-wifi-privacy/?ncid=rss_semi - nice to see @pudo referred to as the guru he is. :-P
@smarimc agreed, but @aaronpk has an alternative take aaronparecki.com/articles/2014/06/09/1/ios8-wifi-changes-privacy-win-or-ibeacon-lock-in which IMO is more consistent with Apple’s usual behaviour :/
@wordridden a “cat-a-pult” is a real thing? Totally getting @jwentomologist one for Father’s day :)
@hvitur_hrafn Öskjuhlið, as it’s only a bikeride away — not been climbing in Hvalfjörður before, would like to try!
Brian Suda:
You'd think Norwegian airlines would use a Norwegian author on their livery. pic.twitter.com/ZwgNteOqXq
@briansuda the important thing is that he has a cool hat. Maybe they’re simply not very nationalist?
Marcus Povey:
This game looks fascinating... how accurate are the physics involved in terms of success? Do you have to hit escape velocity/learn orbital mechanics to rendezvous with the space station etc?
Oops, sorry for not replying — I didn’t see your mention for some reason! Yep, KSP is an amazing game. You do indeed have to hit escape velocity, from a planet 1/10th the size of earth but with equivalent acceleration due to gravity, and yes you have to learn orbital mechanics to rendezvous, or get to other planets. Highly recommended, but watch out — there’s a steep learning curve but once you get it it sucks you in :)
Oh, and the fan community is amazing. So many tutorials, fan videos and mods. Example:
Tom Morris
Jessica
Hrafn Þorvaldsson
Erin Jo Richey