Julien Genestoux:
@kevinmarks https://waterpigs.co.uk/services/microformats-to-atom/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftantek.com%2F :(
Rewatching Star Wars IV for the first time in years (not counting the Uncut) is a hilarious reminder of all the mondegreens my 10 year old ears heard amongst the dialog, such as threepio exclaiming that for droids to suffer is “our Latin life”
#TIL that “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” was appropriated by Pete Seeger (and then further sanitized by George Weiss) from a song written by Solomon Linda, who died in poverty. His family only received royalties for the song’s widespread Disney use after a lawsuit in 2006 — 44 years later.
There’s an archive of the in-depth three part write-up of the whole thing from Rolling Stone by Rian Malan here.
@julien51 according to an excellent book I read recently, sung a lot, impressed women with symmetrical handaxes, made the most of perfect pitch and not done any cross-domain thinking.
ICELANDIC WEB DESIGN: vogabakki.is
Lillian Karabaic:
Preparing to spend alllll the money. Man, I hate how much glasses cost. But it's been 4.5 years since I got new ones. pic.twitter.com/Mk8CUE31Aw
@anomalily well that is quite a pair of glasses :) They look… heavy?
Kevin Marks:
http://xkcd.com/1481/ finally catches up to where @t and I were a decade ago http://tantek.com/presentations/20040928sdforumws/semantic-xhtml.html #microformats #indieweb
@kevinmarks @t I thought exactly the same thing :) Worth adding to the mf wiki somewhere maybe?
My geeky system datetime format: longnow variant ISO8601 dates with ordinal day of year:
Protip: leave out the longnow preceding 0 in the short/medium formats as otherwise the created/modified datetimes in the Finder column view will be truncated to just the date by default.
Today’s #django lesson: be VERY careful with programmatic use of contribute_to_class(). It doesn’t overwrite existing fields of the same name, resulting in intriguing errors when the ORM tries to do a SELECT query containing the same columns hundreds of times over…
Joschi Kuphal 吉:
Pls help me w/ this: When and why would you want to have width & height attributes explicitly set on an #SVG element (in add. to viewBox)?
@jkphl width&height and viewBox do different things — w/h are specified with units and set the dimensions of the container. viewBox is unitless (user units) and defines the portion of the canvas displayed. More on the MDN wiki
Ooh, did not know that you could pass an unevaluated #django queryset into an __in query and have subqueries automatically generated: The Django ORM and Subqueries
Hadn’t heard of Ring Theory before. An useful articulation of a good mental tool.
Went to my first climbing tournament at Klífurhúsið today. I was worried it was going to be all competitive and difficult, but it was loads of fun, with a surprising number of easy-to-somewhat-challenging (for me, approx. V2) routes. Finished with 62/220 points, looking forward to improving on that at the next one!
Tip for avoiding peer pressure: peers who try to pressure you into doing something are not worth your respect.
Finished reading The Singing Neanderthals. Highly recommended to anyone interested in music, language or human evolution.
More #SPSS fun: use the apparently undocumented /QUALIFIER = '"' (that’s a double quote inside two single quotes) option in a GET DATA to make CSV lines like
1,5,3,4,"A text value with a comma, which is still only one cell"
work correctly.
Finally solved a long-standing problem getting Icelandic characters to work properly in files being downloaded onto Windows machines for use as SPSS syntax. Turns out the solution is to explicitly set the download charset to UTF-8, and to prepend an unnecessary BOM (yuk) to the beginning of the file as so (context: Django view):
import codecs
def export_spss(request):
response = HttpResponse(export_spss(), status=200, mimetype="application/x-spss; charset=utf-8")
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=syntax.sps'
response.content = codecs.BOM_UTF8 + response.content
return responseWhy is a BOM, which should be completely unnecessary in a UTF-8 file (it has no variable byte order after all) apparently required by some Windows software in order to tell it that the file is UTF-8 encoded, despite Unicode mode being on? Sigh.
Found this watercolour in a book about actively listening to music:
“Pennsylvania Farmstead with Many Fences“, Unidentified Artist
Photo from MFA Boston website
The chants page on wetheprotestors.org (via @deray) is my favourite thing right now.
I also documented a bunch of awesome #ferguson chants, some slightly longer, from footage earlier in the year. They’re listed below if anyone’s interested. I couldn’t figure out some of the words here and there, so apologies for any mistakes! Corrections happily accepted.
No justice no peace (optionally x3)
no racist-ass police
I got my hands on my head [hey] please don’t shoot me dead
hands up, don’t shoot
who shuts shit down?
we shut shit down!
who’s streets? our streets!
mike don’t get it
shut it down
his daddy don’t get it
shut it down
[?] don’t get it
shut it down
his mom don’t get it
shut it down
you can’t stop the revolution
they won’t stop the revolution
they can’t stop this revolution
hey hey, ho ho
kill the cops they’ve got to go
these cops don’t like it
we want an inditement
indite, the pigs (?), send the cops to jail
the whole damn system is guilty as hell
back up, back up, we want freedom, freedom
all these racist-ass cops we don’t need ‘em, need ‘em
Most of these are from http://new.livestream.com/ASN/CG and http://new.livestream.com/ASN/CG/videos/69296983