About to go to a French/Breton solstice dance wearing a huge knitted rat. So much for all those people who said I needed to “drink alcohol” to “lower my inhibitions”
Learning about C. V. Raman, first Indian winner of a Nobel Prize in science, inventor of Raman spectroscopy. He also researched musical instrument acoustics!
I love the way #web browser’s consoles allow us to do maths and simple programming directly alongside mathematical webpages. This can be so much better though — the computation and experimentation should happen interactively in the webpage itself
Do Artifacts Have Ethics — 41 questions to ask yourself about the #tech you build or use. #bookmark
RIP Doreen Muskett, author of hurdygurdymethod.co.uk. You contributed so much to the gurdy community.
#wikipedia article of the week: Timeline of the Far Future
Thoroughly enjoyed playing at Portið this Sunday and met a bunch of awesome people! Turns out that (probably for the first time in history) it was one of two #gurdy concerts in Reykjavík on the same day.
Ben Werdmüller:
Looking forward to visiting Disobedient Objects, an exhibition of protest art, at the V&A in London this afternoon.
@benwerd oooh thanks for the recommendation, that’s this years London xmas stopover activity!
Wow. The #wikipedia page for Sesame Street is one of the best organised I’ve ever seen. Unsure how to feel about this.
Anyone know the name/origin/lyrics of a probably English xmas-themed folk song with this chorus:
Bring in the green bring in the green
for it is our desire
to celebrate the holiday
with food and drink and fire
Various google searchings reveal nothing, and I never got a copy of the lyrics.
Wonderful vocal harmonies in this T Sisters version of Come When I Call You:
Loving Twine: an in-browser nonlinear text adventure creator with HTML export. Effectively a fascinating directed graph UI view over a stateful wiki.
Much as I like docblocks, the phpdoc proposal reads like an attempt to recreate the semantics which staticly typed languages give us, but outside the language in verbose comments and requiring extra tools to use for some reason.
Personal highlight from today’s DnD session: making an intelligence (religion) check to determine if slices of blessed apple go brown. And failing.
From Pokemon and Star Wars JSON APIs: “There are hundreds of websites about Pokémon but none of the data they had was consumable through an API.
” Problem has never been lack of APIs but discrepancy between human-readable hypertext pages and otherwise hidden machine-readable data. Rethink your assumptions!
Played “Colonial” recently. Should really be called “Colonial White Supremacy Capitalist Christian Patriarchy Board Game”. Recommended only for satirical purposes.
Mark Senff@senff @laurakalbag the Heroku toolbelt uses the same obscure terminology. Personal theory for “destroy” is to increase amount of effort required to do irreversible tasks by forcing you to specifically remember or look up the command.
MONTHS of going [r] [r] [r] [r] nearly non-stop have finally paid off! I can roll an [r] and am DISPROPORTIONALLY HAPPY ABOUT THIS. Next step: sustaining it.
This is one of the more beautiful uses of the edgier sounds the #gurdy can make I’ve heard in a while:
From the amazingly talented Matthias Loibner (no surprises there).