@tommorris Iceland’s government does a good job of this. On althingi.is There’s news, comprehensive search, the schedule for the day and lists of the latest laws and resolutions. You can even subscribe to an RSS feed of new laws.
Each law and resolution has it’s own page with links to transcript, video and audio, e.g this one althingi.is/dba-bin/ferill.pl?ltg=144&mnr=471
@benwerd mutual use of ISO8601 is the basis for a happy relationship
@anna_debenham I remember wondering why there weren’t round computer screens as a child. Question answered!
Kyle Mahan:
That is brilliant and also it reminded me that I was supposed add a grated carrot to the dinner I just made :D
@kyle_wm mmm, grated carrot! The best thing about this rule is that it applies to almost any cake recipe. For “x cake”, 1/2 sugar, double x for deliciousness.
Capybaringkindness:
@BarnabyWalters Yeah, I've been testing this out - French duolingo is also ok with "his dress" etc.
@crispindgwalker oh cool! Just worked through the “Family” skill and it included non-marital nouns like partnership/relationship, as well as depicting a gay couple in the photo accompanying “der Partner”. I’m impressed! A big improvement over the generic traditional het white family depicted in every school language textbook ever.
Great to hear this is happening! I can’t attend in person but will try to make it remotely if you have IRC/talky or some such thing!
@sweden / Sofia:
Tomorrow is Trettondag Jul (epiphany), which is one of the Christian holidays we’re “celebrating” in Sweden.
@sweden it’s called þrettándinn here in Iceland, and celebrated with bonfires and fireworks regardless of religion. Not a public holiday here though :)
Amy Guy:
People posting pseudo-legalese 'facebook does not have permission to use my images' messages... The poor things, if only they knew.
@rhario I’ve often wondered how those things start. Are they the products of typical Facebook-overearnestness, or someone just joking around?
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!
@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.
Lillian Karabaic:
This March/April: PDX > Iceland > Amsterdam > Brussels > Berlin > Vienna > Zagreb > Krk > Budapest > Dubai > PDX in 24 days. Not too shabby.
@anomalily sounds like an amazing trip! Want to meet up when you’re in Reykjavík?
@benwerd love that game.
Bruce Lawson:
"Go .. try to find that missing closing tag on the div in your 100s of lines of HTML". https://medium.com/the-javascript-collection/html-wasnt-made-for-apps-59f870dfc075 Here: http://validator.w3.org/
@brucel another handy trick is to view source in Firefox. Malformed HTML is red and bold, easy to see.
Helga Ingimundard.:
@BarnabyWalters correction: Þetta er *gott* blásturshljóðfæri (instrument is neutral, not masculine) #grammarpolice
@tungufoss excellent, thanks — I shall use “gott” for everything now and pull the “I REJECT THE GENDER BINARY” card if anyone tries to correct me :)
Helga Ingimundard.:
@BarnabyWalters the fagot is more commonly known as bassoon (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassoon)
@tungufoss oh cool! I’ve not heard it used for bassoons before, but have seen it referring to organ stops named after the bassoon. Þetta er góður blásturshlóðfæri :)
I’m going to the Já List! Husið Film Night tomorrow! We’ll be showing Citizen Architect, a film about radical architecture education, and eating tasty food. Join us!
Aaron Parecki:
Zippers are kind of magic. When you have to fix one, it turns out you gain an appreciation for them not otherwise had by merely using them.
@aaronpk true! I’ve noticed this also with other things, especially food. My (totally failed) attempts to make Skyr have made me appreciate eating it much more.
LouLouK:
By which I mean to say, how entrenched is thinking. Can you change that using training? Is that's what's actually needed?
@loulouk in my experience, yes it’s possible (although I don’t know what your context is), and that regular training i.e. some feedback loop is vital. We choose the lens through which we see the world, but need to re-choose it every day if it’s not already entrenched.
@john_nye custom PHP+minimal javascript column-based UI called Shrewdness https://github.com/barnabywalters/shrewdness
John Nye:
what happens whens you just point @superfeedr to an ElasticSearch instance as an RSS reader…
@john_nye in my experience: good things! (I am replying to this tweet through my elasticsearch+superfeedr-powered feed reader)
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