ICELANDIC WEB DESIGN: vogabakki.is
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.
Found this watercolour in a book about actively listening to music:
“Pennsylvania Farmstead with Many Fences“, Unidentified Artist
Photo from MFA Boston website
Learning about C. V. Raman, first Indian winner of a Nobel Prize in science, inventor of Raman spectroscopy. He also researched musical instrument acoustics!
Do Artifacts Have Ethics — 41 questions to ask yourself about the #tech you build or use. #bookmark
Loving Twine: an in-browser nonlinear text adventure creator with HTML export. Effectively a fascinating directed graph UI view over a stateful wiki.
More required reading by @quinnnorton:
- How White People Got Made (2 parts)
- Women and the Internet (4 parts)
- Don’t Vote
There’s a lot of truth about learning techniques in Psychology 101 Chapter 0: how to study this book. I particularly like the use of red herring vocabulary in incorrect quiz answers as a way of making rote memorization an unfeasible learning method in favour of actual understanding of the topics.
Having read it, I’m now left wanting to read the entire course.
#wikipedia article of the week: Garlic “Garlic has been regarded as a force for both good and evil.”
This is rather a nice interpretation of Die Gedanken sind frei:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlbFN-Gb7Rs
Weird, but interesting.
#wikipedia article of the week: The Yule Goat #goats #bookmark
“To Siri, With Love” highlights Siri as an excellent example of respectful, responsible technology which embodies moral values, and the ambient, unexpected positive effects of doing so.
Protest songs, music, recordings from the Hong Kong protests: http://vojo.co/umbrellasongs via @OCLPHK
Linda Tirado advocates for better understanding of the choices people living under/around the poverty line make, condemns abusive 0-hour temp contracts and corrupt business/government practises theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/21/linda-tirado-poverty-hand-to-mouth-extract — need to buy+read this book via @smarimc #bookmark
— Information Technology and Moral Values, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy“…the very act of building information technologies is also the act of creating specific moral systems”
“Information technologists may therefore be in the business of creating moral systems whether they know it or not and whether or not they want that responsibility.”
Been referring to celticlyricscorner.net a lot lately — especially good for Capercaillie lyrics #bookmark #music
“It’s hard to know what to call people… …these terms worked well for users whose mental models fitted the language we were using, they were not well understood by everyone.”
Interesting audience-based navigation research by @gdsteam insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2014/07/18/hey-you-there-the-trouble-with-audience-based-navigation reflects similar recent experiences with @indiewebcampUK guest list audience segmentation.
xkcd.com/1412 TMNT Wikipedia song fits Finnish runo-song metre perfectly, could be sung to any runo-song tune. Vice versa also applies, runo-song epics could be sung to the TMNT theme tune
yiddishsong.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/di-gantse-velt-iz-hevl-havolim-performed-by-lillian-manuel has some interesting background about the song “Hevl iz Havolim”, and one of the comments has what appears to be a quite extensive translation, but of a different version — it doesn’t translate the two longer verses in the middle of the version the Klezmatics sing.
That version is covered by this klesmer-musik.de/hevl_iz_havolim.htm German version, which seems to line up better with the sung lyrics, but Google-translated the middle verses are still rather vague. I suspect they’re using idioms and imagery which does not easily translate word-for-word.