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.
Catan from the sheep’s point of view rockpapercynic.com/index.php?date=2014-03-19
This Guardian interview with George Lakoff beautifully sums up most of the content of “Don’t Think of an Elephant” theguardian.com/sustainable-business/george-lakoff-green-marketing — read it then go buy the book!
Made wonton soup variant of taste.com.au/recipes/31255/fragrant+chicken+wonton+soup, wrappers from allrecipes.com/Recipe/Wonton-Wrappers — turned out pretty good, with enough leftover soup to use for soba noodle soup tomorrow
Perfect little jQuery-free drag+drop sorting library: rubaxa.github.io/Sortable #js #bookmark
Want to get #OSM data quickly+easily? overpass-turbo.eu is excellent, even capable of displaying+exporting >15000 nodes (with a short browser hang)
Really glad to see someone else made a suspicious correlation tool before I had to: tylervigen.com
MTU has this wonderful explanation of the differences in physics between open/closed conical and cylindical bore instruments. Try some of the equations out in grapher or an equivalent!
Open cylindrical bore (e.g. panpipes): y=sin(nx)
Closed conical bore (e.g. saxophone): y=sin(nx)/nx
where n is the harmonic e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. in both cases.
The Wolfson #raspberryPi audio board looks perfect for embedded musical #IoT applications! elektor.com/news/the-wolfson-audio-card-for-raspberry-pi.2698771.lynkx