Finally built a basic website (German only currently, sorry!) for my current project: broemsenberg.de
Finally built a basic website (German only currently, sorry!) for my current project: broemsenberg.de
Die Tanzsammlung Dahlhoff is now available to download in PDF format, one file per book, from the internet archive:
If you want full-resolution, archive quality TIFF files then the best place to get them from is still the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin site, but if you just want access to complete, usable, small-ish filesize PDFs then this is, as far as I know, the easiest place to find them. Viel Spaß damit!
Hey cool, there’s an API for the IUCN Red List https://www.assembla.com/spaces/sis/wiki/Red_List_API — perhaps I shall make a twitter bot which replies to @_everybird_ when it tweets about EN/CR/EW/EX species…
New favourite history webcomic: veritablehokum.com Lovely art style, interesting subject matter, detailed explanations and a really nice typeface.
Today: supported two of my favourite web publications (The Toast and Serious Eats) and cleaned a lot of chimneys, with predictable results:
Just finished reading Critical Race Theory: An Introduction and Towards a European Critical Race Theory as the former is very US-centric and not so accessible to someone not immersed in/familiar with that history.
Both are highly recommended reading, the former especially (it contains an excellent explanation, with examples, of what intersectionality is).
After four months I completed the Duolingo German tree!
I have thoroughly enjoyed using Duolingo and would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn a language it supports. Having said that, there are many things it will not teach, for which I recommend and am using these additional resources:
Online Deutsche Welle CEFR placement tests put me at A2 right now. Good thing too, as I’m headed for Germany later this month…
Wondering if @georgelakoff has seen this amazing interactive metaphor map? mappingmetaphor.arts.gla.ac.uk
There’s some fascinating discussion of absolute pitch in this old article+comment thread on languagelog: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1450
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG https://solarference.bandcamp.com/track/three-sisters
#wikipedia article of the week: List of nontraditional bagpipe usage
Also relevant: Politico-Media Complex #GE2015 #bookmark
Just found out about Vicente Parrilla, a rather excellent early recorder player with a focus on improv:
Articles like this one are the reason seriouseats.com is my favourite food blog. So much good information, so many excellent recipes. Making their French Onion Soup this evening.
Drehleierwiki has a very comprehensive list of #gurdy string suggestions, and is excellent reference if you’re not sure where to get strings, what to get, or simply want to try something new.
I’m currently using a Thomastik Infeld Dominant Viola a1 medium, (synth core, aluminium wound) as my g, some unbranded roundwound violin G (turns out roundwound doesn’t sit nicely with my gurdy) and a Violin D for the D. Planning on replacing the D with another low G set up for harmony playing, and maybe trying some gut strings for my trompettes after I’ve made new chiens.
#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.
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