The way the web will win is if we out-web Facebook
Tom Morris hits the nail on the head.
The way the web will win is if we out-web Facebook
Tom Morris hits the nail on the head.
Beware debates about implementation that weren't preceded by debate and agreement on the desired outcome.
Particularly relevant to the #indieweb and #fedsocweb
/by rjs
Human Theremin using conductive ink #music #bookmark
Using hand built circuitry I was able to turn my sister into a fully functioning theremin, the idea being that eventually the equipment could be used by dancers to create music that relies entirely on choreography and body movement to generate sound as they dance. In this way the visual performance and the audio become intrinsically linked and thus the viewer is able to ‘see’ the sound as it is created.
After RSVPing the local #wp10 meetup tonight, I get an email with shared signup details for wp10.wordpress.net so I can post my photos from the party to their site.
This is another, rather bizarre example of WordPress promoting monoculture. Even funnier is this misguided quote from the email:
If you don't already have the WordPress mobile app for your smartphone, you'll want to download it so that you can upload pictures and post to the site right from the party. It would be a good idea to add the site to your mobile app before your party so you don't have to worry about it later.
Paraphrased: “So that you can participate TO THE MAX, post to our hosted silo and download yet another app that you’ll delete straight away”.
Nevertheless, I plan to download the app and try it out as I’ve never used it before and WordPress UX tends to be pretty good. Perhaps then discuss the whole thing in #indiewebcamp on freenode to brainstorm a better way of doing this topic-based aggregation.
is there gold in iceland
is there life after death
is there life on mars
is there a god
“For you to think [my] data belongs to your company is an ethical mirage cast by technical constraints”
Scott Jenson making lots of sense as usual in A Stormy Sky of Cranky Clouds
“People in the garage door industry have been busy designing and manufacturing doors that are handsome as well as functional.”
A TOAST, I SAY, TO THE GALLANT FOLKS OF THE GARAGE DOOR INDUSTRY
The spam on the #microformats wiki just gets weirder and weirder. This one is masterfully surreal in all its mundane glory:
“How about a garage door you can see through? Well almost”
“The neat thing is that these are overhead sectional garage doors just like any other.”
“Can you acquire a bucket of paint?”
“you'll amaze yourself”
“Now that you understand how financially important your garage door really is to you, it is time to get to work.”
Islandsmonki
OH “I could Jackie-O-ify it” – Brennan Novak
Miyazaki says, "Our job as animators is not only to draw scenes. We must find the minimum necessary and important lines for the specific movement in a given action. The techniques of animation drawing are not the same as those of painting a still picture. Animation is a consequence of the audience's perception of movement created by sequential drawings. For this reason, each drawing in the sequence -- especially the lines -- should not be drawn too detailed; rather, they should be drawn less [detailed] and create an instant pause in the sequential movement.” (source)
Sounds a lot like UI design to me.
Water is the driver of nature.
Proportion is not only to be found in figures and measurements, but also in sound, weight, time and position, and in whatever power which exists.
Small rooms or dwellings help the mind to concentrate itself; large rooms are a source of distraction.
#davinci Thoughts on Art and Life
Note that I skipped a whole tonne of Da Vinci’s longer notes, which can be summarised as: “painting is great, poetry is rubbish, music and sculpture are somewhere in between”.
The water you touch in a river is that last of that which has gone, and the first of that which is coming: so it is with time present.
A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner.
Man discourtheth greatly, and his discourse is for the greater part empty and false; the discourse of animals is small, but useful and true: slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
There is nothing which deceives us as much as out own judgement.
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.