Look to your left. Look to your right. Look at this video. Today, John Green is going to teach you how to read laterally, using multiple tabs in your browser to look stuff up and fact check as you read. Real-time fact-checking an help you figure out what's real and what's not on the internet.
Month: May 2020
Directed by Vince Gilligan. Jimmy and Kim unburden themselves, risking their relationship in the process; Nacho is forced to make the rounds with Lalo; Mike has cause to worry.
The rising tide of education lifts all boats.
Have you thought about the benefit of graduating college beyond increasing an individual’s earning ability? The whole community benefits when people earn diplomas/degrees. #publichgood #publiceducation
— Xinli Wang (@xinli_w) May 29, 2020
So I put https://t.co/qhJTqr0OVz snippets in my WikiLog pages to support WebMention, but what's next?https://t.co/jVA3cZYoUP
— brrr Seitz (@BillSeitz) May 28, 2020
Maybe displaying them? https://indieweb.org/webmention.js might work easily.
June 3, 2020 at 6:00pm–7:30pm Online
Homebrew Website Club is a meetup for anyone interested in personal websites and a distributed web. Whether you’re a blogger, coder, designer, or just someone who wants to improve their presence on the web, this meetup is for you.
Music box repair
I was a bit stressed out earlier and needed a mini-project, so I picked up an old music box from grandma that hadn’t worked in over a decade.
I ultimately ended up taking the entire thing apart to get it working again properly. Nice to have a bit of a distraction.
Here’s a few photos of the Swiss Thorens No 26 1/2 Emmentalerlied Kuhreigen Vo Luzern uf Weggis zue along with a very up close audio that picks up the depth of the inner mechanics. The tune plays through twice before I let the mechanism stop itself.
Perhaps I’ll revisit the positioning of the pins to improve the sound, but at least it’s working again.
Oblique view of the wooden music box with an inlaid shield on the top
The manufacturer’s label inside the top of the box.
View from above of a wooden music box open and a small screwdriver next to it.
Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (Twitter)Protest is the heartbeat of humanity. It is the sound of human rights beating to live.
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) May 30, 2020
Dr. Ariela Gross (Twitter)1/in my research on trials involving enslaved people as property in Southern courtrooms, I read chilling descriptions of violent deaths at a white man’s hands in which a doctor testified that the cause of death was “apoplexy” or heart attack...
— Ariela Gross (@arielagross) May 29, 20202/...or even the anger of the enslaved man or woman leading to their death, by triggering a heart attack. These were cases of terrible bearings, vicious strangling — yet that was found not to be the cause of death.
— Ariela Gross (@arielagross) May 29, 20203/ So when the coroner says George Floyd died of an underlying condition plus this and that, and not the full weight of a man on his neck, I know that story.
— Ariela Gross (@arielagross) May 29, 20204/ The underlying condition is white supremacy.
— Ariela Gross (@arielagross) May 29, 2020
Directed by Adam Bernstein. Jimmy turns the page on his reputation; Lalo tracks a loose end in Gus's operation; Mike is forced to make a difficult decision.
June 27 - 28, 2020: Two days meeting up online to share ideas, create & improve personal websites, and build upon each other's creations. Whether you’re a creator, writer, blogger, coder, designer, or just someone who wants to improve their presence on the web, there is something for you here. All skill and experience levels welcome.
Coronavirus concerns have caused us to cancel the annual in-person IndieWebSummit 2020 , so I’m helping to co-organize this two day online event and welcome anyone who’d like to join.
Passionate about helping people to get online? Volunteer to help us out.
Directed by William Asher. Cousin Ernie (Tennessee Ernie Ford) visits the Ricardos and won't leave. Lucy gets creative trying to find a way to get him to go home.
Noticing that they’ve got separate beds now when they didn’t in early episodes.
Great guest star in Tennessee Ernie Ford here.
Directed by William Asher. After Lucy buys Ricky a set of golf clubs for their anniversary, the girls regret it when he and Fred become obsessed with the game. Co-starring pro-golfer Jimmy Demaret.
June 27, 2020 at 12:00AM- June 29, 2020
I’m organizing!
Hypothes.is annotations to WordPress via RSS
I created a video overview/walkthrough of how I take highlights and annotations on Hypothes.isHypothes.is and feed them through to my WordPress Website using RSS and IFTTT.com.
I suspect that a reasonable WordPress user could probably set up a free Hypothes.is account and use the RSS feed from it (something like https://hypothes.is/stream.atom?user=username) to create an IFTTT.com recipe to post it as a public/draft to their WordPress website.
My version presented here has also been augmented by also using the Post Kinds Plugin to which I’ve manually added a custom annotation post type along with some CSS for the yellow highlight effect. These additional coding flourishes aren’t absolutely necessary for those who just want to own the data on their website.
If you want to get even fancier you could also do RSS to IFTTT to do a webhook post to an Micropub endpoint or custom code your own solution using their API. Lots of options are available, the most difficult part may be knowing that something like this could even be done.