👓 Suicide By Toxic Fumes Forces Pasadena City College Evacuation | Patch
A Pasadena City College parking structure was evacuated after a man committed suicide by releasing toxic fumes, police say: BREAKING
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👓 Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated! | Archive.org
The Internet Archive is now leveraging a little known, and perhaps never used, provision of US copyright law, Section 108h, which allows libraries to scan and make available materials published 1923 to 1941 if they are not being actively sold. Elizabeth Townsend Gard, a copyright scholar at Tulane University calls this “Library Public Domain.” She and her students helped bring the first scanned books of this era available online in a collection named for the author of the bill making this necessary: The Sonny Bono Memorial Collection. Thousands more books will be added in the near future as we automate. We hope this will encourage libraries that have been reticent to scan beyond 1923 to start mass scanning their books and other works, at least up to 1942.
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🎧 This Week in Google 424 The Echo Chamber | TWiT.TV
Google is 19 years old. Its present to us? Cool Google Doodles. Its present to itself? 2,000 HTC Engineers. Google and Levi's make a smart jacket. Google might make a better-sounding Home. Amazon is definitely making approximately 724 new Echo devices, including a smaller Echo, Zigbee-enabled Echo Plus, Echo Spot, Echo Buttons, and more. Just don't try playing YouTube videos on your Echo Show. Twitter tests 280 character limits.
https://youtu.be/rQlurQAIMq4
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🎧 This Week in Google 423 I Can’t Hear You Over the Internet | TWiT.TV
Google has a whole lotta leaks. Pixel 2 XL! Google Home Mini! Google Pixelbook! Coral Daydream VR headsets! Google might buy HTC's phone division any second now. Chrome will block autoplay videos in January. Google Tez makes payments with sound in India. Apparently everyone is letting users target ads using racist phrases. And we celebrate 20 years of Google.
- Ron's pick: Sonarr app
- Jason's Pick: Instal custom Oreo themes with Substratum and Andromeda
I ran out of time to finish off the details for WordCamp Los Angeles due to my recent move, so I’m glad I still might be able to do it before the end of the year.
👓 🎧 Mobile blogging goals (audio) | Colin Devroe
Recorded September 10, 2017
Starting with this audio bit I’m making a few changes.
I’m ditching the episode numbers. My audio bits are not a podcast, they aren’t really episodes, and keeping track of the numbers is just more work. I will, however, denote in the title that this is an audio post.
I’m also switching to the audio format that comes directly out of Voice Memos on the iPhone rather than doing the work of converting the file to MP3. If you have any issues listening to this audio file please let me know.
Enjoy the listen!
🎧 The Weekly Index, extending the Bullet Journal (audio) | Colin Devroe
Eliza and I have extended the Bullet Journal to include a Weekly Index – a two-page spread showing the entire week in one snapshot. It has been working for us for several months.
Recorded October 1, 2017.
👓 Required reading | Colin Devroe
The first time I linked to Colin Walker, which was only about 4 months ago, it was because he was fiddling with his blog, trying to come up with the right way to display his content for him and his audience. It is a topic that has fascinated me for 20 years and to see someone else thinking about it out loud is great.