I wanted to make sure Adam Croom gets the appropriate love for helping several schools get up and running with Domains documentation over the last several months. More than a few folks have in…
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👓 Lora Taub-Pervizpour | Muhlenberg College
👓 Twitter will now let you add photos, videos, or GIFs to retweets | The Verge
The new option is available starting today on iOS, Android, and mobile browsers.
It happened again. Nicholas Pilapil got an email clearly meant for his co-worker, Jonathan Castanien. Previously, Pilapil had missed a meeting invitation because their white co-workers couldn’t tell them apart. So they came up with a cheeky way to address the problem. Between their desks, Pilapil and Castanien hung a sign that read, “This company has worked __ days without an incident. Incorrect names are avoidable.”
👓 How to Get Trump’s Tax Returns—Without a Subpoena | Politico
A 1924 law suggests Democrats can sue the Treasury Department if it doesn’t turn over the president’s taxes.
👓 Why this Japanese chalk is being hoarded by mathematicians | Boing Boing
Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk is highly coveted around the world by mathematicians, who say it's superior to other kinds of chalk because it has an almost buttery texture and erases easily. When Hagoromo announced it was ceasing production, many mathematicians bought lifetime supplies, like one professor who has a four-stick-a-day habit. But a Korean company bought Hagoromo and has faithfully reproduced the original recipe so there is no longer a need to stockpile it. It's sometimes available on Amazon from third-party resellers.
👓 The Duchess of Sussex has been delivered of a son | The Royal Family
Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex was safely delivered of a son at 0526hrs this morning. The baby weighs 7lbs 3oz. The Duke of Sussex was present for the birth. The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Lady Jane Fellowes, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Earl Spencer have been informed and are delighted with the news.
👓 Autonomie Theme | Amanda Rush
I’m taking the new #Indieweb WordPress by @pfefferle and man, this is really, really nice. I haven’t played with all the options yet but if you want to take the theme for a spin you can get it from GitHub. I’ll write more about it once I’m done putting it through its paces. More Indieweb themes is always better, more accessible themes is even better than that. This one is made of semantic HTML, Microformats, Microformats 2, and schema data. I haven’t explored the templates yet but it has full post kinds and post formats support as well.
👓 Thread by @bamadesigner: “Anyone else doing some weekend reading of the audit report?
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👓 Sourdough | Robin Sloan
A new novel about work and eating, robots and microbes, and more.
This looks interesting…
👓 More pushback on Netflix for podcasts | Manton Reece
We know that of course you can’t watch a Netflix-exclusive show on Hulu or Amazon Prime Video. But wouldn’t it be great if you could? With the current open podcast ecosystem, that’s exactly what we have: any show from any network can be played in any podcast client by default. You might think ...
👓 Dumb Twitter | Adam Croom
Adam Croom (Adam Croom)Some years ago, it felt like Tim Ferriss was building his entire brand around himself as a human guinea pig. The term for what he did changed (biohacking, quantified self, etc.) but it was basically self expermentation around different types of diets, workout routines, and lifestyle choices. There w...
👓 What does open pedagogy for information literacy look like? | ACRLog
Jennifer Jarson (acrlog.org)We’re launching Domain of One’s Own at my institution this year. If you haven’t heard of Domains, it’s a program that helps institutions offer students, faculty, and staff online spaces that they control. Domains grew out of a project at the University of Mary Washington (UMW). Co-founders J...
👓 April 2019 Weblog: Giving the Web Its Spirit Back | The History of the Web
The web’s history is always being written, and not just by me. So each month I like to go through and share bits of research and great posts that continue to explore the heart and history of the web. It’s my sites own personal weblog. Bringing Back the Indie Web With the many, many failures …
👓 S.H.E. the SEARCH HUMAN EQUALIZER | shetransforms.us
S.H.E. is helping take the bias out of search. Add S.H.E. to your browser to give women’s transformations the visibility the deserve.
This is an excellent looking tool.