How to create a writing system for your conlang.
Reads, Listens, Watches
Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Playlist of watched movies, television shows, online videos, and other visual-based events
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Playlist of watched movies, television shows, online videos, and other visual-based events
📺 WIKITONGUES: John speaking Lojban | YouTube
Lojban is a constructed language that emerged in 1987 as an offshoot of Loglan, which was developed in 1955 to test the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (that the structure of a language affects the cognitive processes of its speaker). Lojbanists sought to refine Loglan's structure as a logical language, void of the subjective ambiguity inherent in natural languages. It is therefore considered to be a 'syntactically unambiguous' tongue, and has been proposed as a potential programming language and means for machine translation.
📺 Queer Eye, Season 1 Episodes 1-5
A new Fab Five set out to Atlanta to help the city's straight men refine their wardrobes, grooming, diet, cultural pursuits, and home décor.
Binge watched the first five episodes of season one. This incarnation doesn’t have as much camp or ‘personality’ as the first version, but it’s got a tremendous amount of heart and is underpinned by a theme of trying to start a conversation and get people to come together.
🎧 “Caliphate,” Chapter 6 Paper Trail | New York Times
“Something was off.” Rukmini’s doubt fuels a quest to uncover the truth.
👓 Design of my website | Cathie LeBlanc
I discovered the IndieWeb about six weeks ago and wrote then about why I think it’s an important movement and community. Since that time, I’ve made a concerted effort to update my web site so that it looks like I want it to look. Although I’m not yet done, I’ve made good progress. I recently...
One of the things I do a lot on Twitter, for example, is retweet stories that I find interesting in order to come back to them later.
interesting retweeting as a bookmarking behavior
📺 "The Americans" The Oath | FX via Amazon
Directed by John Dahl. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati. An Air Force colonel offers to sell SDI secrets to the KGB. Viola reports the bug in the Weinberger home. Phillip agrees to marry Martha hoping she'll continue spying while Nina confesses to spying for the Americans.
👓 GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button | Bloomberg
Steve Ballmer spent years hating on open source software. Satya Nadella recognized that the service has become indispensable to programmers.
A nice analysis piece about the GitHub purchase for the non-technical. It highlights the fact that a nice and simple UI can be worth its weight in gold.
👓 Turning off Facebook for Bridgy | snarfed.org
Ryan Barrett (snarfed.org)I announced recently that Bridgy Publish for Facebook would shut down soon. Facebook’s moves to restrict its API to improve privacy and security are laudable, and arguably ...
This is so disappointing. Facebook is literally killing itself for me. So much for their “connecting everyone” philosophy.
Brid.gy was the last thing really keeping me connected to Facebook at all. Now that Facebook is shutting down its most useful functionality from my perspective, perhaps it’s time to deactivate it and move toward shutting it all down?
👓 Brimstone | Blog of Marshall
Brimstone is the code I use to run this website. You can find the code on Gitlab and, for the time being, on Github. I want to keep this post as a living post, and keep adding to it. That way I hope this post acts like a philosophy.txt. The code isn't anything special. I write it for several reasons...
👓 Notes from Virtual Homebrew Website Club: Blogging 101 edition | INTERTEXTrEVOLUTION
Well Cathy and I did not have any students looking for Blogging 101 help so we spent the hour in an #IndieWeb support group.
Wish I could have joined this. Certainly some interesting thoughts for improving the overall pieces for the #edtech set.
👓 Posting Source Code | Support — WordPress.com
While WordPress.com doesn’t allow you to use potentially dangerous code on your blog, you can post source code for viewing by using the directions found in this support doc.
I’d wondered before how to better display code on my website. This article has a link to an excellent plugin on WordPress.org for doing it and even better, it also syndicates across to my mirrored site on WordPress.com well.
👓 8 | Hack Education
Audrey Watters (Hack Education)Hack Education turns 8 years old today. I’d registered the domain a few days earlier back in 2010, but on this day, I wrote my first article here. I think my boyfriend rolled his eyes. "Good luck," he said. (Funny, 8 years later, he is still my boyfriend.)
Congratulations Audrey!
📺 "The Americans" Only You | FX on Amazon Prime
Directed by Adam Arkin. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati. After Amador's murder the FBI begins a massive manhunt for the killer. When they start closing in on Gregory, the KGB decides to send him to Moscow. Despite Elizabeth's best efforts he refuses to go, even if it means his life.
📺 "The Americans" Safe House | FX on Amazon Prime
Directed by Jim McKay. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Maximiliano Hernández, Holly Taylor. Phillip and Elizabeth shock their children when they announce they are separating. After Amador goes missing, Gaad orders an unauthorized mission to grab a KGB agent in retaliation. Events soon spin out of control and come to a grisly end.
📺 "The Americans" Mutually Assured Destruction | FX on Amazon Prime
Directed by Bill Johnson. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Maximiliano Hernández, Holly Taylor. Philip and Elizabeth must stop an assassin from taking out key US scientists, while Stan and the FBI hunt the same man. Grannie shocks Elizabeth with the truth of what happened between Philip and Irina in a New York.