EFF has run a full-page ad in this month's Wired, addressed to the technology industry, under the banner "Your threat model just changed," warning them that the incoming administration has vowed to spy on and deport millions of their fellow Americans on the basis of religion and race, and that they are in grave risk of having their services conscripted to help with this effort. (Trump is also an avowed opponent of net neutrality)
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
In memoriam: The brands that we lost in 2016 | Digiday
R.I.P Vine. So long, Meerkat. Rest in power, Sports Authority. This was a rough year all the way around.
This is what happens to the bodies of the women you know. | Medium
On Monday, December 5 at 6:30 a.m., I was kneeling on the floor in front of my toilet, hand plunged into the nearly opaque dark red water, fishing for the warm clumps that had sunk to the bottom. I had cleaned the toilet the night before in preparation, and the sterile specimen jar from the doctor’s office was waiting by the sink. I carefully sorted through the mess in my hand, looking for something to stand out. A small grayish oval with a black dot on the side emerged, no larger than my pinky nail. So that was the head, then. I put it in the jar and my hand back in the water, halfway up my forearm, to search for the body. Another grayish lump, nothing discernible, but then I wasn’t looking too closely because the dizziness was overtaking me.
This was my third miscarriage.
This is what a miscarriage looks like.
Trump’s Electoral College Victory Ranks 46th in 58 Elections | The New York Times
Putting the president-elect’s win in context.
A Historic Number of Electors Defected, and Most Were Supposed to Vote for Clinton | The New York Times
Results of the U.S. electoral vote.
Trump private security force ‘playing with fire’ | POLITICO
The president-elect continues to employ a battalion of retired cops and FBI agents to protect him and clamp down on protesters.
Vanity Fair reporter on Trump’s response: ‘I was kind of shocked’ | Columbia Journalism Review
Choking down “flaccid, gray Szechuan dumplings” and dealing with bathrooms that “transport diners to the experience of desperately searching for toilet paper at a Venezuelan grocery store” were uncomfortable enough. But Vanity Fair reporter Tina Nguyen feared a...
Science and technology: what happened in 2016 | Daniel Lemire’s blog
This year, you are able to buy CRISPR-based gene editing toolkits for $150 on the Internet as well as autonomous drones, and you can ask your Amazon Echo to play your favorite music or give you a traffic report. You can buy a fully functional Android tablet for $40 on Amazon. If you have made it to a Walmart near you lately, you know that kids are going to receive dirt cheap remote-controlled flying drones for Christmas this year. Amazon now delivers packages by drone with its Prime Air service. There are 2.6 billion smartphones in the world.
So what else happened in 2016?
Using WordPress RSS Feeds | Elegant Themes Blog
Kevin Muldoon (Elegant Themes)RSS is a standard web feed format that was released in 1999. It was quickly adopted by all major publishing platforms. The word RSS stems from the phrase “Rich Site Summary”, though the term “Really Simple Syndication” has become more synonymous with the standard over the years. It...
📺 Crazy for Christmas (TV Movie 2005)
Directed by Eleanor Lindo. With Andrea Roth, Howard Hesseman, Jason Spevack, Yannick Bisson. On Christmas Eve, Shannon McManus (Andrea Roth) is stuck driving around a wealthy and eccentric client (Howard Hesseman) who is giving away large sums of money with the secret hope of reuniting with his long lost daughter.
What can I say, I’m a sucker for middling Christmas themed movies on the Lifetime channel at the holidays?
This is positively a dreadfully unexceptional movie. And vaguely entertaining for every minute of it.
The odd part is that I’m pretty sure I watched this either last year or the year before…
Chris Aldrich is reading “Panel Theme — WordPress Themes for Blogs at WordPress.com”
A modern theme that makes it quick and easy to publish a webcomic.
Chris Aldrich is reading “Personal Statistics from 3 Months of Internet Reading”
In the interests of cool data, I’ve collected information about every single piece of content I read on the internet (and some of the…
👓 Twitter tests design that ditches retweet icon for “sharing” | TechCrunch
Twitter last year ditched its iconic star button in favor of hearts for favorites, and now it is considering a revamp for its famous retweet button.
📺 Chris Aldrich watched “My Research Process!” on YouTube
From idea to finished manuscript - this is all the ins and outs of how I do my research - it goes quite well with this blog post, which I neglected to mentio...
From idea to finished manuscript – this is all the ins and outs of how I do my research – it goes quite well with this blog post, which I neglected to mention in the video… http://www.elliemackin.net/blog/tech-tools-and-research
My bookshelf! https://ellie.libib.com
Using the Gantt chart in my research planning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKD5hDGfVb8
Research planning in a Bullet Journal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHL9t9e-hjQ
Academic Bullet Journal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ3Aacpelic
Academic Otters: https://lizgloyn.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/the-proper-care-and-feeding-of-academic-otters/
CamScanner: https://www.camscanner.com
In addition to camscanner, and because you use OneNote, you might find Office Lens to be a useful phone app for photographing individual pages and transferring them directly into your OneNote application. It usually does a great job of taking poorly positioned photographs or photos from odd angles and cleaning them up to look as if you’d spent far more time positioning the pages and taking the photos.
For those capturing photographs of primary sources, I’ve recently found Google’s PhotoScan mobile app to be incredibly good, particularly at re-positioning the corners of photos and reducing glare.
📺 Chris Aldrich watched “Using the Gantt Chart in my research planning” on YouTube
How I use my gantt chart in my research planning. You can download a printable of my gantt chart, the research pipeline, and the monthly spread here: http://...
Using the Gantt Chart in my research planning
How I use my gantt chart in my research planning.
You can download a printable of my gantt chart, the research pipeline, and the monthly spread here: http://www.elliemackin.net/research-planning.html
I’ve used Gantt Charts for other things, but never considered them for academic research.