The social network was criticized for removing the image of a naked girl fleeing napalm, renewing questions about the company’s role in what can be published online.
Listens, Reads, Watches
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
Playlist of watched movies, television shows, online videos, and other visual-based events
Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
Playlist of watched movies, television shows, online videos, and other visual-based events
Chris Aldrich is reading “Facebook, 2016 election”
Facebook is, to its chagrin, part of the conversation about the outcome of the 2016 election. Here is a list of some special moments that…
Chris Aldrich is reading “Why use MarsEdit for posting to WordPress?”
One big reason is the ability to compose your entries while offline. WordPress does not (yet) allow for the web interface to be used offline. Also, if you po...
Chris Aldrich is reading “How Journalists Failed in 2016—and What We Must Do When Trump Takes Office”
Donald Trump's catastrophic victory on Tuesday night poses the single greatest threat in generations to what we Americans quaintly call our way of life ...
Chris Aldrich is reading “Clinton’s Substantial Popular-Vote Win” | New York Times
She won by more than Gore in 2000, Nixon in 1968 or Kennedy in 1960, it seems. And therein lies a dilemma.
When are people going to come around and fix the electoral college? There’s lots of math to support different methods.
Chris Aldrich is reading “Hillary Clinton Blames F.B.I. Director for Election Loss”
Mrs. Clinton said on Saturday that the announcement by James B. Comey 11 days before the election that he had revived the inquiry into her use of a private email server caused her to lose.
Nothing brilliant or illuminating in this article, but I suppose it was something that at least needed to be said even if it doesn’t really further the conversation.
Chris Aldrich is reading “Fragmentions for poets”
Chris Aldrich is reading “Marginalia | Parallel Transport”
I write margin notes while reading books. They help me keep my thoughts on record and within context. But how do I do that on a website or an ebook?
Chris Aldrich is reading “How To Have Paragraph Commenting Just Like Medium”
Paragraph commenting, or annotations is not exactly new. Readers have been scribbling in the margins of books, magazines and uni assignments for years. The online world has been slow to adopt this approach which is perhaps why Medium caused a stir and no shortage of admiring looks when it went the annotation route. Well, admire forlornly no more because I'm going to show you how to add paragraph commenting to your WordPress site. There are existing annotation solutions for WordPress but they are generally theme dependent, or in the case of CommentPress actually provide a theme.
This has some great advice and code for potentially adding marginalia.
Chris Aldrich is reading “Department of Energy May Have Broken the Second Law of Thermodynamics”
“Quantum-based demons” sound like they'd be at home in 'Stranger Things.'
Chris Aldrich is reading “The little-known story of how “fracking” entered our vocabulary”
"True story," Matthew Lewis, a communications strategist based in San Francisco, told me recently over Twitter. "I put the 'k' in fracking." As best I can verify, he is correct. I'd always wondered how the term "fracking," which has dominated energy discussions for years, worked its way into our vocabulary. And the backstory turns out to be pretty interesting.
Chris Aldrich is reading “I Had Ten Dollars / Greg Leppert – Reading.am”
Interview with Greg Leppert. Founder of Reading.am. Co-founder of Svpply. Reads a lot.
Chris Aldrich is reading “Instapaper is joining Pinterest”
Today, we’re excited to announce that Instapaper is joining Pinterest. In the three years since betaworks acquired Instapaper from Marco Arment, we’ve completely rewritten our backend, overhauled our mobile and web clients, improved parsing and search, and introduced tons of great features like highlights, text-to-speech, and speed reading to the product.
Chris Aldrich is reading “What’s in a blog? “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other n…”
What's in a blog? "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." - Romeo and Juliet Late last night I got into a… - Mike Elgan - Google+
Ideas on what really constitutes a blog.
Reading Katumuwa
Video published on Apr 18, 2014.
This video by Travis Saul features a digital rendering of the Stele of Katumuwa. The ancient stele was discovered by University of Chicago archaeologists at Zincirli, Turkey in 2008. The inscription on the stele, written in a local dialect of Aramaic, is dated to around 735 BC. In word and image, Katumuwa asks his descendants to remember and honor him in his mortuary chapel at an annual sacrificial feast for his soul, which inhabited not his bodily remains, but the stone itself.
This reading of the Aramaic inscription and its English translation is kindly provided by Dennis Pardee, Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. For more detailed information about the inscription, read his chapter featured in this Oriental Institute Museum Publication:
Pardee, Dennis. “The Katumuwa Inscription” in, In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East, edited by V.R. Hermann and J.D. Schloen, pp.45-48. Oriental Institute Museum Publication 37. 2014. Chicago: The Oriental Institute.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/catalog/oimp/oimp37.html
The reading is also featured in the video “Remembering Katumuwa” featured in the Special Exhibit “In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East” at the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, April 8 2014–January 4 2015.
https://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/special/remembrance/
In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East.
Virginia Rimmer Herrmann and J. David Schloen, eds., In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2014.
Download the free e-book: http://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/oimp37.pdf
Remembering Katumuwa
Additional context for the stele
h/t to my friend Dave Harris for sending this along to me.