Canadian actor Douglas Rain voiced the chilling computer in the landmark sci-fi film.
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👓 The cost of renting in the UK in seven charts | BBC News
The typical one-bed home in England costs £600 a month to rent, but this hides a big divide across the country.
👓 Stan Lee: Spider-Man, X-Men and Avengers creator dies aged 95 | the Guardian
Almost as famous as his Marvel superheroes, Lee was known for bringing complex emotional life to cartoon characters
👓 Archbishop apologises over handling of abuse claims against Tolkien son | the Guardian
Church paid settlement to avoid disclosing knowledge of indecency in 1968, hearing told
🔖 reveal.js – The HTML Presentation Framework
A framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using HTML. Check out the live demo. reveal.js comes with a broad range of features including nested slides, Markdown contents, PDF export, speaker notes and a JavaScript API. There's also a fully featured visual editor and platform for sharing reveal.js presentations at slides.com.
👓 Recap of An Introduction to Microformats | gRegorLove.com
gRegor Morrill (gregorlove.com)I gave a talk on microformats Wednesday night at the San Diego PHP Meetup group. This was my first time giving a formal talk on the topic. I think it went pretty well and I got some good feedback. There was a lot of information and links covered (and some I forgot) so I decided to make a summary pos...
Wish I could have attended the presentation, but thanks for the recap and links to the resources.
👓 Does anyone else keep their own knowledge wiki? | Lobsters
I’ve been extending and improving my personal wiki for 1 year now and it has been one of the best things I’ve done. I found writing blog posts was too high friction and very often didn’t finish things because there is so much you can talk about in any given article. But a wiki is just a living document containing your notes and thoughts on things. I also use it as my public bookmark manager as I collect interesting to me links under each topic.
For my wiki, I render everything to the web first with GitBook. And I have a macro I run that automatically commits any changes I’ve made with Sublime Text on the mac and Ulysses on the phone so everything is super easy to edit and publish.
Does anyone else keep their own wiki here? Or you think a blog is enough for you?
I’ve been considering starting a personal wiki after reading The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral by Mike Caulfield a while back. His article has some great set up and philosophy about the wiki versus blog. I’ve been using my own website/blog as a commonplace book for quite a while now to collect everything from what I’m listening to to what I read and even what I’ve highlighted/annotated online. I’ve documented a lot of the pieces I use to create/customize it. (Not everything I write is public either.)
Ultimately, I think that either way, having a solid search functionality becomes important regardless of which direction one chooses.
👓 WordPress 5.0 needs a different timeline | Joost.blog
For the last few months, the WordPress developer community has been moving towards a release of WordPress 5.0. This is the highly anticipated release that will contain the new Gutenberg editing experience. It’s arguably one of the biggest leaps forward in WordPress’ editing experience and its de...
👓 Rethinking The Web, The Internet, And Our Roles Within | More Themes Baby
Go indie, go punk, call it web, notice the good support, and offer an alternative to the old-school, advertising-based, closed internet.
A clarion call on the open internet for more of the open internet (aka IndieWeb.)
👓 IndieWeb and the Log Lolla theme | More Themes Baby
Lately I found myself posting a lot about IndieWeb, and thinking about how useful it could be for the next versions of the Log Lolla theme.
I ran across this article today as the result of a refback of all things (hooray for old web infrastructure!). The site had reposted a few IndieWeb related articles I wrote in the past year.
Since they don’t support webmention and don’t seem to have comments on their site open, I’ll say “Hello!” by syndicating to Twitter. I hope you haven’t given up on the idea of what the IndieWeb stands for and are still thinking of making your Log Lolla theme directly compatible with how the IndieWeb works with WordPress. There are a bunch of us out here who’d love to give you any help and support you need as we’d all love to see more IndieWeb friendly themes in the WordPress repo. Feel free to join us in the #IndieWeb chat or the #WordPress chat to say hello.
👓 The Problem With Feedback | The Atlantic
Companies and apps constantly ask for ratings, but all that data may just be noise in the system.
A great framing of a lot of crazy digital exhaust that online services and apps are collecting that don’t do much. I’ve also thought for a while about the idea of signal to noise ratio of these types of data as well as their quantization levels which often don’t make much sense to me. I don’t think that there are any IndieWeb realizations of these sorts of (mostly business) systems in the wild yet, but this is an important area to begin to consider when they do.
👓 A Note on Steve King | Weekly Standard
The congressman disputed a story we reported. We stand by it.
I’m curious about the statistics on the number of people that read this versus the number that listened to the attached audio. I suspect the latter was a tiny fraction, which means that to some extent that the outlet wins. In the end it’s nice to have access to the original sources of reporting like this.
👓 How the GOP Gave Up on Porn | Politico
Once, the fight against pornography was the beating heart of the American culture war. Now porn is a ballooning industry—and maybe a harmful one—with no real opponents. What happened?
❤️ PFA809 tweet The fires in So. Cal are urban interface fires and have NOTHING to do with forest management.
Pasadena Fire Assn. (Twitter)Mr. President, with all due respect, you are wrong. The fires in So. Cal are urban interface fires and have NOTHING to do with forest management. Come to SoCal and learn the facts & help the victims. Scott Austin, Pres IAFF 809. @IAFFNewsDesk https://t.co/d3jY0SeosF
— Pasadena Fire Assn. (@PFA809) November 10, 2018
❤️ AnikaNoniRose tweet: Next white house press event with the president, only send your Black woman reporters.
Anika Noni Rose (Twitter)Dear news outlets, you want to do something radical and powerful? Next white house press event with the president, only send your Black woman reporters. #IfYouHaveAny
— Anika Noni Rose (@AnikaNoniRose) November 10, 2018