Kimberly Hirsh (kimberlyhirsh.com)Remember how I was going to read Chris Guillebeau’s Side Hustle and see if it had any lessons for treating grad school like a side hustle? It does! One of the things Chris recommends is developing workflows for your side hustle. I’ve been tweaking my literature review workflow for a while, but ...
A significant percentage of conservative culture in America defines “freedom” as death. This is causing a lot more problems right now than even its usual horrible effects. Some explanation, for those who may not have context. Why do we need to have guns? To protect our freedoms! Well, what about
Engineer Peter DeCarlo discusses evidence of airborne transmission, particle behavior, risks, and why he added his name to an open letter urging WHO to revise their guidance
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Nüshu 女书 (women's script) is probably the only script in the world used exclusively among women.
— Chenchen Zhang (@chenchenzh) July 21, 2020
It's phonetic (whereas Chinese characters are logographic) and is based on the dialect of Jiangyong, Hunan, where it originated.
There are some origin theories and the one I like pic.twitter.com/lgcpuc17SD
The table below summarizes the level of activity from current Community Groups over the previous 12 months as of 2020-07-22. The bar under the names of the groups represent the duration since the creation of the group. The information on related groups / funnel entries is manually managed and likely not exhaustive.
The Supreme Court has betrayed the promise of equal citizenship by allowing police to arrest and kill Americans at will.
This is Freshman Seminar on U.S. Detective Fiction taught by Jim Groom at the University of Mary Washington during the Fall 2012 semester. For more information take a look at the syllabus.
a leading specialist on Internet regulation, particularly relating to information security and privacy, digital elements of the election lifecycle, and pro-competition mechanisms such as interoperability.
In computer networking, HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons is an error status code of the HTTP protocol to be displayed when the user requests a resource which cannot be served for legal reasons, such as a web page censored by a government. The number 451 is a reference to Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, in which books are outlawed.[2] 451 intends to provide more information than 403 Forbidden, which is often used for the same purpose.[3] This status code is standardized in RFC 7725.
The most broadly useful technology I’ve encountered in the Indieweb world is the ability to use your personal site as your login on other sites. The idea is beautifully simple. A service that wants to authenticate you can look at your website, read any rel="me" links you’ve added to it, and use ...
Cliff May (1909–1989) was an architect practicing in California best known and remembered for developing the suburban Post-war "dream home" (California Ranch House), and the Mid-century Modern.
Incidentally I live in a California ranch home at the moment, so it’s been interesting to dig into some of the history….\
Jason McIntosh (Fogknife)Revisited this collection of Richard Feynman's eclectic adventures, and found them more inspiring than ever -- though parts demand a charitable eye
Joe Johnston (taskboy.com)Slow thinking. I am deracinating myself from Twitter to regain my slow thinking. Slow thinking is that activity of cognition which strives toward a goal, but indulges in seeming off-ramps and non-sequiturs. It is a desultory journey that stubbornly refuses to be rushed. Yet, patiently following one ...
fluffy (beesbuzz.biz)Marty wrote a great, thoughtful essay about some of the problems with webmention right now, and I agree with it.
