Bing Bong GIF Reel on Vimeo
I created a GIF reel from some of my favorite GIFs of the past 2 years.
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Variable Order for Tables
I was researching CSS variablesIf you'd want to learn more about CSS variables in general, I highly recommend you to watch Lea Verou's talk about them, she articulates really nicely a lot of nuances of their usage. rather actively for the last 3 months, and initially I wanted to write a long article about just one aspect — CSS variables inside inline styles. But there were just so many things to write about, and I found a lot of general use-cases of variables (and not just for inline ones), that I decided to split all my research into smaller articles. This is an article about one of the examples from my research of CSS variables in inline styles, and as you could see from the example at the start — it is about sorting stuff. The main feature that makes that possible is that we can use CSS variables right inside the style attribute in HTML. And while it could be possible to define all the values for appropriate class names or nth-child-found elements, there is no need to do this when we can just add them to the corresponding HTML tags.
Split GIF image in frames
This online tool is designed to convert animated images into individual frames (sequence of images) for editing or viewing them separately. GIF explode tool, splitter, decompiler - call it whatever you want. It's mainly intended for splitting GIFs, but can be used for almost any other animated image format as well. After decompressing the GIF file, you can download specific frames (right click the image and select Save image as...) or save them all at once as a single zip file, by clicking "Download frames as ZIP." If you want to rearrange frame order or remove some frames and restore animation, click "Edit animation" button. It will take you to the GIF maker window. You can also download the ZIP file, edit some frames in image editor and then upload ZIP archive back to GIF maker. If you keep the file names unchanged, it will preserve the frame order and duration. If you want to have all frames placed side by side in a single image file, we also offer GIF to Sprite Sheet converter.
30 Artists Proving That GIFs Are The Next Great Art Form
Who needs a canvas and a paintbrush? These artists are showing it's all about the Graphics Interchange Format
Gifntext - Easily add animated text to a gif
Gifntext is a free online gif editor and creator. You can add captions/text to an animated gif, edit a gif frame by frame, and turn youtube videos into a gif. You can also trim the start and end times of the gif, and add custom images over the gif. It is the simplest way to make and create animated gifs online, and is completely free. It was created because we were fed up with the lack of gif editors online, and wanted to easily modify a gif and add text without hassle.
Moving a Blog from/in WordPress.com
You can find step-by-step guides below that will help you move your site to WordPress.com, move to a self-hosted WordPress site, move between WordPress.com blogs, transfer your site to another WordPress.com user, and redirect visitors to your new site.
Networked Knowledge, Digital Spaces: Storytelling as Decolonial Methodology – Emily M Legg
Hello, and thanks for coming to our panel. My name is Emily Legg and I’m currently a PhD student at Purdue University. My talk today is focused around storytelling and indigenous ways of knowing as a means of decolonial methodologies that can help us understand and situate the rhetorical ecologies with/around humans, technologies, histories, and networks. What I’m interested in is not just what these methods/methodologies are, but how they can and are put into practice (praxis) in digital spaces—the projects, tools, and applications. Before I get to the heart of this presentation, I would like to begin with a story to contextualize the place that this presentation came from and to situate myself as part of the narrative. About a year and a half ago, I was attending an interdisciplinary conference where one of the big buzz phrases was the Digital Humanities (and yes, those are capital letters and no, the conference was not Computers and Writing). After a talk about big data, tweeting, and digital humanities, the Q&A came down to a heated argument about how male-centric and white the Digital Humanities is.
Your Facebook data is creepy as hell – Hacker Noon
… and why you should really have a look at it. Since 2010, Facebook allows you to download an archive file of all your interactions with the network. It’s a 5-click easy process that your grandmother can do (more details below). Inside the .zip, lies an ‘index.html’ page that acts as a portal to your personal data. Visually, it looks like an ad-free stripped down version of Facebook that’s actually quite relaxing. As I’m trying to reduce my exposure to social networks, I decided to take a look at this info. By extrapolating the data of a single individual (me), I might be able to better apprehend the capabilities of the beast. In the end, it all comes down to what is tracked and what can be deduced from that.
Every Picture Tells a Story
Every photograph is a visual narrative. Good composition tells that story well. In order to improve your composition apply storytelling techniques.
You Suck At PowerPoint!
Roll20: Online virtual tabletop for pen and paper RPGs and board games
Roll20 is a suite of easy-to-use digital tools that expand pen-and-paper gameplay. Whether you play online via our virtual tabletop or in person utilizing our character sheet and dice rolling application, Roll20 will save you time and help you focus on enhancing your favorite parts of tabletop gaming. The Roll20 team is dedicated to enabling gamers to unite across any distance via our easy-to-use gaming tools. This means we strive to lessen the technical burden on the participants, facilitate the formation of new gaming groups, and to make barriers to entry as few as possible when gathering around a table for camaraderie. To accomplish these goals we seek to create a service that is sustainable and will be a resource to the gaming community as long as it is needed.
Met paintings transformed into interactive art / Boing Boing
The software developer Simone Seagle has taken the images of several paintings in the Met collection – released on open access – and transformed them into lovely and moody animated interactives. You can see a bunch of them here on her own web site, and at the Met's site she's written an essay meditating on the process. It's an ode to the enormous creativity that's uncorked when we legally allow artists (encourage them, even!) to transform the works of their forebears
How GIFs conquered the world – IBMIndustrious – Medium
Now more than 30 years old, the GIF certainly wasn’t initially designed to become an economic powerhouse, a fixture of social interactions, or a form of art—and yet, improbably, it has become all of those things. “The GIF has really gone through a lot of unexpected reinvention,” said Jason Eppink, the curator of “The GIF Elevator,” an installation of newly commissioned GIFs (some of which you see on this page) at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.
Matthew A. Cherry on Twitter: "I wanna create a thread called #GifHistory. Send a gif that you want to know the backstory to and we'll try to find the original video. First up:… https://t.co/9RFAcQ0ONj"
I wanna create a thread called #GifHistory. Send a gif that you want to know the backstory to and we'll try to find the original video.
The House That Spied on Me
The reason I smartened up my house was to find out whether it would betray me. I installed internet-connected devices to serve me, but by making the otherwise inanimate objects of my home “smart” and giving them internet-connected “brains,” I was also giving them the ability to gather information about my home and the people in it. The company that sold me my internet-connected vacuum, for example, recently said that it collects a “rich map of the home” and plans to one day share it with Apple, Amazon, or Alphabet, the three companies that hope to dominate the smart home market. Once I made my home smart, what would it learn and whom would it tell? One person I knew it would be leaking to was my colleague, Surya Mattu, because he built a special router to monitor the devices monitoring me.
Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You’re a White Guy - The New York Times
Facial recognition technology is improving by leaps and bounds. Some commercial software can now tell the gender of a person in a photograph. When the person in the photo is a white man, the software is right 99 percent of the time. But the darker the skin, the more errors arise — up to nearly 35 percent for images of darker skinned women, according to a new study that breaks fresh ground by measuring how the technology works on people of different races and gender. These disparate results, calculated by Joy Buolamwini, a researcher at the M.I.T. Media Lab, show how some of the biases in the real world can seep into artificial intelligence, the computer systems that inform facial recognition.
Dropbox
Invite anyone to upload files to your Dropbox, even if they don’t have an account.
Does facial recognition software have a racial bias problem? - Internet Citizen
Over the past few weeks, maybe you’ve seen your feed fill up with art selfies: pictures of your friends matched with portraits of their fine art doppelgängers. Google’s Art & Culture app shows how technology can help foster engagement with art. But it also reveals art’s historical bias. Many people of color discovered that their results were limited, inaccurate or painfully stereotypical. Instead of being able to see themselves as part of art history, they could only see themselves outside it.
Face Value
From Snapchat filters to Apple’s Face ID, biometric technology plays a growing role in our everyday lives. What do we actually give up when we upload our face to these apps? Steven Talley shares his experience as a victim of mistaken identity. Joseph Atick, a forefather of facial recognition technology, reckons with its future. We head to to China, where biometric data is part of buying toilet paper. And artist Adam Harvey investigates how racial bias seeps into big data sets.
Starting Anew in the Landscape of Open | Paul Stacey
I’m thrilled to be starting a new job as Executive Director of the Open Education Consortium. It is a tremendous honour to be chosen to lead a global network of educational institutions, individuals and organizations that support an approach to education based on openness, including collaboration, innovation and collective development and use of open educational materials. For the final interview I was asked to: Map out how I see the current landscape of ‘Open’ and mention the most prominent challenges and opportunities. Define where the Open Education Consortium should be positioned within this landscape and propose a roadmap for getting there. As a means of getting to know my views and an early indication of the direction I’d like to take the Open Education Consortium in I thought I’d share my answers here in two separate posts. This first post maps out how I see the current landscape of Open. In the next post I describe where I think the Open Education Consortium is positioned in this landscape and how I envision it getting there.
Taco Ipsum - taco placeholder text generator
Now every day can be Taco Tuesday … in your placeholder text.
Audiographics: Annotating Sound - Jeff Everhart Jeff Everhart
Over the last several weeks, I’ve been working on several prototypes to help facilitate different types of annotations. Most educators are already pretty familiar with the typical textual annotation, but as new media becomes more important, we ought to have tools that facilitate annotation on other types of media as well.
Panicked about Kids’ Addiction to Tech? – NewCo Shift
Here are two things you could do... Ever since key Apple investors challenged the company to address kids’ phone addiction, I’ve gotten a stream of calls asking me to comment on the topic. Mostly, I want to scream. I wrote extensively about the unhelpful narrative of “addiction” in my book It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. At the time, the primary concern was social media. Today, it’s the phone, but the same story still stands: young people are using technology to communicate with their friends non-stop at a point in their life when everything is about sociality and understanding your place in the social world.
"Black Mirror" episodes as classic comic book covers - Album on Imgur
Explainer: what are memes?
Nothing defines our use of the internet as clearly as the concept of the meme (pronounced “meem”). Every day, millions of people laugh at LOLcats, dog shaming, and music videos without music, while others mock injustice, support marriage equality, poke fun at NSA surveillance, or call out racism. Virally shared “nuggets of cultural currency” such as these are examples of “memetics”, an important mechanism of meaning that pre-dates the internet but is now central to the the internet’s rising creative comment culture.
The Cultural Importance Of Memes
Meme: An element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by non-genetic means, especially imitation. This is the definition presented by the Oxford dictionary. Basically this means that ideas and information mutate and replicate in much the way that human genes do. A relatively recent subculture of internet specific memes has arisen due to the easy and almost immediate exchange of information and ideas. Internet memes spread across cultures faster than any other "element of culture or system of behavior" ever could, which makes them both incredibly interesting and (often) fleeting.
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What Everyone Should Know About RSS Feeds
Perhaps you've seen text or image buttons on various websites inviting you to "subscribe via RSS." Well, what does that mean exactly? What is RSS, what are RSS feeds, and how do you get them to work for you? Short for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, RSS revolutionized the way that users interact with content online. Instead of checking back every day to any particular site to see if it's been updated, RSS feeds give users the ability to simply subscribe to the RSS feed, much like you would subscribe to a newspaper, and then read the updates from the site, delivered via RSS feeds, in what's called a "feed reader." RSS feeds benefit those who actually own or publish a website as well since site owners can get their updated content to subscribers much more quickly by submitting feeds to various XML and RSS directories.
macOS keeps asking my ssh passphrase since I updated to Sierra
It used to remember the passphrase, but now it's asking it to me each time. It used to remember the passphrase, but now it's asking it to me each time.
What's Wrong With These Selfies? Everything. – The Forward
here are many positive things about social media. Selfies, or photos of themselves, taken by young people at Holocaust sites and memorials are not among them. The German version of Vice magazine collected and published a bunch of these totally tasteless Instagram posts to drive home the point. Don’t read German? No worries. You just need to know how to read pictures—and, of course, also hashtags—to understand just how offensive this stuff is.
World Selfie Project
The World Selfie Project is a ground breaking global art project aimed at educating and combatting discrimination whilst promoting equality. Everyone is unique, everyone is beautiful and we, as humans are all equal. Our aim is break a world record by gathering over 110,000 of your 'selfie' photos and piece them all together like a jigsaw puzzle that will form one amazing, gigantic work of art that will depict our powerful message and hopefully spread this around the world. In a world dominated by selfies smart phones and social media we want to utilise this love of technology to create an iconic World record breaking image, which we will be kept top secret until the unveiling later this year.