Pubwich — Open-source online data aggregation PHP application
Pubwich is an open-source PHP Web application created by Rémi Prévost that allows you to aggregate your published data from multiple Websites and services into a single HTML page.
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Webpage Maker
Webmaker projects are designed to help you make something amazing on the web fast. Using Mozilla Webmaker tools like Popcorn, Hackasaurus and Webpage Maker, you can: take apart and remix web sites make your own webpages, interactive videos and other cool stuff in minutes sharpen your webmaking skills. From HTML and CSS to fancy stuff We're preparing a set of these projects for the Mozilla Summer Code Party. The goal: teach the world the basics of coding and webmaking. Through bite-sized games, projects and recipes that are easy, social and fun. Partners and contributors will be able to share their own webmaker projects as well.
Friendlycode Editor
Real time web page maker, by Mozilla
The Inverted Bike Shop on Vimeo
Amongst the multitude of bike shops across Manhattan and Brooklyn, 718 Cyclery (718c.com) stands out for their unique approach to the business. This is the "inverted bike shop".
Creator of 'Anonymous' Gossip Site Names Names - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Campus-gossip Web sites like JuicyCampus and CollegeACB used the lure of anonymity to entice students to post on them. The cloak gave students a virtual bathroom wall on which to write racy rumors and explicit insults about their peers without fear of being exposed. Now, the creator of a similar site at Pennsylvania State University has apparently turned that veil of secrecy inside-out, hoping to teach students a public lesson about cyberbullying. In a bait-and-switch prank, the creator of PSUacb.com has revealed information about students who posted to the site, including their full names and Penn State e-mail usernames. Onward State, a Penn State news blog, reported the news this week. “Fooled you,” says a note recently posted to the site, which was redesigned with a list of students’ names on the last day of the semester. After once tweeting that “its a beautiful day to anonymously judge others,” the person behind the Twitter account @PSUacb announced “check out our new design!”
Edward Owens (hoax) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Owens is a fictional character, part of a historical hoax created by students at George Mason University on December 3, 2008, as a project in a class dealing with historical hoaxes called "Lying About the Past." The story of Edward Owens, purportedly a 19th and early 20th century American oyster fisherman who became a pirate, appeared in several online venues, including Wikipedia and "Pop Candy," a popular-culture blog written by Whitney Matheson at USA Today.
OpenProcessing - Share your sketches!
A website to share Processing sketches share your sketches with others help and collaborate with the community improve and polish your programming skills follow classes around the world teaching processing
Open Education in the Liberal Arts
Will such developments threaten small liberal arts colleges, open up opportunities for them to offer students a wider range of educational opportunities, or have minimal impact? How should small liberal arts colleges respond to the open education movement, in which they have been under-represented: join in? join together? ignore it? This working paper represents an initial attempt to answer such questions, drawing upon a survey of CIOs at NITLE member colleges, interviews, and an analysis of published literature.
The Random Adventures of Brandon Generator
Undum – A client side framework for hypertext interactive fiction games
A client-side framework for hypertext interactive fiction games.
What Improv Teaches Us About Creativity | Moments of Genius | Big Think
And this brings me back to improv. The aforementioned research confirms what great improvisers already know: rational and deliberate thinking are a bane on humor; people who try to be funny usually aren’t. This is why saying yes in improv is so important. A weighing of the pros and cons will surely kill the comedy - let the unconscious mind do the work. A great quote from Keith Johnstone, one of the founders of improv theater captures this: In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very gifted improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action. (From Gladwell’s Blink) To be sure, being a great improviser is not just about “going with it.” It takes years of deliberate practice to master the nuance.
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Dog lovers, this is for you. RT @abduzeedo: Heartwarming Pictures of Dogs in Windows http://t.co/L085RVEk
10 Tumblrs Serving Up the Best Animated GIFs
How many animated images can a person browse through before going cross-eyed? Challenge accepted. The Tumblr “GIF” tag is filled with enough original animated artwork to make for an eternity of scrolling, but if you want to take it to the next level, there are a number of sites dedicated to specific GIF sub-categories. Whether you like ’90s nostalgia, movie clips, reality TV or animals, these 10 Tumblr sites will help you get your GIF fix.
maps.stamen.com
For over a decade, Stamen has been exploring cartography with our clients and in research. These three maps are presented here for your enjoyment and use wherever you display OpenStreetMap data.
How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet - NYTimes.com
Legal and technology researchers estimate that it would take about a month for Internet users to read the privacy policies of all the Web sites they visit in a year. So in the interest of time, here is the deal: You know that dream where you suddenly realize you’re stark naked? You’re living it whenever you open your browser.
WALLYGPX -- VIRTUAL GEOGLYPHIC ADVENTURE
Duke University | Humanities on Demand: Narratives Gone Viral | Home
We want to hear what stories you think we should teach in our new course, Humanities on Demand: Narratives gone Viral. All kinds of stories are welcome: books, plays, films, fairytales, blogs, YouTube videos or anything else you can think of.
The Truth
THE TRUTH is fiction -- we make short films without pictures. We're a contemporary re-imagining of what audio drama is and can be, presented as a regular podcast. Our stories ask, "what if, how come, and why not?" They may not have the answer, but they're all looking for the truth. We develop our stories as a collective, bringing together improvising actors who love using sound to tell new, original stories. We record on location, and then take those recordings into the studio to edit them and add sound design. The result sounds kind of like a movie, only the pictures are all in your imagination. Our dramatic fiction has been heard on many nationally-syndicated public radio programs, including This American Life, Studio 360, Snap Judgment, and Weekend America. And now you can hear us as a podcast, delivered right to your computer.
Museum of the Person
This is a virtual museum of stories of life open to free participation of every person who wants to share his story.
Between the By-Road and the Main Road: Composing Across Time
It is this that some of us have been going on about for some time when we conceive of schools as community-based, open beyond walls and borders, where curriculum is complicated conversations that learners generate. How we occasion learning matters. The random, happenstance that may occur--the juxtaposition of one thing alongside another: these are the ways in which we learn. How welcome is the random, the distant neighbor you've yet to meet, the collision with other in your life? In your workplace? In your classroom?
TiddlyWeb
TiddlyWeb is an open source implementation of a server side for TiddlyWiki with a robust HTTP API for storing and accessing content on the web.
WordPress › Go Live Update URLS « WordPress Plugins
Goes through the entire database and replaces all instances of the test domain at Go Live time. Can also be used to replace all instances when changing domains.
Making Fair Comparisons | A Textbook for Quantitative Literacy Courses
This is a freely available textbook created for a General Education course on Quantitative Literacy.
Data Stories | A podcast on data visualization with Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner
DATA STORIES is a bi-weekly podcast on data visualization with Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner.
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Today's CTV's news video report on my student's reenactment of the War of 1812 with American students. http://t.co/FjJx02lw Living history.
How to Create Custom WordPress Write/Meta Boxes | Wptuts+
Creating meta boxes is a crucial part of WordPress theme/plugin development. It’s a way to add an appealing editor to the post screen and avoids forcing users to rely on custom fields. If you’ve ever created a custom post type in WordPress, you’ve probably wanted to add some sort of additional data to it. Sure, you could use custom fields, but that’s ugly. Getting started with custom meta boxes is easy, so let’s dive in!
the unbearable lightness of being...digital | theory.cribchronicles.com
The other afternoon, I’d hoped to hang out in George Siemens‘ #change11 live session on sensemaking and wayfinding in digital environments, but taxes and dinner and all the other demands of living got in the way. As ever. So I caught up this morning. Which is fitting, since sensemaking and wayfinding as a construct deals in part with the challenges of engaging with live, participatory media when one can’t always be present in the firehose of information onslaught that it generates. Sometimes this digital identity stuff gets overwhelming. Not the thinking and the research. The living it.
Frans Lanting | LIFE A Journey Through Time
Frans Lanting’s LIFE: A Journey Through Time is a lyrical interpretation of life on Earth from its earliest beginnings to its present diversity. The LIFE Project aims to bridge the gap between nature and science, and is realized through the integration of photography with the performing arts and the world of life and earth sciences, in collaboration with partners and institutions around the world. The LIFE Project includes a multimedia orchestral performance (LIFE Music), a traveling exhibition (LIFE Exhibits), a large-format photographic book (LIFE Book), and this website, www.LifeThroughTime.com. Public outreach includes an ongoing series of appearances by Frans Lanting at venues across the United States and Europe, including the TED Conference, Stanford University, the National Geographic Society, the Long Now Foundation, and many others.
dy/dan » Blog Archive » The Three Acts Of A Mathematical Story
Storytelling gives us a framework for certain mathematical tasks that is both prescriptive enough to be useful and flexible enough to be usable. Many stories divide into three acts, each of which maps neatly onto these mathematical tasks.
XO Hardware | Turning the OLPC Into a Hacker’s Toolkit - Give One, Get Owned, Part 1 | InformIT
In Part 1 of this series, Seth Fogie takes an exploratory look at the XO to see what’s inside. He provides a few pointers for preparing it for "enhancement," showing how to punch up that learning environment with games, music, movies, and more.