String Theory - A Weekly Updated Downward Spiral
The setting of the comic is 2057-2060′s in an alternate timeline where the cuban missile crisis went terribly wrong. That’s really all you need to know just yet.
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Super Going
Super Going is a social adventure game. Do missions from friends, get awards, and find the fun that's all around you.
My Favorite Liar | Zen Moments
One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar. I guess that statement requires a bit of explanation. The topic of Corporate Finance/Capital Markets is, even within the world of the Dismal Science, (Economics) an exceptionally dry and boring subject matter, encumbered by complex mathematic models and obscure economic theory. What made Dr. K memorable was a gimmick he employed that began with his introduction at the beginning of his first class: “Now I know some of you have already heard of me, but for the benefit of those who are unfamiliar, let me explain how I teach. Between today until the class right before finals, it is my intention to work into each of my lectures … one lie. Your job, as students, among other things, is to try and catch me in the Lie of the Day.” And thus began our ten-week course. This was an insidiously brilliant technique to focus our attention – by offering an open invitation for students to challenge his statements, he transmitted lesson
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Collaborative music making!
Dreamers and Storytellers: E. O. Wilson on Art and Reconciling Science and the Humanities | Brain Pickings
This month, legendary Harvard sociobiologist E. O. Wilson — who once famously said that “the elegance, we can fairly say the beauty, of any particular scientific generalization is measured by its simplicity relative to the number of phenomena it can explain” — penned a terrific Harvard Magazine piece on the origin of the arts. One of Wilson’s most urgent points is something we’ve already seen articulated by C. P. Snow, who in 1959 lamented a dangerous cultural dichotomy, and Johan Lehrer, who spoke of a “fourth culture of knowledge” — the need for bridging the sciences and the humanities. Wilson writes: Since the fading of the original Enlightenment during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, stubborn impasse has existed in the consilience of the humanities and natural sciences. One way to break it is to collate the creative process and writing styles of literature and scientific research. This might not prove so difficult as it first seems. Innovators in both of two d
Displaying WordPress Site Data Via jQuery charts | Wptuts+
In this tutorial we will use the jQuery Charts Plotting plugin, JQplot, to create a new WordPress plugin which can display some of your blog’s traffic, popular categories, and more with some beautiful visual charts. Looking for a way to pimp out a client’s dashboard (or your own!) with some useful infographics? Look no further… we’ll show you how it’s done right here.
Lotte Time Lapse: Birth to 12 years in 2 min. 45. on Vimeo
I filmed my daughter every week, from birth up until she turned 12 years old an then made this time lapse edit in FCP.
The verdict: is blogging or tweeting about research papers worth it? | Impact of Social Sciences
In October 2011 I began a project to make all of my 26 articles published in refereed journals available via UCL’s Open Access Repository – “Discovery“. I decided that as well as putting them in the institutional repository, I would write a blog post about each research project, and tweet the papers for download. Would this affect how much my research was read, known, discussed, distributed? So that would be my conclusion, really. If you want people to find and read your research, build up a digital presence in your discipline, and use it to promote your work when you have something interesting to share. It’s pretty darn obvious, really: If (social media interaction is often) then (Open access + social media = increased downloads).
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
My name is Lizzie Bennet and this is my life.
25 Dieselpunk Themed Desktop Wallpapers
Dieselpunk is a derivative of the cyberpunk movement, and is similar, in some ways, to its more renowned counterpart, Steampunk; with the emphasis on historical periods and bold, fantastical images. Dieselpunk and its respective ideology, however, focus on a society whose main reliance is on diesel fuel. And whereas Steampunk is more pseudo Victorian, Dieselpunk has its roots set in the 1940′s era. Machines which run on diesel are ever present in this genre. It is in essence an alternate history environment which manipulates certain periods as if they haven’t occurred as yet. As well as diesel powered machines, art deco also has a central presence, and pipes and gauges are also quite prominent.
The Miso Project :: Dataset
Unlike client-side frameworks that focus on entity modelling, Dataset is designed exclusively for working with matrices/tables of data. This allows a rich set of number crunching capabilities and helps optimise the handling of large numbers of rows In addition to helping load and parse data, Dataset makes it easy to query and select subsets of data, creating "views" that automatically update when the underlying data changes. By binding to events, it's easy to create interfaces onto realtime or user-manipulated data. Dataset provides some standard computations such as min and max and derivatives such as groupings and moving averages. Dataset was created in a way that allows a high degree of extension. We are looking forward to expanding our array of importers, parsers and computational methods.
10 Things Alex Webb Can Teach You About Street Photography — Eric Kim Street Photography
One of the street photographers who have had a strong impact on my street photography is Alex Webb. Webb is a Magnum photographer who uses strong colors, light, and emotion to capture beautifully complex images. After picking up a copy of Alex Webb’s “The Suffering of Light” I fell in love with his work and his use of color- and started to also make the transition from black and white to color. If you want to see some things you can learn from Alex Webb and his work, keep reading below!
#CCK11: Man! This MOOC is Something Else! « Connection not Content
CCK11: Man! This MOOC is Something Else!
Orange Fruit Batteries Power An iPhone - YouTube
You can power a digital clock with a few slices of oranges - but how many many oranges do you need to power an iPhone?
Great Animated GIFs of Science – GEARFUSE
"I ran across this animated GIF of C. elegans on the move while putting together the previous post on optogenetics. It’s the work of Bob Goldstein of the University of North Carolina’s biology department, who has created a large body of microphotographic cinema. This little looping movie of a sinuous nematode seems nearly the perfect marriage of format and subject: the winking, primitive, robust genre of the animated GIF; an ancient, simple, vermiform specimen of multicellular life."
4 Icon Challenge in the Classroom | The Tech Savvy Educator
I recently had the opportunity to spend a day in my old teaching position; an elementary technology class. I was always big on working with media when I taught the class for the 4 years I was in the position, so I took the opportunity to give the students a challenge taken from the pages of ds106, the wonderfully playful and media-rich digital storytelling community. The particular challenge that I gave them comes from the 4 Icon Challenge Assignment found on the ds106 site, and asks those willing to complete it to break down a story into 4 basic elements or themes, and then whittle those 4 ideas down into 4 basic icons.
4 Icon Challenge | Mr. Hart's Class Blog
DS106: Thanks for the Memories on Vimeo
DS106 is a "Digital Storytelling" course offered at the University of Mary Washington. As a member of this Massive, Open Online Course (MOCC), this is my first DS106 video assignment. I was challenged to "create a video compilation of your favorite things you've made in DS106". In this video, I share examples of my activities and assignments with the hope that viewers will gain a better appreciation for the dynamics of this powerful, and creative learning community. I trust that many of these ideas and endeavours can be adapted to be used successfully within the K-12 environment.
Windows Movie Maker Tutorial
Movie Maker 6.0, which is standard on all Windows Vista systems, is a program designed to allow people with relatively little technical knowledge to be able to do exactly this. It allows users to combine pictures and video footage together with text, music, and narration into a digital video file, thus lending itself particularly well to digital storytelling projects (Czarnecki, 2009; EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, 2007). In this article, I will explain each step in creating a digital film using Movie Maker. After this explanation, I will describe how a Movie Maker project can be used in an EFL/ESL classroom.
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Best Online Videos | Wimp.com
Wimp.com is a family friendly video website. We are dissimilar to most video websites on the Internet as we avoid featuring videos that are either unsuitable for all ages, or are generally sensationalistic in nature. We are not a funny video website; rather, we feature all kinds of videos: funny, educational, inspirational, cute, science, news, pretty much anything we think that might add 'value' to your life in some shape or form. We are anti-sensationalistic; we feel that there are more than enough websites on the Internet to cater to that taste.
Documentation:Resource Management Framework - UBC Wiki
Glasses Eye View | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Le Soleil | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Star logo sneakers | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
google-eyed daddy | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Princess Fiona Ringtone by brianmhansen on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free
Inspired by Shrek, disgraced by yours truly.
TDC95: Scene from behind the head | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Franny without Zooey by BeShort_DS106 on SoundCloud
MuZZuMs.com - YouTube