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Cachet: The Open Source Status Page System
Set up a site for reporting site availability, etc.
A story about Dana Atchley – While I remember
Dana said this was the best thing that had been written about him and linked to it for years so besides being flattered (after all it was just using his words) I liked it too. Dana died in San Francisco December 13, 2000. Many of the links within this story were still alive for years, now link rot has forced me to the Wayback Machine, holder of all web memories. The Dana’s Next Exit site ‘died’ in 2014 which surprised me (and immediately made my webservers shudder – are we next?) even though I know that anything you do online is ephemeral.
MIT Open Learning Library | Open Learning
The MIT Open Learning Library is home to selected educational content from MIT OpenCourseWare and MITx courses, available to anyone in the world at any time. All material is free to use. Some resources, particularly those from MIT OpenCourseWare, are free to download, remix, and reuse for non-commercial purposes. MIT is committed to sharing learning materials with the world. The Open Learning Library provides additional opportunities to learn from MIT at your own pace, as on MIT OpenCourseWare, while engaging with problems and receiving instant feedback.
No Sweat Tech: The Golden Age of Free TV Online | The Saturday Evening Post
Here’s a little secret for you. There are lots of places to find free television online. Lots. And it’s not just ancient shows or shows so obscure they don’t even have Wikipedia entries. Hit shows! Lots of ’em! And it won’t cost you one dime to watch. In this column I’ll tell you about a bunch of free TV sites as well as one unexpected option. (Please note I’m restricting this list to those services that don’t require you to use a special app or particular hardware. For all these services you can turn on your computer, fire up your browser, and get to watching.)
WinWorld: Microsoft Word 4.0 (Mac)
Word version 4 downloadable!
Cosmology of Kyoto (京都千年物語) - Macintosh Garden
Macintosh Garden - Celebrating Macintosh Abandonware!
The Macintosh Garden is an abandonware archive, dedicated in particular to supporting the Macintosh computer platform. A notable feature of Macintosh Garden is its emphasis on emulation, encouraging users to run historical software on modern systems. Software featured on the Macintosh Garden have been discontinued by their publishers and are no longer commercially available. The Macintosh Garden aims to preserve these treasures for future generations, providing documentation and downloads of the original files. With respect to copyright, non-qualifying applications / games are removed upon request and a link to the item's purchase page is provided.
LegacyFileConverter
LegacyFileConverter is a 32-bit Windows application that make it easy to run the old Word for Word file converters in modern Windows systems. It uses the 1995-era Word for Word for DOS program, briefly released by Adobe in its Adobe File Utilities package, now packaged in a compiled AutoIt script. This package only converts files in formats in use before 1995; do not try to use it with modern formats like DOCX, ODT, Word 2007, etc.
Blogging vs. blog setups - Rakhim.org
Blogging vs. blog setups
Study Up | Justice requires more than just tweaking the numbers.
this project aims to construct a “sociotechnical imaginary that examines not only how the technical and social components of design are intertwined, but also imagines how they might be configured differently.”
The Myth of North America, in One Painting - The New York Times
What does history look like? Who gets to write it, in whose name?
Generated Photos | Unique, worry-free model photos
Enhance your creative works with photos generated completely by AI. Find model images through our sorted and tagged app, or integrate images via API. Generated photos are created from scratch by AI systems. All images can be used for any purpose without worrying about copyrights, distribution rights, infringement claims, or royalties.
On Teaching - The Atlantic
The most experienced teachers in America’s education system reflect on their careers, their schools, and the history they’ve witnessed.
American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action
A free library of images celebrating student learning and teacher collaboration in seven schools across the United States. “American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action” contains more than 700 original print-quality photos of real preK–12 students and teachers. These royalty-free photos are available for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Web Design | History of Web Design | Weird Websites
. In 1997, the web got weird. That was the year designer Ben Benjamin created Superbad.com, a website that was as much performance art back then as it is a functional museum of evergreen web design today. In 2019, the most engaging and vital interactive features on the internet wouldn’t be possible without Benjamin’s work, or that of the other “weird” web designers who came to prominence in the late ‘90s.
Quick icebreakers for online meetings, (that don't suck) - Emily Webber
Icebreakers seem to have lots of people squirming in their seats, me included. There is a lot of benefit to running them well and downsides when they are not. This post covers why do them and shares some that have gone well for me in the past. I have been running an online lean coffee style meet-up, Agile in the Ether, for a couple of years. Each meet-up starts with a short icebreaker, some of which I facilitate myself and others are facilitated by a guest. This month James Cattell offered to help, which lead to this tweet of him asking for suggestions. What was apparent in the replies is that a lot of people hate icebreakers. I don’t think that the problem is the concept, the problem is in the format. The icebreaker that we settled on this month built on a response to the tweet and was an anti-problem style question, “What is the worst icebreaker you’ve ever experienced”
Networks, Serendipity and the flow of ideas - Emily Webber
I gave a talk at SEACON recently building on top of my previous blog post about assisted serendipity. I wanted to share the ideas in that talk here as it is very relevant to the current times. This long post covers why serendipity is essential and how we can create opportunities for it to happen, both in the workplace and while distributed.
David Lynch Explains How Simple Daily Habits Enhance His Creativity | Open Culture
At first glance, Madame Bovary and Blue Velvet would seem to have little in common, as would their creators. But the artistic life Gustave Flaubert led and the one David Lynch now leads share a basic precept: “Be regular and orderly in your life,” as the former once put it, “so that you may be violent and original in your work.” Lynch has spoken about his ways as an artistic creature of habit many times over the years, as demonstrated by the interview clip compilation above. “Some people have heard the story that I went to Bob’s Big Boy for seven years every day at 2:30 and had the same thing,” he told Jay Leno in 1992. “That was my longest habit pattern, I think.” Lynch’s regularity at that Los Angeles burger joint is just one of the routines that has structured his existence. “I like habitual behavior because it’s a known factor,” he says, “and then your mind is free to think about other things.” When life has an order, he later told Charlie Rose, “then you’re free to mentally go off any place. You’ve got a safe sort of foundation, and a place to spring off from.”
AI Generated Paintings – ART AI
ART AI is the world’s largest gallery of AI generated art. We aim to democratize art by allowing more people to become owners of original, one of a kind artworks, as well as bring awareness to machine creativity and raise questions about the definition of art. We do so by leveraging our technology to make beautiful, exclusive AI artworks for every pocket. In October 2018, the first ever AI generated portrait “Edmond de Belamy” by Obvious was sold at a public auction for $432,500. Since then, technology has advanced and now enables us to produce original AI generated art of higher resolution, higher aesthetics, at a higher capacity - and at a much lower price. And that’s exactly what ART AI set out to do. This project started at Cambridge University by a group of tech savvy art lovers who developed an artificial intelligence that creates other worldly, original art. These compelling works possess the beauty and intricacy of high end gallery exhibits, but are sold at a fraction of the cost. We want people to focus on the art itself, explore the visuals and how they make them feel, rather than their price tag.
Do These A.I.-Created Fake People Look Real to You? - The New York Times
There are now businesses that sell fake people. On the website Generated.Photos, you can buy a “unique, worry-free” fake person for $2.99, or 1,000 people for $1,000. If you just need a couple of fake people — for characters in a video game, or to make your company website appear more diverse — you can get their photos for free on ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com. Adjust their likeness as needed; make them old or young or the ethnicity of your choosing. If you want your fake person animated, a company called Rosebud.AI can do that and can even make them talk. These simulated people are starting to show up around the internet, used as masks by real people with nefarious intent: spies who don an attractive face in an effort to infiltrate the intelligence community; right-wing propagandists who hide behind fake profiles, photo and all; online harassers who troll their targets with a friendly visage.
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18 Best (and Worst) Web-Based Video Editors for [2020]
Have a video that you want to improve? Want to join clips together, or cut out rough spots? Can you guess where this incredibly obvious series of questions is going? Yep, what you need is a video editor. There are tons of them that you can use online without installing any software. And some of them are actually quite good. I write for a living, but I also make videos for Website Planet. So I tested a bunch of online video editors to find the ones you can trust, and the ones that might drive you crazy. And I think I have done so with remarkable speed. But does anyone around here thank me?? Anyway, I’ll be giving each video editor a mini-review that covers everything I think is important. Overall, the lousy ones will generally get much shorter reviews than the ones I recommend, but not every short review is about a bad product. So don’t be too quick to judge.
Elementari.io - Write and Code Interactive Stories for Free
Elementari is a K-12 online platform to read, write, code, share, and remix interactive stories using professional illustrations and sounds
Soundcloud Downloader- Soundcloud To MP3 Online Converter
A Website mainly Dedicated to convert Mp3 from soundcloud using Soundcloud Downloader & SoundCloud Converter
dorking (how to find anything on the Internet) - for your information
Software engineers have long joked about how much of their job is simply Googling things Now you can do the same, but for free Below, I'll cover dorking, the use of search engines to find very specific data For each example, you can paste it directly into Google to see the resu
Introducing Simple Search – The Markup
We built a browser extension, Simple Search, to show you just the “traditional” search results. The extension places them in a box above the plethora of search engine products. You can tab through pages of results, submit new queries, and go back to the full results page easily. It is available for Firefox and Chrome browsers and works for both Google and Bing search engines. The extension lets you travel back to a time when online search operated a little differently.
Set Post Title as Alt Text of a Featured Image - Let's WP
When I ran a Sitebulb SEO audit on this site, I was bummed by the fact that it said images are missing alt texts. Given that I meticulously add such a text to every image I add to articles, that was intriguing. As it turns out, the scapegoat was the featured image. Denes provides those and when writing content, I don’t concern myself with the article’s image. Even if I did, copy-pasting the post title to be the alt text would be a robotic task in itself. Backlogging that or committing to yet another step of article creation is something I wanted to avoid. Not to mention titles may change in the future. Therefore, I propose automatically adding the post title as the alt text of the featured image, unless it exists already.
The Museum of the Lost and Found | Wessex Archaeology
Step inside, take a look around, get involved, there’s lots to discover, lots to see and lots of new ways of seeing. Interact with 20 handpicked objects from our archives Take a look at the creative responses to these particular objects and to a selection of creative tasks Watch highlight videos to get a glimpse of the discussions and decisions the groups made and why the objects were chosen Take a creative challenge and produce your own piece of work inspired by one of our objects, to go into The Museum of You. A picture is worth a thousand words. An object can tell a thousand stories. Since late June 2020 Wessex Archaeology has run a collection of eight digital engagement sessions with community groups, NHS staff, young people and individuals across England, giving them behind the scenes access to our archives in Sheffield and Salisbury. From these sessions each group was given the task of choosing two objects from a selection of four to go into our interactive digital museum. The chosen objects were then 3D scanned and uploaded in a way which presents the viewer with an opportunity to control, rotate, enlarge and closely examine the object allowing for greater access to each one. In addition to this, participants were set home tasks, to create a personal response which they could then share within their groups. These responses can be seen here along with some of the discussions and images in the session films.
How to Inject Data from Google Sheets Into a Google Slides Presentation | UpBuild
Working on websites, we work in rows and rows of data. A lot. But what happens when an executive wants to know more about that project you are notating from a data export? You have to turn your mind-numbing spreadsheet with filters and color coding only you might understand into a more digestible format. Now comes the hours and hours spent copying over information into a presentation. Not anymore! With Google Apps Script, you can inject data from Google Sheets into a template in Google Slides and generate hundreds of pretty slides in just minutes.
How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge
A 64-page document that was later disseminated by close associates of President Donald Trump appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm."