Experiences are the Mysterious Package Company's primary product. They are immersive stories told over a series of mailings to the recipient. Each experience contains these core elements: -Documents and other media -An element of personalization or customization -Puzzles or mysteries to solve -An artifact related to the details of the story, usually in a nailed-shut wooden crate -A Reveal card identifying who sent the package(s), if they were a gift Members purchase packages that they send to themselves or a recipient of their choice. The experiences feature genres such as mystery, horror, adventure, time-travel, and science-fiction, and range in duration from 1 to 6 mailings.
The pound sign is a typographical symbol with ambitions. For decades, it was an afterthought on our telephone keypads, mashed occasionally in frustration during prolonged customer-service calls. As a result, we’ve arrived at a strange moment for the hashtag. The people at Twitter are fond of saying that the hashtag is the new URL — and it’s true that you’re just as likely to see the former as the latter these days on-screen at the end of a movie trailer. Continue reading the main story Riff An extended take on the latest trends in culture. ‘Black Mirror’ and the Horrors and Delights of Technology TV’s New Girls’ Club The Split-Screen Marriage The Death of the Private Eye Streaming Music Has Left Me Adrift SEE MORE » RECENT COMMENTS Lindsay K November 8, 2012 Very interesting article. I've been so fascinated with how all this social media is creating a language of its own, and, specifically in a... Tony November 8, 2012 I found this article fascinating and smart. But Julia Turner's reference to antimetabole and zeugma, two definitions from the ancient art of... M November 7, 2012 Lovely piece, thanks. SEE ALL COMMENTS Yet the rise of the hashtag’s commercial possibilities shouldn’t lead us to overlook what is truly remarkable about it. This bit of utilitarian Web ephemera, invented with functionality squarely in mind, has blossomed into a marvelous and underappreciated literary device.
It's the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison's 12-string guitar: the opening chord to the Beatles song "A Hard Day's Night." Now, a researcher has used a mathematical calculation known as Fourier transform to solve the Beatles' riddle. The process allowed him to decompose the sound into its original frequencies using computer software and parse out which notes were on the record.
This is a collaborative project involving professors from George Brown College, Centennial College and Ryerson University and nurse educators from the Hospital for Sick Children. Access to good clinical and laboratory experiences is becoming increasingly difficult. In recent years, there has been a marked decline in access for students to acute care patient beds and specialty areas like pediatrics. Furthermore, there is ongoing discussion regarding the ethics of sending students into complex clinical situations. This resource helps to address these needs. This virtual simulation contains an interactive game in which the learner provides care to a 10 year old boy who has had an appendectomy and his mother. Playing the virtual simulation will promote the application of knowledge and skills related to providing family centred care to a post-operative pediatric patient.
How to embed youtube video to markdown file, GitHub or GitLab comments · Sergei Sviridov's Blog
I usually struggle to remember all the parameters for inserting links and especially images to the markdown which is the default format for GitHub, GitLab comments and documentation files and for this blog as well. Moreover, neither GitHub nor GitLab supports inserting videos. One of the workarounds for this issue with videos is to insert an image of for the video wrapped in a link pointing to the video location.
Founded in 2015 by Juliet de Baubigny, Nick Jonas, Sarah Lucas + Sam Talbot, Beyond Type 1 is leveraging the power of social media and technology, changing what it means to live with a chronic disease. By educating the global community about this autoimmune disease, as well as providing resources and supporting those living with Type 1 diabetes, Beyond Type 1 is bridging the gap from diagnosis to cure, empowering people to live well today and funding a better tomorrow.
How to Create Pixel Drawings and Emoji Art with Google Spreadsheets
ou are using Google Spreadsheets for budgeting and project management but did you know that the same sheets application can help you create impressive pixel paintings in minutes? The Google blog recently published a story of two illustrators who created a bright and beautiful wall mural using Google Spreadsheets.
EDM122: Digital Literacies and Open Practice | Part of City, University of London's MA in Academic Practice
Digital Literacies and Open Practices is a 15 credit module taught at City, University of London as part of the MA in Academic Practice. It covers: The changing nature of student learning, including exploring concepts such as ‘digital natives’, generational-based assumptions, the increasing use of social media platforms. Supporting information and digital literacies among students Developing Open Practices: the development and use of open educational resources and the ethical and legal issues associated with digital information The nature of the digital scholar: understanding how technologies are changing both teaching and research practices in the context of your discipline Preparing teaching and learning resources using technologies and understanding the specific issues associated with developing, using and re-using open educational resources Using tools and technologies to support specific aspects of teaching including administration, assessment and feedback, widening participation and accessibility issues Researching the use of technology in HE and the need for an evidence-based approach (this will be embedded in the module rather than a topic in its own right)
Ren'Py is a visual novel engine – used by thousands of creators from around the world – that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories that run on computers and mobile devices. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language allows anyone to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex simulation games. Ren'Py is open source and free for commercial use.
Koyaanisqatsi is a 1983 wordless documentary primarily made up of slow motion and time-lapse footage. If you haven't seen it, you can watch the trailer here. I wondered how easy it would be to make an internet version using random Giphy 'gifs' which have been tagged as slow motion or time-lapse, playing them along with the Philip Glass soundtrack.
Use CROWDLAAERS Search to explore any URL featuring Hypothesis annotation. CROWDLAAERS provides learning analytics about active participants, temporal activity (active days), collaborative discourse (threads), and also Hypothesis tags. Groups of individual annotations may be sorted by date, contributor, annotation, tags, and level (or the position of an annotation reply in a thread). Select any annotation to read the full content within CROWDLAAERS or in context of the source document
Digital capability is the term we use to describe the skills and attitudes that individuals and organisations need if they are to thrive in today’s world.
The Holland Island House: A Short Film About A 19th-Century Victorian Home That Sunk Into the Chesapeake Bay - The Atlantic
This animated ballad, by Lynn Tomlinson, recounts the story of a remarkably odd place. In the 19th century, Holland Island was home to a small community of farmers and fishers. They built houses there, these families living in the Chesapeake Bay, until tidal forces began eroding their land. The bay gobbled up the island; by 1922, it was completely abandoned. Tomlinson, a faculty member at Towson University, uses a clay-painting technique to tell the story of the island's last standing house, which finally collapsed in 2010. The oil-based clays creates a time-lapse effect of sorts, as shades and colors blur between frames. The style pairs well with the ballad, performed by Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle.
Javascript Char Codes (Key Codes) - Cambia Research
Javascript is often used on the browser client side to perform simple tasks that would otherwise require a full postback to the server. Many of those simple tasks involve processing text or characters entered into a form element on a web page, and it is often necessary to know the javascript keycode associated with a character. Here is a reference. Press a key in the text box below to see the corresponding Javascript key code.
Super simple instructions to delete just about any online account or profile . Want to ditch your online account? Shouldn't be a problem, right? Unfortunately, on many websites, including popular ones like Facebook, deleting your account can be a real pain. AccountKiller collects direct links and deleting instructions to make account termination easy. Websites like Skype that do not allow deleting your profile in an easy way at all get blacklisted. Luckily there are websites that do care about your online privacy.
Changes to Twitter's rules may kill off its most entertaining bots — Quartz
If these or any other non-spammy bot accounts have brought you automated joy as you’ve trawled through Twitter’s often hostile landscape, we have bad news: Some of your favorite bots are about to go silent. Many of these delightful and creative accounts will disappear in the coming months due to a company-wide attempt to eradicate malicious bots from the platform. Though this is a well-intentioned effort to curb computational propaganda, it will likely sweep up art bots in its wake.
If you're like me, you've been using Google Maps to add maps to your WordPress sites for years, but you sometimes get a little frustrated about the lack of customization options. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to use an alternative—a WordPress plugin called MapSVG that lets you add interactive maps to your site. You can then customize your maps with colours, placeholders, and popovers, and let your users search them. I'll walk you through how to set up a map using the plugin, how to customize it, and how to add it to a page in your site.
What Caused the Dinosaur Extinction? - The Atlantic
A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that debate.
We've curated the world's broadest collection of public data into a single searchable, explorable web portal and API. Enigma Public is free to use for non-commercial purposes. Journalists, students, and data enthusiasts all use Enigma Public to answer questions about the world around them. You can search for topics or datasets, read spotlights on datasets, or browse projects created with public data.
Twenty-one years ago this month, on September 6, 1992, the decomposed body of Christopher McCandless was discovered by moose hunters just outside the northern boundary of Denali National Park. He had died inside a rusting bus that served as a makeshift shelter for trappers, dog mushers, and other backcountry visitors. The debate over why McCandless perished, and the related question of whether he is worthy of admiration, has been smoldering, and occasionally flaring, for more than two decades now. But last December, a writer named Ronald Hamilton posted a paper on the Internet that brings fascinating new facts to the discussion. Hamilton, it turns out, has discovered hitherto unknown evidence that appears to close the book on the cause of McCandless’s death.
Mukurtu (MOOK-oo-too) is a grassroots project aiming to empower communities to manage, share, narrate, and exchange their digital heritage in culturally relevant and ethically-minded ways. We are committed to maintaining an open, community-driven approach to Mukurtu’s continued development. Our first priority is to help build a platform that fosters relationships of respect and trust.
On Affordance, Forgiveness and Ambiguity in Human Computer and Human Robot Interaction Keynote at Rethinking Affordance Symposium Akademie Schloss Solitude, 8 June 2018 "To say that design of user interfaces influences our daily life is a commonplace and an understatement. User interfaces influence people’s understanding of processes, form relations with the companies that provide services. Interfaces define roles computer users get to play in computer culture."
TimeZoneDB provides free time zone database for cities of the world. The database is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. It contains countries name, time zones, abbreviation, GMT offset, and Daylight Saving Time (DST). The data is available in CSV and SQL format. You can download and implement into your projects for free.
Conceived by Douglas Engelbart and developed by him and colleagues at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), the groundbreaking computer framework known as oN-Line System (NLS), jointly funded by ARPA and the Air Force, evolved throughout the decade. In what became known as "The Mother of All Demos"—because it demonstrated the revolutionary features of NLS as well as never-before-seen video presentation technologies—Engelbart unveiled NLS in San Francisco on December 9, 1968, to a large audience at the Fall Joint Computer Conference. Engelbart's terminal was linked to a large-format video projection system loaned by the NASA Ames Research Center and via telephone lines to a SDS 940 computer (designed specifically for time-sharing among multiple users) 30 miles away in Menlo Park, California, at the Augmentation Research Center, which Engelbart founded at SRI. On a 22-foot-high screen with video insets, the audience could see Engelbart manipulate the mouse and watch as members of his team in Menlo Park joined in the presentation.
WordPress Performance – Breaking It Down by HTTP Requests
WordPress can be a tricky beast as they say when it comes to web performance. Especially if you are comparing it against others running static sites. Because WordPress is based on PHP and most of the content is dynamically generated, it means you need to find other ways to optimize. In today’s post, we are going to dive into a fresh WordPress install and take it apart piece by piece, or rather by HTTP requests, to hopefully help you gain a better understanding of WordPress performance. WordPress can load a lot faster than what some people might lead you to believe!
