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Rural Diaries Online: Experience Daily Life in the Backwoods | Borealia
Rural Diaries Online: Experience Daily Life in the Backwoods | Borealia
The opening pages of the diary of Benjamin Freure (1836-42) are full of hope, as he travels from England across the Atlantic with his family to start a new life. Upon reaching the backwoods of Wellington County, his tone changes as he tackles the serious business of clearing the land, raising a barn and hauling produce to town. His son Felix, a violinist, is called out to many social events and is a “crack shot” with his rifle. One can observe their diet shift from wild game to domestic livestock over the years. Would you like to experience daily life in the 1800s? Now you can. For several years I have used rural diaries in my research on Upper Canada (the province of Ontario).[1] These precious old documents, often fading and brittle, are scattered in various archives. Now they have been gathered together in the Rural Diary Archive for researchers to access and enjoy online.
#journal#writing#western106
·earlycanadianhistory.ca·
Rural Diaries Online: Experience Daily Life in the Backwoods | Borealia
A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins
A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins
I thought Ligaya Turmelle's post on SQL joins was a great primer for novice developers. Since SQL joins appear to be set-based, the use of Venn diagrams to explain them seems, at first blush, to be a natural fit. However, like the commenters to her post, I found that the Venn diagrams didn't quite match the SQL join syntax reality in my testing. I love the concept, though, so let's see if we can make it work.
#mysql#database#code
·blog.codinghorror.com·
A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins
Funny Cowboy Sayings
Funny Cowboy Sayings
f you are looking for funny cowboy sayings, here are some for you including some quotes as well. You can also check out the sayings about horses. 
#western106
·grammar.yourdictionary.com·
Funny Cowboy Sayings
Cowboy Ethics – Cowboy Ethics
Cowboy Ethics – Cowboy Ethics
Before the American West was settled and barbed wire closed off the range, the Code of the West was the one civilizing influence that could be relied upon. In his 2004 book, Cowboy Ethics – What Wall Street Can Learn from the Code of the West, Jim Owen made a heartfelt case for a new approach to business ethics — one that goes back to simple, timeless principles like those of the cowboy code. He also translated the unwritten Code of the West into Ten Principles to Live By. It turned out that Jim’s message struck a deep chord with people from all walks of life. Cowboy Ethics has become part of our national conversation, as people across the country rediscover the cowboy code  and make it their own.
#western106
·cowboyethics.org·
Cowboy Ethics – Cowboy Ethics
How I made the Manchester New Year's Eve photo go viral - BBC News
How I made the Manchester New Year's Eve photo go viral - BBC News
It's already been billed as the image of 2016 in some quarters. It's been called art and hailed for its beautiful composition. Others have singled out how it depicts 21st century Britain. If you have not yet seen the image in question, it shows drunken revellers on a Manchester street and was taken by photographer Joel Goodman on New Year's Eve.
#ds106#Visual#photography
·bbc.com·
How I made the Manchester New Year's Eve photo go viral - BBC News
What makes a hero? - Matthew Winkler - YouTube
What makes a hero? - Matthew Winkler - YouTube
What trials unite not only Harry Potter or Frodo Baggins but many of literature's most interesting heroes? And what do ordinary people have in common with these literary heroes? Matthew Winkler takes us step-by-step through the crucial events that make or break a hero.
#ds106#Storytelling
·youtube.com·
What makes a hero? - Matthew Winkler - YouTube
What Makes a Hero: Joseph Campbell’s Seminal Monomyth Model for the Eleven Stages of the Hero’s Journey, Animated – Brain Pickings
What Makes a Hero: Joseph Campbell’s Seminal Monomyth Model for the Eleven Stages of the Hero’s Journey, Animated – Brain Pickings
Nearly four decades before Joseph Campbell (March 26, 1904–October 30, 1987) refined his enduring ideas on how to find your bliss and have fulfilling life, the legendary mythologist penned The Hero with a Thousand Faces (public library) — his seminal theory outlining the common journey of the archetypal hero across a wealth of ancient myths from around the world. Campbell’s monomyth model has since been applied to everything from the lives of great artists to pop-culture classics like Star Wars.
#ds106#Storytelling
·brainpickings.org·
What Makes a Hero: Joseph Campbell’s Seminal Monomyth Model for the Eleven Stages of the Hero’s Journey, Animated – Brain Pickings
Sergio Leone: Part 3 | STATIC MASS EMPORIUM
Sergio Leone: Part 3 | STATIC MASS EMPORIUM
Films are frequently plagued by things they didn’t say. ‘Play it again, Sam’ and ‘A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do’ were never spoken in their respective films. Similarly, the Man with No Name, who features in the first three Leone Westerns – A Fistful Of Dollars (1964), For A Few Dollars More (1965) and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966) – always had a name: Joe, Manco and Blondie respectively. Fistful Of Dollars, dir. Sergio Leone, 1964 The Man with No Name was an invention of the publicity department that oversaw the US marketing. Due to an unresolved rights issue with Akira Kurosawa (A Fistful Of Dollars was basically a straightforward rip off of Kurosawa’s Yojimbo), Leone had made all three films without yet having one of them released in the US much to Clint Eastwood’s chagrin. Eastwood was still at this stage more famous for the household name Rowdy Yates from the TV show Rawhide. However, it meant the films, financed by their European and particularly Italian success, would arrive in the US as a readymade trilogy, a fait accompli repositioning of the Western genre and reinventing of the character of the American hero.
#western106
·staticmass.net·
Sergio Leone: Part 3 | STATIC MASS EMPORIUM
7 tips for designing awesome animated GIFs - InVision Blog
7 tips for designing awesome animated GIFs - InVision Blog
Here at InVision, GIFs aren’t just for goofing around—they play a powerful part in our marketing and education. Heck, we even opted to use GIFs on our home page instead of fancy code-based animations. Eventually, people started asking, “How do you make those GIFs?” So we figured it was time to spill the beans.
#tutorial#animation#gifs#animatedgif#ds106
·blog.invisionapp.com·
7 tips for designing awesome animated GIFs - InVision Blog
The Space Deck
The Space Deck
The Space Deck is a co-created deck of 56 spacemaking cards. Each card presents a prompt for a way to make space in your life and work. Space for you to grow. Space for others to communicate and do their best work. These cards are intended to assist the creative, the museum professional, the librarian, the artist, the activists, the burnt-out, in making space for self and for others with intention and awareness. Just like a deck of playing cards, The Space Deck is divided into suits
#activity
·thespacedeck.com·
The Space Deck
Make Your Own Wanted Poster using Photoshop « Photoshop Yogi
Make Your Own Wanted Poster using Photoshop « Photoshop Yogi
In this tutorial I will show you how to make your own wanted poster or how to make a wanted dead or alive poster in Photoshop. Here I provided a wanted poster template PSD. We would need following things to start designing our most wanted western poster:
#ds106#design#graphics
·photoshopyogi.com·
Make Your Own Wanted Poster using Photoshop « Photoshop Yogi
Error 451 is the new Ray Bradbury-inspired HTTP code for online censorship | PCWorld
Error 451 is the new Ray Bradbury-inspired HTTP code for online censorship | PCWorld
The web is full of cryptic status codes that your browser shows when it can’t connect to a website, such as 403 Forbidden or 404 Not Found. Now the Internet Engineering Steering Group is adding one more error code for your browser—but this time it will make it all too clear why you can’t see something. The IESG recently approved status code 451 that tells visitors they can’t see the requested content due to “legal obstacles,” which usually means government censorship. Former Google engineer Tim Bray suggested code 451, inspired by Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, back in 2012. Status code 451 can be used by a website such as Facebook or Twitter, or by network intermediaries like a firewall or ISP. At first glance, 451 seems like a great idea to notify citizens in repressive countries if their government is blocking specific content. But those types of governments are also likely to prevent their citizens from even seeing that error code in the first place. Plus, if you live in a country where information is restricted you’re probably well aware of why you can’t see a certain site.
#web
·pcworld.com·
Error 451 is the new Ray Bradbury-inspired HTTP code for online censorship | PCWorld
Three Flavors of Networked Blogging with WordPress | Adam Croom
Three Flavors of Networked Blogging with WordPress | Adam Croom
I’ve been helping with the launch of MiddCreate, a domains project at Middlebury, led by Amy Collier. One of their faculty members was interested in a multisite setup for her class, and while that’s a great approach, I wanted to offer the Middlebury folks a broader look at options for networked blogging with a particular focus on different models that WordPress affords.
#wordpress#multisite#connectedlearning#ccourses
·adamcroom.com·
Three Flavors of Networked Blogging with WordPress | Adam Croom
WebDevStudios/CMB2
WebDevStudios/CMB2
CMB2 is a developer's toolkit for building metaboxes, custom fields, and forms for WordPress that will blow your mind.
#wordpress#plugin
·github.com·
WebDevStudios/CMB2
Manifiesto Edupunk.
Manifiesto Edupunk.
El presente manifiesto fue redactado colaborativamente durante el primer encuentro Intercátedras Edupunk entre la Cátedra del Taller de Procesamiento de Datos de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) y el Seminario de Integración y Producción de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR), a cargo de Alejandro Piscitelli y Marcelo de La Torre, respectivamente. ¡¡¡Al cual adhiero!!!!
#edupunk
·jlcalva.tumblr.com·
Manifiesto Edupunk.
A Process To Aggregate RSS Feeds As APIs For Non-Developers
A Process To Aggregate RSS Feeds As APIs For Non-Developers
A blog RSS feed is still my number one way to monitor what is happening across the API space. I also use RSS from Google Alerts and TalkWalker to monitor a variety of leading API industry keywords. RSS is an important information gathering format, and I wanted to help some of my non-developer followers, understand how they can aggregate RSS feeds across a variety of topics, clean up, and publish a centralized API for all feeds.
#rss#aggregation
·apievangelist.com·
A Process To Aggregate RSS Feeds As APIs For Non-Developers
NERVE Simulation
NERVE Simulation
The Neurological Examination Rehearsal Virtual Environment is a suite of tools designed to give first- and second-year medical students standardized experience in interviewing, examining and diagnosing patients with cranial nerve disorders. No cost required to use NERVE. As an NIH-funded research project, NERVE is available for use by instructors, students and researchers at absolutely no cost. One benefit of using NERVE is that it can free up valuable in-class time to focus on higher-order clinical reasoning skills and clinical variations.
#simulation#learning
·nervesim.com·
NERVE Simulation
oldweb.today
oldweb.today
See new web sites through emulators of old browsers. Netcapsule is a proof-of-concept system for browsing old web sites from existing web archives in old browsers, inside a modern browser. When the Netcapsule web page is loaded, the old browser is loaded in an emulator-like setup (Docker container) connecting to an existing archiving service through an HTTP/S proxy (powered by [pywb] (https://github.com/ikreymer/pywb) software). The proxy configures the date/time setting and proxies the content from the archive in its original form (whenever possible). Any web archive (supporting CDX or Memento protocol interfaces) can be a source, and any browser running under Linux can be used.
#browser#history#internet#reclaim
·oldweb.today·
oldweb.today
VCCW - A WordPress development environment.
VCCW - A WordPress development environment.
This is a Vagrant configuration designed for development of WordPress plugins, themes, or websites. VCCW includes customizable variables for setting the WordPress version (or beta release), language, hostname, subdirectory, admin credentials, default plugins, default theme, multisite, SSL and other options. These variables give you a lot of flexibility in tailoring your development environment to your specific needs.
#wordpress#webdev
·vccw.cc·
VCCW - A WordPress development environment.
Jonathan Harris on "Unstuckness" | Transom
Jonathan Harris on "Unstuckness" | Transom
First I’ll quote an email from my 16-year-old daughter, Hope: “Okay so I just read that whole thing- twice. And it made me cry a little bit- twice. Well played, Jonathan Harris, well played. Everything he does is so perfectly unusual and against the norm. It’s like, I think I have this view of the world and then in walks JH with his mind and ideas and I’m like, ‘oh, shit, now I have to fit that new astonishing piece of information into my now turned-upside-down worldview.’ Once again he’s made my life better by ruining it.” She’s referring to Jonathan’s new Transom Manifesto, “Navigating Stuckness,” an autobiographical journey with teachable moments, following Jonathan’s path as a diarist, painter, storyteller, data artist, web visionary, and who knows what next? That’s the question. You’ll find ponderable lessons for all of us who are ever stuck, accompanied by wonderful original illustrations.
#inspiration#creativity#ds106
·transom.org·
Jonathan Harris on "Unstuckness" | Transom
Alex Chadwick "Writing for Radio" | Transom
Alex Chadwick "Writing for Radio" | Transom
For a long time we’ve been bugging Alex Chadwick to write about writing. Many of us think Alex is one of the finest radio writers there is. He knows plenty of technical tricks for solid writing, and he understands the roots of style too. In his artful way, he tells you how to achieve both. Alex originally wrote much of this manifesto as a training guide for NPR journalists back in the 1990s, and that’s the frame of reference, but the techniques are universally applicable and adaptable. If you’re a reporter, you’ll want to spend some time with this. If you run a newsroom, you’ll want to make your reporters spend some time with it.
#radio#audio#writing#ds106
·transom.org·
Alex Chadwick "Writing for Radio" | Transom