Tumblelink January 27, 2006
The Socratic Method – wonderful account of a teacher using the Socratic method to lead a group of children to understanding binary arithmetic.
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Gio Ponti Plates, by Mot.
They match the colour scheme of this place rather well, no?
« »Tumbletip January 24, 2006
In TextEdit, and other Cocoa apps, when editing a rich-text document, you can trigger a very basic outliner mode by hitting Option+Tab. Handy for taking notes with a bit of structure. (via Daring Fireball)
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Tumblethought January 22, 2006
Here is the punchline to an as yet untold joke concerning an owl so attractive that to know him is to love him: To wit, to woo.
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Tumblelink January 21, 2006
3121, Album release date and singles announced – out on March 21st, just in time for my birthday ;-)
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Tumblelink January 19, 2006
Channel 4 News Podcasts – the first is a special half-hour report on the links between cannabis use and mental health problems by Jon Snow. Good to see them putting in real effort to provide a podcast rather than just repurposing existing material. Good too to see more professional podcasting (it’s a mystery to me how the whole thing took off on the back of half-arsed amateurish content, which is what 99.9% of podcasts seem to be).
« »Tumblequote January 14, 2006
Industrial Estates are sweetie shops for the poured & moulded concrete soul. — Mr. Innes Smith
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Tumblephoto January 12, 2006
Children, by Govan. (I’ve been meaning to photograph this for ages myself)
# art, children, graffiti, stencil
Tumblelink January 10, 2006
Glasgow Explorer is a new weblog pointing to stuff to see and do in Glasgow. For a folksonomical user-generated tag-based mashup alternative, try my little page, The Glasgow Now (please note: all buzzwords in this sentence were typed with a raised eyebrow).
« »Tumblelink January 9, 2006
Capital and Stratification within Virtual Community: A Case Study of Metafilter.com – MeFi user Quatermass’ MA dissertation, applying Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of class and capital to an online setting.
« »Tumblephoto January 4, 2006
WFMU’s Beware Of The Blog is hosting a stabilised version of the Zapruder film. (A torrent is also available.)
# conspiracy, film, JFK
Tumblelink January 4, 2006
www.myspace.com/knittaplease – knitted ‘graffiti’. I can’t decide whether I love or hate this.
« »Tumblelink January 4, 2006
Tracking the Lincolnshire Poacher, a BBC Radio 4 documentary on Numbers Stations.
# BBC, documentary, numbers, spies
Tumblelink January 3, 2006
EGOBURGER Winter 2005/06 – a new quarterly online magazine type thing edited by Torsten Lauschmann, with art, music photography, essays, &c. (I have a photography, audio and text piece in the next issue, coming in Spring.)
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