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the best thing i learned today – Make your own comics
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The best thing i learned today. Make your own comics. I am very happy about Web 2.0. Today It sort of hit a trampoline when I saw kottke. Post the most elaborate Line Rider track ever. Then I saw Bitstrips. March 25, 2008. comics. Did you join the comics? April 6th, 2008 at 1:31 pm. Permalink. Yes, I am user “dorq”. Give me a link to your comics! April 9th, 2008 at 3:25 pm. Permalink. Would be funner. too much choice might be bad …. May 11th, 2008 at 12:24 am. Permalink. Spam protection: Sum of 2 9?
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the best thing i learned today – The Mathematics in Music
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The best thing i learned today. The Mathematics in Music. I went to a very interesting performance today: “The Mathematics in Music: a concert-conversation with Elaine Chew”, in Killian Hall. Elaine is visiting Harvard. For the year from USC. Where she is a professor. She has an amazingly broad background that is super-pleasing… having studied math, computer science, music performance, and operations research. Composing with a meter determined by the numbers in a row (or column) of a completed Sudoku.
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the best thing i learned today – words
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The best thing i learned today. Wordle is a fun tool for making what I will call “nice-looking tag clouds”. It’s like tag-tinted glasses for the written world. Here are two I made today. 8211; from the first few paragraphs of the Wikipedia entry on LaTeX. My del.icio.us tags. 8211; from my del.icio.us. These are super-customizable but I can’t let myself play with it that long. (That’s what she said.). June 13, 2008. computers/programming. Graph i ca cy. Mid-20th century. graphic , after literacy]. I need...
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the best thing i learned today – John is leaving
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The best thing i learned today. This is not a “best thing”, but it feels momentous… John Maeda. Is leaving the Media Lab. He’s off to RISD. At the end of the month. John gives his last lecture this Friday, 3:30pm, in Bartos. His students made some awesome posters. To commemorate his time here. May 12, 2008. media lab. Be the first to comment! Spam protection: Sum of 2 4? 8211; my main page. My del.icio.us. Theme by Jeff Wheeler.
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the best thing i learned today – Whistled language
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The best thing i learned today. Some cultures use a whistled language. To communicate. This means that speech is emulated in whistling, which can cover much larger distances. As two people approach each other, one may even switch from whistled to spoken speech in mid-sentence. Has a nice example of a whistled conversation. Another example of whistled language, ‘Silbo Gomero’: CNN.com — “Nearly extinct whistling language revived”. For sharing such excitement about the Pirahã people. 8211; my main page.
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the best thing i learned today – Nice cookies
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The best thing i learned today. If you want a tasty project, try making these Chocolate Chocolate-Chip Cookies With Mocha Cream Filling. We made them for the game night last Friday. They are: scrumptious. February 19, 2008. food. 1 out of 1 ex-coworkers agree: these cookies are tasty. February 20th, 2008 at 1:00 am. Permalink. Spam protection: Sum of 2 3? 8211; my main page. My del.icio.us. Theme by Jeff Wheeler.
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the best thing i learned today – Haeckel illustrations
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The best thing i learned today. I almost wet myself just now, after realizing that tons of Ernst Haeckel. Illustrations are available in high-res, in the public domain, on Wikipedia. I am downloading them now. I’m going to cycle through them for my desktop background. And someday I am going to make them into wallpaper prints. (You know, when I get some walls.) Seriously, can you imagine? This one would look awesome in the guest bathroom…. It’s 187 MB, 121 images. March 5, 2008. patterns. I just found my ...
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the best thing i learned today – Wordle
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The best thing i learned today. Wordle is a fun tool for making what I will call “nice-looking tag clouds”. It’s like tag-tinted glasses for the written world. Here are two I made today. 8211; from the first few paragraphs of the Wikipedia entry on LaTeX. My del.icio.us tags. 8211; from my del.icio.us. These are super-customizable but I can’t let myself play with it that long. (That’s what she said.). June 13, 2008. computers/programming. Come back to the internets! Spam protection: Sum of 6 7?
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