Archive for the ‘Online resources’ Category
01.July.2010
More reflections on the G20 and Canada Day
It’s mid evening of July 1st, 2010, and I’m just reflecting on my many ambivalent feelings about Canada day. Today, when I reflect on what Canada means, I can’t help but think of police, patriarchy, Harper, poverty, white supremacy, Christian supremacy, gendered violence, oppression and colonization. I think there are good things too. I do. But when the dominant culture refuses to acknowledge or try to understand the bad stuff, then it makes it hard for me to think of anything else.
30.June.2010
Cognitive surplus: one more video
Since I seem to be on a kick posting videos, I thought I would post a recentish talk by Clay Shirky about collaboration and cognitive surplus. Clay Shirky is interesting and he wrote Here Comes Everybody, which was pretty good. He has two other TED talks and you can find links to them from his TED profile. More importantly, you can check out and download Ushahidi, which Shirky explains a little about, right here. I’ll be checking it out and maybe launching a test of it and hopefully I can write more about it here in the future.
19.June.2010
The Buddha Bear
This bear is sitting in a kind of relaxed pose with his legs almost crossed. And his, well, pawms are turned up. It looks like sitting meditation. Check it out here. I was trying to think of an appropriate caption – but if he is the buddha bear, then his mind would be empty right?
21.April.2010
Alpha, Bravo, something, hotel, something…
Ever try to communicate your URL over the phone? On the radio? Sometimes this kind of translation can be very tricky. I’m not sure why exactly, but this sort of thing can make me think about faxing phone numbers or sending dates by morse code. We have codes for codes for codes. The codes below help us to hear the letters. It’s phonetic. And it reminds me of working with helicopters. Although, I can’t say that I ever remember someone saying “kilo.” Nonetheless, I’m fascinated by this kind of thing and I include it here for reference.
- Alpha
- Bravo
- Charlie
- Delta
- Echo
- Foxtrot
- Golf
- Hotel
- India
- Juliet
- Kilo
- Lima
- Mike
- November
- Oscar
- Papa
- Quebec
- Romeo
- Sierra
- Tango
- Uniform
- Victor
- Whiskey
- X-ray
- Yankee
- Zulu
19.April.2010
Alpha, beta, something
Math was probably the class that I most often got to use Greek letters in. Well, maybe physics. We used Delta as a symbol for change. We used pPi to express the relationship of the radius of a circle to it’s circumference (or area). And we used Sigma to express a sum. I think. And that’s just it. I’ve always had a shaky grasp of the alpha-beta. So, for my own reference, and possibly yours, here we go:
- ?? Alpha
- ?? Beta
- ?? Gamma
- ?? Delta
- ?? Epsilon
- ?? Zeta
- ?? Eta
- ?? Theta
- ?? Iota
- ?? Kappa
- ?? Lambda
- ?? Mu
- ?? Nu
- ?? Xi
- ?? Omicron
- ?? Pi
- ?? Rho
- ??? Sigma
- ?? Tau
- ?? Upsilon
- ?? Phi
- ?? Chi
- ?? Psi
- ?? Omega
11.March.2010
Experimenting with embedded fonts
How cool is it to be using embedded fonts on the web! This paragraph, if the experiment goes well, is expressed with a font called Chunk.
Very much fun! This paragraph is hopefully Chopin Script.
Two good online resources, for doing this sort of thing, include Font Squirrel and also The League of Movable Type. I bow down to both of these organizations! 1
- I also am extremely thankful to Hugh Stimson, for pointing me in this direction and who will hopefully comment on the readability of these font selections. ↩
25.February.2010
XKCD makes me twitch
It’s amazing how much you can express with stickman comics. So much so, I’ve been making a study of XKCD and even trying to make my own comics. I’m an illustrator. But I’m not yet the master of the stick figure. In the meantime, here’s an XKCD comic that makes me twitch with mirth.
