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This animated gif shows the change from the Greek alphabet to the Latin alphabet over time.
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Blog by book cover designer shows how some covers evolve. [via Book Design Review]
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Blog by Kevin Kelly about "Tools for knowing your own mind and body." [via peterme]
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A Web2.0 presentation by Matt Jones and Tom Coates on organizing our personal data. [via peterme]
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A list of "Best City" lists that include Corvallis. [via UnderStory]
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"That's the lesson. You spit in Congress's face, and they'll give you what you want." [via Schneier]
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"This is going to sound a little weird at first considering what I do for a living, but I want you to stop using FTP." Agreed! [via 43Folders]
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"This, no less than the defiling of the Constitution, is the legacy of an administration that not merely rationalized the immorality of torture but shackled our national security to the absurdity that torture could easily fix the terrorist threat."
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This is a lot easier than whatever I've been doing.
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"Differences between Republican and Democrats exist...but those differences are often dwarfed by the differences between those entrenched in and dependent upon the Washington Establishment and...American citizens -- who are not." [via rc3]
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"The U.S. Senate this afternoon passed the FISA Amendments Act...granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the president's illegal domestic wiretapping program." Discouraging.
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This is going to change my life.
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Nice sampling of the illustrator's work. Wikipedia: Edward Bawden.
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"Media reporting about other media's approach to producing media is pretty confusing business to begin with. Feelings...will be bruised. But that does not fully explain the scorched earth between Fox News and those who cover it." [via Fimoculous]
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The Prius will go solar? [via Doc]
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"While mindful of free speech and other rights, Yahoo and other companies say they must craft and enforce guidelines that go beyond legal requirements to protect their brands and foster safe, enjoyable communities -- ones where minors may be roaming."
Plunkett Creek Sounds
Took a nice walk through Beazell Memorial Forest this morning. It's about 30 minutes west of Corvallis, and it's a fairly new park. The trails are pristine, and the forest is shaded and lush. The forest floor is covered with ferns. Here's a sound clip I took on a bridge crossing Plunkett Creek:
I'm looking forward to going back over to that area to check out Fort Hoskins.
Update: Nevermind.
I'm looking forward to going back over to that area to check out Fort Hoskins.
Update: Nevermind.
Star Spangled
Corvallis has an extremely casual 4th of July parade that anyone can join. There are only a couple of floats, a few businesses, but mostly just people walking and riding bikes. It's not very long, and it's fun to see everyone. My favorite part of the parade today was a couple of kids playing the Star Spangled Banner on tubas as they walked by:
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"I do wonder, however, whether my son will someday feel that his privacy is being violated, or more likely, be embarrassed about the site." I struggle with this issue too and it's why I don't post very much in public about my son. [via Daddy Types]
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"Google is to be forced to release the records of every video watched on YouTube, including user names and web addresses, to entertainment company Viacom after a US federal court ruling." Copyright trumps privacy. [via MeFi]
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"Perhaps the right answer is to excise the links from the old posts and to add a note explaining why the links were removed." Rafe brings up a good reason why you might need to alter archives and how you might handle it in a way that doesn't break links.
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I've almost hit my strawberry wall this season, but notmartha's homemade popsicle looks amazing.
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A story about Rain Dancer, a solar car designed and built by a group of OSU students.
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Fantastic, fantastic story about the life of field recorder Tony Schwartz. Listen to this right now!
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Neighborhood data for geo-aware applications under a CC license. [via joshua]
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"A blogger named Violet Blue noticed that we unpublished some posts related to her." BoingBoing comments on posts missing from their archive. Glad they explained, but unpublished has an unfortunate Orwellian ring to it.
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Examples of pictures from dozens of vintage cameras. [via A Photo Editor]
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Make any photo look like it was taken during Japan's Edo period. [via MeFi] Here's what one of my photos looks like after being sent back in time:
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"Figure out how much each Netflix rental is costing you." I don't want to know.