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jadesfireSome of these links are seriously old, but that doesn't matter, right? A good link is a good link.
Extreme Home Cinemas. The first gives new meaning to the phrase 'drive-in'
Make Me Mighty! Could be handy for naming characters ;)
Write your own academic sentence. I so wish this was an exaggeration...
Scroll Clock. This one doesn't really do anything, it's just weird to watch.
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white_hart, thanks :) Dante's Internet.
Phone box becomes library. One of the most common conversations in librarianship nowadays is "what is a library for?" There's lots of answers, but I think this article illustrates that, for most people, if it's got books you can borrow, it's a library.
Did I link you to The London Skyline in Vegetables before? It's worth a repeat if I did.
I could spend hours and hours poring over the Victorian Infographics at Bibliodyssey. I need to do some practice for my 2nd Photoshop course next week, and think I just found my source material *drools*
Not my kind of thing, but this new white noise generator might be handy for some folk out there, ditto Universal darkroom, although the latter is a script rather than a DL-able programme, so I think there's little chance of my getting that one to work.
One new thing to me that I am having fun with is Fallen London, which I picked up throughar_gemlad on Twitter. RPG isn't really my thing, but clicking buttons is, so I'm enjoying prodding it gently and slowly to see what happens.
I've seen plenty of jokes about the iPad already (seriously, Apple? How many of you did it take to pick that name?), but the visual ones at Jezebel are my favouites.
And finally, because I know it'll be relevant to several friends' interests, the Bodleian's current exhibitions is Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures. There's no website with good pictures, but there's a brief description here and there's an exhibition catalogue available. The exhibition leaflet is pretty good, but given the lack of online presence, I'm thinking it's only for people who can actually come by Oxford at some point.
ION, I'm trying out Google Chrome at work as my main browser. We're getting on okay so far, although there's no way I would have considered switching before the decent number of extensions came out. It does some things well (so quick! so pretty!) but absolutely sucks at others (ask me where to save things when you download them! stop previewing this message as thought I'm signed in asheretoutopia and what the hell happened to my html?! *cough* that one was me...) My favourite so far is the gmail checker, because the little envelope rotates when you get new mail, or you read the message it's alerting you about. Simple things...
Extreme Home Cinemas. The first gives new meaning to the phrase 'drive-in'
Make Me Mighty! Could be handy for naming characters ;)
Write your own academic sentence. I so wish this was an exaggeration...
Scroll Clock. This one doesn't really do anything, it's just weird to watch.
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white_hart, thanks :) Dante's Internet.Phone box becomes library. One of the most common conversations in librarianship nowadays is "what is a library for?" There's lots of answers, but I think this article illustrates that, for most people, if it's got books you can borrow, it's a library.
Did I link you to The London Skyline in Vegetables before? It's worth a repeat if I did.
I could spend hours and hours poring over the Victorian Infographics at Bibliodyssey. I need to do some practice for my 2nd Photoshop course next week, and think I just found my source material *drools*
Not my kind of thing, but this new white noise generator might be handy for some folk out there, ditto Universal darkroom, although the latter is a script rather than a DL-able programme, so I think there's little chance of my getting that one to work.
One new thing to me that I am having fun with is Fallen London, which I picked up through
ar_gemlad on Twitter. RPG isn't really my thing, but clicking buttons is, so I'm enjoying prodding it gently and slowly to see what happens.I've seen plenty of jokes about the iPad already (seriously, Apple? How many of you did it take to pick that name?), but the visual ones at Jezebel are my favouites.
And finally, because I know it'll be relevant to several friends' interests, the Bodleian's current exhibitions is Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures. There's no website with good pictures, but there's a brief description here and there's an exhibition catalogue available. The exhibition leaflet is pretty good, but given the lack of online presence, I'm thinking it's only for people who can actually come by Oxford at some point.
ION, I'm trying out Google Chrome at work as my main browser. We're getting on okay so far, although there's no way I would have considered switching before the decent number of extensions came out. It does some things well (so quick! so pretty!) but absolutely sucks at others (ask me where to save things when you download them! stop previewing this message as thought I'm signed in as
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Date: 2010-01-29 02:33 pm (UTC)How d'you feel about graphs as opposed to patterns re: crochet? I found a blanket I SO want to make, but omg I HATE graphs, lol.
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Date: 2010-01-29 02:40 pm (UTC)What kind of blanket is it? I'm working up from octopuses to scarves to shawls ;)
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Date: 2010-01-29 02:43 pm (UTC)Sadly, that's all. Will check out some of the links later. Have to get the studio ready for this afternoon.
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Date: 2010-01-29 03:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-29 03:08 pm (UTC)I've seen plenty of jokes about the iPad already
I hadn't seen any - not been looking - but I was more than half expecting incontinence pads not sanitary towels...
The sound rain isn't nearly as soothing when it comes without a change in air quality. BUT the darkroom thing could be nifty for when watching tv/video.
*bookmarks Victorian infographics*
I have much love for the phone box library.
Last but not least, did you know that
The linguistic construction of normative value(s) furnishes a provisional lens for the analysis of the historicization of pedagogical institutions.
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Date: 2010-01-29 03:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-01-29 03:21 pm (UTC)Glad you're having fun with it! I swear I read sentences like that when I did my art history module...
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Date: 2010-01-29 03:26 pm (UTC)see more Lolcats and funny pictures (http://icanhascheezburger.com)
I swear I read sentences like that when I did my art history module...
Sometimes I'm really glad I've always been a maths and science person.
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Date: 2010-01-29 03:35 pm (UTC)In return, I'm browsing Fail!blog and this made me laugh out loud and worry my colleagues: Sexy Chat Win (http://failblog.org/2010/01/08/sexy-chat-win/)
Hee!
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Date: 2010-01-29 03:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-01-29 03:47 pm (UTC)(I know, it's a cheap pimp but we're not making many sales and one of the contributors has some epic medical bills and no job atm)
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Date: 2010-01-29 03:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-29 03:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-29 06:11 pm (UTC)*makes note of exhibition in Oxford* Still need to buy tickets!
Oh and from Henceforth you will address me as Doctor Aeron Lanartulus, The Dreamsender and Scythe Wielder of Jupiter. *ahem* I'm having way too much fun with that - I got one that called me a Turnbuckle Stomper and Masher of Brains.
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Date: 2010-01-29 10:08 pm (UTC)*giggle* I have no idea what a turnbuckle is, but I'm sure it needed stomping!
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Date: 2010-01-29 06:22 pm (UTC)Also I am trying to work out if I can use the academic sentence thing for my next essay.So thank you very much :D
xxx
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Date: 2010-01-29 10:08 pm (UTC)Always happy to help :D
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Date: 2010-01-29 07:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-01-29 09:26 pm (UTC)Also I totally LOLOLOLOLd at the story you told me about the Brighton clock tower the other day, but then lost the tab it was in. My tabs are a total mess lately. ♥
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Date: 2010-01-29 10:09 pm (UTC)*grin* that always happens to me - I usually have 2 windows open and close the wrong one first...
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Date: 2010-01-29 10:20 pm (UTC)-Praetor Bironiculos, The Skyforger: Turnbuckle Stomper Masher of Brains