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This website will switch over to Scratch 2.0 on May 9! All your stuff will be available on the Scratch 2.0 site. And you can continue to use Scratch 1.4 to make and share projects. It will take a while to update everything to Scratch 2.0, so the website will be closed for 3 days,…
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nprfreshair: Tomorrow is Willie Nelson’s 80th birthday. He might just be the coolest 80-year-old out there. For some Willie reading, last year Texas Monthly did an oral history of outlaw country — “That Seventies Show”: Up to that point, the cosmic cowboys had played to crowds that looked largely like they did. Willie brought a…
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claytoncubitt: While backing up my data last week I posted the quick snapshot above, which led to a lot of interest in what gear I use for backups, so I decided to share that info for those it might be helpful for. For day-to-day storage I use a Drobo 5D 5-bay Storage Array, Thunderbolt/USB 3.0, in…
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WWW-Talk Apr-Jun 1993: Re: searchable index of the web
WWW-Talk Apr-Jun 1993: Re: searchable index of the web Wed, 30 Jun 93 15:05:45 EDT I have written a perl script that wanders the WWW collecting URLs, keeping tracking of where it’s been and new hosts that it finds. Eventually, after hacking up the code to return some slightly more useful information (currently it just…
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doomandgloomfromthetomb: Brian Eno: Taking Manhattan (By Strategy) “I moved to New York City because there are so many beautiful girls here. More than anywhere else in the world.” Totally. I recommend you go check out Simon Reynolds’ excellent overview of Eno’s ridiculously fertile NYC period (1978-1984). You should also check out this cool interview from…
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The Art of Walking: a Field Guide
The Art of Walking: a field guide is the first extensive survey of walking in contemporary art. Combining short texts on the subject with a variety of artists work, The Art of Walking provides a new way of looking at this everyday subject. The introduction relates peripatetic art now to a wide range of historic precedents, and is…
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Chronicles attempts to recreate Babbage’s Difference Engine and Analytical Engine with Meccano construction toys. (via Tim Robinson’s Meccano Computing Machinery web site)
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twenty years ago
NCSA Mosaic 1.0 released Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu) Wed, 21 Apr 93 03:55:49 -0500
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Our first week in the wild
gethopscotch: So, we launched Hopscotch last week, and it’s been quite a ride since. It’s been downloaded more than 20,000 times, we cracked the Top 10 iPad Education apps, and were featured in New and Noteworthy on the App Store. After the initial press we got all sorts of other great coverage on various ed tech…
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BLOKK is a font for quick mock-ups and wireframing for clients who do not understand latin. (via BLOKK font gives you a nice fill text for mock-ups and wireframing without the lorem ipsum. The new and better wireframing font.)