Category: words

  • some-velvet-morning: *screams*

  • Educational research could benefit from research in other fields

    protoslacker: All of us are composing a life. So far along my way, I’ve made a mess, but hold on maybe I’m getting there. I got teaching credentials to be an elementary school teacher, but I wasn’t very good at it. Nonetheless, I care deeply about schools and education. Studying for my teaching credentials my…

  • Building the million year disk | ZDNet

    Building the million year disk | ZDNet Go long with your archive. Not 100 years, not 1000 years, but 1 million years. Here’s how it would work.

  • transitmaps: Tutorial: Working with 45-Degree Curves in Adobe Illustrator I got an request from an anon last week which asked:  “Hey! Could you do a video tutorial on how to bypass Illustrator’s annoying round corners effect in case of 45 degrees? It would be a lifesaver!” Now, while you’re not going to get a video…

  • minusbaby: I made a *.PAT of Susan Kare’s original MacPaint fill patterns. It definitely works with Photoshop versions CS2—CS6 on both Windows and OS X. Download here:http://minusbaby.com/drop_box/minusbaby-macpaint.pat Shout-out to Seetharaman Narayanan.

  • blue-voids: Duane Michals – Rene and Georgette Magritte holding hands behind a tree, 1965

  • Today’s workplace is as different as the office was from the factory. Steven Sinofsky, Continuous Productivity: New tools and a new way of working for a new era (via stoweboyd)

  • How many new jobs were introduced because of the advances in technology? The answer is only one: computer and software engineers. This profession barely makes it into the list at all. In fact, if we were to exclude the bottom two, we would still have 44.12% of the economy represented, and not a single type…

  • theatlantic: Cheerful Songs About Drug War Murders, Now at a Walmart Near You 1623, 2754, and 3622. These are how many murders took place in Juárez, Mexico, in 2008, 2009, and 2010. 18, 13, and 5. These are how many murders took place in neighboring El Paso, an American city within walking distance of Juárez,…

  • epicreads: The Anatomy of A Hardcover [source] (It’s so sexy.)