Year: 2018
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Found GC2ZPK9 Fining Wood
This checkin to GC2ZPK9 Fining Wood reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A challenging find this morning, and not in the good way! After an extended search the cache was eventually found on the other side of some fallen (spiky) bushes from the published coordinates. From the logs it looks …
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Found GC7Q7FN Church Micro 11881...Lane End
This checkin to GC7Q7FN Church Micro 11881...Lane End reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Staying at the conference centre down the road I got up early this morning to come out and find this cache before breakfast. After a little while struggling to make out the letters on the gravestone …
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The International Flag of Planet Earth
The International Flag of Planet Earth
Inspirational, well thought-out proposal for a flag for unified, "for Earth" projects. The website is terrible, but the artwork's great, and it's always nice to see an artist focus on the idea of "uniting humanity" in spite of our politically-fractured world. -
The CSS Working Group At TPAC: What's New In CSS?
Last week, I attended W3C TPAC as well as the CSS Working Group meeting there. Various changes were made to specifications, and discussions had which I feel are of interest to web designers and developers. In this article, I’ll explain a little bit about what happens at TPAC, and show some examples and demos of …
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Why didn't humanity save the planet? Perhaps they were busy
First Dog on the Moon (The Guardian)
Turns out that Al Gore was right about the ManBearPig, or something. -
How Do You Move A Bookstore? With A Human Chain, Book By Book
When October Books, a small radical bookshop in Southampton, England, was moving to a new location down the street, it faced a problem. How could it move its entire stock to the new spot, without spending a lot of money or closing down for long?
The shop came up with a clever solution: They put out … -
Stranger Danger: Still the right message for children?
Many parents remember the "Stranger Danger" message given to children during the 1970s and 80s. Government videos warned children not to talk to people they didn't know. But a new message is being trialled in the UK, which its creators think is better at keeping children safe.
"I tried to get the [old] Stranger … -
Digest for October 2018
Summary
This month saw me share the Story of Scgary: how my childhood friend Gary and our various adventures together had become part of the mythology of roleplay scenarios used in the training of helpline volunteers at Aberystwyth Nightline.
I also shared news of a piece of interactive fiction produced for Halloween by my team at … -
Today, @bodleianlibs releases Shadows Out of Time, a Choose-Your-Own-Destiny story. It's amazing - go read it: https://s.danq.me/Np #halloween #InteractiveFiction
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Websites in 2018
Seva Zaikov
Are you a time-traveller? Just arrived in 2018? Want to know what the Web of our day is like? This. This is what it's like (click through for the full horror). -
The Expert: Wrong Angle
Lauris Beinerts (YouTube)
Do you remember The Expert, that video from 2014 that had engineers around the world laughing and crying in equal measure? Turns out that, earlier this year, a trio of sequels were made! This is the first of them. -
The Story of Scgary
In the early 2000s, as a volunteer trainer at Aberystwyth Nightline, I invented a roleplay scenario which drew upon anecdotes from my childhood and young adulthood... which eventually lead to a collision of worlds for Ruth and JTA when they, former volunteers, MET the person behind many of those anecdotes...
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Grenfell Tower: The fires that foretold the tragedy
On 14 June 2017, televisions across the country showed a west London tower block burn. For some, this was history repeating itself - as if five similar fires had simply not been important enough to prevent the deaths of 72 people in Grenfell Tower.
Catherine Hickman was on the phone when she died. It … -
Linda Liukas, Hello Ruby and the magic of coding
Linda Liukas's best-selling Hello Ruby books teach children that computers are fun and coding can be a magical experience.
BBC News
See the original article to watch a great video interview with Linda Liukas. Linda is the founder of Rails Girls and author of a number of books encouraging children to learn computer programming (which … -
Big Blue (@IBM) to buy @RedHat. Developers risk being... marooned.