Journal entry on DeviantArt:
Alaska Sunlight — Very Much a Work in Progress by ~muridaee on deviantART.
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Still working on this!!
I don’t know what else to say about this but OMGSOAWESOME!!!!
APOD: 2012 January 24 – January Aurora Over Norway.
The following article by Steven Faulkner over at The Paciello Group is essential reading for anyone writing HTML. It concerns the use of the title= attribute and it’s proper uses, as well as detailing some abuses. The title= attribute has not been fully supported or implemented in browsers consistently, and is even less useful for screen readers and mobile platforms.
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: title attribute use and abuse | The Paciello Group Blog.
The “Further Reading” links on that page are also essential reading, and the title attribute usage examples
A new website/service has popped up, offering to teach programming skills in a “interactive, fun” and social manner. I haven’t delved into this to see it in great detail, but just perusing the lessons, it might appeal to some who might not otherwise be interested in learning to write programs.
I have a concern that the site might simply teach the skills of syntactically assembling bits of code, but forgo the deeper skills of the philosophies are designing and developing high quality software, and the parts of doing so that have absolutely nothing to do with the actual code.
Anyway, for your amusement:
Mogees are tiny microphones that can attach to any surface and are used to pick up vibrations made by touching, tapping, swiping or other gestures on the surface they are attached to. The applications for this are astounding to think about.
On this web site, the inventor is using the Mogee to make surfaces into percussive instruments through using audio processors to interpret what the microphone is picking up.
Pretty amazing stuff.
Mogees – Gesture recognition with contact-microphones from bruno zamborlin on Vimeo.
Another gorgeous timelapse movie of the sky and the aurora borealis. Shot in Northern Norway:
The Aurora from TSO Photography on Vimeo.
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I spent a week capturing one of the biggest aurora borealis shows in recent years.
Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, at 70 degree north and 30 degrees east. Temperatures around -25 Celsius. Good fun.
via Phil Plait @ BadAstronomer blog
Over on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Zach enlists the help of a youngster to explain how software gets made:
