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by kjell 8y ago
I'll just leave this here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion
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by kjell 8y ago
I'll add my experience as a primary bike commuter for 5+ years in the US. I do own a car and drive it maybe twice a week, mainly for transporting things that would be difficult on my bike or when the weather is bad. I perceive people b
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by kjell 9y ago
Tales from Earthsea gives a lot of context to the realm and introduces an important character in the plot of The Other Wind. I took it to be the fifth book in the series with TOW #6.
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by kjell 10y ago
Wikipedia volunteers are doing some cool work to pull together data and images from museums across the world: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_al...
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by kjell 10y ago
Here's an example torrent of metadata and images from the Rijksmuseum put together by an art history researcher: http://matthewlincoln.net/2015/10/19/the-rijksmuseum-as-bitt...
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by kjell 10y ago
Excluding the images themselves from the dataset is one thing, but there's an open issue to include a link to the images: https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess/issues/2
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by kjell 10y ago
Yep - I figured based on the projects, but didn't want to call out your real ID in case that mattered. Lunch out on your plaza sounds pretty appealing right now compared to the weather up here!
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by kjell 10y ago
Museum tech roll call! I picked up leaflet for the same purpose and it's worked great - http://collections.artsmia.org/art/1218/olive-trees-vincent-... The Rijksmuseum "Rijksstudio" site has been ar
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by kjell 10y ago
vips is another great industrial-grade image processing library https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Libvips
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by kjell 10y ago
Just in time for the third book in Liu Cixin's space opera ("Remembrance of Earth's Past") to be released in english next month: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25451264-death-s-end Previou
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by kjell 10y ago
The first 40 minutes of this week's "Invisibilia" touches on the effects transcranial magnetic stimulation had on a woman who lived with undiagnosed aspergers for most of her life. > ALIX SPIEGEL, BYLINE: Until she was 54
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by kjell 11y ago
https://twitter.com/5point9billion calls out the inverse: light traveling from earth out towards the nearest stars. It's a twitter bot that takes a twitter user's birthday, and tweets to them as their "light
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by kjell 11y ago
`wp-cli` comes in handy. It can migrate a database and do a global search and replace (for the millions of URLs in that database that you need to change for the site to work after it's cloned) a lot cleaner than some of the plugins tha
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MnDOT grounds drone used to photograph 'Olive Trees' crop art in Eagan(startribune.com)
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by kjell 11y ago
They mention the tree's trunk in the article but it's shaded in the photo. It's glorious: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kjell/3388113528/in/album-7215... The National Arboretum is the cool
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by kjell 11y ago
The Cooper Hewitt (to my knowledge) was the first museum to post their museum metadata on github: https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2012/releasing-collection-g
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by kjell 11y ago
They're there, at least the two I looked at. https://web.archive.org/web/20130413152316/http://www.state.... Each line is missing `/documents` in the snippet of the `robots.txt`
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by kjell 12y ago
There's a kernel of truth to this, but 'city == wasteland + cesspool' is ridiculous. I've lived in south minneapolis most of my life, and never spent any significant amount of time in the burbs. (The last time I made it
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by kjell 12y ago
Here's a query for the OSM tagged emergency rooms near me: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/7pL (move the map and press "run" and it will update) https://www.mapbox.com/blog/coffee-directi
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by kjell 12y ago
I'd suggest looking at openstreetmap for hospitals with emergency rooms. This might also give you an easy way to allow people to update the data. OSM has http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dhospital
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by kjell 12y ago
From his profile on the linked medium essay, "PM on Office Online." He works for microsoft. I'd love to see a simple, open output format too. The source is up on github: https://github.com/cgallello/UXChe
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by kjell 12y ago
This isn't necessarily a programming internship, but if I looking for work experience this is where I'd go to get it. https://www.mapbox.com/blog/open-data-research-internship/
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by kjell 12y ago
The Cooper Hewitt (a Smithsonian museum in New York) recently 3d scanned itself: http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2014/10/10/3d-scanning-the-carne... The model is freely-available (CC0) in FBX ("full geometri
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by kjell 12y ago
The Cooper Hewitt (NYC) and Tate (UK) have done this too. https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection https://github.com/tategallery/collection
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by kjell 12y ago
Largely `wall`. As of a few days ago there's an IRC server running on localhost.
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by kjell 12y ago
Yep! https://twitter.com/theowatson/status/444573423088320512 https://twitter.com/theowatson/status/444578281200058368
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by kjell 12y ago
Yes: https://github.com/prose/gatekeeper I believe all the gatekeeper does is forward the oauth confirmation callback to prose so the client side app can use it. So, anyone worried about security can run their own gate
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by kjell 12y ago
Winter biking in Minneapolis is real. I bike 5 miles to work most days. This was a cold and snowy winter, but it was better than last year because there was more snow and less ice. [In Minneapolis, nothing stops bicyclists — not even winter
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by kjell 13y ago
See also: "Heather talks about how a fixation with a single hair led to a controversial art project, the study of genetics, and the bones of an unidentified woman" https://vimeo.com/71657839 http://dewe
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by kjell 13y ago
[browserify-cdn]( http://wzrd.in/ ) and http://requirebin.com/ are heading this direction.

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