This week’s image from George Eastman House on Flickr Commons is a photo by American photographer William M. Vander Weyde (c. 1900). By the middle of the nineteenth century, ten-pin bowling had become a popular past-time thanks to the introduction of indoor lanes. Women, like the two depicted above, also enjoyed playing and even organized [...]
These tend to be made ad hoc and are usually pieced together manually, which takes a lot of time. Here’s a way to lay the framework in R, so you don’t have to do all the work yourself.
We were exploring the Game Studies corpus using Word Trends and came across a trend with what looks like a game character. I wonder if there is an art form here – creating texts that can be trended into different graphics.
Yesterday, I wrote a final exam essay question on the board in three parts: a quote from our course reader, the actual essay question, and instructions for responding. Given the brevity of the essays turned in, I might guess that the students had diffi…
Yesterday, I wrote a final exam essay question on the board in three parts: a quote from our course reader, the actual essay question, and instructions for responding. Given the brevity of the essays turned in, I might guess that the students had diffi…
The Eatery app by Massive Health lets people snap pictures of their food and rate the healthiness. The premise is …
EuroVis 2012 is only about six weeks away, so if you haven’t booked your travel or hotel, now is the time. Here are a few thoughts on finding a hotel and traveling to Vienna.
A total of 652 changes landed last week in various branches of WebKit’s repository. This update covers changes up to revision 114894. Last Thursday and Friday, Apple kindly hosted the 2012 WebKit Contributors Meeting in Cupertino. With contributors from many different vendors around, a large number of subjects were covered in presentations and discussions. Transcripts [...]
GPS technology is opening up exciting new hybrid forms of mapping and art. Or in this case: cycling, mapping and art. The maps on this page are the product of Michael Wallace, a Baltimore-based artist who uses his bike as a paintbrush, and the city as …
These some papers on the neuroscience of viewing and remembering films. Carvalho S, Leite J, Galdo-Álvarez S, and Gonçalves OF 2011 Psychophysiological correlates of sexually and non-sexually motivated attention to film clips in a workload task, PLoS One 6 (12): e29530. Some authors have speculated that the cognitive component (P3) of the Event-Related Potential (ERP) [...]
Abhishek, better known to the community as inferno, joined the WebKit community in March 2010, and he has been fixing security bugs in CSS, DOM, editing, rendering, and various other components in WebKit. Abhishek has contributed more than 260 patches, many of which are fixes to severe security bugs. Please join me in welcoming Abhishek [...]
Did you know that the British Library has its own e-journal, which regularly publishes articles relating to medieval and early modern manuscripts? The Electronic British Library Journal (eBLJ for short) has been in existence since 2002, and to date it’s published more than 20 articles on pre-modern manuscript culture, ranging from Greek gospel-books and Anglo-Saxon prayerbooks to the collecting activities of 17th- and 18th-century antiquaries. A page from an illustrated pharmacopoeial compilation, discussed in Laura Nuvoloni’s article “The Harleian medical manuscripts” (London, British Library, MS Harley 1585, f. 48v). A full list of these articles is given below. We’d like…
The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities would like to make it clear that it is not, and has never been, endowed by any outside bodies. UCLDH is funded solely by UCL itself. Any statements you may have seen to the contrary are wholly inac…
Since 2001, the Renaissance Society of America annual meetings have featured panels on new technologies for scholarly research, publishing, and teaching. At the 2013 meeting (San Diego, 4-6 April 2013; <http://bit.ly/ICKxfF>), several pane…
Mark Turcato, working with Stéfan, has produced some new screencasts.Loading Texts Short General Tools Overview Tools Overview Interface Elements ExportSkin Builder
