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The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is …

Mike Masnick, writing for MSNBC: Turns out for the “Twitter Files” crew, “creeping authoritarianism” isn’t so creepy when it’s your team doing the creeping. Before, we were told that White House officials’ merely reaching out to social media companies about election misinformation was a democracy-ending threat. Now, the world’s richest man has openly used his platform to boost one candidate, ridden that campaign’s success into the White House himself, and …

I joined my Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) co-hosts – Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, and Lydia Cao (with Yong Zhao unable to attend due to travel) – to deliver a keynote at the Global Learning for an Open World Conference. SLL has been a labor of love over the past five years, with more than […]

More rain today and gale force wind. Both burners on red this morning. Both jets blocked. Had both going again by 8.20. A lot of fowl from H Hall to burn. Did all filters.

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Fujifilm just released three firmware updates, one for the X-H2s, one for the X-H2, and one for the GFX100 II. Among some video improvements (F-Log2 C, anyone?) and minor bug fixes, the main headline is autofocus improvements. Essentially, Fujifilm fully fixed the AF bug that had been plaguing these cameras for the last handful of months. Fujifilm has said that more firmware updates for other cameras (the X-T5 and X-S20 …

Back in the summer, I decided to get more serious about controlling my Type 2 diabetes, and I enrolled in a program that I found through my insurance company. Overall, things have gone quite well: my blood glucose is down, my weight is down, and I’ve been able to cut my medications to about a third of what I was taking before. But nothing is perfect, and the iPhone app …

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The eighth and final installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care. Read on Places Journal

I was at the bench yesterday afternoon (yep, I still have a hood, and I still make some compounds - mostly weird stuff that I would feel bad asking someone else to spend time making!) And while isolating and purifying a couple of new probes, it occurred to me that there are a lot of muscle-memory tasks that I've built up over the years that are nearly unconscious for me …

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I have always been interested in adventure games — ever since I first played Scott Adams’ Adventureland and issued the command CLIMB TREE and I entered a whole new world. Castle Adventure is another entry in the “early work of a person who would become notable” genre. Other examples include Temple of Disrondu, with two of the Magnetic Scrolls authors (Rob Steggles and Hugh Steers) in a team-up; Brian Fargo …

The narrator of Sharon Bolton’s new novel is the very definition of a nosy neighbour. Living in the middle of three adjoining cottages with very thin walls makes it easy to hear the people on either side: the narrator knows what music they listen to and what they watch on television, who they speak to on the telephone and what time they get out of bed in the morning. In …

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A perennial name to those with a fondness for Chicago’s post-rock and jazz enclaves, Jeff Parker further dug himself into the public consciousness with a run of records for International Anthem and Nonesuch. The run also traces Parker’s exodus to the West Coast, a move that also led to a residency at the now shuttered, but much beloved Enfield Tennis Academy. The quartet that formed in Parker’s ETA residency was …