Another “impulse” purchase before the holidays in the line at Marshall’s – a “vintage” butterflies puzzle. Very intricate individual butterflies, all numbered and labelled at the bottom – very complicated puzzle to do but enjoyable.
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Via Amazon: Edward Hopper, Portrait of Orleans I’m a huge fan of Hopper, and especially works he did in Massachusetts on Cape Cod and Cape Ann. (The Cape Ann Museum does a wonderful walking tour of houses Hopper painted in Gloucester). This one, Portrait of Orleans, is in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco … Read more
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This summer, we're doing a series of events on #OpenSocialMedia—the new explosion of alternative platforms and protocols. Up first:
OPEN SOCIAL MEDIA: ORIGIN STORIES
Next Tuesday, online and free for all. Learn more & register: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2023/06/06/open-social-media-origin-stories
I think we picked this one up at a Marshalls or Home Goods, but you can find it online too: Rae Dunn “Dogs” Puzzle. It was just ever-so-slightly too tall for our puzzle board so I had to let the top row of pieces bend over the board. Harder than it looked – lots of … Read more
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This is a remarkable thing @kissane just wrote. https://erinkissane.com/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow
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As an outgrowth of Houghton's Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom (SAEF) digitization project on African American history, Harvard is today releasing an open data set of the materials in the collection. Learn more at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/SAEF via @internetstine
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WordPress is adopting ActivityPub and now enters the paid-newsletter market. Combine those with the traditional blogging package and this is getting quite interesting. https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/wordpress-com-challenges-substack-with-launch-of-paid-newsletters/?guccounter=1
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There should be a non-profit accelerator for end-user open source projects that have the potential to make the world more equal, inclusive, and democratic.
I don’t actually have the box of this one anymore (we gift forward or donate our old puzzles once we’ve done them) but I believe our version was this one on Amazon: 1000 Piece Puzzle, Colorful Doors. This is the kind of puzzle I really like – though the colors are a bit loud/bright for … Read more