- Slack Key Guitar Book — A rather comprehensive history of Hawaiian-style slack-key guitar.
Tagged as: guitar music hawaii alternate tuning reference - The Remarkable Case Of Davidson’s Eyes by H.G. Wells: Arthur’s Classic Novels — Wells short story I don’t know; a lovely tale of (literal) tele-vision. Linked to by Rod elsewhere.
Tagged as: shortstory hgwells scifi science fiction - The Author of the Acacia Seeds, Ursula K. Le Guin — This story is copyright 1974 by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is transcribed from Le Guin’s collection The Compass Rose because I’d like my friends to read it.
Tagged as: shortstory ursulaleguin scifi fiction language - MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Web Focus Leads Newspapers to Hire Programmers for Editorial Staff | PBS — Strong article on newsroom-developers, and about more than just Adrian Holovaty for once. Good quotations, too.
Tagged as: journalism programming development media newspapers future - Kirkville – Image Manipulation from the Command Line — Some notes on sips, the OSX command-line image manipulation tool.
Tagged as: osx sips image manipulation - macosxhints.com – Drag-and-drop script to quickly resize any image — Some nice tips on using sips with applescript
Tagged as: osx mac applescript photo sips tools - Revolution On Rails: DB migrations with a twist — Using migrations on a large scale, with lots of advice for doing so, including numbering migrations with timestamps rather than sequential integers (to prevent clashes).
Tagged as: rails rubyonrails database migrations development - George Osborne: Recasting the political settlement for the digital age — Reasonably interesting speech from George Osborne at the RSA; interesting given how savvy it is, and how (within reason) fair. Certainly interesting coming from the conservatives.
Tagged as: conservatives politics opensource georgeosborne society technology