Podcasts about the history of pop songs are a fascinating example of how new genres emerge that fit a new medium perfectly. So many good ones: Song Exploder, Hit Parade, Inside The Hits, Inside The Groove, 1980, My 90s Playlist, Wind of Change, etc.
Podcasts about the history of pop songs are a fascinating example of how new genres emerge that fit a new medium perfectly. So many good ones: Song Exploder, Hit Parade, Inside The Hits, Inside The Groove, 1980, My 90s Playlist, Wind of Change, etc.
Finally warm enough to sit on the porch, but someone is rudely occupying all of the seating
Incredible weekend at the @Northeastern commencement ceremonies at Fenway Park. At our final event this afternoon, the deans did a Bollywood line dance led by @rechambadi, and then awarded ourselves a post-graduate degree in TikTok #NU2021
Bright sunshine for the second day of @Northeastern commencement ceremonies at Fenway Park #NU2021
About to begin the first of our commencement ceremonies @Northeastern in Fenway Park. My lucky view from the podium #NU2021
Y’all do realize that you can subscribe to most newsletters in a feed reader, thus turning them into blogs?
The string octet in front of my library played “Thank U, Next” when the graduating seniors marched by today 😎
New issue of my newsletter: “Humane Ingenuity 38: The Vigoda Verification”—Science fiction as cognitive behavioral therapy; identifying Abe Vigoda in a large collection of images (and what it tells us about AI); a fascinating story about hip hop in India
Honored to be reading the names of graduating students today @Northeastern as they walk across the stage, please enjoy my puffy hat/mask ensemble
Our library robot is also excited about graduation week @Northeastern
It’s the start of graduation week @Northeastern and we’ve got our celebratory banner up on the library
The London Library has published for the first time a list of the books that Charles Darwin borrowed between July 1843 and July 1845, when he was developing his theory of evolution, and the variety is wonderful, far beyond nature and science.
Between his first vaccine dose and his second, @glass has been experimenting with doubled images, and they are rather beautiful
“Over the past year, academic libraries helped lead their institutions into the socially distant era—in part because libraries had spent decades figuring out how to offer online services and get information to people who rarely came into the building.”
At our all-staff meeting today, everyone shared their most embarrassing Zoom experience from the last year, and it was extremely cathartic
If a single gray pixel NFT sold for over a million dollars, can you imagine how much the entire @daringfireball site is worth?
It’s been so long since my kids went to school that they drove themselves this morning
Today we bottled the white and rosé wines we made during Covid, and soon we will bottle the red that’s been aging. And then, when we’re all vaccinated, we’re going to pop some corks and you’re all invited.
A moo wave classic
Winemaking update: We seem to have successfully clarified our Chardonnay and rosé using bentonite clay, which means we can bottle them this weekend. The rosé, made from Syrah grapes from Oregon, is a particularly nice color after three months of aging.
This post by @amandafrench and @nickicamberg about the volunteer network of @COVID19Tracking is amazing: full of great details about setting up a volunteer system, developing a good culture, staying sane. It’s a like a mini organizational management class.
If you really think about it, dogs greet other dogs using the same process as dial-up modems
Our new library robot is more Star Trek than Black Mirror
I like the new graphics we have up in our library showing visualizations of how our lives have changed over the last year. (These are by @Northeastern students studying data viz.)
In case you’re wondering what the gestation period is for a laptop, mine has a baby bump after 12 months of Zoom.