Here’s everything I’ve written from the first day of this weblog until now.
Interesting...
- August 5
I've mentioned many times before how much of a LEGO geek I was back in the day; this article on the UX of LEGO panels activates about seventeen different parts of my brain. I always had a collection of "special" parts that were key to any build with a minifig, and these were at the top of the list.
July 28
Interesting: most of the staff of the dearly departed Deadspin have started up their own new site, called Defector, coming in September. They're doing a subscription plan, and for $69/mo. I'd consider it.
July 22
I wouldn’t trust the U.S. secretary of percussion to tell me how to play “Smells Like Teen Spirit” if they had never sat behind a drum set, so why should any teacher trust Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to tell them how to teach, without her ever having sat at the head of a class? (Maybe she should switch to the drums.)
Dave Grohl writes in The Atlantic about how our nation's teachers need a plan for for the fall semester, and they need it now.
July 16
I've never tried to link a Twitter thread here before, but let's go: this is a bracket voting system for ranking America's Worst Plutocratic Family. The Koch family already blew the Coors family out of the water, and right now it's Trump vs. Walton. That's a tough one: completely torpedoing the battered, uneven myth of America in a short 4 years or decades of eroding the social safety net, gutting small business, and selling cheap shit in search of profit. Do you take the global view or the local view?
June 29
Dries Buytaert did some sleuthing and found a way to remove YouTube tracking from embedded videos by using a simple addition to the embed URL. The result is that it's GDPR compliant, and, as an added benefit, the page will load faster because it's not sending a cookie off to Google. I used a Wordpress plugin called Search Regex to find and replace all the YouTube links on Idiotking.org, and now they should all be cookie free.
