Dizzy, 10 Years Since He Joined Our Family
Taken at Faces by Theodore Watson
Once the transcript of Bernie Sanders' 124-page, nine-hour, one-man filibuster came out, I thought it would be fun to make an animated movie out of it using Xtranormal.com. Unfortunately, Xtranormal sort of explodes when you post more than 20,000 characters, which amounts to just the first six pages of the filibuster transcript. Nonetheless, it's kinda fund seeing and hearing the filibuster as told by a cute puppy. Or is that a teddy bear? No, it's a puppy.
This morning at the start of PubCamp, we went around the room and had everyone introduce themselves, using three words or phrases to describe themselves. Mark Stencel kept track of around 50 of these introductions, and I've taken the liberty of putting all those words into Wordle.net to create a tag crowd. These are the results.
Earlier today champion competitive eater Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi was arrested while trying to go on stage at the annual Coney Island hot dog eating contest. He'd won the contest numerous times since 2001 but had refused to compete this year due to a contract dispute.
Rather than show you video of him getting arrested, I thought I'd share this video of Kobayashi competing in a hot dog eating contest with a half-ton Kodiak bear. The color commentary is just hilarious.
Kayleigh is way serious while we sing Happy Birthday to her. Apparently she was just waiting for us to finish the song so she could...well, you'll see.
Courtesy of Kayleigh's Nana and Grandpa, we managed to set up this ginormous 7'x8 sandbox a few days prior to Kayleigh's 4th birthday. It took 26 bags of sand to fill it, 40 pounds each. That's a lot of sand!
A few days ago during a #pubmedia chat on Twitter, we were talking about the complex relationship between public media - NPR and PBS stations - and community media such as cable access TV. Someone brought up community media centers that also serve as telecentres – places that provide free/low-cost Internet access and training – and I mentioned Lowell Telecommunications Corporation (LTC) in Massachusetts, one of several community media organizations that pioneered this model.
I’d hoped to tweet a link to a book on telecentres I co-wrote and edited for IDRC in Canada a number of years ago called From The Ground Up: The Evolution Of The Telecentre Movement, since it included a chapter on LTC. But I discovered that the online version of the book was no longer being hosted by telecentre.org. Thanks to Archive.org, though, I managed to find a PDF of the book. It’s a big file – seven megs – but the book is very heavy on photography, so the PDF version does it justice more than the Web version ever did.
I’m uploading a copy of it here to ensure that it doesn’t vanish again. I wrote the chapters on Ghana, Hungary and India, and co-edited the rest of it. Hope you enjoy it. -andy
