The Center for Artistic Activism is a research and training institute dedicated to making activism more creative and art more effective. (Via visitsteve.com.)
From the department of redundancy dept.
Algorithm Visualizer is an interactive online platform that viualizes algorithms from code.
Learning an algorithm gets much easier with visualizing it.
Is he is or is he ain’t a Kaiser Wilhelm II?
meSpeak.js (modulary enhanced speak.js) is a 100% client-side JavaScript text-to-speech library based on the speak.js project, a port of the eSpeak speech synthesizer from C++ to JavaScript using Emscripten.
“widely supported” as in “supported by the latest browsers”.
The CSS feature for truncating multi-line text is now widely supported.
The Mutable Web.
What if Developer Tools, or a subset of them, was labeled Page Editor, or something similar? I bet people would figure out pretty quickly that when you're on a recipe blog and can't even see the content because of all the sticky ads and modals, you can just get rid of them. Fixing things we don't like about the websites we visit every day is a great way to start recapturing some of the autonomy, creativity, and active participation of the early web.
The birth of Inter.
How the new open source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be.
Hitchcock on the Filmmaker’s Essential Tool: The Kuleshov Effect.
In the early 20th century, Russian filmmaker and theorist Lev Kuleshov discovered that a single shot of an actor with an ambiguous expression on his face could convey a multitude of very distinct meanings in the mind of the viewer, depending on the nature of the shot immediately preceding it.
Geek Feminism – A resource for and about women in geek communities.