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Yam Trek! Star Yam!
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(full size is one click away) Star Yam 13: The Final Leftovers is the next series of adventures for Captain James T. Fork of the Starship Yamterprise, it’s 9 year mission, to sek out new plates and new celebrations, to boldly go where no yam has gone before! It’s a Yam Jam Theme, starting with Lisa Lane sailing the Yam Boat, Scottlo showing the Yam Who Would Be King, and next, MBS taking my favorite starchy movie, Cool Hand Yam (goes well with eggs). How could I resist? I’m no spud. Now someone needs to make this assignment for ds106, ...
Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go On the Internet…
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cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog There are monsters out there, zombies, vampires, aliens, amrching your way, dargginth eir limbs, dribbling their gob, hoisting their sharp implements… What will you do when ds106 knocks at your door? will you just mutter “It’s only a MOOC, it’s only a MOOC…” “You’ll wish it were only a MOOC.” “The assignments are driving him crazy.” “Sometimes GIF is better.” “ds106 doesn’t take no for an answer.” “Sooner or later they will McGuffin you.” “If you’re going to blog the truth, make sure it stays published.” “You’ll wish art was ...
Captcha Art (ds106 assignment)
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Among other TEDx Talk videos I have seen recently, the one by Luis von Ahn on Massive-scale online collaboration, Stephen Downes notwithstanding, generated a number of ideas for me. von Ahn is the man behind the idea of reCaptcha- originally a Carnegie-Mellon project eventurally gobbled up by Google. What I liked most is his example of looking differently at a problem- digitizing texts via OCR and turning a normally wasted amount of human activity- proving themselves to not be bots by entering the text into a box of scrambled letters– into a useful activity by making the captcha images not ...
My very own spubble bubble
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Kinda of long….But then again I do talk alot,sooooo, maybe this shall work. While doing this I thought about all of the times where I took those “Oh I wasn’t ready” pictures, those would’ve been way easier to work with.