Ever wanted to explore a museum at night time? Rosie Clarke tells you how! 🔊 Museums At Night🎤 Terence Eden 💾 Download this audio file. Museums at Night is Culture24's festival of inspiring after hours cultural events at museums, galleries and heritage sites. Next year it's on across the UK from Thursday May 14 until Saturday May 16 2015. Get About A Minute as soon as each episode goes live. Stick this Podcast Feed into your podcatcher Or you can Subscribe on iTunes Intro mu…
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What do famous people sound like? The Wikipedia Voice Introduction Project seeks to find out. 🔊 Wikipedia VIP🎤 Terence Eden 💾 Download this audio file. Learn more on Andy Mabbett's blog or follow #WikiVIP on Twitter. Get About A Minute as soon as each episode goes live. Stick this Podcast Feed into your podcatcher Or you can Subscribe on iTunes Intro music "Gran Vals" performed by Brian Streckfus. Stopwatch Icon by Ilsur Aptukov from The Noun Project. This podcast is license…
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On Saturday, I attended the Shakespearean HackFest organised by HiCor / TORCH at Oxford University. I'd like to discuss the hack our team created and how the event differed (in a positive way) from other hack days I've been to. The Event On arrival at the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, I was automatically assigned to a team. I think this is a great model for hackdays. To often, I find, anti-social nerds struggle to form teams - or they team up with people they came with - or non-hackers…
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Rosie Clarke and I have a chat about her new favourite website The-Toast.net. 🔊 Rosie Loves Toast🎤 Terence Eden 💾 Download this audio file. Here are some highlights that Rosie asked me to share. There is a feature where historical characters are reimagined as teenage dirtbags – Iike Dirtbag Teddy Roosevelt There are haunting folksy horror Letter from the Editor Presenting the affectionate monthly Dad Magazine There are medieval monks encouraging each other’s creativity This is an …
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I'm afraid of failure. I think most people are. Even worse than failing? Failing in public! Pink Floyd were completely right in the denouement of The Wall where they articulated the prehensile terror that many feel when they open themselves up. Since, my friend, you have revealed your deepest fear, I sentence you to be exposed before your peers. Waters / Ezrin Talking about our fears, our failings, our humiliations, seems... alien. I've written before about how Social Media sometimes…
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A delightful chat with Andy Mabbett about http://orcid.org/. 🔊 http://orcid.org/🎤 Terence Eden 💾 Download this audio file. Get About A Minute as soon as each episode goes live. Stick this Podcast Feed into your podcatcher Or you can Subscribe on iTunes Intro music "Gran Vals" performed by Brian Streckfus. Stopwatch Icon by Ilsur Aptukov from The Noun Project. This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. …
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I'm the sort of hip cat who frequents Internet Bulletin Boards. Recently I found myself needing to verify the email address associated with my Reddit account. The email I received from Reddit was charmingly lo-fi and eschewed those bourgeois capital letters. Notice the (teensy tiny) flaw? Yup, it's using vanilla "http" rather than the super secure "https". Earlier this year, Reddit switched on SSL for their entire site. Somewhat annoyingly though, they do not force SSL for the site. If…
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Mike Rohde talks about his work teaching people to draw while the take notes. Join the fun at Sketchnote Army - and follow Mike on Twitter or his Blog. 🔊 Sketchnote with Mike Rohde🎤 Terence Eden 💾 Download this audio file. Buy Mike's books from Amazon: Get About A Minute as soon as each episode goes live. Stick this Podcast Feed into your podcatcher Or you can Subscribe on iTunes Intro music "Gran Vals" performed by Brian Streckfus. Stopwatch Icon by Ilsur Aptukov from The No…
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