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I’m very excited about posting my first instructable– it walks through how to make a booksafe case for an iPhone, so you can read it in public without looking highly muggable.
Here’s the link: http://www.instructables.com/id/Top-Seekrit-iPhone-Book-Safe!/
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I’ve been wanting to post more on my ideas about preventing women from being driven offline by harassment. I realized, though, that I should provide some more background information first– I should probably provide evidence that this is a problem before brainstorming on how to solve it.
I went through my delicious bookmarks, and pulled [...]
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My dear friend Kim just alerted me to the fact that today is Park(ing) day. Last year Park(ing) day fell on a summer day when I was between jobs; I read about it on boingboing in the morning and wandered over to a coffeeshop to lounge in the parking spot that had [...]
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Today I finished walking through an introductory online course on a technique called information mapping. It’s intensely focused on labeling, formatting, and extreme standardization of documents. In many ways this is the reverse of my usual emphasis on lively, playful, direct and informal writing. I wouldn’t use this technique for creating [...]
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I wanted to quickly jot down what I’m thinking about this morning: the similarity between the WordPress theme I pulled together for this site and mash-up music. Mash-up songs are made by splicing together different pieces of songs; the fun is in the combination of surprise and familiarity. You vaguely recognize the [...]
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This is a new design for my website. I’ve been playing with WordPress lately, and decided to use a WordPress blog for my site– it makes it easier to update regularly, which is important in establishing a Google-able presence, and the functionality is sophisticated enough that it looks like I’ll also be able to [...]
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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what happened to Kathy Sierra.
If you haven’t heard of her, she is an extremely smart computer trainer, who founded a line of books called the Head First books with a focus on explaining technical topics in a fun, easily absorbed way. She ran an extremely popular tech [...]
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Hi there! My name’s Nadya Arnaoot; I also go by Nabil. I’m a computer nerd living in San Francisco with my partner and two immense fluffy white cats. I’m creating this blog on danah boyd’s advice; it’s time for me to have a Google-able presence online.
Figuring out how to navigate different publics [...]
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