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Bookmarked INTRODUCTION TO LETTERPRESS PRINTING IN THE 21ST CENTURY (fiveroses.org)

Welcome…to the wonderful world of letterpress printing! To start you on your way in this exciting, challenging, rewarding and anachronistic avocation, what follows is an introduction, freshly prepared for the start of the new millennium and updated to 2005, to the people, places, and online resources that will save you a great deal of time as you embark upon your letterpress activities. At the end of the document are links to dozens of other sites, many of which themselves contain links to hundreds of additional sites related to letterpress printing.

A terrific example of a resource page packed with links and information!

Bookmarked BBC Sound Effects (bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk)

These 16,000 BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes, as detailed in the license.

Might want to use this someday….

Bookmarked BOXING GRSSHOPPER (halfanhour.blogspot.com)

What, again? Yes, again. Today I’m working on creating and saving a reusable Docker image of gRSShopper. I have the benefit of some previous work on this set-up, and so it might work today, so I’m documenting my process.

I am planning to install this sometime….

Bookmarked How to start a podcast on WordPress.com (deliber.at)

This is a story of how I started a podcast, in 3 hours (apart from waiting for iTunes verification), with a total cost of $5/month. And that included my own domain name! I share detailed instructions on launching a brand new podcast on WordPress, and later promoting it on iTunes and Spotify (longer version of previous post)

Bookmarked Starting Your Own Podcast on WordPress.com (wordpress.com)

It took three hours, with a total cost of $5/month, including our own domain name. In this post, I’ll share my journey of launching a brand-new podcast on WordPress.com, and later promoting it on iTunes and Spotify.

Bookmarked How to Produce a Remote Podcast by Distributed Editors (distributed.blog)

As the world continues to work from home, podcasts are serving as a helpful diversion to listen to when we’re washing dishes or walking the dog. 
They’re fairly easy to produce from home, too. 
Many of the conversations we’ve featured on the Distributed podcast have taken place over Zoom, wi…

Announcing Portland Protest News

In July 2020, I created a news river to track what was going on in the Portland, Oregon area regarding the daily protests (George Floyd/Black Lives Matter). That river has been very helpful to me, but I felt that there was not a good place to capture the highlights of that river. After discussions with Ken Smith, professor of English at Indiana University-South Bend, I decided to start a project to collect those highlights, document them, and to try to provide some insights into the ongoing struggle in Portland regarding police brutality.

That project has created Portland Protest News, a news site summarizing the events in Portland related to the ongoing protests. The site publishes a daily list of links to articles and videos about the Portland protests. Users can sign up for a daily email with links of the day, subscribe via RSS, or go directly to the site. If you have any interest in following this topic, Portland Protest News is a valuable resource.

Bookmarked Raspberry Pi 3: A Cheap Desktop Computer for Children Learning to Program in BASIC (cheapskatesguide.org)

In the early 2000’s, parents began noticing that educators were no longer interested in teaching their children about computers in ways that would lead them to get excited about pursuing computer-related careers like computer science and computer engineering. The problem was explained in a famous 2006 essay by the well-known astrophysicist and science fiction writer David Brin, Why Johnny can’t code. As the essay mentions, Brin could not find a modern computer and modern software capable of teaching children the BASIC computer programming language at a level they can understand. So, he solved the problem by buying a used computer from the 1980’s that came with BASIC already installed.

Link to David Brin article