{"id":438,"date":"2014-05-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/monday-link-salad-12\/"},"modified":"2014-05-26T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T11:00:00","slug":"monday-link-salad-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/05\/26\/monday-link-salad-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Link Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"

A neat set of photos<\/a> someone took for a photography project – each pair is herself dressed as a teenager from each decade of the last century, one from mainstream culture, one from a counterculture.<\/p>\n

Another gamification of learning site is Memrise<\/a> which helps you memorise things (unsurprisingly) by making it into a game. There’s a variety of subjects, quite heavy on the languages. I’m having a go at learning some Chinese characters (with accompanying Mandarin pinyin).<\/p>\n

An app I recently installed in Notegraphy<\/a>, which takes your text and typesets it in a decorative fashion. I’m … not sure about it. I tried it out with the text of the first quatrain from Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Most of the styles (not the one I used) take the first letter and turn it into something decorative and then repeat it – I would rather the large decorative one be a part of its word. I suspect I could do things I like better in the Gimp if I wanted to, but this is easier.<\/p>\n

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TV set to record this week:<\/p>\n