Things Megan Sees

creativity, design, motivation, adolescent psychology, career development, academic achievement, education, gender, humor, progress, world news, &c.

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How I started drawing CSS Images

I am inspired by graphic, visual design, and cute things.

I love this coding challenge idea! Doodle a day, but with CSS. It turned out so well by Sasha, too.

#CSS

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A gentle introduction to loading and playing, cross-fading, and filtering sound using the Web Audio API.

I’m into the way the Table of Contents sidebar fades in opacity according to the amount scrolled up or down.

... that’s my first take-away on my adventure to learn up on making music in the browser with javascript.

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Pecan, Caramel, Crawfish: Food Dialect Maps

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The Pernicious Perils of Peter Piper, P.I.

I’d cleared my name after the police had pegged me for pocketing a peck of pickled peppers, but ever since my previous partner got plugged poking his peepers into one too many private places, the only thing I’ve been interested in pickling is my liver.

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“Where Am I?” – a brief, personal look at LGBT in geek culture - Ms. In The Biz

What if, in each thing all of us made, we did one thing that broke a prejudice barrier?

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She’s not going to save the world, nor cover every nuance and facet perfectly, nor convince every last hater of the error of their ways. Not all by herself. There won’t be one magic publication that saves games journalism, nor one magic game that proves games are art, nor one magic feminist who convinces all of the misogynists. There will be many, many, many voices, and it will be a long, slow grind.

I still support Anita Sarkeesian! If you disagree with what she said, or if you think she doesn't go far enough, add your voice. That's all it takes.

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Advice for Travel and Life: Founding Father Benjamin Rush’s 14 Rules for His Young Son, 1796

Be sober and vigilant. Remember at all times that while you are seeing the world, the world will see you. Recollect further that you are always under the eye of the Supreme Being. One more consideration shall close this parting testimony of our affection. Whenever you are tempted to do an improper thing, fancy that you see your father and mother kneeling before you and imploring you with tears in their eyes to refrain from yielding to the temptation, and assuring you at the same time that your yielding to it will be the means of hurrying them to a premature grave.

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List: Phrases I May or May Not Have Used in an Attempt to Teach High School English.

“This idea to this idea? Is like going from hockey to prom with no shower in between.”

Brilliant.

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Ball lightning: the coolest thing you've never heard of

Don't have enough worries keeping you awake at night? How about worrying about being woken up by a glowing floating ball of light barging into your bedroom in the middle of the night? At 1:36 a.m. ...

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Roast me a wren to start with. Then, Brisket of Basilisk Treat. My breakfast is “on the house”? What a curious place to eat!

- Nancy Willard, The King of Cats Orders An Early Breakfast, via Maria Popova on BrainPickings

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The woman on the road then ceases to be human, as with many on the margins, and instead becomes a barometer, a tool by which the onlooker’s (or reader’s) humanity can be measured or determined. She is an object fetishized by their compassion (rather than, say, the “male gaze”) and the onlooker can choose to save her, choose to watch, or choose to ignore her as her fate plays out; these choices become the heart of the drama.

Vanessa Veselka, The Lack of Female Road Narratives and Why It Matters, TheAmericanReader.com, via Rookie Mag

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At first I thought the beige color was "none," but of course it's actually "Spanish." Does this make it more or less ridiculous to force immigrants to learn English in order to be eligible for citizenship?

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Everything is a War, and we are at an impasse.

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How pessimistic the participants revealed themselves to be, through the survey, was a more accurate predictor of five-year mortality than income, education, having a disability, being a man (a strike against longevity), or self-rated health. "Foreseeing a dark future," the researchers concluded, "is beneficial for survival."

- Lindsay Abrams, A Case for Pessimism, The Atlantic

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School administrators confiscated the backpack and the money the student had already given away.

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Resilience over strength

Pull over push

Risk over safety

Systems over objects

Compasses over maps

Practice over theory

Disobedience over compliance

Emergence over authority

Learning over education

The page includes a little description/explanation of each principle.

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Excellent photos of NYC from above, by Navid Baraty