Here is your monthly reminder that Charlie Chaplin was magic.
Man, I love a good downpour. Although I worry that it makes me needlessly romantic.
Reply: no, I am literally worried that I will fall in love because the rain made me. I am readily suggestible. Luckily, I am in Durham, and none of my friends here are single, so ‘sprobably not going to happen. Thanks for your comment, though, I agree that a sense of wonder is sensibly a wonderful thing.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and is the fifth most popular property on the web. At present, there are more than 75,000 active contributors across the globe with hundreds of thousands of volunteers at computers working on more than 13,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages. Recently, the system has become much more sophisticated and “vandals” are handled quickly. But the majority of science articles and good health information are rated by Wikipedia as “incomplete.” There is a real opportunity to strengthen this public resource. A biochemistry professor who was part of the NIH Wikipedia Academy workshop in July 2009, noted about the content: “[it is] meant to derive its authority from journal references, scientific literature … ” We hope these guidelines will help you to become part of a unique opportunity in keeping with the NIH’s history of making credible, vetted, authoritative information available to the public. The time spent can be minimal, but the impact could be great.
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| — | The US National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s Guidelines for Participating in Wikipedia from NIH |
Has it never struck you that the concept of a written narrative is somewhat strange? … it is a made-up story. Very strange. All one need do is turn to the last page and the answer is there. What, therefore, is the point of deliberately not knowing?
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| — | Death (Thud! by Terry Pratchett) |
I read this post about different face shapes and thought it would be good practice to draw a character with the 7 different face shapes described. First I drew a bird spirit Final Fantasy-esque looking character. Then I was like, “I draw too many cute kids,” and I drew a burly guy. Swords and facial hair are burly, right?
These are great! I need to do this exercise…
