24 Posts from January 2026

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Lego Cats

Today is International Lego Day! In celebration of this auspicious event today’s TDC asks us to Take a photo and turn it into Lego by using an online editor such as Lunapic. Here’s mine Lego Lacey flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Cagney Lego Style flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Make Art Deco Art Dammit

Make Art Deco Art Dammit flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC was a bit footery to do. It asked us to go to a site and play with the fonts, but the link to do that was a bit broken by the website itself, so I needed to work around it to complete this. I went to the Velvetyne page and typed my words ‘make art, dammit’ into the search bar, […]

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Which Wikipedia are you?

Today’s TDC asks us to take a quiz and share the results. Here’s mine. Wikipedia of the Future_ The Data-Driven Researcher flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Wikipedia of the Future: The Data-Driven Researcher Welcome to the Age of Clarity, or the Age of Balance. You’re inquisitive, analytical, and maybe a bit too pragmatic, but not to a fault. Your future is well-thought through and you have the data to back it up. […]

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Frankentab poetry

Today’s TDC is another riff on the Frankenpoem. Submitted by Alan (with a little help from his friends!) it asks us to visit Alan’s post and see what he did. Now, actually I don’t usually have many tabs open while I am at work apart from admin screens, but here’s what I found: A quantitative data scientist will involve film screenings Observation: real music matters They’re right to be scared This site works best composed from bits and bobs stitched […]

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Ning Nang Nong

Today’s TDC asks us to: Find a poem you love. Memorise it. Recite it. Create an audio file so we can all enjoy your poem. I immediately thought about a Spike Milligan poem – dad used to read them to us at bedtime so I already know quite a few. I decided to try this tongue twister. Nomad War Machine · Ning Nang Nong On the Ning Nang Nong On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! and […]

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Blackout Frankenpoem

This Daily Create just keeps growing. Today’s TDC asks us to go to a site created by John and Use tdc5110 Random Frankenstein poem to create a poem and then black it out. I got this poem: It was a tranquil spot, that seemed to smile While it hums its little song in the beautiful sunshine, For half the summer long. Watch till dusty Death has piled Of the wide earth it flew, Death from the o’er–brimming deep; And what you meant And here it linger’d, here my heart might lie; And companiable, and bare herself so fair, The creator of the nations, And last of all, thy greedy self consum’d, And thy sad floor an altar—for ’twas trod, Alastor: Or, the Spirit of Solitude by Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Beautiful Sun by William Topaz McGonagall, Peggy’s the Lady of the Hall by John Clare, Fragment: ‘When a Lover Clasps His Fairest’ […]

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Rubbish Art

I am procrastinating today as I have a writing deadline, so messing around with TDC5116. First I downloaded a pic of Lacey cat that I had taken yesterday and printed it as a 3.5 x 5 pic. Then I got out my lightbox and drew around the outline of the image in pencil. I added whiskers, eyes and feet to make it look a bit more like rubbish art. Ta da! Rubbish Art flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a […]

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