34 Posts from September 2026

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Imagination Library

Today’s TDC  says: Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a wonderful initiative. As Dolly said: “The seeds of these dreams are often found in books and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world.” Imagine DS106 was setting up an imagination library. What would you donate to it, and why? So many books I could suggest to inspire the imagination, but I chose one that helped me to understand my remix Navas Remix Theory flickr photo by NomadWarMachine […]

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Parcel Liveblogging

Parcel liveblogging flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says The Guardian published a giggle generating list of 18 terms describing the current state of tech. Use at least 5 in an uplifting poem or maybe a motivational poster? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/18/dickovers-baggravation-botiquette-18-new-words-tech-hellscape I chose ‘parcel liveblogging’ The sheer amount of hand-holding that comes with ordering a package online is frankly unnecessary. You can expect to receive messages informing you of every single step in […]

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Eigendrum

Today’s TDC is a fun one! Draw and shape or explore preset ones and watch/hear it turned into a drum sound. I think that’s what Eigendrum does, it’s as nerdy as one can get with the physics / math of drum shape / sounds. Of course I drew a cat, and you  can hear what it sounds like by clicking on the cat image here. Eigendrum Cat flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Brambles

I blogged my responses to the TDC thoughout August, and I kind of missed doing that today so here’s this one.  Today’s TDC says: Today is the first day of meteorological autumn in the northern hemisphere. Make us something autumnal – maybe a picture or a poem. I don’t have any autumnal photos for this year yet – though we noticed that the trees were starting to drop their leaves when we visited Mugdock earlier this week I didn’t take any pics. […]

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