I spent a good while in the car this week. One of the pros and cons of modern vehicle technology is DVD players and TV screens. My kids have this DVD that feature’s Disney sing-along songs from the 80s/90s… and they love to play it on road trips. Every time that “Making Memories” comes on, […]
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Disney’s ‘Making Memories’ is Your Weekend Photography Song
Learn SQL with This Free Three-Hour Course from Codecademy
SQL is the world’s most popular language for managing and manipulating databases. Today, Codecademy launched a free Learn SQL interactive course that will teach you the basics of tables, queries, aggregate functions, and more.
Codecademy says SQL is one of the most requested languages since Codecademy started, and this course is made possible through a collaboration with Periscope, a SQL analysis tool.
Like other Codecademy courses, you learn through interactive tutorials, building on previous exercises. You can also test your knowledge with quizzes or explore deeper with additional recommended resources.
As with Khan Academy’s SQL course, this is an introductory course for those new to SQL. It’s a useful language to learn, whether you’re interested in using databases to build complex apps or you want to delve into interesting datasets for work or pleasure.
Get started learning at the link below.
Learn SQL | Codecademy
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Learn SQL with This Free Three-Hour Course from Codecademy
Japanese Photographer Captures The Beauty Of Living In Japan
Five years ago, Takashi Yasui’s niece was born. It was with this new arrival, Yasui would discover a passion for photography. What started out as a way to capture his beloved family, began evolving into a serious hobby. Now, Yasui works as a freelance photographer based out of Kyoto, Osaka, Japan–and his portfolio has […]
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Japanese Photographer Captures The Beauty Of Living In Japan
This delightful video of traveling to Japan is just so much fun to watch
Francisco Fuentes’ amazing visual diary of his trip to Japan is so awesomely captured and so well edited and so fun to watch that it makes me want to take a trip there immediately. It’s because every video in the series (there are 12 15-second videos) basically acts as a teaser for his time in that wonderful country.
You get to see the food (oh the food), the drinking, the weirdness, the culture, the people, the cities and so much but before you can process what’s happening and what you’re seeing, you’re already watching something else. Try to keep up! It’s fun.
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This delightful video of traveling to Japan is just so much fun to watch
Facts About Inventors & Inventions
Did you know that the upside down squeeze bottle wasn’t invented until 1991? And that electric guitar designer Leo Fender – creator of the Telecaster, Stratocaster and more – never learned to play the guitar? All that and more on this episode of the List Show.
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Facts About Inventors & Inventions
This Virtual Reality Demo Lets you Tour The Enterprise-D
This work-in-progress is a VR demo that lets you walk around the Starship Enterprise D, which was seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation. It is part of the ongoing Enterprise 3D Construction project, which plans to…
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This Virtual Reality Demo Lets you Tour The Enterprise-D
Documentarian wipes out Warner’s $2M “Happy Birthday” copyright
Judge finds it’s questionable whether Patty Hill wrote the song at all.
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Documentarian wipes out Warner’s $2M “Happy Birthday” copyright
This Is What a Real Bomb Looks Like
szczys writes: You see them all the time in movies and TV shows, but is that what an actual bomb looks like? Probably not… here’s what a real bomb looks like. This story stems from a millionaire gone bust from gambling addiction who decided to extort riches back from the casino. He built a bomb and got it into the building, then ransomed the organization for $3 million. The FBI documented the mechanisms in great detail — including the 8 independent trigger systems that made it impossible for them to disarm the thing. The design was so nefarious it’s still used today as a training tool.
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Another Crackdown: OSU Threatens to Arrest Conservative Students
OSU, Police Threaten to Arrest Turning Point USA Students Over “Save the Crop-Top” Petition. Kirk: “Is Free Speech Dead on Campus?” Two Ohio State University (OSU) students and two Turning Point USA staff members say were threatened to be arrested by a Franklin County deputy and a self-identified “campus attorney” this week while they were […]
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Another Crackdown: OSU Threatens to Arrest Conservative Students
This Engineer on YouTube Will Teach You To Make Longboards and Ziplines
Maker Faire NYC hits the Big Apple this week, so to get you in the mood for homemade robots, inventions and all things DIY, here’s a YouTube channel that teaches you to make almost anything.
It’s called I Like to Make Stuff, run by Bob Clagett, a former Dell engineer based in Savannah, Georgia. He’s picked up nearly half a million subscribers on his YouTube channel. Here’s a sampling of the spread of projects awaiting your craftiness:
To start, make a ring light for outfitting your GoPro:
At not even seven minutes, this is probably the most bite-sized tutorial you’ll ever watch to make your very own longboard:
How to make a video game arcade with Raspberry Pi, zero programming required:
Bob customizes a Nerf Strongarm Blaster “with paint weathering and a simple LED strip.” “Today we’re going to make a Nerf gun look way cooler,” he says.
A swiveling iPad stand for all your Square credit card-reading needs:
Make a copy of your favorite toy by learning how to mold and cast your Reagan-era Ninja Turtles, or anything else.
Finally, can’t leave out the backyard zipline.
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This Engineer on YouTube Will Teach You To Make Longboards and Ziplines