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56 Unique Lorem Ipsum Generators | Mashable

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However you choose to approach content in your web work, the lowly lorem ipsum text has certainly inspired a myriad of similar versions. In this post, we cover the most unique and humorous lorem ipsum text generators available, with a preview of each included.

via 56 Unique Lorem Ipsum Generators | Mashable.

Fun just to see all the unique options. My favourites:

1. Cupcake Ipsum

How about using auto-generated text that will actually make people love your project even more? With Cupcake Ipsum, you can create a sweet, sugar-coated paragraph of text:

“Cupcake ipsum dolor sit. Amet I love liquorice jujubes pudding croissant I love pudding. Apple pie macaroon toffee jujubes pie tart cookie applicake caramels. Halvah macaroon I love lollipop. Wypas I love pudding brownie cheesecake tart jelly-o. Bear claw cookie chocolate bar jujubes toffee.”

17. Yorkshire Ipsum and Sagan Ipsum.

This is the perfect lorem ipsum generator for Yorkshire folks, and you can even fork and contribute to it on GitHub:

“Ee by gum. Nobbut a lad. Tha daft apeth. Nobbut a lad nobbut a lad mardy bum any rooad by ‘eck. Tell thi summat for nowt soft southern pansy. Where’s tha bin ah’ll gi’ thi summat to rooer abaht tell thi summat for nowt aye. Soft lad t’foot o’ our stairs. Big girl’s blouse will ‘e ‘eckerslike nah then is that thine ne’ermind wacken thi sen up.”

35. Sagan Ipsum

Inspired by the late astronomer Carl Sagan, Sagan Ipsum is a space and cosmos-related dummy text generator:

“Apollonius of Perga extraplanetary. Tingling of the spine. Orion’s sword, rich in heavy atoms cosmic ocean astonishment encyclopaedia galactica tesseract two ghostly white figures in coveralls and helmets are soflty dancing, rich in heavy atoms the only home we’ve ever known how far away.”

Internet Book Fetishists Versus Anti-Fetishists | The New Yorker

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A perennial topic of conversation among people who debate literature on the Internet is the relative importance of books as physical objects. Foremost among defenders of the printed book are those who extol the sensual pleasures of reading—the feel of the pages, the heft of the object, the smell of the paper—and maintain that it is impossible to experience those pleasures digitally. 

In a related, but separate, camp are those attracted not to the tactile pleasures of books but to their beauty as objects.

via Internet Book Fetishists Versus Anti-Fetishists | The New Yorker.

Infographic: The Music Consumption Times, They Are A-Changin’ | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

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A recent surge in digital music services has helped to launch a new era of consumption — one that no longer requires a trip to the local record store or batteries for a handheld cassette player.

See the full article: Infographic: The Music Consumption Times, They Are A-Changin’ | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.

Consuming Music

For the First Time, You Can Actually Own the Digital Comics You Buy | Underwire | Wired.com

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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — If you’ve ever bought a digital comic book, your experience probably went something like this: You opened up an app like ComiXology, paid around $1.99 to $3.99 — likely, the same price as a print issue — but never downloaded the file for the comic to your hard drive. That’s because you don’t really own it — you’ve simply licensed the right to look at it in someone else’s library.

It’s a digital sales model that has been adopted by every major U.S. comics publisher and was inspired by fears that piracy of digital copies could hurt not just digital but also print sales. It has also essentially prevented the comic book readership (or at least, the legal comic book readership) from truly owning any of the books they buy. At least until this morning, when comic book publisher Image Comics announced that it will now sell all of its digital comics as downloadable via its website for both desktop and mobile users, making it the first major U.S. publisher to offer DRM-free digital versions of comics.

See the full article: For the First Time, You Can Actually Own the Digital Comics You Buy | Underwire | Wired.com.

Why Genre Rules e-Books, and What the Big Publishers Are Doing About It | Wired

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One of the biggest success stories in U.S. publishing in recent years has been the continued growth of digital book publishing. Last year, total revenue for e-book sales in the United States reached $3.04 billion, a 44.2% increase on 2011′s numbers and a figure all the more impressive when you realize that growth is additive to the print publishing industry. Even more surprising, publishers have focused much of their attention on genres like sci-fi, fantasy, mystery and romance fiction – markets that have traditionally lagged behind “literary fiction” in terms of sales.

See the full article: Why Genre Rules e-Books, and What the Big Publishers Are Doing About It | Wired

The Millions | Save the Languages

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Researchers at Comanche Nation College and Texas Tech University are creating a digital archive to reconstruct the Comanche language before its 25 remaining speakers die out. Meanwhile, researchers from Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences have recorded audio and video footage of twenty isolated Alaskans who speak a unique form of the Russian language. (Bonus: An Australian researcher recently uncovered a whole new Aboriginal dialect.) via The Millions | Save the Languages.

ALA Launches Online Hub to Support Tech Literacy | The Digital Shift

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The American Library Association (ALA) this week launched a preview version of Digital Learn, a free online resource for librarians working with digital literacy learners. The new hub, which will be fully available June 30, follows recommendations released this month from ALA’s Digital Literacy Task Force.

via ALA Launches Online Hub to Support Tech Literacy | The Digital Shift.

See also: ALA Task Force releases digital literacy recommendations | ALA

 

Groundbreaking Brain Atlas Maps Whole Brain at Cellular Level | Discovermagazine.com

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Researchers [in Germany and Canada] have for the first time built a 3D model of a human brain showing structural detail down to the cellular level.

This ultra high-resolution atlas, dubbed “BigBrain,” aims to show the architecture of the brain at various levels—from the cortex’s layers and columns to its microcircuits and cells.

See the full article:  Groundbreaking Brain Atlas Maps Whole Brain at Cellular Level – D-brief | Discovermagazine.com.

Cultivate Your Creativity With These 4 Fair Use Libraries | Mashable

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Looking for creative content that is also free can be taxing. And when overused, Creative Commons becomes a bore of stock photos and MIDI jingles. Especially when it comes to fair use music, sometimes you just want something more refined and less 8-bit.

via Cultivate Your Creativity With These 4 Fair Use Libraries | Mashable.

The article discusses:

  • Moby Gratis
  • Internet Archive
  • UbuWeb
  • Free Music Archive
  • Open Culture

These Amazing Twitter Metadata Visualizations Will Blow Your Mind | Fast Company

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Metadata in twitter posts lets readers in on your geographic location, the language you speak, the phone you use, and more. They’re also a mapmaker’s best friend.

Quotable: “A second visualization shows language use on Twitter. Metadata from Twitter messages also tells the language the tweet was sent in. In the United Kingdom, most tweets are in English…except in London, where a cacophony of foreign-language tweets dominate the visualization.”

Languages on Twitter

via These Amazing Twitter Metadata Visualizations Will Blow Your Mind | Fast Company | Business + Innovation.