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Quickie accessibility checks because David is a nerd
While browsing the web this morning, with a million tabs (as usual), I stumbled upon a local council website that would easily fail most accessibility checks. I started wondering how many of these sites I had open would realistically pass accessibility tests, so I did some quickie contrast tests. Surprising absolutely nobody, only one passed […]
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A showcase of Tabletop Game Websites
We’re working on a tabletop game based website at the moment, and thought we’d share some of the research we’ve been doing on industry websites.
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Digital Barn’s Queensland Museum Crawl
Once a month, Adam and I get together and visit the cultural precinct in Adelaide to see all of the new exhibits. Well this month, Drew, Adam, and I were in Queensland for a very special gallery crawl. Stop 1:Queensland Police Museum With our work with the South Australian Police Historical Society restarting, I knew […]
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Under the Floorboards
Under the Floorboards is a great RPG that drops players into the world of floor folk, tiny humanoids that live in your house without you knowing. If you’re having trouble picturing it, think The Borrowers (1997). I backed Under the Floorboards on Kickstarter as part of ZineQuest 2020, and finally ran it with Adam and […]
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A rehash of #hashtags
Hashtags have been around for so long that they are now a uniquitous aspect of the Internet, but they weren’t always so. This week is the anniversary of the first ever hashtag use on Twitter. Way back on August 23rd, 2007, Chris Messina proposed using the pound sign as a way of grouping conversations. It […]
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South Aussie Stories: Kate Cocks, the empire’s first female constable
We learned a lot of things working with the South Australian Police Historical Society recently. One of those things is the story of Kate Cocks, the first female police constable in the British Empire. In 1915, Kate Cocks was the first woman to be sworn in as a police officer with equal pay and conditions […]
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Beak, Feather, & Bone: A Map-Labeling RPG
Beak, Feather & Bone is a nifty creative map labelling exercise designed by Tyler Crumrine. Starting with an unlabelled map, players take turns in drawing a standard playing card, picking a building, and then coming up with the story of that building. After a few rounds, you start to see connections between buildings, and the […]
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South Aussie stories: Public School Swimming Champ 1920
?♂️ Today we’re sharing the story of N.Webber, public schools swimming champ in 1920. We found this great photo in the State Library of South Australia digital collection, and after some sleuthing found a few articles on Trove about the same event. ? Webber (sometimes listed as Weber) was entered in the Junior Championship of […]
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We took a dog trainer to see Dogs at the South Australian Museum
It may have taken us a couple of months, but we finally found time to check out Dogs: A story of man’s best friend at the South Australian Museum. Not ones to pass up an opportunity, we decided to go along with Scott from Canine Connect. The Adelaide Museum current has an exhibition called ‘Dogs: […]
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My Favourite Maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection
The David Rumsey Map Collection contains more than 150,000 maps from around the world, more than 95,000 of which are freely accessible through the online collection. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. David Rumsey […]
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