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The 100 emoji is iconic; it’s a symbol recognized across cultures and it has a semiotic impact globally. In a world where most societies have standardized around a base-10 (or decimal) number system, a doubly-underlined 100 is a shining beacon of success, or total mastery. The forthright and striking symbol of flawless execution, total knowledge, and success lends itself naturally, in this remix culture we live in, to imitations. If 100 can be thus underlined, can we convey the same messages by borrowing the style of the emoji but with different content? Of course we can, that’s what cultures do.

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I’ve been messing about with blender a bit since the pandemic started. I originally thought I could use it for visualizing data, which is certainly true, but I’ve found more that I’ve been getting in blender-world. I was watching a “coding adevntures” video over the weekend where the author described using fibonacci spheres as a way of evenly distibuting points on a sphere. But I couldn’t find an easy way to do this in blender.

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I wrote a while back about a script I wrote to run on my android phone that would sort and archive any photos I had on the device into dated folders I have on a network drive. Privacy and de-googling concerns led me to get an iphone when the time came to upgrade (essential, my old phone’s manufacturer shut down, and faced with an aging battery and a looming lack of support I decided to upgrade). This left me with a problem, how would I sort my images into my archive?

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