Meet The Woman Who Claims She’s A Cat Trapped In A Human’s Body You’ve heard of people being transgender, but have you ever met someone who considers herself “trans-species”? In Oslo, Norway, 20-year-old Nano identifies herself as a cat. She said her lightbulb moment came when she was told by doctors she had a “genetic defect” at the age of sixteen. That’s when she realized why she was different: she was really a cat. While uncommon, Nano is not alone in feeling she embodies the spirit of an animal. There is a phenomenon called Otherkin, which Wikipedia describes as “…people who identify as partially or entirely non-human.” Because she identifies herself as a cat, she lives her life a little different. Nano even claims she has heightened senses, hearing things that humans and can’t, and possessing the ability to see better at night than in the daylight. Although Nano’s condition is not common, she seems to have found a kindred spirit. Are you convinced, or is Nano just crazy? (All images adapted from Født i feil art via Youtube.) Advertisement
Kennisland launches Embedr | Kennisland 8 december 2015 Over the past year Kennisland has worked on a new service called Embedr, which allows everyone to embed cultural heritage images across the Internet, while maintaining provenance information. It allows zooming, panning and cropping of images. Kennisland developed Embedr to address the gap between the emergence of high-quality cultural heritage images on the Internet and the lack of widely available tools1Embedr is fully open source. All images on Embedr have at least 4 megapixels. Try it yourself The image below is embedded from Embedr. Reusable ImagesEmbedr – image embedding done right! On your platform With its embedding standards and our infrastructure, Embedr is good candidate to display high-resolution images on your site. Embedr is developed as part of Europeana Creative and funded by the European Union. Are you interested in having your collection on Embedr, or do you have a question for us?
Robert Draper By Claire and Alex Purvis Posted We knew him as Robert. That's how he introduced himself the first time I met him, about 20 years ago. He ended up with a permanent spot on the police station veranda, safe enough to leave his blanket. In the mornings, he'd sit in the main street making his living. "Hey digger," he'd say, "Could you spare a couple of dollars for a cup of coffee?" He was always friendly. We invited him to our wedding but he didn't come. At his funeral, Grafton Cathedral was full. What would he have thought? The priest talked of a divine imperative. A few years ago he disappeared. The divine imperative: yes, he made a town willing to care about a damaged man with bright blue eyes, rotten teeth and a dignified bearing. He said his home town was Melbourne. Like a tree-changer, he left the city and settled on the North Coast. What a poignant story. Topics: homelessness, grafton-2460
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