A $300, Fully-Functional Microscope Design by IBM
Super-cool. I look forward to bookmarking this, telling myself that I’ll finally put Pi Zero to good use, and never doing this 🤘…
one hundred and ninety links of interest
“CEO’s Skill Set Transferable To Any Job That Requires Dumbass To Receive Big Salary”
NEW YORK—Claiming he could easily fit into a similar position at most companies, local CEO Mike Waltke told reporters Monday that his skill set was transferable to any job that requires an inept dumbass to receive a big salary. “I have the incompetence necessary to effortlessly transition into a r…
“Paul’s Life on Caladan was very different than on Arrakis”
Caption by CO 🤣…
In Defence of the Single Page Application
Trenchant, brilliant stuff by William Kennedy 💯 (Cached)…
A most lovely and short interview with David Suchet on playing a “detestable, tiresome, bombastic little creature”
If you liked that, you might like this longer documentary called “Being Poirot” by Suchet himself.…
The Apple Product Cycle
Was doing some digital house-keeping and came by a cached copy of that by MisterBG. Things haven’t changed too much over the past two decades……
“Revolution is possible. But it’s unlikely that we will be fighting for revolution alongside the same venture capitalists and tech companies who helped to get us into this mess in the first place [...] Dig deep. Ask the hard questions. Criticize the flaws. And cut through the bullshit.”
Molly White asks if Web3 is bullshit. Short and excellent talk.…
In 1942, Bob Emmett Fletcher agreed to manage 90 acres of farmland for his Japanese neighbors who had been forcibly moved to internment camps.
And because no good deed goes unpunished, Fletcher claimed to have been harassed by his own community and he also found bullet holes in his barn. Fletcher used the proceeds from farming the land to pay the taxes for the interned Japanese. From 1942 to 1945 he managed the Tsukamoto, Nitta, and Okamo…
“What we have built together is sad, buggy, quixotic garbage but you have to use it.”
Things are going well with the Metaverse: In a follow-up memo dated September 30th, [Vishal] Shah1 said that employees still weren’t using Horizon enough, writing that a plan was being made to “hold managers accountable” for having their teams use Horizon at least once a week. “Everyone in this org…
“How a Public School in Florida Built America’s Greatest Math Team”
Coached by a former Wall Street bond trader who studied the opposition and set up a pipeline that produces Superstar Mathletes: “You wouldn’t grab a kid in ninth grade who’s never played football and expect him to be a great high-school football player,” he said. “For most of these kids, this is th…
“I Fucking Hate Jira” is a collection of people sharing their feelings about one of the worst pieces of software I continue to use every day.
Jira is middle-management-ware, a term I made up for software that serves the needs of middle management, or, at least, the needs middle management thinks it has, which comes to the same thing as long as you’re selling to them. (link) Jira is a tire fire. It should be condemned and officially des…
OpenCore Legacy Patcher allows you to run the latest macOS (Monterey) on your old Macs
For day-to-day things, a 10-year old MacBook Air is perfectly adequate (except, maybe, if you’re trying to read an article on the Des Moines Register’s or KCCI’s websites without using a PiHole…)…
I finally found the French textbook I used in middle school: Cours de Langue et de Civilisation Françaises
Didn’t realize it was a four-parter. Major nostalgia. Have forgotten most of my French but I somehow still remember a lot of words for things (and their gender!) thanks to these books (well, Volume 1 at least). Looks like the CBSE still uses it. Here’s audio to accompany the books.…
Robert Wardhaugh is a Professor of History in Canada who’s run a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign for 40 years.
I know nothing of D&D, wanted to find out more after watching the latest season of Stranger Things, and came by this video. I still don’t understand how the figurines contribute to the gameplay but was amazed by his vast collection of them. Lots of lovely passion and camaraderie here ♥️ Here’s t…
“If you can’t be responsible of following some other simple rules in society to behave, why should you have a gun?”
That would be a Swiss gun instructor. His country has 2.3 million guns per 8.6 million people and has had exactly one mass shooting since 2001. They are able to do this despite being one of the most armed European countries because they have commonsense gun laws, actually fucking act to prevent sens…
“There’s an illusion with work that everything you give up now, all the stolen time commuting, working overtime, checking your email and Slack notifications after hours, will somehow earn you freedom and capital in your later years.”
Amil Niazi in a sobering article about ambition, COVID, women, mothers, and late-stage capitalism.…
pup is a delightful little command-line utility that lets you parse HTML
Think jq but for HTML/DOM. If you wanted to get all the post titles on this log, curl -s -o - https://log.nikhil.io/ | gunzip - | pup "header > h2 > a" text{} Lovely stuff.…
“We All Want Clean H2O” is a Podcast about Water Quality, Policy, Agriculture, and Climate Change
It’s hosted by three University of Iowa engineers and scientists who are tired of “cropaganda” and is rather entertaining. The latest episode calls the recent E15 Law a “Fart in a Hurricane”. One of the hosts is an engineer named Chris Jones who also writes a very lively blog with wonderful nuggets…
“Tabler Icons” are free SVG icons for web design.
Simple, consistent, SVG, adjustable stroke-width, and there are 1900 of them (and counting).…
ThanosJS is a Hot New Framework that promises to “reduce the file size of your project down to 50%”
It’s what all the Patagonia-clads are raving about. They tell me it solves all perf problems in a snap. Update Here’s an NPM package. And, of course, Java if you’d like to deploy this in an Enterprise™ setting.…
Interview with a Senior JavaScript Developer in 2022
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. This really got me: My job is to keep our code running while other packagers are changing theirs. Lord have mercy. NPM continued use and existence is proof that (Almost) Every Day is a Miracle ✨…
“Penumbra” by Lance Hidy is an absolutely gorgeous (all-caps only) typeface
I mean just look at it 🥰…
An Ingredient Parser using TensorFlow
Really cool stuff. Trained on the New York Times ingredients corpus (large 13.5MB CSV) and turns this ingredients = [ "3 large melons", "5 1/2 cups water", "2 cups flour", ] into this [ { "name": "melons", "unit": None, "qty": 3.0 }, { "name": "water", "unit": "cups"…
There are Disgusting Fucking Human Beings and then there’s Alex Jones
Heslin’s vow on Wednesday comes one day after Jones offered an FBI agent and 18 members of 10 families who lost loved ones in the school shooting $120,000 each to settle defamation lawsuits he lost against them in Texas and Connecticut late last year. […] Jones, the host of the “Infowars” internet…
“entr” provides a nice interface to inotify
Saved me a ton of time with small project I’m working on right now. Looks like it’s written in C.…
“Got Your Back” will back up your Gmail inbox to your computer.
I’ve been nearing capacity for a while and this is a Godsend.…
Adventuron is a framework that lets you create old-school Text Adventure games for a browser
Here’s a giant list of games people have created with it. Here’s a teeny little introductory adventure. I plan on playing The Quest of DuBebe this evening:…
“Translanguaging” is the act of interleaving elements of two or more languages together to communicate more effectively.
Very common in India. And that article is from a journal that offers EAL news. EAL (English as an Additional Language) is not the same as ESL (English as a Second Language). EAL is favored above ESL among the language pedagogy community: Why? Because sometimes it is not clear what an individual’s ‘…
DNA has a Half-Life of 521 Years
A study of DNA extracted from the leg bones of extinct moa birds in New Zealand found that the half-life of DNA is 521 years. So every 1,000 years, 75 per cent of the genetic information is lost. After 6.8 million years, every single base pair is gone. Bacterial RNA is much tougher and sequences ha…
If “American Psycho” Were About Programmers
Excellent stuff, particularly the mechanical keyboard envy1. There’s a Nikhil in it too! 💁♂️ I don’t think I’ll get into them. Got myself one of these (brown switches) about three years ago after outsourcing the research to a highly enthusiastic and helpful co-worker. The “L” key sticks sometimes…
“I have delivered Value. But at what cost?”
Because we don’t simply write non-annoying and non-creepy software that respects you and does the thing you want it to do anymore. Gotta deliver Value™ to all key stakeholders. By which we mean ourselves and the Market. Not you. You are nothing more than Data that taps “Purchase” to us.…
“Each of these images was generated by AI based on a brief text description of a movie. Can you guess the movie from the image?”
Fun little quiz! Did not do as well as I thought I would……
″...if Trump had liquidated his real estate holdings, estimated to be worth $500 million, back in 1987, and invested them in the S&P 500 Index, his net worth could be as much as $13 billion.”
Eighth Wonder of the World indeed. Here’s a nice calculator that draws graphs, and allows for monthly contributions and rate variances.…
Here’s a “Household Income Percentile Calculator for the United States”
In case that site is unavailable, and for the year 2020, it’s an exponential curve with the 50th at $67,463 75th at $122,500 80th at $141,100 90th at $201,052 95th at $273,850 98th at $386,915 99th at $594,420 Until not-too-long ago, I used to think that “the top 1%” referred to “few hundreds of m…
“This (expletive deleted) game will be the (expletive deleted) (expletive deleted). Iowa 17, Penn State 14”
Certainly looks like it, Mr. Hlas. Go Hawks 🤘…
Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses, as E-mailed by Your Passive-Aggressive Co-Worker
I’m not saying there’s going to be a schism or anything, but I’m not not saying that, either. This is just genius. (Cached)…
Today I Learned that the World Record for Walking A Mile is 5:31:08
It belongs to Tom Bosworth. I thought “I cannot even run that fast” and decided to look at the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOYdS5QZasMÏ While it certainly does look like they’re running, there are some severe restrictions on their movement, of course, else it’d be an event called ‘Trottin…
A Human Being has Eaten 32,340 Big Macs and Appears to be OK
Don Gorske started eating them in 1972 and continues to do so. He will buy 6-8 at a time twice a week (at the same McDonald’s franchise) to save on gas. He’s kept all boxes and receipts, which I suppose are what you’d need to apply for and maintain a Guinness Record. Emphasis mine: Seriously, if yo…
Professor Tara Brabazon on Procrastination
She addresses graduate/PhD students struggling to complete their theses but there’s quite a bit to learn here. She considers procrastination as a perfectly logical response: why wouldn’t one seek pleasure? It’s something that (a) reveals a lot about what you’re afraid of and (b) is hence a protectio…
“Everyone has JavaScript, right?”
The key takeaways in no particular order. Use <noscript>. If you are using it, use it a lot more. There is no guarantee that chunks will load after the main one does; the user’s location and/or network access might have changed! Think CalTrain. ISPs, Corporate VPNs, and Browser Plugins1 can m…
How to Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes
by Ned Gulley at Star Chamber from a long, long while ago.…
The Problem with Hyper-Individualism
A simple-enough argument about a dangerous, toxic worldview. […] To highlight that contradiction let’s try to explain these facts with individualist logic. Women and non-white people, by sheer coincidence, all individually chose to be paid less for more demanding jobs. Also by coincidence, they cho…
The Five Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done
By Michael Dearing. Couldn’t find any video and not sure if this is tongue-in-cheek (like the “48 Laws of Power”.) The distortions are: Personal Exceptionalism “I am special.” Dichotomous Thinking “X is sh*t. Y is genius.” Correct Overgeneralization “I see two dots and draw the right line.” Blank-C…
Math in Bash
Lovely stuff. Cached here.…
Linux and PRNGs
Being a long and informative post that leads to “Use /dev/urandom” and features a quote by DJB and a list of computationally secure PRNGs. Cached here.…
The TeX Family Tree History
LaTeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX and ConTeXt. That’s a lot of TeX! This was most helpful, even though MacTeX solves all my problems.…
“Calling Bullshit” is a free online course that helps you “detect and defuse” Bullshit when you encounter it.
Our learning objectives are straightforward. After taking the course, you should be able to: Remain vigilant for bullshit contaminating your information diet. Recognize said bullshit whenever and wherever you encounter it. Figure out for yourself precisely why a particular bit of bullshit is bulls…
Don’t Use Hadoop - Your Data Isn’t That Big
A still-very-relevant 9-year old article. Pandas has gone from strength to strength since he wrote that. In terms of expressing your computations, Hadoop is strictly inferior to SQL. There is no computation you can write in Hadoop which you cannot write more easily in either SQL, or with a simple P…
How Big is Too Big for JSON?
From over 10 years ago (I’m sorting through my old bookmarks). A single object looks like this: { "ACCTOUNT_NUMBER":"1234567890", "CUSTOMER_NAME":"ACME Products and Services, Inc.", "ADDRESS":"123 Main Street", "CITY":"Albuquerque", "STATE":"NM", "ZIP":"87101-1234" } He test…
An Introduction to Apache Kafka in the Style of a Children’s Book
I loved how the author imagined persistence 💗…
“Windows is more than just an operating system; it’s a fabric woven into our lives and in our work.”
No. It’s just a fucking operating system1. A giant program on a computer. What weird, disconnected, embarrassing bullshit ‘spiritual’ techbro nonsense. “We made a website full of memes you can search through, powered by Bitcoin and Machine-Learning (of course), and are changing the world.” No. Stop…
“That ambulance outside that stadium could have saved at least ten lives a day,” said Ishan Singh, a cricket fan in Delhi. “These players are thieves. Given a chance, they will rob wood from the cremations and sell it in the market.”
Value™ must be delivered to stakeholders at any and all cost 🏏…
Attorneys general from over 40 states urge Facebook to cancel plans for Instagram for kids
This is for children under 13. Because children over 13 engage with Social Media in very healthy and fruitful ways. “They are also simply too young to navigate the complexities of what they encounter online, including inappropriate content and online relationships where other users, including preda…
We are Facebook. When a fascist, Hindu Fundamentalist government tells us their fee-fees are hurt by a hashtag, we Move Fast and Break Democracy to the pleasure of our shithead plasticine overlord.
Because the only thing that matters is delivering Value to shareholders. (cached) Incidentally, and to the “huh” of many Value-illiterate people, defending totalitarian governments is exactly how one gives “people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.”…
This is a fine, minimal ‘modern’ HTML Skeleton
by Josh Comeau. Saving here to refer to later. Here’s another by Manuel Matuzovic. It features a lot more OG tags and a most clever way to cut the mustard apropos modern browsers. Saved here.…
How to Hack Servers using Windows Media Player
A most dangerous Easter Egg by Microsoft, known only to the most elite of hackers.…
Docsify is a Markdown-based documentation generator.
It’s very simple and clever. This is an example of what’s rendered from this giant Markdown file 💙…
“No. I decided I don’t care.”
I love this more than I can describe.…
The Collatz Conjecture in TypeScript’s Types
The argument here being that, since the ‘general form’ of the conjecture is undecidable, TypeScript’s type system is undecidable. How does one even think of doing these things? I love Typescript, but it isn’t nearly ambitious enough. It would be vastly improved with an --extremelyStrict flag enforc…
I’m not sure why YouTube’s Omniscient Algorithms recommended this video but I did not learn a damn thing about “After-Dinner Drinks” from the star of this pretentious watch and signet ring ad.
A guide to elegant post-dinner debauchery from Mr Wei Koh, watch aficionado, Style Council member and founder of The Rake Magazine, in partnership with IWC Schaffhausen. The ‘guide’ in a nutshell: “Drink whatever you want, with whomever you like, talking about anything you’d want to, on any day of…
How to Write a Shell in C
About as ‘essential’ as it gets if you want to appreciate a tool you work with every day. (Cached)…
FlameShot just might be the ultimate screenshotting utility.
No macOS love though 😔…
“The Honorable, the Members of the Unites States Senate”
🇺🇸: We the Peope of the Unites States… 🏴: 🤣…
A Lovely Illustrated Guide to Home Architectural Styles and Structural Elements.
Here’s another list of 36 styles with real examples. (Cached: styles, elements one and two.)…
“Gigantic Asshole Ajit Pai Is Officially Gone.”
I don’t think I’ve enjoyed an article’s title this much in a while. Here is a list of harmful nonsense Pai and his FCC did over the last four years: Killed net neutrality Approved T-Mobile / Sprint merger Repeatedly released reports that claimed U.S. broadband is fine Defended murder of net neutra…
Scientists Film Salt Crystal Formation in Real-Time.
Nakamuro and his team looked at the videos Sakakibara had captured and were the first people ever to see tiny cuboid crystals made of tens of molecules of NaCl emerging from the chaotic mixture of separate sodium and chloride ions. Straight away, they noticed a statistical pattern in the frequency…
Your API is a Hall of Shame; You give REST a Bad Name
Dylan Beattie is my new favorite nerd on YouTube.…
An Owl’s Eye Color is Related to When It likes to Hunt.
Dark Brown or Black: Nocturnal (helps with camouflage.) Orange: Dawn and Dusk. Yellow: Daytime. There are no Blue-Eyed Owls.…
Tesseract is an Open-Source OCR Engine
Here’s a short overview but I found it as easy as brew install tesseract # See output.txt tesseract -l eng input.png output…
This is the best octopus fossil ever found.
It was found in 1982 in France. It’s 165M years old. Researchers reconstructed it in 3D using “synchrotron microtomography.” I was unable this reconstruction because the system of scientific journals is a money-grubbing bullshit system run by greedy people. Here she is though ♥️…
A Custom “Linux Router, Firewall and IDS Appliance”
The focus of this project is to build a super reliable, durable, and stable network device from tried and tested tech. This is not a project for pushing the limits or testing out flashy new stacks. This affinity for ‘boring’ technology will reflect on most of the choices made here, from the hardwar…
Hazel for macOS is an automation tool that lets you watch folders and apply all sorts of rules to them.
By a single dev. At $42, an absolute steal for all the things you can do with it. Perpetual license, no bullshit subscription model. 😍…
Conversion Table
A B No one could have predicted this would happen Many people have been saying something like this would happen I never thought I’d live to see this day I have been asleep for the past five years Anarchists Trump Supporters This is not who we are This is exactly who we are Our 250 yea…
Decoding the flags and banners seen at the Capitol Hill insurrection
Confirmation that I did, indeed, see a “No, Georgia the country, idiot” flag. And then there’s this surprising tidbit: The flags of Canada, Cuba, Georgia, India, Israel, South Korea, and South Vietnam were spotted in the mob. It’s unclear why many of these flags appeared, though a number of the whi…
“Stump the Bookseller” is a lovely, crowd-sourced book-sleuthing service.
It’s run by the fine folk at Loganberry Books, costs a nominal $4 per submission, and has a very admirable 50%+ success rate. Here’s my submission 🤞 Via CK ♥️…
TIL that the US Department of Defense is the largest employer in the World (3.2M)
Followed by the Chinese Army (2.3M), Walmart (2.1M), McDonald’s (1.9M), and the NHS (1.7M). The Indian Railways comes in eighth with 1.4M people.…
How to Tell a Raven From a Crow.
By the Audubon Society. Ravens are beefier, gauche, and less ‘refined’. They’re also relatively solitary. They have curvier beaks, wedge-like tails, and soar instead of flap. Here’s what a raven and a crow sound like.…
Why Isn’t 1 a Prime Number?
(cached)…
A List of Ebert’s Favorite Films you can stream off Amazon Prime.
Here’s how the author made that list. Here’s a cached version.…
“TRUISMS (1978 - 1983)” by Jenny Holzer
Here are her website and Wikipedia page.…
“Quantum computing for the very curious”
by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen…
Indian man wears gold face mask to ward off coronavirus
And here’s our man, Shankar Kurhade, modeling my 2021 strategy given how confident I am in my state’s government fucking up vaccine distribution.…
Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro
Gone is the gimmicky TouchBar, gone are the four USB-C ports that forced power users to carry a suitcase full of dongles. In their place we get a cornucopia of developer-friendly ports: two USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt 2 ports, a redesigned power connector, and a long-awaited HDMI port. Photographers wi…
How Audemars Piguet makes their lovely ‘tapisserie’ pattern.
They use a pantograph to etch things out, after which they ‘tampograph’ the logo (at 1:45.)…
A List of Hacker News ‘Classics’
When you’re following a bunch of feeds, it’s easy to forget that the web is the greatest library in the history of the world—and that a good library doesn’t just have a rack of newspapers, it has a vast collection of books and archives: the stacks. These are stories that get reposted a lot. Many o…
The “Mathematics Subject Classification” should help one appreciate, at least cursorily, the age, breadth, and depth of the subject.
That’s from 2010. Here’s the 2020 revision.…
EXPOSURE is a publishing platform for photographers.
Bit pricey but appears to generate lovely layouts. Via Ash Furrow’s photography site.…
Build Your Own Lisp.
Learn C and build a basic Lisp #VALUE 😍…
How to Drive in Iowan Winters
If you rarely drive on snow, just pretend you’re taking your grandma to church. There’s a platter of biscuits and 2 gallons of sweet tea in glass jars in the back seat. She’s wearing a new dress and holding a crock pot full of gravy. @Chadsu42…
Werner Herzog Reviews a Hotel on Yelp.
“Am I truly controlling anything?” (cached)…
The First Thing Ever Bought Online was Weed.
Of course. Well, the transaction was in person and in cash (of course.) It was just a little bag of weed sold through an Arpanet account in Stanford’s artificial intelligence lab in 1972. It’s not clear who was in on the sale aside from the students, but despite the underhanded nature of the deal,…
The Slap - Part II.
I must have watched this 14,221 times. A parody of this (real) miniseries. There’s a Part III too.…
2020 in a Nutshell
Via PLG.…
A Brief History of People Thinking Piers Morgan Is the Pigeon Lady From ‘Home Alone 2’.
Had to cache it because this is just lovely stuff. Pretty sure I had a mini-blackout when I read the Trainspotting part 💯…
What to do with Over-Engineered $700 Computer Wheels.
If impatient, skip to the last minute.…
This is a very handy psql cheatsheet.
One should be good 80%+ of time between that and the awesome pgcli.…
YouVotedForThis.com is a lovely collection of Brexit repercussions.
I created YVFT site after my Conservative voting aunt complained on Facebook that there weren’t enough police to deal with disruptive teenagers in her town. I wanted to scream, “But you voted for this!” without looking like a lunatic.…
Studio Ghibli is named after this plane.
Turns out Miyazaki’s dad was an aeronautical engineer.…
Idiots Out Walking Around
Reynolds said election victories for Republicans in the state this week show Iowans support her approach. “It was a validation of our balanced response to COVID-19, one that is mindful of both public health and economic health,” Reynolds said. Because political victories, not cases or deaths, shou…
gron is a JSON grepper
Woo! Covers the biggest reason why I use jq (grep for fields) which, as the gron author notes, is more general-purpose and takes a little more effort to understand and use.…
That material between a speaker and their microphone is called a “pop filter”.
It helps minimize or eliminate popping sounds (“aspirated plosives”) like when you say ‘pop’ or ‘pepper’ or ‘pots’!…
“I’ve loved living here, but I’ve never been as worried about the future of this country than I am right now.”
Foreign correspondents on the state of America and the election in four days.…
On Mutually Assured Destruction
“Hum toh doobe hain sanam, tujhe bhi leke doobenge.” Afghan Cricket Team Captain Gulbadin Naib warning Bangladesh…
AxiDraw is a portable ‘Drawing Machine’.
It’s priced at $475 for the basic model and $800 for a deluxe version. The video is very satisfying to watch (I couldn’t have picked better background music.) One could start with a Brachiograph for around $20 (basic Raspberry Pi setup, soldering skills, and assembly required.)…
Those patterns on a thimble are called ‘Guilloché’
Via AS as we were discussing Audemars Piguet’s “petite tapisserie”…
“The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing.”
On why GNU grep is fast. Via HN.…
“Haiyaa is the MSG of Word.”
So saith Uncle Roger, who finally approved someone’s egg-fried rice. Via KP.…
Tim Kendall testifies
to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Facebook’s engagement practices and likens them to time-tested strategies used by Big Tobacco before they were somewhat regulated. And he would know. Kendall was the former “Director of Monetization” at Facebook and is currently the CEO of Moment, a c…
Please Don’t Suck Please Don’t Suck Please Don’t Suck Please Don’t Suck Please Don’t Suck
. I mean yes, Denis Villeneuve and all that. But please don’t suck.…
Should I Be Worried
is a simple and aptly-named COVID tracker that uses data from Johns Hopkins. As of September 1st 2020, my state of Iowa is #1 (woohoo!) with a 7-day infection rate of 261/100,000 people (“there might be 2 to 6 times as many recent infections”) and an R0 rate of 1.7. “Over the past 30 days, 246 peopl…
Sudowrite
helps you “bust writer’s block and be more creative” using an AI. Came by it after reading this amazing result of a collaboration between GPT-3 and James Yu.…
Welcome to the Freedom Cafe!
👏 👏 👏 (cached)…
Every “safety plan” I’ve seen that would allow public schools to reopen requires that kids behave in ways that no child has ever behaved in the history of children.
Yep. And the tweet was in the context of school openings, but college towns like Ames and Iowa City, are no exceptions (like she continues.) I say we continue to doubt the science, exercise absolutely no discipline in the interest of the economy (because the Communist Kiwis maintain zero interest in…
Powells
, ThriftBooks, and Bookshop are three alternatives to purchasing books on Amazon. Powell’s is withdrawing from the Amazon Marketplace: “The vitality of our neighbors and neighborhoods depends on the ability of local businesses to thrive. We will not participate in undermining that vitality.”…
“The outburst I had at JoAnn’s Fabrics is not reflective of who I am.”
Myrna Tellingheusen is my new favorite person on the internet ♥️…
How to Decode a QR Code by Hand
See also: “Creating a QR Code step by step”…
Expedition to the floor of the Mariana Trench finds plastic bag and sweet wrappers
Look we just wanted to make sure The Ocean would remember our species for having delivered value at any cost.…
Ominous Twitter Bio Warns Foolhardy Readers That They Have Entered Realm Of Political Incorrectness
The Punisher logo is genius. Via Pete.…
The Impact of International Students on the U.S. Economy
Ah, lovely. Absolutely lovely. Really lovely folks, let me tell you.…
The poor blobfish looks pretty normal at the depths it lives in (2000 - 4,000ft) until it undergoes severe tissue damage at sea level.
Wikipedia calls it “decompression damage”. The Smithsonian Magazine has more.…
Busker twins singing a shockingly good rendition of “Eight Days a Week”
They call themselves Blac Rabbit. Here they are on Ellen.…
To make sticky rice cake, you must first invent the Universe
I had no idea how these were made until watching this. The music is annoying.…
h0p3’s Personal Wiki is one of the most strangely beautiful personal logs I’ve seen
What’s even more remarkable is that it has about 12,000 posts in a single ~38MB file! He uses TiddlyWiki which I need to try and understand.…
FizzBuzz, Enterprise Edition™️
Being a satirical take on the state of enterprise software development, and authored by smart people who presumably like to watch the world burn. The issues are highly entertaining as well.…
A procedurally generated little town 😍
The firm also did the beautiful, interactive version of Transmit’s awesome logo.…
3blue1Brown’s Series on Linear Algebra
I wish I had this intuitive, visual understanding and appreciation of the topic when I was in college.…
A tongue-in-cheek presentation on the Turing-Completeness of PowerPoint
This is some astounding PowerPoint-fu. Reminded me of the words of Linus Torvalds, “That is either genius, or a seriously diseased mind.”…
Before he played the scary blonde henchman in “Die Hard”, Alexander Grodunov was an accomplished ballet artist with the Baryshnikov troupe
He played Hans Gruber’s “right-hand man” Karl Vreski. Here’s more on his roller-coaster of a life.…
Every Zoom Call Ever
By someone at Toggl, a software company that also makes great comics… 🤷♂️…
The Ulysses Nardin “Freak” is a watch where the movement _itself_ is a hand.
It also doesn’t retail for less than $21,000 so there’s that.…
A 3D Tour of Ramesses VIs Tomb in the Valley of Kings
Constructed around 1100 BCE, it had “995 graffiti left by visitors […], ranging from the 1st century BC to the 4th century AD” a 1,000 years later.…