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…
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.…
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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…
, 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.”…
and Advanced Custom Fields Pro are two must-have plugins for advanced Wordpressing according to my friend Mike, a seasoned Wordpresser.…
Myrna Tellingheusen is my new favorite person on the internet ♥️…
See also: “Creating a QR Code step by step”…
Look we just wanted to make sure The Ocean would remember our species for having delivered value at any cost.…
The Punisher logo is genius. Via Pete.…
Ah, lovely. Absolutely lovely. Really lovely folks, let me tell you.…
Wikipedia calls it “decompression damage”. The Smithsonian Magazine has more.…
They call themselves Blac Rabbit. Here they are on Ellen.…
I had no idea how these were made until watching this. The music is annoying.…
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.…
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.…
The firm also did the beautiful, interactive version of Transmit’s awesome logo.…
I wish I had this intuitive, visual understanding and appreciation of the topic when I was in college.…
This is some astounding PowerPoint-fu. Reminded me of the words of Linus Torvalds, “That is either genius, or a seriously diseased mind.”…
He played Hans Gruber’s “right-hand man” Karl Vreski. Here’s more on his roller-coaster of a life.…
By someone at Toggl, a software company that also makes great comics… 🤷♂️…
It also doesn’t retail for less than $21,000 so there’s that.…
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.…