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“If someone could pay Doordash $16 a pizza, and Doordash would pay his restaurant $24 a pizza, then he should clearly just order pizzas himself via Doordash, all day long.” A restaurateur and his friend discover that the Doordash delivery app is willing to lose venture capitalists’ money if they can expand their middleman business. Doordash previously and previously.
posted by Monochrome at 8:29 PM PST - 124 comments

Listen to the soothing tones of Ogmios as he demonstrates how a true master navigates the streets of London, with the Ogmios School of Zen Motoring [SLYT]. With bonus Purim content!
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 7:15 PM PST - 21 comments

Some of us are being told that we shouldn’t concern ourselves with the pandemic. We’re privileged enough to not care, while others have to shoulder the burden of worrying all the time. This is ableist.
posted by katra at 7:06 PM PST - 41 comments

Kana Chan TV is a Japanese youtuber/vlogger like many others, she records herself preparing and eating food or playing video games like American Truck Simulator (badly).
oh yeah, as of about a week ago, she's also the current WWE RAW Women's Champion
posted by juv3nal at 6:23 PM PST - 4 comments

Inspired by Daniel de Bruin's "universe's biggest gear reduction," the Brick Experiment Channel constructed a googol:1 gear reduction with LEGO.

Bonus: what happens if you turn de Bruin's gear assembly from the other end—Will It Hit Lightspeed?
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 4:49 PM PST - 22 comments

Toddler sings the blues (SLTwitterVideo) Does what it says on the tin
posted by Gorgik at 3:55 PM PST - 17 comments

Roger Waters raises the game on lock down Zoom jam sessions. "...reminds me just how irreplaceable the joy of being in a band is."
posted by rongorongo at 3:02 PM PST - 19 comments

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has posted an extraordinary image of Rembrandt's The Night Watch (1642) on its website. ".....Click again and you're propelled towards the outstretched hand of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq. Another click, and you're face-to-face with the leader of this group of not-so-merry-men. Once more, and you can see the glint in his eye and the texture of his ginger beard. At no point does the image start to pixilate or distort, it's pin-sharp throughout. And it remains so as you continue to click, getting further and further into the painting until the Captain's paint-cracked eyeball is the size of a fist, and you realise that tiny glint you first saw isn't the result of one dab of Rembrandt's brush, but four separate applications, each loaded with a slightly different shade of paint."
posted by storybored at 2:41 PM PST - 19 comments

"In all this struggling to imagine, I encounter a certain irony: The more I know about birds, the more inaccessible their perceptual world seems to me." Jenny Odell reviews two books on bird behavior. [Previously: How to Do Nothing.]
posted by kaibutsu at 2:09 PM PST - 18 comments

Why does this commercial have a better plot than half of the shows y’all be watching? asks Dripjutsu on twitter. [more inside]
posted by MartinWisse at 12:44 PM PST - 35 comments

There had been movies about computer hacking before 1995, most famously in John Badham’s Cold War classic WarGames (YT trailer) (1983), where Matthew Broderick almost triggered World War III after hacking a supercomputer to “play a game” of intercontinental nuclear armageddon, but Iain Softley’s Hackers (YT trailer) is more interesting for being released at the brink of the Internet Age. It seems crazy now, but this movie was released barely a month after Windows 95 debuted (YT clip). 1995 doesn’t seem that long ago, but [25] years has been an ice age in technological terms. Surf on in for more links, critiques, music and actual hackers. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 12:11 PM PST - 29 comments

The U.S. Space Force has unveiled its service flag, based upon the logo approved in January; the design remains oddly familiar. [more inside]
posted by Iris Gambol at 11:07 AM PST - 42 comments

Yoko Kanno's band Seatbelts reunite for a virtual session to play Tank! [SLYT], the beloved theme from the anime (and soon to be live action series) Cowboy Bebop.
posted by dephlogisticated at 10:52 AM PST - 16 comments

Researchers from the ETH Zurich university have discovered a sweet gimmick: Iridescent Chocolate. [more inside]
posted by Eleven at 10:21 AM PST - 8 comments

Welcome to Jstris, a simple online multiplayer block game. Jstris is known for its fast gameplay and is attracting talented players from all around the world. This guide will introduce you to the basic features of the game.
posted by aniola at 9:35 AM PST - 9 comments

The Story Of Donkey Kong In Manga Form! [YouTube][26:59] A brilliant retelling of the 1981 and 1994 Donkey Kong story.
posted by Fizz at 9:10 AM PST - 2 comments

Singer-songwriter Raquel Castro wow-ed the judges on Songland with her original song Wrong Places. Judges Ester Dean, Ryan Tedder and Shane McAnally gave Raquel some suggestions, including words to switch up the refrain "looking for love." The Journey to the Music Video includes the session (time stamped link) when Raquel and Ryan fine-tune the song further and add in other instruments, Raquel's performance (time stamped link) with the full band in front of Songland guest judge and multi-instrumentalist H.E.R. who (spoiler) chooses Raquel's song to record. H.E.R. recorded a studio version for the lyric video but posted an (even better) acoustic quarantine-at-home version.
posted by spamandkimchi at 9:04 AM PST - 2 comments

An oral history of SisQó's “Thong Song” (As told by SisQó, and no one else.)

Then I was gonna come up with a second verse, but the first verse was so good I was like, "Yo what if I just sang the same verse but made it sound like it was a different verse?" That's lowkey genius. It's a sing-a-long. It's like complex simplicity.

posted by Going To Maine at 8:49 AM PST - 12 comments

AWARE - Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions.
Paris based; the goal is the creation, indexation and distribution of information on women artists of the 20th century.
Together with Research, Reviews, Interviews and reports together with extensive links for further consultation.
posted by adamvasco at 8:04 AM PST - 1 comments

Article in German about the negotiations Friday, the third round of Brexit negotiations ended, and nobody outside the UK seems to have noticed (links under the break in English) [more inside]
posted by mumimor at 3:48 AM PST - 39 comments