Sideblog
July 26
What's the bunny quotation in your life, are you getting enough? If not, cupcakeninja has a post about artist Will Quinn, who has delightful daily solutions to this problem!
July 25
In a post about the recent CrowdStrike outage, Wordshore shared a charming anecdote about signs, scone thievery, and the ethics of moth collecting.
July 24
How would you define the concept of 'tomorrow'? Even better, how would you define it to a six year old? If you have an answer, chime in on kitcat's question or see what others are saying!
July 23
It’s been a busy few years in US politics since last week’s attempted assassination of Republican Nominee Donald Trump. First, the US Supreme court dismissed the classifieds documents case against Trump, then he picked a new Vice President, while Biden pushed for Supreme court reform, then canceled more student loan debt, then stepped down at the Democratic nominee and Kamala Harris stepped up for the spot (check out the uspolitics tag for all the posts).
As for Harris becoming the presumptive Democratic Nominee, there are questions about how DNC delegates are selected. Lucky for us, community member BlueJae has been a state level delegate several times and does a deep dive about the process in Missouri, with thoughts on what other states will do. Fascinating look at how the process works!
Oh, fun! not_on_display posted The Fictional Brands Archive's searchable index, with descriptions of each brand, and browsable by name, sector, category, medium, genre, and "touchpoint." Check out the "Research" section, too, for lots of info and history on brands! 🆒
July 22
greatgefilte posted How to unlearn pain, an interesting exploration of psychotherapy or talk therapy focusing on hidden, powerful emotions for some types of pain, including a look at "This Might Hurt, a film about a radical treatment for chronic pain."
July 21
Did you know there is a Youtube Free Cleaning community? AlSweigart posted about Midwest Magic Cleaning, and specifically the channel owner's bracing reaction to the commenters who "get off on the dopamine rush of mocking people and blaming them." Very informative, and not a bad intro to the people helping folks with depression and various mental issues that result in hoarding or out of control mess. As armeowda comments "This dude gets it."
July 20
OrangeDisk asks why TV and film characters don't seem to wipe blood, dirt, etc., from their faces any longer, and gets some helpful answers, including this one from nouvelle-personne about the differences between old and new screen dirt. Interesting!
July 19
Check out this post by dhruva that highlights Nanoscopes, an award-winning short film about butterfly wings! After you've gazed over the beautiful images, dive into the thread to read some commentary from the filmmaker themselves!
July 18
For the old house and non AC people there is (literally) only one burning question: What are your best fan strategies? AgentRocket has started the discussion, come see what people are suggesting! But please pick up a pack of something cold before coming over, please and thank you!
July 17
What is the best book you've read that very few other people have even heard of? Brainwane wants to know, no matter the genre or if it's fiction or nonfiction. Come share some good reading with us!
July 16
"This site contains all 146 of the original Computer Literacy Project programmes plus 121 related programmes, broken down into 2,509 categorised, searchable clips": Jessamyn posted BBC's amazing The Computer Literacy Project, 1980-1989.