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Cannonball: The Most 1993 Song of All Time
posted by Artw at 10:29 AM - 16 comments

"If that had been us that attacked the Capitol a couple of years ago, they would have shot us." Remembering the March on Washington 60 years ago.
posted by binturong at 10:16 AM - 3 comments

Conduction, convection, and radiation through windows suck heat out of the house in winter and give it easy entry in summer. Cooling the heat caused by solar gain from a home's windows may be 50% of peak load. Limiting unwanted solar gains in summer, while keeping desired passive solar heating in winter can be a balancing act in some climates, but keep in mind solar impact on roof and wall temperature is lower in winter than summer due to shorter days and lower intensity sunlight. [more inside]
posted by spamandkimchi at 10:08 AM - 13 comments

In the immediate aftermath of a thrilling final that saw Spain's first Women's World Cup victory, Luis Rubiales, the president of Spain's soccer federation, kissed player Jenni Hermoso, which she has said was done without her consent. FIFA has suspended him for 90 days, but Rubiales refuses to resign, the Spanish soccer federation is threatening to sue Hermoso for giving her side of the story on Instagram, and the entire women's team is on strike.
posted by Etrigan at 9:18 AM - 39 comments

Wordward Draw is a browser game in which each word you type must be either an anagram of your previous word or identical to your previous word with just one letter changed. If you can reach certain goal words (which are gradually revealed), you get to see a little picture. That's it! See all the pictures! [more inside]
posted by nobody at 7:32 AM - 18 comments

Naomi Klein discusses how being confused with Naomi Wolf went from amusing to disturbing as the pandemic lead her “doppelgänger” to right-wing prosperity.
posted by adamsc at 6:11 AM - 38 comments

There are stand-up specials, and there are stand-up specials. Part Dmitri Martin, part Andy Kaufman, Kristen Schaal: Live at the Fillmore [2013, 1h] is hilarious, inventive, surprising, and, well, um... yeah. I'm still not entirely sure what I've seen, but I think that's part of the point. NSFW for subject matter, not visuals.
posted by hippybear at 5:51 AM - 5 comments

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk: Better Red than dead [Shack News] “Set in a funky, futuristic New Amsterdam, the world of Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is ruled by crews of graffiti artists-slash-DJs-slash-superheroes(?). The constant power struggle is a bid to become “All City,” the top of the top. You start as Faux, someone seemingly crucial to the current rankings. But before you can escape a mysterious holding cell and figure out what’s up, another crew leader lops your head off with weaponized vinyl. You wake up with a new (robot) head, a new name (Red) and a new crew, and set off to get your head back and become All City on the way. [...] If you’re an old school Segahead, there are definitely a few holes in your heart in need of filling. Jet Set Radio, which hasn’t seen a new game since the Xbox, is one of the biggest. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk has appeared like a beacon of hope to fill that void, and it does so while bringing new stuff to the table. This game is like a long-lost Dreamcast game in so many different ways, and most of them are good. Clearly, the developers at Team Reptile understand the concept of love.” [Launch Trailer][Gameplay Trailer]
posted by Fizz at 5:39 AM - 7 comments

Golden bandicoots were locally extinct last week. Now, they're back — and growing. Golden bandicoots were last sighted in this area in 1967. Now a translocation project is aiming to revive the marsupial's population.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 10:00 PM - 5 comments

Conveyor Belt Salmon Nigiri vs. Conveyor Belt Tuna Nigiri - only one can win.
posted by Going To Maine at 9:32 PM - 15 comments

It has struck me lately that the recurrent frenzy of destruction of prized objects in popular culture may tell us less about our current relationship to the past than it does about our fears for the future. After all, each effort a culture makes to preserve an object of admiration involves a wager about how later generations will need access to material that is already in some measure outmoded. If every museum may be understood to indicate something about what a culture anticipates or hopes will happen in the years ahead, to depend on a secular prophesy of value, the loss of protection, the acceptance of injury, even the cheerful anticipation of acts of violence may in turn need to be understood to be forceful indications of fundamental changes in values. from In The Age of Artpocalypse; Beauty and Damage on TV
posted by chavenet at 3:53 PM - 7 comments

• How to draw Ronald McDonald
• How to be a Playboy bunny
• How to care for your Pet Rock
• How to run the Haunted Mansion
• How to fly to the Moon
• How to commit sabotage

A selection of digitized manuals from the Internet Archive curated by Jason Scott posted by Horace Rumpole at 11:07 AM - 44 comments

Fred Clark of Slacktivist (previously) quotes Biblical scriptures on honest weights and measures while critiquing corporate survey metrics and their dishonest usage by bosses to punish individual workers. "Your job is simply to give all 5s. To everyone, everywhere, every time. This is your task because it is the only honest answer available to an honest person. Because 4≠0. Because differing weights are an abomination and false scales are not good. Because your wealthy are full of violence with tongues of deceit in their mouths and bags full of dishonest weights." From June 2019.
posted by brainwane at 9:20 AM - 85 comments

The Little Widow From the Capital is a short story by Yohanca Delgado. It appears in the Best American Short Stories 2022. The link gives just the first three pages of the story but you can listen to it whole at NPR's Selected Shorts. Scroll down to "Best American Short Stories", story starts at 5min 30s. [more inside]
posted by storybored at 8:54 AM - 4 comments

Bad-ass writer Niko Stratis on the frustration of being talked about without being talked to in media (slPasteMagazine) [more inside]
posted by Kitteh at 8:43 AM - 14 comments

Armored Core 6 brings mecha to the masses [Polygon] “The rebooted Armored Core is not a sprawling adventure game à la Elden Ring or Bloodborne, nor does my experience with those games make me a capable mech pilot. Instead, Armored Core 6 is a reconsideration of a classic game series infused with a decade of studio growth, expertise in combat and level design, and the heightened expectations of FromSoftware fans. Armored Core 6 is a faster, more refined Armored Core experience that streamlines the mecha franchise in clever ways. [...] It’s noisy, chaotic, and starkly beautiful, all this clanging metal, ricochets, and explosions. It’s unlike many of the FromSoftware games you may have played over the past decade, to its benefit.” [Launch Trailer][Overview Trailer] [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 4:38 AM - 31 comments

"As I pen down these words in my office at the Armenian Theological Seminary of the Holy See of Cilicia, it’s heartrending to acknowledge that over 120,000 Armenian individuals, including children in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh) within the South Caucasus, are facing the dire fate of starvation. Unlike many other instances of famine, this crisis has been inflicted upon them due to the actions of their neighboring country, Azerbaijan. By blocking the sole connecting road to the Republic of Armenia, known as the Lachin Corridor, Azerbaijan has triggered and augmented this suffering. For more than a week, 400 tons of vital humanitarian aid have been stranded along the road to Artsakh, all due to Azerbaijan’s political agenda of ethnic cleansing in the region, with the aim of asserting the entire territory as part of Azerbaijan." [more inside]
posted by kmt at 1:44 AM - 18 comments

How these small bedrooms have renewed hope for endangered eastern freshwater cod. The eastern freshwater cod has been described as just as important as a crocodile or white shark. Now, experts have designed a nesting box that has delivered promising results.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 8:31 PM - 9 comments

The news came out of nowhere as WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque tweeted: "Windham Rotunda - also known as Bray Wyatt - unexpectedly passed earlier today". Bray Wyatt -- one of the most charismatic and creative professional wrestlers of the current era -- was 36 years old.
posted by Etrigan at 5:26 PM - 28 comments

... during the writing process for this production. Breaking Bad 2 (official trailer). WARNING: pretty damned graphic etc.
posted by philip-random at 3:55 PM - 26 comments

As the U.S. crept toward an overreliance on mono-agriculture, it eroded native pollinator populations, forcing the country to rely more and more on a species (European honeybees) that is both invasive and increasingly unstable. We strip the land to make more of the same crops and in doing so refortify our economic tentpoles and hasten our agricultural demise. The more the system grows, the more it precipitates the upheaval of the very thing it is most reliant on. from America’s Bee Problem Is an Us Problem [The Ringer] [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 3:52 PM - 24 comments

Liam Carps makes Youtube Shorts about living in Germany.
posted by backseatpilot at 1:23 PM - 15 comments

If the Indigenous community has its version of the Met Gala, this would be it. Inlaid turquoise sunglasses? Don’t mind if I do. AuntieCreations - Lynn Traylor - making the ultimate beaded hat. Goodday, bringing it as always. “When you and your silly jingle chain make it to Vogue.” IndigiGoth looks. On Wednesday we wear pink to the Native Guitars Tour. Your earrings should be bigger. There are ribbon skirts, and then there are ribbon gowns. Raven Bright showing us how to move. Velvet and a wealth of turquoise. It’s the bomber jackets for me.
posted by Bottlecap at 11:58 AM - 16 comments

A guessing game of animal categories.
posted by clew at 10:25 AM - 32 comments

Trans teachers fired. Trans inmates detransitioned. Adult care banned. Allies killed. We are entering into a new phase of anti-trans politics, and eradication is the goal. [more inside]
posted by aniola at 7:53 AM - 77 comments

"The makers of The Atomic Cafe [1982, 1h26m] sifted through thousands of feet of Army films, newsreels, government propaganda films and old television broadcasts to come up with the material in their film, which is presented without any narration, as a record of some of the ways in which the bomb entered American folklore. There are songs, speeches by politicians, and frightening documentary footage of guinea-pig American troops shielding themselves from an atomic blast and then exposing themselves to radiation neither they nor their officers understood." - Roger Ebert [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 5:42 AM - 24 comments

Split-screen tonight in America: The first Republican presidential primary debate of 2024 starting in 10 minutes (moderated by Sean Hannity and featuring DeSantis, Ramaswamy, Pence, Haley, Christie, Scott, Hutchinson, and Burgum) vs. a counterprogramming interview between Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump on Twitter starting in 5. Live resources: Brian Tyler Cohen's debate livestream (with commentary) - Nitter mirror of @TuckerCarlson for those not wanting to patronize Musk/bowtie - FiveThirtyEight liveblog - NYT liveblog - Debate bingo and drinking game - MeFi chat for real-time discussion
posted by Rhaomi at 5:50 PM - 135 comments

The underwater Amazon off Australia's coast that could help tackle climate change. New research shows the climate benefits of protecting and restoring underwater kelp forests could be equivalent to planting a billion trees.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 5:25 PM - 5 comments

Since 2020, Americans have experienced rising food prices while farm closures have ticked steadily upward. Inflation and supply chain issues stemming from the pandemic have been explicitly or implicitly blamed in the news. However, the inflation narrative overlooks a more endemic, structural problem with the industry at large. from The Cartel That Controls the US Meat Industry
posted by chavenet at 3:51 PM - 9 comments

Sir John Eliot Gardiner has reportedly struck a singer after a performance of Berlioz's Les Troyens at the Berlioz Festival in France. "According to our informants, and with confirmation by a person authorised to speak on Gardiner’s behalf, Gardiner was annoyed that the English bass singer, William Thomas, 29, left the podium on the wrong side. Backstage, in the wings and out of sight of the audience, Gardiner, 80, rebuked Thomas in front of the cast, then slapped and punched him in the face." [more inside]
posted by Pallas Athena at 3:25 PM - 32 comments

BBC: Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin presumed dead after Russia plane crash [more inside]
posted by Major Clanger at 11:17 AM - 213 comments

A zoo in Tennessee says it has welcomed a rare giraffe that does not have any spots. The spotless giraffe was born at Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee, on July 31 and the zoo says experts believe she is the only solid-colored reticulated giraffe on the planet.
posted by Etrigan at 10:11 AM - 30 comments

A home for retired playground animals just opened in NYC. "The ‘retired’ animals were put in parks across NYC under former parks commissioner Henry Stern, who asked designers to incorporate animal art into every new playground in those decades. Some of them, like the frog, were made in-house, but the others were prefabricated. Once these playgrounds were renovated with new and accessible play features, the need for these animals disappeared. Until now, these animals were just thrown out, but starting now, they'll be added to the 'retirement home' at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park."
posted by moonmilk at 8:35 AM - 20 comments

The Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander has successfully touched down near the moon's south pole. This video of the ISRO control center during Vikram's descent and soft landing from earlier today is tense and joyous.
posted by mhoye at 7:23 AM - 48 comments

With Oppenheimer quickly becoming one of the biggest [heh] movies of all time, there has been a lot of discussion about film format floating around lately. Here with a complete explainer about film formats is Analogue Resurgence with 70mm: From Oklahoma to Oppenheimer (Or, How Very Big Film Was Used to Make Very Big Movies) [46m]. It's a romp across cinema through the lens of, well, the lenses. And the film stock. [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 5:12 AM - 14 comments

How the Pre-Raphaelites Became Obsessed with the Wombat. Angus Trumble at the Public Domain Review on 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti and company's curious but longstanding fixation with the furry oddity that is the wombat — that "most beautiful of God's creatures" which found its way into their poems, their art, and even, for a brief while, their homes.'
posted by misteraitch at 3:43 AM - 27 comments

Last month, the Panama Maritime Authority published its final report [pdf] into the 2021 grounding of the Ever Given (MeFi previously). Mike Schuler summarised the findings at gCaptain, noting that:

The report was highly critical of navigation decisions made by the SCA pilots. According to the report, they did not take bad weather conditions into account, gave improper instructions to the helmsman, and did not communicate effectively with the bridge team due to language difficulties. The vessel was also traveling faster than the maximum speed, which the report noted is common.

Some lessons clearly remain to be learned though, because today, the 300m LNG carrier BW Lesmes also got itself jammed sideways in the canal, and the Cayman Islands tanker Burri ran into it. This time however, both ships were freed within a few hours.
posted by automatronic at 1:22 AM - 9 comments

Idaho Legislature’s decision to disband board came as two hospitals that serve rural areas announced they would stop providing services for expectant mothers From the Idaho Capital Sun [more inside]
posted by mumimor at 12:30 AM - 35 comments

A Universal Germanic Dialogue (SLYT, make sure sound is on) Is it possible to construct a paragraph in Dutch, German, English, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish that are all mutually comprehendible? That is my plan.
posted by gwint at 8:05 PM - 46 comments

Worst to Best: Music Videos Set in Movie Worlds (SLThe Reveal, a Substack that's mostly about movies)
posted by box at 3:37 PM - 33 comments

"Well, one day I found out he was actually coming into town to play as the featured soloist with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra." A sweet story by a pianist about a risk she took when she was much younger, and what happened next. Told in a Mastodon thread, 8 posts long (you'll have to tap/click "Read more" to read each post in its entirety).
posted by brainwane at 3:32 PM - 15 comments

Yet within the sport, and even for the larger world, the Giants remain a cautionary tale: a high-profile example of what can happen when prejudice derails a talented organization or team, when discord and distrust become everyday elements in a workplace. Instead of dominating the big leagues with their core of talented Latino and African-American players, the Giants were perennial also-rans for most of the 1960s. from Giant Missteps
posted by chavenet at 3:19 PM - 1 comment

A semester inside the siege: New College professor defends her progressive haven from DeSantis’ conservative coup. “If I just walk away,” she thought, “who will stand up for this place? ... I want to try to preserve the things that make New College unique and wonderful." Amy Reid, a professor of French language and the director of the gender studies program, has worked at New College of Florida her whole career — nearly half her life.
posted by spamandkimchi at 11:52 AM - 59 comments

From million-dollar slide shows to Steve Jobs’s introduction of the iPhone, a bit of show business never hurt plain old business. (archive.today link)
posted by Etrigan at 10:04 AM - 18 comments

The failure of Luna 25 cements Putin’s role as a disastrous space leader. [Ars Technica] The destruction of the lunar probe--which would have been Russia's first lunar mission since a Soviet uncrewed probe in 1976--is the latest in a long line of failures and downgradings of the program that once accomplished the first successful satellite launch, the first man and woman in space, and the first spacewalk. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:49 AM - 68 comments

"Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023. Human Rights Watch research indicates that, at time of writing, the killings are continuing. Saudi border guards have used explosive weapons and shot people at close range, including women and children, in a pattern that is widespread and systematic." Saudi Arabian Mass Killings of Ethiopian Migrants at the Yemen-Saudi Border (HRW report) (One of the many consequences of the Tigray War where it's "estimated 162,000–⁠600,000 people were killed" between 2020 and 2022)
posted by kmt at 5:07 AM - 9 comments

How methane from food waste contributes to climate change and why small efforts to stop it can make a big difference.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 1:21 AM - 44 comments

While hunger may be the best sauce in the world, most prefer something with a bit more taste. And since it's summer and beautiful herbs abound, let's look at many ways of bringing a "green" zip to the plate. (Plus it's Hatch Chile season!) As with all things culinary, this will be woefully incomplete, short sighted, lacking the complete picture and not the way your nana made it and that's great - more green sauces! [more inside]
posted by drewbage1847 at 11:10 PM - 40 comments

The Ideal Viewport Does Not Exist - the results of a little investigation into how fragmented browser sizes are across users, with some fun visualization.
posted by Artw at 7:57 PM - 27 comments

This works unreasonably well: a mashup of Anaconda, by Nicki Minaj, and Phantom of the Opera
posted by Pronoiac at 6:54 PM - 9 comments