January 12, 2022

"Ted Nugent remembers accidentally shooting a fan with an arrow."

Michigans "Sherwood Forest: How it began; How it ended." [more inside]
posted by clavdivs at 10:39 PM PST - 21 comments

“The louder they applauded, the more mascara we put on the next time.”

Ronnie Spector has died at age 78. Best known as the frontwoman of The Ronettes (and the only one who actually sang on their signature hit, 1963’s Be My Baby), she survived a bright spotlight and a tight wardrobe at a young age, and later, an abusive marriage to a certain murderous record producer. [more inside]
posted by armeowda at 10:07 PM PST - 42 comments

MILK CRATE (YT)

Making a milk crate, stop motion style . omozoc makes stop motion videos that are surreal, hilarious and captivating. The sound is great, too. [more inside]
posted by Gorgik at 8:03 PM PST - 12 comments

Weltanschauung has two u’s!

In December 2020, George Meyer—once called "the funniest man on the funniest show on TV by the New Yorker—launched a new online comedy enterprise, Frogs & Turtles. It consists of two pages of occasionally-updated humorous bits, one of which is called Frogs, and the other of which is called Turtles. In many ways it's reminiscent of his old publication Army Man, which was the birthplace of a shocking number of American comedy greats (previously here, and miraculously archived in its entirety on Tumblr). Come for the groundbreaking next-level web design, stay for the... frogs and turtles, I guess.
posted by rorgy at 2:36 PM PST - 36 comments

Code is Just

Code is Just is the twitter memoir of Shahid Kamal Ahmad, a largely self-taught programmer and diabetic Pakistani teenager in 80s London. He talks about his home life, his early experiences with game making and publishing, how he was asked to port Jet Set Willy to the Commodore 64 in under a month(!) and how he attempted to single-handedly reverse engineer Knight Lore's isometric 3d. Threadreader version. Footnotes twitter thread.
Content Warning: Racism, Health issues
posted by Sparx at 1:54 PM PST - 17 comments

The T.A.M.I. Show

The T.A.M.I. Show [more inside]
posted by y2karl at 12:17 PM PST - 31 comments

Table Tenet

Physics simulations of bounching balls, simulated forward and backward from a perfect moment in time. More where that came from. [via Kottke]
posted by cortex at 11:38 AM PST - 24 comments

Aduhelm and Medicare

Derek Lowe on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' decision to not pay for the controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm except for use during a clinical trial: PhRMA should want drugs that work; instead, they're coming out in favor of drugs that are approved and are reimbursed by insurance, and Aduhelm is evidence that those categories are not the same. I wish they were. I wish a lot of things. [more inside]
posted by metaquarry at 9:24 AM PST - 20 comments

This is a gold rush

Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike weighs in on web3: When people talk about blockchains, they talk about distributed trust, leaderless consensus, and all the mechanics of how that works, but often gloss over the reality that clients ultimately can’t participate in those mechanics. All the network diagrams are of servers, the trust model is between servers, everything is about servers. Blockchains are designed to be a network of peers, but not designed such that it’s really possible for your mobile device or your browser to be one of those peers.
posted by Cash4Lead at 8:50 AM PST - 144 comments

The gray wasteland of many TV shows and movies

So many TV shows and movies now have a dull filter applied to every scene, one that cuts away vibrancy and trends toward a boring sameness. Every frame’s color scheme ends up feeling the same as every other frame. And when there are so many projects using similar techniques, you end up with a world of boring visuals that don’t stand out. Colors: Where did they go? An investigation that includes history, examples, and not much snark by Emily VanDerWerff in Vox.
posted by Bella Donna at 7:43 AM PST - 75 comments

100 Days of Practice

Violinist Hilary Hahn encourages Instagram musicians to practice 100 days in a row. She started earlier this month with her fifth round of #100daysofpractice challenge, inviting people to join, but emphasizing that it's not a challenge. So far, she has been joined by other violinists, violists, pianists, harpists, clarinettists, saxophonists, and many other musicians from around the world. [more inside]
posted by easternblot at 7:42 AM PST - 11 comments

Snowdown Please, I'm Plowing

Michigan DOT Snowplow Names (h/t)
posted by May Kasahara at 6:53 AM PST - 39 comments

On screen 90 years ago

"A small handful of filmmakers mastered the 'talkies' and made movies that look and sound as if they could have been made years later...It’s full of familiar classics, with a film or two that will probably be unknown to many." The ten best films of 1931. [more inside]
posted by youarenothere at 4:09 AM PST - 31 comments

Favorite Maps of 2021

Over on Cartoblography, Kenneth Field has published his annual look at his favorite maps from the past year. His list includes Stamen 2020 Headquarters by Catalina Plé, 500,000 lives lost by NBC News, Population change by US state since 2010 by Adrian Blanco and Tim Meko at The Washington Post, Global Glacier Loss by Niko Kommenda, San Marino Bus Map by Jug Cerovic, It’s Coming Home by Dan, Algonquin Canoe Trip by Warren Davison, Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony Drone Globe, Atlas of the Invisible by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti, St. Vincent Island by Aaron Koelker, Arctic Warming by Greg Fiske, The Lost Treasures of Isla del Coco by Jakob Listabarth, and Murky Waters by Andrew Douglas Clifford.
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 3:31 AM PST - 6 comments

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