March 5, 2016
Shoaling, refraction, convergence, interference
What makes an epic wave. Learn how 20 meter (and taller!) waves form thanks to “The Nazaré Wave” short video, featuring high school students from Escola Secundária de Gama Barros (Sintra, Portugal) [more inside]
Bangor Maine Police Department Facebook Page
"Sorry to bother you, but I just have to tell you, I love your voice."
Stand up comic Tig Notaro tells a story about Taylor Dayne. Jon Dore tells Tig Notaro a story about Goldilocks. (Tig Notaro, previously 1, 2, 3)
Seven miles deep, the ocean is still a noisy place
NOAA reports: "For three weeks, a titanium-encased hydrophone recorded ambient noise from the ocean floor at a depth of more than 36,000 feet, or 7 miles, in the Challenger Deep trough in the Mariana Trench near Micronesia. Researchers from NOAA, Oregon State University, and the U.S. Coast Guard were surprised by how much they heard." The hydrophone recorded the sounds of whales, ships' propellers, typhoons, and an earthquake. [more inside]
Float. Fly. Eat.
Boat plans collected by Svenson from assorted 50s and 60s magazines such as Mechanix Illustrated free for download. Sailboats, Hydroplanes, Ski boats, Cabin Cruisers, Rowboats, Houseboats, Runabouts (inboard and outboard), Paddle boats, Utility boats, Novelty boats and other information. Also free model airplane plans. [more inside]
Hypocrisy is the Homerage vice pays virtue
Movie References in The Simpsons (SLVimeo; NSFW)
They cannot choose not to decide
The Girl Who Listened To Rush is a new song by Nerf Herder, full of love and references for the titular trio.
Take your mind off of everything
Evgeni Plushenko is your sex bomb This is a very fun figure skating video from 2001. Here is a Evgeni Plushenko compilation by the Huffington Post from 2014 for further diversion.
Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera
SF author (and Mefi's own) Charles Stross is thinking about the cliches in Space Opera and tries to put together a complete list of the hoary genre tropes that literary (no TV or movies) Space Opera is prone to.
"Politicians. Businessmen. Nobody’s watching them anymore."
As newsrooms disappear, veteran reporters are being forced from the profession. They dedicated their lives to telling other people’s stories. What happens when no one wants to print their words anymore?
Early Computers: Applications, Computer Graphics, Look at Future Uses
The Incredible Machine (1960s, slyt)
Cherry, the mechanical king
As developers, we all have preferences in the tools we use for work: a powerful machine, one (or two) large screens, having the freedom to choose our OS, our IDE, etc....
Yet in most companies, we rarely pay the the same level of attention to keyboards.
Scott Kelly wasn't up there alone, you know
Dust to dust
Francis Bacon's final painting 'Study of a Bull', never publicly seen before, has been found in a private collection and will now go on show for the first time.
Beautiful birds flying free. That's all.
Historia de un Oso
Bear Story won the Best Animated Short Oscar 2016. It is an allegory of Chile in the '70s. [more inside]
"I am a woman. I am a feminist. And I am angry."
Six candidates, eight days, eleven states: Election 2016 continues
It's another day of multi-state voting in the live version of House of Cards otherwise known as Election 2016. On the Republican side, four candidates remain: Rafael Edward Cruz, John Richard Kasich, Marco Antonio Rubio, and Donald John Trump. On the Democrat side, Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton and Bernard Sanders continue their fight. As the math becomes clearer, and with several months still to go before potentially feisty party conventions, the odds [Oddschecker] [PredictWise] remain on both Clinton and Trump as the favorites to win their respective nominations. More on today's voting from ABC, Fortune and USA Today, while on the horizon, in-person voting begins in Florida... [more inside]
RIP Pat Conroy
« Previous day | Next day »