April 7, 2017
Some women woodworkers on the net
If you are just getting into woodworking as a hobby, your first impression might be that it's mainly a male pursuit (and usually done by men with beards). But there are women doing awesome woodworking out there, for example Popular Woodworking Magazine's editor Megan Fitzpatrick. And of course on YouTube: [more inside]
Read this review
Pac-Man 256 Review Ben McCurry reviews the new Namco Bandai release, and the Brash Games review site. [Archived link]
Strange Attractor
You remember Alphaville, right? They've dropped a new album, Strange Attractor. Giants - House Of Ghosts - Enigma are all tracks from this new album.
His friends call him "T-Kash"
Welcome To My Life is an animated short by Elizabeth Ito and a team at Cartoon Network, which follows a teenaged monster boy name Douglas through a day at school.
You take Bank Americard?
In the old days (1972) when you discovered a copyright violation you didn't have your lawyers fire off some boilerplate takedown notice. In the old days, if you were Neil Young, you just made off with it. After informing the manager and paying for the candle your production crew broke, of course. [more inside]
Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams
Make Mercia Great Again
Behold the scribings of King Donæld the Unready, the Greatest Bretwalda Mercia ever saw. The Bestwalda.
Hear ye of his many kingly exploits and brave pronouncements of divers matters:
on his use of St. Elmo's fire against Ivarr the Boneless in Cumbraland and the reaction of the Viking Rus, on efforts to fulfill his promise to build a shieldwall to protect our fair kingdom, on the fate of Ealdormann Bannon and those villainous fake chroniclers...
bīdaþ! King Donæld is not alone... [more inside]
Short Doc About My Hairstylist Doing Porn
Comedian and Chappelle's Show co-creator Neal Brennan makes a short documentary about his hairstylist entering the porn industry: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (NSFW)
Cassini's Grand Finale
How to Mourn a Space Robot. "NASA’s Cassini probe will soon plunge into Saturn, ending its 13-year mission to the ringed planet and triggering a wave of grief among scientists, engineers, and an adoring public." [more inside]
Bean me up, Scotty.
Things full of beans that shouldn't be full of beans... [SLFB] Sadly, no plates, but I think those are where beans belong.
"A Visual Journey Through History"
Blvck Vrchives Cultural curator Renata Charlise presents"multimedia narratives centering black life in Chicago [and elsewhere], pulling from the Sun-Times photographic archive. " See also her projects Sunday Kinfolk & Blackflorida.
First cake of the season
Today began the 2017 Cricket County Championship, a tournament dating from between 1825 and 1890. 12 of the 18 counties which constitute the two divisions were in action from 11am, with lunch being taken around 1pm, tea and cake around mid-afternoon, and close of play at roughly 6pm. Matches last up to four days; possible results are win, loss, draw or tie, with bonus points available for various batting and bowling metrics. However, points can be deducted for poor pitches, slow over rates, ball tampering, a breach of salary cap, or poor discipline. This season, sponsored by an opticians, the championship began with controversial points deductions and will end in late September. For twenty of the other counties there is the minor counties championship, and for many spectators there will be cake. [more inside]
Eliza, how do I claim asylum?
Browder says this new functionality for his robot lawyer is “long overdue”. He told the Guardian: “I’ve been trying to launch this for about six months – I initially wanted to do it in the summer. But I wanted to make sure I got it right because it’s such a complicated issue. I kept showing it to lawyers throughout the process and I’d go back and tweak it.The creator of a chatbot which overturned more than 160,000 parking fines and helped vulnerable people apply for emergency housing is now turning the bot to helping refugees claim asylum.
"Obviously, it helps to explain the process to your cat beforehand."
The strike will not be televised
WGA East’s Council Asks Members To Authorize Strike. Almost one decade after the strike that paralyzed the TV industry, the writers are preparing to march again if no deal is reached before the Mayday deadline. [more inside]
Scotland should join
For Red 11... For Red 6... For Red Leader...
Darth Seder. Okay, so it was made for May the 4th, not Passover. Would it kill you to watch it early?
Election Profit Makers Mixtape #2
Gripping pictures on the front - absorbing stories on the back!
Desert Storm Cards:
Although we Americans remain strongly split in our beliefs about whether or not our military belonged in Iraq after the Twin Towers fell, most of us felt it was the right thing to do to help Kuwait in it's battle against Saddam Hussein's invasion way back in 1991.[more inside]
For cannibals, here’s the caloric content of humans—it’s just meh
Roots and Branches and Wind-Borne Seeds
Yes -
a woman falls from a cliff, but the important moment is just before that, when she, at age 51 (after two unhappy marriages) discovers a passion for botany - and just after that, when she continues her research and collections.
Park/Life
Parking can seem like the most humdrum concern in the world. Even planners, who thrill to things like zoning and floor-area ratios, find it unglamorous. But parking influences the way cities look, and how people travel around them, more powerfully than almost anything else. Many cities try to make themselves more appealing by building cycle paths and tram lines or by erecting swaggering buildings by famous architects. If they do not also change their parking policies, such efforts amount to little more than window-dressing. How not to create traffic jams, pollution and urban sprawl (from The Economist) [more inside]
How to make an earthquake in the Linux-sphere
In a short post, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu has announced that the next generation desktop environment, Unity 8, as well as the phone and tablet OS effort (commonly known as Ubuntu Touch) are being binned. Further adding to the magnitude of the announcement, he reveals that the desktop OS will revert to using GNOME as the default desktop environment starting with the 18.04 release next April. [more inside]
« Previous day | Next day »