May 10, 2021
Stereolab Live In Frankfurt (1994)
It's a Rio de Janeiro bouncy ball
Dry Cleaning is a post-punk band from South London featuring a tight rhythm section, sweet guitar riffs, and wonderfully scattershot spoken word vocals. A song with a fun arty music video. A song about the Duchess of Sussex. The title track from their new album.
It's movie sign, again, again
Mystery Science Theater 3000 lives once more! The show has been revived five times now: for Comedy Central (from KTMA), the Sci-Fi Channel (long before it was Syfy), for Netflix, as a series of live shows that technically (because of COVID) haven't even ended yet, and now, as the result of a second Kickstarter even more successful than their first, as a production for their own video site and apps, to be called The Gizmoplex. The first episode of the new season... GAMERA VS JIGER. [more inside]
Free as in "free puppy," not free as in "free beer."
Nadia Eghbal gives a Long Now Foundation seminar
on the maintenance of open source software. (SL one hour of video or audio)
Bodok, mmmm, bodok
We now have menu engineers. How some restaurants design menu weight, fonts, item positioning, boxes, pictures, and language to encourage you to buy more food. (SLBBC)
cataloguing the intersection of video games and Black hair
A single-mission twitter account about video game design and representation, Can You Have Black Hair documents the answer to that question for a wide variety of games, plus related game asset and digital art tidbits.
Migrant workers, changes in US cannabis regulation, and conflict
"You can try," he says softly in Mandarin, "but I don't think they'd talk to you about New Mexico." The confluence of changes in local regulations around hemp and cannabis cultivation and sale in the US, disagreements among neighbors in the Navajo Nation, the pandemic, investment by foreign investors (including people from China), exploitation of migrant workers (including people from China), and anti-Asian racism has led to tense confrontations, arrests, and tensions within families.
Helmut Jahn, 1940-2021
Helmut Jahn died Saturday from injuries suffered in a cycling accident near his home in the Chicago suburbs. Brash and fearless, Jahn was part of the so-called Chicago Seven, a contentious group of architects who rebelled in the 1970s against what they saw as the reductionist modernist narrative, popular in the media’s chronicling of Chicago architecture. [more inside]
The Music of Ooo
A large part of the charm of Adventure Time was the original music. Wanna hear Marceline sing in Portuguese? Over 200 tracks from the show are available for free on youtube. [more inside]
is our children learning?
We Found the Textbooks of Senators Who Oppose The 1619 Project and Suddenly Everything Makes Sense. Michael Harriot @ TheRoot.com takes a dive into the confirmed (or likely) school textbooks used by the US Senators most vocally opposed to the 1619 project and is . . . not surprised at all.
The 1619 Project previously on Metafilter. [more inside]
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