February 18, 2016

Not 'remembered,' I don't care about being remembered.

We are the killers. We stink of death. We carry it with us. It sticks to us like frost. We cannot tear it away. [...]
The Aztecs in the shock of the conquest, of utter destruction, tried to regain their speech, and they tried to describe simple things. A cave. A cave is a place of darkness. It is full of fear. It is dark, yes, very dark. And fear looms there. And do we dare to enter? Because the cave is big and it is dark.
A 70-minute conversation with Werner Herzog, loosely structured by one of his favorite books, J. A. Baker's The Peregrine. [more inside]
posted by grobstein at 11:24 PM PST - 3 comments

Women's healthcare affected by growing number of Catholic hospitals

The Guardian reports on an accusation by a former Muskegon County, Michigan health official claiming that a Catholic healthcare provider forced five women between August 2009 and December 2010 to undergo dangerous miscarriages by giving them no other option. Catholic hospitals must follow the Ethical Health Directives issued by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, and with consolidation in health care providers, more and more Americans are affected. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb at 7:27 PM PST - 42 comments

Picture a horizontal line of 4-inch stilettos, dangling at eye level

The women's empowerment conference industry (sl Bloomberg)
posted by Lycaste at 7:00 PM PST - 9 comments

I don’t think I’ll forget iPhone Butt

What happens when you zoom in too much on Google Maps. Discoveries by digital artist Kyle F. Williams.
posted by numaner at 6:57 PM PST - 14 comments

Swishy-chug

Adele visits Jamba Juice, chomps wheatgrass, imitates deer.
posted by mudpuppie at 4:51 PM PST - 14 comments

I think they will taste like yarn.

This Speech Was Written For President Nixon To Deliver If The Astronauts Didn’t Make It To The Moon. (slClickhole)
posted by Kitteh at 4:48 PM PST - 32 comments

Depression lies because Depression is a dick.

Wil Wheaton, on depression.
posted by klausman at 4:14 PM PST - 59 comments

Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself

A team of programmers has built a self-generating cosmos, and even they don’t know what’s hiding in its vast reaches. Through the use of procedural generation, No Man’s Sky ensures that each planet will be a surprise, even to the programmers. Every creature, AI-guided alien spacecraft, or landscape is a pseudo-random product of the computer program itself. The universe is essentially as unknown to the people who made it as it is to the people who play in it—and ultimately, it is destined to remain that way. As previously mentioned here.
posted by slackdog at 1:59 PM PST - 106 comments

Tread lightly

'Heavy Sea' by Pejac (slyt)
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 1:32 PM PST - 3 comments

"So I had to use the moonlight alone."

The World Press Photo Foundation has announced the winners of its 59th annual photo contest. The Photo of the Year, by Warren Richardson, is Hope for a New Life, showing a refugee passing an infant through a barbed-wire fence at the border between Hungary and Serbia. Many of the photos show violence and its aftermath; all are powerful reminders of the world we share, in both beauty and terror. (via The Atlantic)
posted by Etrigan at 1:32 PM PST - 8 comments

Nevada and South Carolina

Tonight, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton will face off in a town hall from Nevada that will also will stream live at MSNBC.com and NBCNews.com and the Spanish-language version on Telemundo.com, ahead of this weekend's Nevada caucus. Meanwhile, three GOP hopefuls, Donald Trump, John Kasich and Jeb Bush will be in Columbia, South Carolina to answer questions from voters ahead of the Feb. 20 Republican primary in the key Southern state. The event starts at 7 p.m. and will be moderated by CNN's Anderson Cooper.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 1:02 PM PST - 1865 comments

How Serious Computer Geeks Count On Their Fingers

How to count to 1000 on two hands Covers counting on your fingers in binary, a skill far more people should have. Be careful you don't offend anyone when you hit 4, 128 and especially 132. [more inside]
posted by Michele in California at 12:39 PM PST - 43 comments

1 Galleon = $25. 1 Sickle = $1.50. 1 Knut = $0.05.

A Reddit thread recently broke down the exchange rate between Wizard and Muggle money, and in doing so shed some interesting light on the financial disparity between many of the characters in the Harry Potter universe. [more inside]
posted by Hermione Granger at 12:06 PM PST - 43 comments

View from the left eye

The self-portrait of Ernst Mach. [more inside]
posted by Iridic at 11:31 AM PST - 10 comments

This is why we can't have nice things

"After Taryn Wright exposed an elaborate fake tragedy on Facebook, she found herself leading a squad of online detectives – but on the internet, it doesn’t take long for a crowd to become a mob." (Guardian)
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:01 AM PST - 106 comments

Little wink, little wink.

Holster wins 2016 Masters Agility Championship. (SLYT) [more inside]
posted by OverlappingElvis at 8:53 AM PST - 32 comments

Who is Dan Quayle?

Here is an episode of Jeopardy!, airdate February 6, 1992. Commercials are included.
posted by theodolite at 8:41 AM PST - 64 comments

Loose Ends

An aspiring documentary filmmaker records the post-college struggles of her best friend...sorta. (SLYT)
posted by divabat at 8:31 AM PST - 2 comments

Japan's Disposable Workers

Net cafe refugees | Dumping ground | Overworked to suicide. A three-part documentary based on Shiho Fukada's portrait series, Japan's Disposable Workers. Previously. [more inside]
posted by nickyskye at 8:13 AM PST - 8 comments

"I got to be an investigative reporter totally by accident."

Christopher Robbins interviews Robert Caro for Gothamist.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 8:05 AM PST - 18 comments

"There is no qualification: it was a complete failure."

Longform sports news and commentary website SB Nation, one of the websites under the Vox Media banner, has developed a reputation as being a location for well written and thoughtful commentary on not just sports, but society as well. Which is why it was surprising when they wound up publishing a disastrous longform article about former cop and convicted rapist Daniel Holtzclaw that wound up being little more than a racially charged hagiography. [more inside]
posted by NoxAeternum at 7:57 AM PST - 96 comments

Fishdog River Brewing Co.’s Ultimate I.P.A.

"When we started developing the recipe for the Ultimate I.P.A., back in 2004, we had one goal: to concoct an ale so utterly undrinkable that the craft-beer community would have no option but to shower it with praise." [SLNewYorker]
posted by schmod at 7:42 AM PST - 93 comments

Can you fly this plane and land it? Surely you can't be serious?

You ask and (a person on) the internet provides: What should I do if the pilot passes out and I (with no flight training) have to land the plane? Watch this 10 minute video that walks you through the steps on a Boeing 737. I am serious. And don't call me Shirley. [via Presurfer] [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 7:27 AM PST - 47 comments

We are committed to ethics, and absolutely un-committed to not-ethics.

Point & Clickbait is the internet’s finest source for reliable, ethical, and above all true gaming news.

Full of news (Developer Commits Vile Act Of Censorship By Altering Game Before Release), opinions (I Hope There Aren’t Any Straight Characters in Dragon Age: Inquisition), reviews (Ubisoft Game: The Review), and much more, it's the ONLY video game site you'll ever need to read again.
posted by cthuljew at 3:44 AM PST - 39 comments

“The chilly environment for women may not be going away any time soon."

The Peer Perception Gap. The Washington Post describes a study in PLOS One which had a goal of identifying peer gender bias in the biology classroom: Men over-ranked their peers by three-quarters of a GPA point [...] In other words, if Johnny and Susie both had A's, they’d receive equal applause from female students — but Susie would register as a B student in the eyes of her male peers, and Johnny would look like a rock star.
posted by frumiousb at 3:36 AM PST - 44 comments

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