May 5, 2020
Create your own 1980s police sketch, online via virtual Mac
MeFite odinsdream recently came across some old abandoned police sketch software for Macintosh systems from the 1980s, then wrapped it up in a web-based emulator, and now you can play with it in your browser! Make your own face sketches. [via mefi projects]
Hell, the only time you need them is if you get into a car wreck
He threw two no-hitters -- 21 years apart. He was once signed by the Philadelphia A's, but he also pitched as recently as the Reagan administration, a career span that roughly coincides with the two time-period settings of "Back To The Future." He once issued five bases-loaded walks -- plus a hit-by-pitch -- in a single inning. It's probably the worst inning in Major League history, but it's hard to say if that's better or worse than the time he went more than a month in the Minors and over 50 innings without his team scoring a run for him.
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Play Ball!
The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), "the wildest, most outlandish baseball league in the world," opened its season today. In addition to the baseball, it is known for bat flips, breakdancing dinosaur mascots (Dandy and Seri of the NC Dinos), and passionate fans (Lotte Giants fans singing "Busan Seagull" and "Come Back to Busan Port"). Sadly games will be played in empty stadiums due to COVID-19. [more inside]
We found and tested 47 old drugs that might treat the coronavirus
Results show promising leads and a whole new way to fight COVID-19 The Conversation has a round-up of two months of coronavirus structure research and the pathways that different drugs might use to work against the virus.
Whistleblower Blasts Trump's Response to Pandemic
According to Vanity Fair, there are many troubling allegations contained in the "blistering, 63-page complaint" that Dr. Rick Bright, former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), filed today with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. Among other things, "He was pressured to invest in drugs and vaccines that lacked scientific merit, because the people selling them had friends in the Trump administration, up to and including the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner." [more inside]
Team Deakins podcast
Team Deakins podcast is a conversation between acclaimed cinematographer Roger Deakins and his collaborator, James Deakins. We start from a submitted question and end .... who knows where! We are joined on some episodes by friends and colleagues. For further discussion on these topics, check out our website at www.rogerdeakins.com
a podcast for people who are scared to watch horror movies
The Scaredy Cats Horror Show is a new Gimlet podcast from the hosts of Reply All, where PJ Vogt (self-declared scaredy cat and non-horror movie watcher) watches a horror movie and then discusses it with Alex Goldman (horror fan) in an attempt to see if PJ can possibly learn to enjoy scary movies. First episode: The Exorcist, with guest host Jason Mantzoukas. Next week will be Nightmare on Elm Street.
This House is on a Rent Strike
“I didn't mix those and wouldn't have done that.”
The Doom Eternal OST Controversy Explained [IGN] “Id Software and Doom Eternal executive producer Marty Stratton has issued a public statement about its current relationship with Doom Eternal composer Mick Gordon after weeks of speculation that there was some kind of trouble between the two parties over the recently released Doom Eternal soundtrack. After a slight delay, the Doom Eternal soundtrack part of the game’s collector’s edition was released on April 20, a month after the game was released. But fans quickly found something amiss with the sound mixing leading to a backlash against id Software and in particular id’s lead audio engineer Chad Mossholder. The controversy began in April when a viral Twitter thread highlighted the sound-mixing for the newly released Doom Eternal soundtrack. Twitter users @thatADCDguy posted side-by-side visual comparisons of the BFG Division track from Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal and noted that the mixing for the Doom Eternal version was less dynamic.”
Get Fat, Don't Die
[many links may be NSFW]
In his inaugural food column, Beowulf Thorne included recipes for gingerbread pudding, Thai chicken curry, and vanilla poached pears, plus a photo of a naked blond man spread-eagled in a pan of paella. Eat your cereal with whipping cream, he advised readers, and ladle extra gravy onto your dinner plate. “Not only does being undernourished reduce your chances of getting lucky at that next orgy, it can make you much more susceptible to illness, and we’ll have none of that,” Wulf wrote. “Get Fat, Don’t Die,” the first cooking column for people with AIDS, ran in every issue of Diseased Pariah News, the AIDS humor zine that Wulf started and edited from 1990 to 1999.Beowulf Thorne’s cooking column for people with AIDS claimed the right to pleasure, but in each recipe was embedded an urgent appeal, Jonathan Kauffman [more inside]
Might the US break itself up into separate states in the near future?
Writer Dmitry Orlov, who witnessed firsthand the collapse of the Soviet Union, gave a lecture (in 2006) "Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’: the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US". His message is perhaps more prescient now than ever.
Orlov previously on Metafilter, including his article Social Collapse Best Practices
His Wikipedia.
Via mltshp
Song a Day from Steve White of The Protest Family
Frontman of "the world’s favourite East London singalong political folk punk band," Steve White is writing a song a day while he's stuck away from the rest of the team. [more inside]
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