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Mr. Darcy’s Ten Thousand a Year
“One thousand pounds in the 4 per cents, which will not be yours till after your mother’s decease, is all that you may ever be entitled to,” says Mr. Collins to Lizzy Bennet. But 4 per cent of what? Notes on Liberty explains bonds, Consols, yields and 18th century English financial planning through Pride and Prejudice.
The Game That Broke the Baltimore Orioles
For the first 123 games of the 2007 season, the Baltimore Orioles' pitching staff was doing fine. Really! They weren't bad! Everything was OK. Then came August 22, 2007, which Alex Rubenstein and Jon Bois chronicle in Dorktown #2: The night that destroyed the 2007 Baltimore Orioles forever
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Nonprofit AF imagines the answers on grant proposals if non-profits were brutally honest with funders (Part 2, Part 3)
There is, of course, a current of anti-capitalist sentiment in mallwave
Speaking to the British magazine Drugstore Culture, Koenig says, “It’s a nostalgia for shopping trips with your mom when you were just a little kid, with tinny Madonna playing in the background. But the unease arises when that background noise becomes the only sound around, and gets your full attention. It can make you feel like you’re somewhere you don’t belong, like you’re locked in after hours. Some people also say it makes them feel like they’re in the apocalypse.” THE TEENS WHO LISTEN TO ‘MALLWAVE’ ARE NOSTALGIC FOR AN EXPERIENCE THEY’VE NEVER HAD (Mel) Music For Dead Malls (Zadig The Jasp)
Uninterrupted time of most mothers lasted no more than 10 minutes
"Women’s time has been interrupted and fragmented throughout history, the rhythms of their days circumscribed by the sisyphean tasks of housework, childcare and kin work – keeping family and community ties strong. If what it takes to create are long stretches of uninterrupted, concentrated time, time you can choose to do with as you will, time that you can control, that’s something women have never had the luxury to expect"
Richard Massingham's LSD Trip
Breakfast (Cyriak, YT)
The newest from Cyriak, this remix of British PSA actor Richard Massingham's short Pedestrian Crossing goes in all the directions you would expect of Cyriak.
It is a complex tension, isn’t it?
"If you conduct a quick internet search on “history of data visualization,” you’ll nearly always see Florence Nightingale included in the annals of history. Why? It’s not like a Nightingale Rose chart is easy to read, or a cinch to make, or even all that common. One clue to the answer lies in the fact that she is most often the only woman on such lists." Beyond Nightingale: Being a Woman in Data Visualization
100 x 75 resolution!
Did you ever think to yourself, "Hey, I probably could make a video card if I really tried?" No? Well, maybe you could! Here's Part 2.
Why I don’t cook
I said to my boyfriend, “Cooking is really stupid.” He said that he knew what I meant. I said that I was never cooking again. He said he thought that was a great idea. I said, “I have to make homemade tomato sauce with Christine on Saturday. And I have to make some more galettes because the last ones sucked.”
“That sounds like a lot of cooking,” he said.
“I know,” I said. “I’m going to make the galettes and the sauce, and then I am never cooking again.”
A spanner in the wercs
Mr Olds' Remarkable Elevator - Tom Scott explores a (recently discovered) counterintuitive engineering solution that had been hiding in plain sight
You Know the Advertisement of the Man
For the time, it would certainly have been subversive and risky to base the country’s most prominent symbol of haughty masculinity on Leyendecker’s own gay lover. Their forbidden love was in everyone’s faces in the ads of one of the country’s most prominent clothing manufacturers and on the covers of America’s favorite conservative magazine, though it remained hidden in plain sight—so much so that few sources even mentioned Leyendecker’s homosexuality until fairly recently. The Arrow Collar Man specifically, and the Leyendecker Man more generally, became the model of style, sophistication, and masculinity. What Maketh a Man: How queer artist J.C. Leyendecker invented an iconography of twentieth-century American masculinity by Tyler Malone
A leisurely 40 minute downhill ride
Megavalanche 2018
SLYT that is all
Heels touch ground when Slavs squat around
Picture a Russian male stereotype. What image comes to mind? Is it a guy squatting in an Adidas tracksuit? A People's History of the "Slav Squat"
Chernobyl: Open Wide, O Earth
The Chernobyl Commission begins the investigation into the causes of the disaster.
Building a Cathedral
Ground broke on December 27, 1892, and almost immediately it became clear just how many unknowns the project would hold. Workers discovered that - unlike at St. Luke's across the street - there was nothing solid to build on. Excavation revealed loose rock, compressible earth, and underground springs. Workers had to dig 72 feet down before they hit bedrock, by which point said springs had turned the hole into a lake. It would take ten years before they drained the hole and built back up the foundation.
What We Do in the Shadows: Baron's Night Out
The Staten Island crew (+ a bro'ed up Baron) paint the town a few different colors.
Warrior: There's No China in the Bible
Intercepting a shipment of opium at the docks, Young Jun, with Ah Sahm and his Hop Wei lieutenant Bolo in tow, decides to send a message to Long Zii. Big Bill and Lee investigate a grisly murder scene in an alley next to an Irish bar, The Banshee. Penny Blake, the young wife of San Francisco's mayor, finds herself in a bind while visiting the wharf with her Chinese manservant, Jacob. Ah Sahm pays a steep price for playing the hero. The Long Zii clean up a mess, and brace for more bloodshed.
Critical Intimacy: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:
Steve Paulson interviews Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
When she first started working on a translation of Derrida’s treatise, Spivak was an unknown academic in her mid-20s — “this young Asian girl,” as she says, trying to navigate the strange world of American academe. Spivak was a most unlikely translator. She had no formal training in philosophy and was not a native English or French speaker, so it was an audacious — almost preposterous — project to translate such a complex work of high theory. She not only translated the book; she also wrote her own monograph-length preface that introduced Derrida to a new generation of literary scholars.
Orbital's The Box
Not a long album post, but can we just take a minute to bask in the utter glory of developing and shifting soundscapes that is the full 28m30s version of Orbital's 1996 track The Box? It's a thing unto itself.
Privileged
Kyle Korver of the Utah Jazz in the Player's Tribune:
What I’m realizing is, no matter how passionately I commit to being an ally, and no matter how unwavering my support is for NBA and WNBA players of color….. I’m still in this conversation from the privileged perspective of opting in to it. Which of course means that on the flip side, I could just as easily opt out of it. Every day, I’m given that choice — I’m granted that privilege — based on the color of my skin.
An unserious scholar
The Barely Hidden Flaws in Jordan Peterson's Scholarship "Simply reading the books you find in the religion section of your local used bookstore does not make you a religious scholar, no matter how many YouTube videos you post." [SLMedium]
Give 'Em Enough Rope
The Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club of 1908.
No harnesses, crampons, or boots: "To be decent, they would start their climbs in their restrictive, long skirts. However, when no men were around they would often discard these to climb in knickerbockers: knee length trousers that could be hidden under dresses." (Via Feminist Friday)
The Supreme Court’s Math Problem
Fixing partisan gerrymandering requires some technical calculations.
That’s why the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group filed a mathematicians’ brief to better define the problem—and the solution.
The Orange Alternative: There Is No Freedom without Dwarfs
The cheeky gnomes taking over Wrocław -- Cute as they may be, each statue is a nod to the Orange Alternative, an anti-Soviet resistance movement that helped bring down Poland’s oppressive communist regime in the 1980s (BBC Travel). By opposing conformism and consumerism with intelligent humour, the Orange Alternative (Pomaranczowa Alternatywa) movement achieved a considerable artistic victory over the Communist regime. Their continuing influence upon Polish political protest is noticeable to this day. (Culture.pl)
"Everything that happens is data. Mistakes are a good thing."
When anthropologist Jean Briggs lived with an Inuit family in 1963, she witnessed a remarkable thing: the adults had an extraordinary ability to control their anger, and they passed this on to their children.
Metamaterial
The elasticity (aka stretchiness) of knitted fabrics is an emergent property:
the whole is more than the sum of its parts. How those components (strands of yarn) are arranged at an intermediate scale (the structure) determines the macro scale properties of the resulting fabric.
A day in the data center fifty years ago
Life at work in Bell Labs in 1969
I spent a couple of years as Operations Manager at a Bell Labs data center in Oakland, CA developing what was the a state of the art database search system. One day I brought a camera to work and this was the result.(via Kottke.org)
Surprisingly, one thing you wouldn’t always find in a tea room was tea.
The Top Secret Feminist History of Tearooms:
As a young girl, I read books like the Nancy Drew mysteries—the characters were always popping into tea rooms for lunch. To a modern reader, tea rooms conjured visions of crumpets and china, but when the books were published (the first in 1930), mentioning a tea room was meant to communicate to the reader that Nancy and her friends were independent women who could eat out without a man to escort them. While most women think nothing of dining out without a man now, tea rooms played a major role in bringing about this phenomenon.
(SL JSTOR Daily)
“I need to sleep, I can't get no sleep”
Insomnia, by Faithless (alternative link, original and long), was first released in 1995, became a minor hit, then was re-released, sold a lot more, and is still performed (2009) and remixed. Insomnia can also be successfully played on a toy octopus. Lyrics and previously on spoons. Faithless consist of Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss and Rollo Armstrong. Other Faithless songs include Salva Mea, We Come 1, God is a DJ, and One Step Too Far (featuring Dido, sister of Rollo).
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ART SQOOL
[YouTube][Game Trailer] “Art Sqool is a game from Julian Glander, a 3D artist who has done illustration work for Wired, The New Yorker and Adult Swim. In it, you play a first-year student at an art school called Art Sqool, named Froshmin. You get assignments from your professor, a self-described neural network that judges you based on your technique. Between assignments, you explore your school’s campus to find new swatches and brushes.” [via: Kotaku]
Er war ein Rockidol
Today we are pleased to have the exclusive premiere of Front Line Assembly's re-work of the storied "Rock Me Amadeus" originally by Falco.
UNIX is dead
The Tragedy of systemd
A thoughtful analysis of the current state of play from Benno Rice, a longstanding FreeBSD developer, at linux.conf.au 2019 (Christchurch, New Zealand).
A remembrance
The genius of Jeff Hanneman, by ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo
Maybe American mobile phone carriers aren't exactly telling the truth
Ground truthing wireless reality in a rural state
Carriers Verizon, AT&T, et al claimed that Vermont was well covered by mobile phone networks. A state employee tested the truth of this by driving through every single town, checking connection strength with a box of phones. The results (mapped) reveal massive coverage voids and big swathes of low signal strength, especially in rural areas.
Hyucking Hyuck
It's experiment time! We're going to try to have a parallel thread to the Fucking Fuck series, where people can post their politics jokes, one-liners, favorite Twitter snark, etc.
Birding Like It’s 1899
The first time I see ravens, I flush them out of an alpine meadow carpeted with wildflowers. I pause to watch the flock fly off towards the distant, snow-capped peaks, trailed by their echoing croaks, when a man riding by on horseback bumps into me. Irritated, I shoot the man dead, and take his hat.- The Audubon Society reviews Red Dead Redemption 2.
2018 was a year that happened
WaPo's Alexandra Petri briefly covers The Year That Was. Sample: "The Parker Solar Probe, seeing how things were going on Earth, demanded to be shot into the sun, and we obliged." (NYT).
MeFi's Own Miss Cellania is busy producing year end lists. Sample: Year-end Lists 2018: Animals.
MeFi's Own Miss Cellania is busy producing year end lists. Sample: Year-end Lists 2018: Animals.
I got 5 on it
The first trailer for Us. A new nightmare from the mind of Oscar winner Jordan Peele (Get Out), starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o (Black Panther, 12 Years a Slave) and Winston Duke (Black Panther).
The Mother of All Demos turns 50
On December 9, 1968, Douglas Engelbart gave a demo of NLS, the "oN-Line System", to the Fall Joint Computer Conference of the ACM and IEEE. Later dubbed The Mother of All Demos, it demonstrated many concepts that would later become fundamental elements of personal computing, including the mouse, windows, hypertext, graphics, video conferencing, and word processing.
Uber is headed for a crash
What has made Uber a good deal for users makes it a lousy investment proposition.
The notion that Uber, the most highly valued private company in the world, is a textbook “bezzle” — John Kenneth Galbraith’s coinage for an investment swindle where the losses have yet to be recognized — is likely to come as a surprise to its many satisfied customers.
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Uber’s new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi effectively admitted that Uber isn’t profitable in any market when you factor in corporate overheads.
My Beautiful Death
"I spent up to 12 hours a day grinding and sanding the shells."
Artist Gillian Genser writes about art, shells, death and heavy metal poisoning.
(SL Toronto Life)