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pebbledash remix
more synth-laden breakbeat - quite fruity in places
Airport Books and the Bad Ideas They Create and Spread
If Books Could Kill
is a podcast where Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri discuss and critique books that capture the public imagination. The first episode is about the infamous shitshow Freakonomics, and other staples of airport bookstores will follow in subsequent weeks. It is currently only on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, but the plan is that it will be available everywhere.
How many flowers had the chef tasted?
This review of a Michelin starred restaurant in Birmingham (UK) is the purest ode to the joy of great food and a place that cares about the experience of eating it.
A Game Of Cops And Robots
Have you ever wanted to give your friend or lover a Voight-Kampff test? Then you should probably consider trying Inhuman Conditions (BGG), a free (cards, rules, thematic form) two-player RPG/Quiz in which an interrogator has five minutes to try to determine if an interviewee is a human or a replicant robot.
It's been a crazy week in America. Let's find out what happened!
Maybe you didn't know you needed a ribbon and sparkle-suit clad Black woman who can explain why using police as debt collectors leads to the killing of Black people in one breath, then bust out a retro R&B jam for the vaccinated in the next. But The Amber Ruffin Show is the special blend of silly and serious we all needed. Launched during the pandemic, the Emmy-nominated show returns on Peacock tonight with its first-ever live studio audience.
"... the sort of things that alter your soul."
For many of us who teach, "Teaching during the pandemic has been an exercise in balancing the utterly mundane with the profoundly traumatic—the sort of things that alter your soul." Sarah E. Smith responds to her student evaluations. [content warning: suicide]
Center of the Desert
Desert Center, CA is that line on I-10 signs that you never exited to see.
From the highway, it's abandoned buildings and oddly-arranged palm trees. There's a lot more to its history and the founder was quite a character.
The Need for a New Garden City Movement
In the early 1900s, a strange and wonderful planning fad caught on.
It can still help us think about building livable places.
Mystery seeds
The truth behind the Amazon mystery seeds
“ If someone had wanted to invent a surreal provocation designed to unnerve Americans in the summer of 2020, it’s difficult to conceive of a better one than a deluge of unsolicited Chinese seeds.”
"What is the experience giving you?"
Let's assume you'd like to get better at a skill. What role does learning tacit knowledge play in growing your expertise? "Tacit knowledge is ‘knowledge that cannot be captured through words alone’. A series of blog posts by Cedric Chin summarizes education research and "explores how expertise is tacit, why the research around extracting tacit knowledge is more important than the literature on deliberate practice, and how to go about acquiring tacit knowledge in the pursuit of skill acquisition" - including a summary of an approach for eliciting tacit knowledge from experts. Some really interesting anecdotes here about Toyota, judo, bike-riding, recognizing tennis serves, and more.
Into the Unknown Unknown
Donald Rumsfeld
GW Bush defense secretary is dead at 88.
100 x 3 second 3D Renders
Based on the same 3 second model, 2400 CGI artists submitted their own interpretation. These are the 100 best. (SLYT)
Something really weird seems to be happening on the feed
Neutrinowatch broadcasts daily from a series of parallel timelines which have 32% (± 7%) in common with our own reality.
In an innovative new fictional podcast from Answer Me This!'s Martin Austwick, episodes are updated every day and can be re-downloaded and streamed daily for a slightly modified user experience.
The 2021 WKC Masters Champion honors goes to Verb the border collie
Verb is a very good boy and goes heckin' fast to win the 2021 20-inch class and Masters Champions title (SLYT).
Journeyesque
A browser-based 'game' with a cool vibe
Not so sure about the AI-generated haikus, but the aesthetic and mood are peaceful.
"We're not trying to say that the Matrix sequels are perfect"
The Matrix Sequels Are Good, Actually
is a nearly two hour video essay by Eric Sophia and Sarah Zedig.
Best Practices for Outlook
This guide will change the way you organize your email, for the better.
"This article was written by the product team that created Microsoft Outlook for the best possible reason — our customers asked. Outlook is designed to be used by a wide audience with many work needs and styles. Although there's no one "right way," there are a few ways of working in the program that we know to be easier than others. We hope that by being aware of the best practices, you will have the best experience possible using Outlook."
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Rests
Eric Carle, author and artist known for children's books such as "The Very Hungry Caterpillar " and "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" passed away on Sunday. In addition to being known for his books, he and his wife Bobbie founded the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass.
Watershed magic
A drop of rain falls in the USA
and finds its way to the sea in an extraordinarily clever visualisation. One thing that stands out - all the wildlife reserves that border rivers.
"Time began to slow down..."
The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick.
[NYT] "There are hundreds of ACAAN variations, and you’d be hard pressed to find a professional card magician without at least one in his or her repertoire. (A Buddha-like maestro in Spain, Dani DaOrtiz, knows about 60.) There are ACAANs in which the card-choosing spectator writes down the named card in secrecy; ACAANs in which the spectator shuffles the deck; ACAANs in which every other card turns out to be blank.
For all their differences, every ACAAN has one feature in common: At some point, the magician touches the cards. The touch might be imperceptible, it might appear entirely innocent. But the cards are always touched...."
Fifty years ago, Marvin Gaye's masterpiece
Today is the 50-year anniversary of Marvin Gaye's album for the ages, "What's Going On?" If you are only familiar with the title track or with Marvin's other material, put this on today: :Spotify:
--"Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On’ Is as Relevant Today as It Was in 1971"
The Never-Aging Ants with a Terrible Secret
Deep in the forests of Germany, nestled neatly into the hollowed-out shells of acorns, live a smattering of ants who have stumbled upon a fountain of youth. They are born workers, but do not do much work. Their days are spent lollygagging about the nest, where their siblings shower them with gifts of food. They seem to elude the ravages of old age, retaining a durably adolescent physique, their outer shells soft and their hue distinctively tawny. Their scent, too, seems to shift, wafting out an alluring perfume that endears them to others. While their sisters, who have nearly identical genomes, perish within months of being born, these death-defying insects live on for years and years and years.
Mess, with Texas
Is Phil Collins’s legendary Texana collection everything it’s cracked up to be? A Texas Monthly longread on the ructions and scheming around the renovation of the Alamo.
"It is not always a happy thing."
The editors of manga anthology Young Animal Comics have reported that Kentaro Miura, creator of the seminal dark fantasy manga Berserk, passed away on May 6 of an aortic dissection, at the age of 54.
10 of the Meanest Board Games Ever Made
10 of the Meanest Board Games Ever Made [SLYT 13min 8 sec]
Collaborative board games are the norm, but outright combative, nay vengeful, and/or mean ones, can really test the boundaries of a social circle. "We accept no responsibility for any friendships ruined after watching this video."
The Filing Cabinet
The filing cabinet was critical to the information infrastructure of the 20th-century. Like most infrastructure, it was usually overlooked (Places Journal): "But if it appears to be banal and pervasive, it cannot be so easily ignored. The filing cabinet does not just store paper; it stores information; and because the modern world depends upon and is indeed defined by information, the filing cabinet must be recognized as critical to the expansion of modernity. In recent years scholars and critics have paid increasing attention to the filing systems used to store and retrieve information critical to government and capitalism, particularly information about people — case dossiers, identification photographs, credit reports, et al. But the focus on filing systems ignores the places where files are stored. Could capitalism, surveillance, and governance have developed in the 20th century without filing cabinets? Of course, but only if there had been another way to store and circulate paper efficiently. The filing cabinet was critical to the infrastructure of 20th-century nation states and financial systems; and, like most infrastructure, it is often overlooked or forgotten, and the labor associated with it minimized or ignored." via things magazine
차커 Chaco can play calculators with his eyes closed
BTS - IDOL on 2 calculators
Beethoven - Fur Elise on 3 calculators
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5 on 4 calculators
Pinkfong - Baby Shark on 5 calculators
Among Us BG Music on cat piano
Beethoven - Fur Elise on 3 calculators
Radiohead - 2 + 2 = 5 on 4 calculators
Pinkfong - Baby Shark on 5 calculators
Among Us BG Music on cat piano
“Whoa, it splashed!"
Another US military UFO video clip surfaces.
In 2019 sailors recorded an unidentified object flying around the littoral combat ship USS Omaha before vanishing into the sea.
Mammals can breathe through their intestines?
Mammals can breathe through their intestines?
We all know that some creatures have to poop through their mouths. But now researchers have shown that you can also flood a mouse's colon with oxygen-saturated perfluorocarbon and have them breathe through their large intestine. Which is presumably less stressful than flooding your lungs with it.
What If Everything We Know About Gymnastics Is Wrong?
Lizzie Feidelson of The New York Times Magazine reports on how, in light of the horrific abuses in gymnastics being revealed and shifts in the sport's focus, older gymnasts are returning and putting to question the idea that gymnasts peak in their teens - and the need for abusive, controlling coaches.
"the first and only bit of stability since I became homeless"
A few stories of houseless New York City residents who have lived in hotels for the past year thanks to the #HomelessCantStayHome campaign.
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.
Long time till spring
A seedbank-testing experiment that started in 1879 has decades to run.
It's a simple experiment, but the simple things are hard: neither losing the seeds nor digging them up too early. From the point of view of the *seeds* the simple thing -- don't germinate until you can grow -- is also getting pretty hard.
infinity.mod
The Endless Acid Banger is a website that will generate an endless and surprisingly-danceable 1990s PC game soundtrack.
It’s Going to Be Weird, but We Need to Learn to Live With Germs Again
From the NYTimes:
Scientists "say that excessive hygiene practices, inappropriate antibiotic use and lifestyle changes such as distancing may weaken those communities going forward in ways that promote sickness and imperil our immune systems. By sterilizing our bodies and spaces, they argue, we may be doing more harm than good."
Zyoom
High-speed bike tour of the Paris catacombs, via a helmet-mounted go-pro. Featuring: a lot of graffiti. Not for the claustrophobic.
See No REvil
Apple’s Ransomware Mess Is the Future of Online Extortion — This week, hackers stole confidential schematics from a third-party supplier and demanded $50 million not to release them.
WIRED, 4/23/2021 [alternate Ars Technica link]: After years of refining their mass data encryption techniques to lock victims out of their own systems, criminal gangs are increasingly focusing on data theft and extortion as the centerpiece of their attacks — and making eye-popping demands in the process. “Our team is negotiating the sale of large quantities of confidential drawings and gigabytes of personal data with several major brands,” REvil [WP] wrote in its post of the stolen data. “We recommend that Apple buy back the available data by May 1.” Related: DOJ Forms Ransomware Task Force as REvil Demands $50M, SDX Central, 4/22/2021.
Bad software sent UK postal workers to jail
For the past 20 years, UK Post Office employees have been dealing with a software called Horizon, which had a fatal flaw: bugs that made it look like employees stole tens of thousands of British pounds. This led to some local postmasters being convicted of crimes, even being sent to prison, because the Post Office doggedly insisted the software could be trusted. After fighting for decades, 39 people are having their convictions overturned. More than 2,400 claims for damages have been filed so far.
If you live in a glass house....
This listing has my emotions in a shamble. Long private drive leads to this unparalleled modern riverfront glass barn designed & engineered on skyscraper principles. Newly renovated top to bottom in 2018 with no detail overlooked
"Not every woman is offended by this name, but enough people are..."
After being called out for having problematic names for many years, and a change.org petition, Gearslutz -- named "to poke fun at some people’s pro audio shopping habits" -- changed its name to Gearspace at the beginning of April.
Followed 3 weeks later by modular synth forum Muffwiggler -- named by its late founder as a combination of the names of two Electro-Harmonix guitar pedals, the "Big Muff Pi" and "The Wiggler" -- changing its name to Modwiggler.
Won’t Pay Glazer, Or Work for Sky
At the time, O’Neill writes, it was ‘impossible to imagine’ just how unrealisable the idea of a dissident, fan-owned club sounded. Brady, a bricklayer and editor of the socialist United fanzine A Fine Lung, had no illusions about the graft required, writing that ‘the work ahead was going to break up marriages… Form a football club? Form a fucking football club? How? By going to the magic wand shop and wishing one?’Even if you can't stand Manchester United, you have to love FC United of Manchester, as Marcus Barnett explains for The Tribune.
The adventures of the vine bots are just beginning
Delightful vine robots are happy to explore tight, pointy, unstable, and otherwise challenging spaces, and you can build your own simple version!
You might want to check your cabinets for old tapes.
“I mean, I didn’t try to deceive anyone over Samantha the Teenage Witch. I swear.”
Felony embezzlement charges for 20-year-old overdue VHS tape rental. And you thought libraries were harsh.
The most miserable wage slave
Vladislav Ivanov, a 27-year-old man from Vladivostok, was working as a Russian translator for the Chinese reality/talent show Produce Camp, in which a cast of young contestants are selected to form a boy band, when the directors invited him to sign up. He regretted doing so pretty much immediately, and attempted to sabotage his chances at winning by performing half-heartedly and pleading with the audience to vote him out, but to no avail, as he became a firm fan favourite, his miserable demeanour appealing to a generation of young people sympathetic to the ironic, defeatist Sang culture.
Daycare worker, waitress, mountain guide, paramedic
A few short fantasy stories about serving other people during times of death and peril. A daycare worker at the end of the world, and a restaurant server at a different end. A mountain guide who always finds what is lost. And the funniest one: a necromancer who doesn't realize they're a necromancer, and thinks they're just a really good paramedic.