Rest of World -...
Meet the “digital parents” giving millions in China a vision of family love they never had
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Creators Jiang Xiuping and Pan Huqian, a viral Douyin duo, act as fictional parents, providing solace to young adults and adolescents amidst economic inequalities and a scarcity of mental health support in China.
Archinect - Features
Architects, How Is Work Feeling These Days?
We want to hear from our community: How are you feeling about the economic outlook of your firm and...
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We want to hear from our community: How are you feeling about the economic outlook of your firm and sector? How easy or difficult are you finding it to secure projects? What is your employment outlook? What are you hearing from clients?
Fill out our anonymous survey below.
Quanta Magazine
Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count
By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of...
an hour ago
By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of distinct objects in a stream of data.
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Retail Design Blog
Milpa whiskey by Monograf
Milpa is a distinctive Mexican 100% corn-based whiskey crafted in the highlands of Oaxaca, embodying...
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Milpa is a distinctive Mexican 100% corn-based whiskey crafted in the highlands of Oaxaca, embodying a unique process rooted in...
Arduino Blog
Hey Google! Meet Arduino Cloud
We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now...
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We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now interact with your devices, simply through your Google Home Assistant: use voice commands, the Google Home app, or create new routines integrating Arduino solutions. This new...
Steve Blank
Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid
This part 2 of the Secret History of Polaroid and Edwin Land. Read part 1 for context. Kodak and...
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This part 2 of the Secret History of Polaroid and Edwin Land. Read part 1 for context. Kodak and Polaroid, the two most famous camera companies of the 20th century, had a great partnership for 20+ years. Then in an inexplicable turnabout Kodak decided to destroy Polaroid’s...
Retail Design Blog
Shinsegae department store by NBDC
Situated in downtown Busan, the Shinsegae Centum City department stores first opened its doors in...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Grief Tech
In the awesome show, Black Mirror, one episode features a young woman who lost her husband. In her...
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In the awesome show, Black Mirror, one episode features a young woman who lost her husband. In her grief she turns to a company that promises to give her at least a partial experience of her husband. They sift through every picture, video, comment, and other online trace of the...
Both Are True
Doing Crimes w my dad
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EPAM Offices by Tengo Design
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Old Structures...
Four, Maybe Five, Maybe Six Bridges
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Walking along South Street, which is to say along the East River waterfront. First up, the view from Rutgers Street and South Street: We’ve got a pseudo-dramatic, badly framed view of the Manhattan tower of the Manhattan Bridge, with the elevated FDR Drive blocking most of it....
Vadim Kravcenko
Stand Out and Dare to Disagree
Question:
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TheCollector
Who Was Julius Caesar?
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Rest of World -...
OpenAI is making a risky bet on live translation
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The company has a stunning demo — but can the product live up to the hype?
Rest of World -...
Rwanda’s homegrown EV leader sets its sights on Kenya
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Ampersand hopes to replicate its small-market success in East Africa’s largest economy.
Retail Design Blog
Pyunkangyul flagship store by Sherpa
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Pyunkangyul Cosmetic is an herbal medicine skincare brand that minimizes artificial ingredients and uses ingredients from nature to find the...
The Modern House
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Open Culture
A Playlist of the 3,300 Best Films & Documentaries on Youtube, Including Works by Hitchcock,...
?si=yCx1pqpcATHND90L Once upon a time, the most convenient means of discovering movies was cable...
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Seth's Blog
Complaints are a gift
It’s easy to see a complaint as simple whining, the narcissistic impatience of someone who has...
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It’s easy to see a complaint as simple whining, the narcissistic impatience of someone who has enough insulation from the real world that they can share their dissatisfaction over just about anything. But a complaint unheard gives us no way to improve. In our current medical...
Seth's Blog
The obligations of the Town Hall
A few hundred years ago, small towns in New England embraced the idea of the town hall. Citizens (at...
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History Today Feed
Catching Nessie on Film
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This Space
39 Books: 2007
When I chose the book for 2007, the constraint of the 39 Books series presented a problem: how can I...
7 hours ago
When I chose the book for 2007, the constraint of the 39 Books series presented a problem: how can I write about a 350-page novel last read 17 years ago without taking several days to reread it? Answer: not at all, so I started reading. What good fortune! How well Hugo Wilcken...
TheCollector
New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s
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Open Culture
Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful,...
When the Beatles upended popular music, thousands of wannabe beat groups were born all over the...
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When the Beatles upended popular music, thousands of wannabe beat groups were born all over the world, and many of them–for the first time ever, really–were all-female groups. This Amoeba Records article has a fairly exhaustive list of these girl bands, with names like The...
TheCollector
5 Masterpieces of Early Irish Art
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Some Godforsaken Province'
After the
Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, the poet Aleksander Wat fled to Lwów, already
occupied by...
10 hours ago
After the
Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, the poet Aleksander Wat fled to Lwów, already
occupied by the Soviets. He was arrested by the NKVD the following year and
held in a military prison in that city, then moved to Kiev, the Lubyanka in Moscow, and Saratov, more than...
The American Scholar
Red Tide Warning
Living on Florida’s Gulf Coast means having to coexist with pervasive and toxic algal blooms—and...
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Living on Florida’s Gulf Coast means having to coexist with pervasive and toxic algal blooms—and neighbors who don’t always believe what they see
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The Convivial...
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Seeking Wisdom
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Spoon & Tamago
The 2024 Toyama Kei-Truck Gardening Contest
The 2024 Kei-Truck Gardening Contest took place over the weekend. In what is perhaps the...
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The Marginalian
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Lorenzo Davitti
Originally from Florence, Italy, I'm a printmaker and tutor now based in London for the past 10...
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Originally from Florence, Italy, I'm a printmaker and tutor now based in London for the past 10 years. I work mainly on abstract art, and I am especially interested in the possibilities that printmaking offers when experimenting with colour, shapes and textures.
Describe your...
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GPT-4o and the illusion of AGI
Why speed and multimodality is becoming the name of the game.
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A Short Essay About A Long-Playing Record
One I bought fifty years ago.
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Jormungandr: Get to Know the Midgard Serpent
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Feckful
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“This is what we are about”: The Romero Prayer
A beautiful prayer about vocation by Bishop Ken Untener of Saginaw, often attributed to St Óscar...
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I Do My First Video Interview in More Than a Year
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Ask questions first, shoot later
The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that...
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The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that these two concurrent activities have different goals. The goal of fixing is to bring the system into line with your mental model of how it's supposed to function. The goal of...
TheCollector
Why Are There So Many Different Translations of the Christian Bible?
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Escaping Flatland
On having more interesting ideas
“To write well, all you have to do is cultivate your mind and then write what you see.” When I talk...
yesterday
“To write well, all you have to do is cultivate your mind and then write what you see.” When I talk to people who have worked with their ideas seriously for 10+ years, it feels like I can throw any topic on them and they’ll have an interesting idea, or if not an idea so at least...
Contemporist...
A Contemporary Home Inspired By The Fachwerk-Style Houses Of Germany
Interior designer Tamara Strugova, together with her husband, has completed a contemporary home...
yesterday
Interior designer Tamara Strugova, together with her husband, has completed a contemporary home whose design was inspired by the Fachwerk-style houses found in Hamburg, Germany, with their prominently exposed posts and beams.
Weighty Thoughts
News Roundup: May 15, 2024
Open AI announcements, DeepSeek-v2, and TSMC Arizona
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Open AI announcements, DeepSeek-v2, and TSMC Arizona
Retail Design Blog
The Goose Hut Bistro (Beijing Sanlitun Store)
Returning to the design of the Goose Hut Bistro in Sanlitun, the form still follows the element of...
yesterday
Returning to the design of the Goose Hut Bistro in Sanlitun, the form still follows the element of the first...
TheCollector
Were There Fast-Food Restaurants in Ancient Pompeii?
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TheCollector
9 Interesting Facts about Medusa
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Old Structures...
An Obvious Issue
“The Battle for the Streets of New York” by Dodai Stewart and illustrated by Leon Edler, in Monday’s...
yesterday
“The Battle for the Streets of New York” by Dodai Stewart and illustrated by Leon Edler, in Monday’s New York Times, is a reasonable discussion of congestion on Manhattan’s streets. Not just car congestion – delivery truck, bus, bicycle, and pedestrian congestion are discussed as...
TheCollector
Lucid Dreaming: Can You Wake Up in Your Dreams?
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TheCollector
Mona Lisa Location Mystery Solved, Geologist Claims
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History Today Feed
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
JamesHoare
Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
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‘The Specter of the Archive’ by Nicholas Popper review
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Wed, 05/15/2024 - 10:16
Open Culture
Read 20 Short Stories From Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Alice Munro (RIP) Free Online
Note: Back in 2013, when Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature, we published a post...
yesterday
Note: Back in 2013, when Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize in Literature, we published a post featuring 20 short stories written by Munro. Today, with the sad news that Alice Munro has passed away, at the age of 92, we’re bringing the original post (from October 10, 2013) back to...
Seth's Blog
The unwarranted smile
When we do something nice for someone, a ‘thank you’ and a smile is nice to receive. And, in many...
yesterday
When we do something nice for someone, a ‘thank you’ and a smile is nice to receive. And, in many parts of human culture, it’s a bit expected. But when something goes wrong, if we drop a plate or miss a turn or make someone late, it’s particularly delightful and memorable if we...
Flashbak
Richard Teschner And His Magical World of Puppets And Dreams
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte...
yesterday
Richard Teschner (1879 – 1948), a graphic designer, artist and artisan in the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), is best known for his puppetry, especially that inspired by Wayang (“shadow”), the classical Javanese puppet drama that uses the shadows thrown by puppets...
This Space
39 Books: 2006
My choice for 2003 began with indecision, as I couldn't imagine writing about Robert Antelme's The...
yesterday
My choice for 2003 began with indecision, as I couldn't imagine writing about Robert Antelme's The Human Race. Instead I wondered if I could say something about Timothy Hyman's Sienese Painting. While I have little or no feeling for art, I am drawn to reading about it. The book's...
Contemporist...
A’ Design Awards And Competition – The Winners
A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts in...
yesterday
A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts in over 114 countries.
Open Culture
Wes Anderson Directs & Stars in an Ad Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Montblanc’s Signature Pen
One hardly has to be an expert on the films of Wes Anderson to imagine that the man writes with a...
yesterday
One hardly has to be an expert on the films of Wes Anderson to imagine that the man writes with a fountain pen. Maybe back in the early nineteen-nineties, when he was shooting the black-and-white short that would become Bottle Rocket on the streets of Austin, he had to settle for...
The Ruffian
Why Margaret Thatcher Didn't Jump
The Difference Between Charisma and Charm
yesterday
The Difference Between Charisma and Charm
TheCollector
10 Foreign Gods Hidden in the Roman Pantheon
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diamond geezer
A nice walk
A Nice Walk: Suburban circuit (¾ mile)
Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too...
yesterday
A Nice Walk: Suburban circuit (¾ mile)
Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too taxing, a bit of a stroll, easily reached, pretty flowers, running water, hidden secrets, occasional benches, refreshment opportunity, entirely step-free, won't take long. So here's...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Vacuum with American Light'
Edward Hopper
is often a favorite painter of literary-minded people because, I suspect, so
many of...
yesterday
Edward Hopper
is often a favorite painter of literary-minded people because, I suspect, so
many of his works suggest in-media-res excerpts from larger narratives. Looking
as his paintings is like opening a novel to a memorable scene,
without access to backstory or subsequent...
The American Scholar
Betsy, Mary, and Trish
The post Betsy, Mary, and Trish appeared first on The American Scholar.
yesterday
The post Betsy, Mary, and Trish appeared first on The American Scholar.
xkcd.com
Elementary Physics Paths
'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'" alt="==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure...
yesterday
'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'" alt="==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'" />
Arduino Blog
This small device enables users to feel braille through haptics
For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to...
yesterday
For the visually impaired community, most of their interactions on mobile phones are confined to text-to-speech (TTS) interfaces that read portions of the screen aloud. Dynamic braille displays also exist as a tactile means of communication, but their prices can get close to...
computers are bad
2024-05-15 catalina connections
Some things have been made nearly impossible to search for. Say, for example,
the long-running...
yesterday
Some things have been made nearly impossible to search for. Say, for example,
the long-running partnership between Epson and Catalina: a query that will
return pages upon pages of people trying to use Epson printers with an old
version of MacOS.
When you think of a point of sale...
99% Invisible
Rocket Man [EPISODE]
In the twentieth century, the jetpack became synonymous with the idea of a ‘futuristic society.’...
2 days ago
In the twentieth century, the jetpack became synonymous with the idea of a ‘futuristic society.’ Appearing in cartoons and magazines, it felt like a matter of time before people could ride a jetpack to work. But jetpacks never became a mainstream technology, leaving many to...
David Heinemeier...
Meta is shutting down Workplace
The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The...
2 days ago
The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The traditional wisdom goes that if you buy from a big company, you're going to be safe. It may be more expensive, but big companies project an image of stability and reliability, so buying...
Strange Loop Canon
AI embraces its product arc
fuzzy processors are entering mass production
2 days ago
fuzzy processors are entering mass production
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Reflect
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
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2 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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On the other hand, when Jesus wanted to do a breakup he just became dead for a few days.
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TheCollector
How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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Archinect - Features
Let's Talk About Architectural Licensure
Welcome to Archinect In-Depth: Licensure. Over the coming weeks, Archinect will explore the journey...
2 days ago
Welcome to Archinect In-Depth: Licensure. Over the coming weeks, Archinect will explore the journey undertaken by those in the United States seeking to practice as a licensed architect, including reflections on the history of licensure, comparisons to other countries, the cost...
The Rational Walk
Hesiod’s Works and Days
One of the oldest surviving books provides advice that is just as relevant to our lives today as it...
2 days ago
One of the oldest surviving books provides advice that is just as relevant to our lives today as it was 2,700 years ago.
David Heinemeier...
The endangered state of normality
When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who...
2 days ago
When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who were cool but didn't like school at all, friends who were good at school but couldn't muster the will to finish their math homework, and friends who were tomboys. None of these...
RhysTranter.com
“Be zealous in amending your whole life”: Vincent Van Gogh on The Imitation of Christ
In the years leading up to my conversion, I gradually became fascinated by Thomas á Kempis’s...
2 days ago
In the years leading up to my conversion, I gradually became fascinated by Thomas á Kempis’s devotional text, The Imitation of Christ. I encountered it first in the letters of the young Samuel Beckett, and next in the interviews of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, and then in all...
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know
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Left To Write
№ 79: Allowing Those You Love The Right To Be Wrong
Why you’re getting this: I’m Jason Nguyen. I run Bloomstory.co.uk and The Mailroom. This is my...
2 days ago
Why you’re getting this: I’m Jason Nguyen. I run Bloomstory.co.uk and The Mailroom. This is my newsletter. I used to write this every week, but now I send this out when I can — life got in the way. Updates on what’s been going on in my life are at the bottom of this newsletter.
Retail Design Blog
Rice to Riches by Wid Chapman Architects
With the new Lower East Side-location of Rice to Riches, the Wid Chapman Architects were tasked with...
2 days ago
With the new Lower East Side-location of Rice to Riches, the Wid Chapman Architects were tasked with reimagining an iconic...
alexwlchan
What comes after AWS?
James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday:
Grumble Bundle
@monkchips
...
2 days ago
James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday:
Grumble Bundle
@monkchips
what are the core primitives developers need for building and deploying modern applications? what platform services does the underlying infrastructure need to...
The American Scholar
“Hymn” by A. R. Ammons
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “Hymn” by A. R. Ammons appeared first on The American...
2 days ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “Hymn” by A. R. Ammons appeared first on The American Scholar.
Quanta Magazine
Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture
Mathematicians have disproved a major conjecture about the relationship between curvature and shape....
2 days ago
Mathematicians have disproved a major conjecture about the relationship between curvature and shape.
The post Strangely Curved Shapes Break 50-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture first appeared on Quanta Magazine
CONTEMPORIST
This Renovated 1970s Home Now Has Concrete Floors That Flow Between The Interior And Exterior Spaces
ANACAPA Architecture has shared photos of a 1970’s-era residence and combination guesthouse/home...
2 days ago
ANACAPA Architecture has shared photos of a 1970’s-era residence and combination guesthouse/home office they updated in the hills of Montecito, California. Collaborating with the client, the designers reworked the home to bring it up to date. They did this by maintaining the...
Probably...
Estimation with Small Samples
Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
2 days ago
Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. gauss_bayes Estimation with Small Samples¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. Hey, so imagine I only have 6...
Cheese and Biscuits
Baudry Greene, Covent Garden
There are few things more important in the success of a restaurant than pedigree. If you are able to...
2 days ago
There are few things more important in the success of a restaurant than pedigree. If you are able to launch one good restaurant, you're more than likely to be able to make a good go of a second. And then a third, and so on. Well, up to a point. You don't want to spread yourself...
Res Obscura
LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that...
2 days ago
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
Retail Design Blog
On store
Cult running shoe brand On is accelerating the roll-out of new stores in leading cities across the...
2 days ago
Cult running shoe brand On is accelerating the roll-out of new stores in leading cities across the planet, and very...
Irrational...
How should you adopt LLMs?
Whether you’re a product engineer, a product manager, or an engineering executive, you’ve probably...
2 days ago
Whether you’re a product engineer, a product manager, or an engineering executive, you’ve probably been pushed to consider using Large Language Models (LLM) to extend your product or enhance your processes. 2023-2024 is an interesting era for LLM adoption, where these...
Both Are True
graphic design is my new pation
that's really how my brain spelled passion!!
2 days ago
that's really how my brain spelled passion!!
TheCollector
7 Shocking Animal Attacks You’ve Never Heard Of
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NeuroLogica Blog
Predicting Outcome in Severe Brain Injury
One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical...
2 days ago
One of the most difficult situations that a person can face is to have a loved-one in a critical medical condition and have to make life-or-death medical decisions for them. I have been in this situation many times as the consulting neurologist, and I have seen how weighty this...
Retail Design Blog
Marsh Offices by Shirli Zamir Design Studio
Shirli Zamir Design Studio created a 1000-square-meter space for Marsh in Ramat Gan inspired by the...
2 days ago
Shirli Zamir Design Studio created a 1000-square-meter space for Marsh in Ramat Gan inspired by the insurance industry, featuring minimalist...
Old Structures...
Evolved To Fit The Conditions
If you’ve always known something, it can be difficult to see how weird it is. New Yorkers walk...
2 days ago
If you’ve always known something, it can be difficult to see how weird it is. New Yorkers walk through construction sites all the time, intentionally so on the part of the builders and with the blessing of the Department of Buildings. It looks something like this: Like so many of...
TheCollector
Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Rest of World -...
The Chinese founder who is betting on the Western appetite for short soaps
Mega Matrix and FlexTV want to succeed where Quibi has failed by embracing the allure of “so bad...
2 days ago
Mega Matrix and FlexTV want to succeed where Quibi has failed by embracing the allure of “so bad it’s good” shows.
Retail Design Blog
Marketplace of North Coast Aranya by Atelier Z+
The “Marketplace of North Coast” is situated on the north side of the public cluster in the southern...
2 days ago
The “Marketplace of North Coast” is situated on the north side of the public cluster in the southern part of...
Seth's Blog
Invention or discovery?
We can agree that Isaac Newton didn’t invent gravity. It was here all along, but he gets some credit...
2 days ago
We can agree that Isaac Newton didn’t invent gravity. It was here all along, but he gets some credit for naming it and describing it. And Columbus definitely didn’t discover North America. There had been people living here for tens of thousands of years before he arrived. After...
Val Sopi
The Waiting Room
<p>Growing up I was always told to work hard, wait my turn, and good things will...
2 days ago
<p>Growing up I was always told to work hard, wait my turn, and good things will happen.</p><p>However, I've been the most successful when I didn't wait.</p><p>The "waiting room" is the worst place to be in. </p><p>You're at the mercy of someone else letting you...
Open Culture
Hannah Arendt Explains the Rise of Totalitarian Regimes–and the Strategies Needed to Combat Them
“Adolf Eichmann went to the gallows with great dignity,” wrote the political philosopher Hannah...
2 days ago
“Adolf Eichmann went to the gallows with great dignity,” wrote the political philosopher Hannah Arendt, describing the scene leading up to the prominent Holocaust-organizer’s execution. After drinking half a bottle of wine, turning down the offer of religious assistance, and even...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
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On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
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This Space
39 Books: 2005
Four years later, browsing in Waterstones, I picked a book from a table and read "What will we do to...
2 days ago
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Noahpinion
The Big Tariffs are here
Biden just slapped a 100% tax on Chinese car imports. Here's what that will and won't accomplish.
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Biden just slapped a 100% tax on Chinese car imports. Here's what that will and won't accomplish.
Open Culture
George Orwell’s Political Views, Explained in His Own Words
Among modern-day liberals and conservatives alike, George Orwell enjoys practically sainted status....
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Among modern-day liberals and conservatives alike, George Orwell enjoys practically sainted status. And indeed, throughout his body of work, including but certainly not limited to his oft-assigned novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, one can find numerous implicitly or...
TheCollector
Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Such a Touchy, Testy, Pleasant Fellow'
One of the
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said in the...
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One of the
curses of a good memory is the inability to forget stupid, hurtful things we
said in the past, and sometimes last week. Years ago I wrecked a friendship
with a glib remark, a wisecrack that I didn’t even believe but had convinced
myself was funny (it was, in fact, but...
TheCollector
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diamond geezer
Silver Jubilee
In May 2004 I wrote a month-long series called Silver Jubilee to celebrate the 25th anniversary of...
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In May 2004 I wrote a month-long series called Silver Jubilee to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Jubilee line. I believe in playing the long game, so today I'm reviving the feature to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Jubilee line extension.
So here's what I wrote...
Arduino Blog
Meet Mr. Wallplate, an animatronic wall plate that speaks to you
Interactive robots always bring an element of intrigue, and even more so when they feature unusual...
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Working Theorys
Baseline Fame
When privilege becomes a pre-requisite.
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Saturday Morning...
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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
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The Gist That Keeps On Giving
I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo.
Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local...
3 days ago
I’m working with git and make a big boo-boo.
Now I’m facing a situation where I’ve deleted a local branch with all my work and there’s no backup on GitHub.
“This is git. There has got to be a version of this things still on my computer somewhere, right? RIGHT?!”
So I start...
The Rational Walk
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Sam Altman
GPT-4o
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight.
First, a key part of our...
3 days ago
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight.
First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price). I am very proud that we’ve made the best model in the world available for free in...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Expectations Versus Reality
A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short...
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A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short prompt, much like ChatGPT does for text or DALL-E does for images, and I asked myself a pretty simple question:
"...how can someone actually make something useful out of
Saturday Morning...
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The Marginalian
Nothing: The Illustrated Story of How John Cage Revolutionized Music Through Silence
"We make our lives by what we love."
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TheCollector
How Did Comuna 13 Transform Medellín?
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Unix version control lore: what, ident
There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider
appreciation: SCCS what and RCS...
3 days ago
There are a couple of version control commands that deserve wider
appreciation: SCCS what and RCS ident.
They allow you to find out what source a binary was built from,
without having to run it – handy if it is a library!
keyword expansion
SCCS, RCS, cvs, and svn all have a way...
Nelson's Weblog
Kagi is a good search engine
Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been...
3 days ago
Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been happy with it. It’s not free but there’s a limited trial to check it out. I pay $10/mo for unlimited access. Turns out I do about 50 searches a day.
I’m unclear on how Kagi works...
Retail Design Blog
Old London Way gin by Andranik Ovsepian
Explore “Old London Way”: a captivating journey through the diverse world of gin, where each variant...
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Explore “Old London Way”: a captivating journey through the diverse world of gin, where each variant unveils its own captivating...
Quanta Magazine
How ‘Idle’ Egg Cells Defend Their DNA From Damage
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The post How ‘Idle’ Egg Cells Defend Their DNA From Damage first appeared on Quanta...
Retail Design Blog
JLL office by iDA Workplace
Under the innovation spearheaded by iDA Workplace, the JLL Taipei office has undergone a striking...
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Contemporist...
A House Design Inspired By The Idea of Turning Boxes
Architecture studio JMA has designed the Vistas House in Escobar, Buenos Aires, whose shape is based...
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Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay?
Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
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Common Edge
Jane Jacobs, Cyclist
We should have known the famed urbanist loved the bike.
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We should have known the famed urbanist loved the bike.
TheCollector
Discover the Secrets of the Catacombs of Rome
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Spotting Misinformation
There is an interesting disconnect in our culture recently. About 90% of people claim that they...
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There is an interesting disconnect in our culture recently. About 90% of people claim that they verify information they encounter in the news and on social media, and 96% of Americans say that we need to limit the spread of misinformation online. And yet, the spread of...
Retail Design Blog
VEJA store by Deirdra Hodgson
There’s no denying, VEJA is on a roll. In a short period of time, the pioneering sneaker brand with...
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Old Structures...
Almost Unrecognizeable
Most of the 1950s Angelo Rizzuto photos I’ve been discussing recently can be quickly located even if...
3 days ago
Most of the 1950s Angelo Rizzuto photos I’ve been discussing recently can be quickly located even if their descriptions don’t say were they were taken. The 1957 picture above threw me. We’re looking towards midtown – the Empire State Building makes that obvious – but from what...
TheCollector
Why Are the Black Hills Sacred to the Lakota Sioux?
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How the CCP is Closing China
How the CCP is Closing China
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The Elysian
I’d rather have an investor than a publishing contract
In pursuit of a better book deal (and record deal and podcast deal...)
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Open Culture
A New Analysis of Beethoven’s DNA Reveals That Lead Poisoning Could Have Caused His Deafness
Despite the intense scrutiny paid to the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven for a couple of...
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Despite the intense scrutiny paid to the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven for a couple of centuries now, the revered composer still has certain mysteries about him. Some of them he surely never intended to clarify, like the identity of “Immortal Beloved”; others he...
Retail Design Blog
House of B Store by Another D Studio
We believe a brand’s core identity is created through the values of brand founders. We worked to...
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We believe a brand’s core identity is created through the values of brand founders. We worked to expand and deepen...
Seth's Blog
Pet quirks
Peeves make lousy pets. They undermine us and put us on edge. But quirks? Little eccentricities we...
3 days ago
Peeves make lousy pets. They undermine us and put us on edge. But quirks? Little eccentricities we see in the world that offer a cost-free smile. Habits or interactions that always make us a little lighter on our feet and open the door to better… They’re easy to find, not hard to...
This Space
39 Books: 2004
Bought for an eye-watering £13 in the LRB Bookshop three months before this blog began, Once Again...
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Bought for an eye-watering £13 in the LRB Bookshop three months before this blog began, Once Again for Thucydides is another example in this series of how a book of under 100 pages can be worth as much as any number of maximalist breeze blocks.
But do I really want to make such...
Open Culture
Jerry Seinfeld Delivers Commencement Address at Duke University: You Will Need Humor to Get Through...
This weekend, Jerry Seinfeld gave the commencement speech at Duke University and offered the...
3 days ago
This weekend, Jerry Seinfeld gave the commencement speech at Duke University and offered the graduates his three keys to life: 1. bust your ass, 2. pay attention, and 3. fall in love. Then, 10 minutes later, he added essentially a fourth key to life: “Do not lose your sense of...
TheCollector
Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War?
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diamond geezer
Denham Green
As unexpected street names go, this is right up there.
n.b. there are four...
3 days ago
As unexpected street names go, this is right up there.
n.b. there are four Denhams.
Specifically Stanley Kubrick Road is in Denham Green.
Three things to see in Denham Green
1) Denham Film Studios
Alexander Korda opened his film studios just north of Denham in 1935. Some...
TheCollector
18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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Anecdotal Evidence
'It Is a Rite of Finitude'
Most of
Richard Wilbur’s poetry I read retrospectively, in books, long after it was
written and...
3 days ago
Most of
Richard Wilbur’s poetry I read retrospectively, in books, long after it was
written and first published in magazines. One exception I remember is “All That Is,” which appeared in the May 13, 1985 issue of The New Yorker. I had mostly stopped reading the magazine by...
The American Scholar
The Importance of Being Different
A travel writer’s education
The post The Importance of Being Different appeared first on The...
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A travel writer’s education
The post The Importance of Being Different appeared first on The American Scholar.
Christopher Butler...
The Elements of Good Craft
How details, focus, time, and taste elevate craft.
Attention to Detail
The number one...
3 days ago
How details, focus, time, and taste elevate craft.
Attention to Detail
The number one distinction among designers who need a lot of direction and designers who do not is their attention to detail. This is because attention to detail is commonly misunderstood.
Attention...
Seeking Wisdom
A great investor is a great rejector
I tend to grasp math concepts better from books written for other fields. Take linear algebra for...
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I tend to grasp math concepts better from books written for other fields. Take linear algebra for example — I developed a stronger understanding and appreciation for it after reading the book Modeling Life. Similarly, the investing book What I Learned About Investing from Darwin...
Quantum Frontiers
Let gravity do its work
One day, early this spring, I found myself in a hotel elevator with three other people. The cohort...
3 days ago
One day, early this spring, I found myself in a hotel elevator with three other people. The cohort consisted of two theoretical physicists, one computer scientist, and what appeared to be a normal person. I pressed the elevator’s 4 button, … Continue reading →
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Repugnant
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Automatic
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4 days ago
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I think I finally hit a completely new theodicy. If I can draw this out to 200 pages, I could get a divinity degree.
Today's News:
TheCollector
Bob Dylan’s Odyssey: A Deep Dive into the Life of a Music Legend
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Liz Denys
Notes on cone 6 clay bodies, part 1
One of the things I love most about working in a community studio is hearing about other...
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One of the things I love most about working in a community studio is hearing about other ceramicists' experiences with new-to-me clay bodies. This has helped me feel confident in trying out many different clay bodies, and I now use a bunch of different clay bodies in my...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Mothers of the Ancient World
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
TheCollector
The Strange Story of How Greece Joined the Entente in WWI
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Old Structures...
A Metaphor
When I was maybe ten years old, visiting the observation deck of the Empire State Building, I heard...
4 days ago
When I was maybe ten years old, visiting the observation deck of the Empire State Building, I heard someone describe the view as being like the buildings were a beard and Central Park a shaved strip. In 1952, there were far fewer high-rises on the Upper East and Upper West Sides,...
TheCollector
Who Is Theatrical Artist Augusto Boal?
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One Useful Thing
Superhuman?
What does it mean for AI to be better than a human? And how can we tell?
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What does it mean for AI to be better than a human? And how can we tell?
TheCollector
Dethroning Perception: Who Was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?
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A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
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We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
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Zephyr Ravenna Control Board Replacement
Blog post that probably has an audience of one, myself.
Introduction
Zephyr Ravenna - Confusing...
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Blog post that probably has an audience of one, myself.
Introduction
Zephyr Ravenna - Confusing Information
Two PCBs - Control Board & Switch Assembly
Switch of the Breaker!!!
Glass Canopy Removal
Duct Cover Removal
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Inverted Passion
How to be a messy thinker
I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental...
4 days ago
I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental models, and I’ll gobble it up. Given the amount of knowledge I’ve ingested on these topics, I had always assumed that I’m a clear thinker. Recently, though, it hit me like a...
Seth's Blog
The strategy sessions
I’m workshopping a new book. For the last few months, I’ve been feverishly writing a book about...
4 days ago
I’m workshopping a new book. For the last few months, I’ve been feverishly writing a book about strategy. Strategy for individuals, small organizations and large ones as well. Strategy for someone seeking to make a difference, and strategy for people who do projects. Starting...
This Space
39 Books: 2003
This year I read Robert Antelme's The Human Race for the first time. I was nonplussed. The strange...
4 days ago
This year I read Robert Antelme's The Human Race for the first time. I was nonplussed. The strange title, closer to popular sociology than memoir, should have been a warning. This was not quite the horror story one imagines of memoirs from those who survived Nazi concentration...
RhysTranter.com
Vivid Expression
From distant Paris, Fr Huvelin offers spiritual advice to St Charles de Foucauld as he works as a...
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From distant Paris, Fr Huvelin offers spiritual advice to St Charles de Foucauld as he works as a gardener in Nazareth
A Smart Bear
Hello, I'm 1074018628
Is "customer service" a genuine service? Or is it a shield so that most people at your company never...
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Is "customer service" a genuine service? Or is it a shield so that most people at your company never have to speak to one of those pesky customers?
RhysTranter.com
Easter 2024: A Roman Pilgrimage
A selection of the sites visited during a recent Easter pilgrimage to Rome
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A selection of the sites visited during a recent Easter pilgrimage to Rome
TheCollector
What Is a Medieval Morality Play?
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The Wrythe
Today we're off to the only south London suburb that starts with The, namely The Wrythe which is a...
4 days ago
Today we're off to the only south London suburb that starts with The, namely The Wrythe which is a significant part of Sutton. Essentially it's North Carshalton but has had a separate identity since medieval times, actual residents since Victorian times and today forms a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'That Judgment Day of Man’s Illusions'
In 1956, The American Scholar asked forty-three
writers, critics and scholars to name the book...
4 days ago
In 1956, The American Scholar asked forty-three
writers, critics and scholars to name the book published in the preceding
twenty-five years they believed to have been “the most undeservedly neglected.”
For this reader, sorry to say, most of them remain neglected. I don’t even...
journal – Winnie Lim
why i love hong kong
Hong Kong still seems like the same place in many ways, but it feels different. I don’t know how...
4 days ago
Hong Kong still seems like the same place in many ways, but it feels different. I don’t know how much of it is due to the changes in me or the changes...
Noahpinion
The death (again) of the internet as we know it
A few big changes are making the online world a more boring place to hang out.
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Kaiserslautern
I hope to stay longer than 72 hours the next time I visit Germany. I don’t recommend such a short...
5 days ago
I hope to stay longer than 72 hours the next time I visit Germany. I don’t recommend such a short visit. However I went there for work as I do occasionally, and I had no choice. So that’s what I did. I landed in Frankfurt on Monday, drove down to Kaiserslautern, stayed through...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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Tony Finch's blog
Migrating to BIND9 dnssec-policy
Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old
auto-dnssec to its new...
5 days ago
Here are some notes on migrating a signed zone from BIND’s old
auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy.
I have been procrastinating this migration for years, and I avoided
learning anything much about dnssec-policy until this month. I’m
writing this from the perspective of a DNS...
The Honest Broker
Your Brain on Art
My Q&A with Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
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My Q&A with Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
Old Structures...
The Personal Connection Times Three
It’s hard to overstate the importance of personal links in discussing how people feel about the...
5 days ago
It’s hard to overstate the importance of personal links in discussing how people feel about the built environment. This 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto looks east past St. Paul’s Chapel to the St. Paul and Park Row buildings: I’ve worked on St. Paul’s and the Park Row building. As a...
RhysTranter.com
Keeping Silence
Saturday afternoon. Revisiting Merton, Newman, and this from Madeleine Delbrêl…
5 days ago
Saturday afternoon. Revisiting Merton, Newman, and this from Madeleine Delbrêl…
RhysTranter.com
Cultivating Silence
Saturday afternoon. Revisiting Merton, Newman, and this from Madeleine Delbrêl…
5 days ago
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TheCollector
Theodor Morell: Hitler’s Particularly Odious Physician
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Who Were the Maccabees?
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Insphex, a hex dump tool in Medley Common Lisp
<![CDATA[I'm developing the new program Insphex (inspect hex), a hex dump tool that is created with...
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<![CDATA[I'm developing the new program Insphex (inspect hex), a hex dump tool that is created with and runs on the Medley Interlisp environment.
Similarly to the Linux command hexdump, it shows the contents of files as hexadecimal values and the corresponding ASCII characters....
TheCollector
Who Assassinated Julius Caesar?
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The Ruffian
Zadie Smith and the 'Both Sides' Problem
On Centrist Meta-Commentaries
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This Space
39 Books: 2002
The quiet joy of short, constrained memoirs. I borrowed a copy of this book in 2002 and then found a...
5 days ago
The quiet joy of short, constrained memoirs. I borrowed a copy of this book in 2002 and then found a copy in a remaindered shop for £5.
Anne Atik got to know Beckett in the late 1950s through the artist Avigdor Arikha, later her husband. Beckett's circle of friends included as...
Flashbak
A Look at London in 1975 with English Eccentrics and Mr Whippy
It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by...
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It’s 1975 on Flashbak. We’re in and around London in the company of David Rostance. Let’s begin by shopping for a Mr Whippy ice cream on Gypsy Hill, south of the River Thames. Or maybe a cider or Brandy Alexander lolly is more to your taste? You can see the full range of British...
Seth's Blog
I fixed it for you
Creativity is about hope and possibility. It gives us a chance to make things better. Plenty has...
5 days ago
Creativity is about hope and possibility. It gives us a chance to make things better. Plenty has been written about the sad iPad ad that Apple just apologized for. It wasn’t just out of character for the story Apple tells, it was a cheap hack, taking the nihilism and helplessness...
TheCollector
A Guide to 6 Natural Wonders of Vietnam
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diamond geezer
London's most terminussy bus terminus
I won't keep you long today.
Let's answer a dull question.
Which London bus terminus has the most...
5 days ago
I won't keep you long today.
Let's answer a dull question.
Which London bus terminus has the most terminating routes?
See, half of you can head off already.
This is a surprisingly difficult question to answer.
It used to be easy when TfL made bus maps.
I made myself a list...
FIRE v London
April ’24: Juggling cash as new UK tax year begins
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The temperature in the Middle East got even hotter in April, with Israel and Iran trading attacks on each other’s sovereign buildings/territory. Somehow World War III has never really seemed in danger of breaking out but it is a reminder that only change is constant. Over in New...
Anecdotal Evidence
'When Young Men Go to Die'
Like most lifelong civilian Americans, I have
never fired a gun in my life. I owned a BB gun when I...
5 days ago
Like most lifelong civilian Americans, I have
never fired a gun in my life. I owned a BB gun when I was a kid and often fired
my brother’s pellet gun. My experience with firearms is entirely second- or
third-hand via the movies, which give me the illusion that I know...
Christopher Butler...
visual journal – 2024 May 06 - May 11
The Kali Yuga
Rumor is the Kali Yuga ends in March, 2025.
Thinking a lot about...
5 days ago
The Kali Yuga
Rumor is the Kali Yuga ends in March, 2025.
Thinking a lot about portals lately. Looking in, and through.
This last one was fun.
P.S. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!
SatPost by Trung...
Starbucks' Digital Dilemna
The Starbucks rewards app is an incredible business. However, mobile orders are getting out of...
5 days ago
The Starbucks rewards app is an incredible business. However, mobile orders are getting out of control and hurting the brand's "premium" vibe.
Arduino Blog
GLEWBOT scales buildings like a gecko to inspect wall tiles
A great deal of building maintenance expenses are the result of simple inaccessibility. Cleaning the...
5 days ago
A great deal of building maintenance expenses are the result of simple inaccessibility. Cleaning the windows are your house is a trivial chore, but cleaning the windows on a skyscraper is serious undertaking that needs specialized equipment and training. To make exterior wall...
Tony Finch's blog
BIND9 dnssec-policy appendices
Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s
dnssec-policy that turned out not to be...
6 days ago
Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s
dnssec-policy that turned out not to be useful in my previous blog
posts, but which some readers might find informative. Some of them I
learned the hard way, so I hope I can make it easier for others!
contents of key...
The Great Discontent...
Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor
When Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor came up with the idea for Ear Hustle, the podcast they’ve hosted...
6 days ago
When Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor came up with the idea for Ear Hustle, the podcast they’ve hosted together since 2017, Earlonne was serving a prison sentence of 31 years to life—the result of California’s three-strikes law. The two met at San Quentin State Prison where Nigel, a...
TheCollector
Bobby Fischer vs. the World: Chess Within the Cold War
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Arduino Blog
Control your Raspberry Pi GPIOs with Arduino Cloud using Python | Part II
As a Python developer, you’re probably eager to control and monitor your Raspberry Pi GPIOs...
6 days ago
As a Python developer, you’re probably eager to control and monitor your Raspberry Pi GPIOs remotely. Well, you have landed in the right place. This article builds upon our previous introduction to “Visualize your Raspberry Pi data with Arduino Cloud | Part I.” Now, we’ll...
Arduino Blog
ardEEG is an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi shield for measuring biosignals
The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount...
6 days ago
The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount of progress in reading signals produced by the brain. We may not understand exactly what is going on, but we can see the result and utilize it. And now you can start...
The American Scholar
Changing the Lens
Exploding the Canon, Episode 5 (Finale)
The post Changing the Lens appeared first on The American...
6 days ago
Exploding the Canon, Episode 5 (Finale)
The post Changing the Lens appeared first on The American Scholar.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 10, 2024
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up...
6 days ago
Fireside this week! Next week, with luck, I’ll have my ‘On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon’ up as an addendum to our discussion of Hellenistic armies. But in the meantime, it is a fireside, and I thought, since it was just recently May the Fourth, we might talk some Star...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Simulation
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6 days ago
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Or the simulators, insanely, think we'd rather have a life of striving together.
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 066: AlphaFold 3
May 10, 2024.
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TheCollector
Hitler in Politics: From the Nazi Party to the Reichstag
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Classical Wisdom
The Mother Goddess of Rome
And Her Controversial Religion
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And Her Controversial Religion
Arduino Blog
Explore two ways to white label with Arduino Cloud
We’re excited to announce a brand-new feature called “Custom Branding,” which allows Enterprise plan...
6 days ago
We’re excited to announce a brand-new feature called “Custom Branding,” which allows Enterprise plan users to white label their workspace and enhance the overall user experience. This announcement is exciting because it empowers businesses to create a truly tailored environment...
Society's Backend
Weekly Backend #6: 59 Resources and Updates, AI is Taking Off in Medicine
Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3, KANs, LLM Benchmarks are being looked at more critically,...
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Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3, KANs, LLM Benchmarks are being looked at more critically, Apple is bringing their AI chips to data centers, StackOverflow partners with OpenAI, and more
David Heinemeier...
DEI is done (minus the mop up)
In November of 2022, I wrote about the waning days of DEI's dominance, and enumerated four factors...
6 days ago
In November of 2022, I wrote about the waning days of DEI's dominance, and enumerated four factors that I saw as primary drivers of this decline. Those waning days have now been brought to a close, and DEI, as an obsessive, ideological preoccupation of the corporate world, is...
Both Are True
An important reminder about all social media including Substack Notes
The truths they don’t want you to know about
6 days ago
The truths they don’t want you to know about
Construction Physics
Will Stone Replace Steel and Concrete?
A recent viral tweet by Micah Springut, founder of stone-carving startup Monumental Labs, argued...
6 days ago
A recent viral tweet by Micah Springut, founder of stone-carving startup Monumental Labs, argued that it will be cheaper to build buildings with stone than with steel or concrete within the next 10 years. Stone has of course been used for thousands of years as a construction...
TheCollector
Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Old Structures...
A Less Obvious Canyon
A few months ago I wrote about the appearance of streets lined with old, pre-zoning skyscrapers. I...
6 days ago
A few months ago I wrote about the appearance of streets lined with old, pre-zoning skyscrapers. I mentioned my two favorite examples: Thames Street between Broadway and Trinity Place, and Pine Street between Broadway and Nassau Street. I skipped the obvious example, Broadway, as...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States?
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6 days ago
Rest of World -...
Jumia Food delivery workers’ final payments are still missing
Jumia says it paid its logistics partners. Logistics partners say they paid all the workers. The...
6 days ago
Jumia says it paid its logistics partners. Logistics partners say they paid all the workers. The workers say they haven’t been paid.
Open Culture
Aldous Huxley Explains How Man Became “the Victim of His Own Technology” (1961)
Just a couple of days ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted out a video promoting, “the new iPad Pro: the...
6 days ago
Just a couple of days ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted out a video promoting, “the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created.” The response has been overwhelming, and overwhelmingly negative: for many viewers, the ad’s imagery of a hydraulic press crushing a heap of...
Seth's Blog
Success is not an option
In any creative endeavor, it’s possible to define success as the big win, the moment when your...
6 days ago
In any creative endeavor, it’s possible to define success as the big win, the moment when your dreams match reality. Success is the end of imposter syndrome, stability and finally making it to the other side. By this definition, it’s clear that success isn’t going to happen. It’s...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#36)
The silent majority and the Palestine protests; immigration is fine; batteries make solar work;...
6 days ago
The silent majority and the Palestine protests; immigration is fine; batteries make solar work; building warships in Japan; the decels of the Right
TheCollector
Ancient Egyptian Structure Discovered Near Giza Pyramids
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This Space
39 Books: 2001
In 1995 I found this hardback edition in the British History section of a Brighton bookshop six...
6 days ago
In 1995 I found this hardback edition in the British History section of a Brighton bookshop six years after the French original was cited by Gabriel Josipovici as one of his books of the year: "a beautifully controlled examination of the effect on [Roubaud] of his wife's death...
TheCollector
What Is the History Behind Hanukkah?
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Open Culture
The First Recording of Allen Ginsberg Reading “Howl” (1956)
Image by Michiel Hendryckx, via Wikimedia Commons Occasionally I slip into an ivory tower mentality...
6 days ago
Image by Michiel Hendryckx, via Wikimedia Commons Occasionally I slip into an ivory tower mentality in which the idea of a banned book seems quaint—associated with silly scandals over the tame sex scenes in James Joyce or D.H. Lawrence. After all, I think, we live in an age when...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Troublesome Error, a Pernicious Foppery''
Let’s be
grateful to our troubled age for making it necessary to revive such formerly dormant
words...
6 days ago
Let’s be
grateful to our troubled age for making it necessary to revive such formerly dormant
words as cant and foppery, so as to avoid the more precise
but less polite bullshit. For foppery, the OED offers among its definitions “foolishness, imbecility,
stupidity, folly.” It’s...
diamond geezer
National Gallery 200
The National Gallery first threw open its doors 200 years ago today. It wasn't in Trafalgar Square...
6 days ago
The National Gallery first threw open its doors 200 years ago today. It wasn't in Trafalgar Square at the time, that hadn't been built yet, but at 100 Pall Mall in a dead banker's townhouse. Here John Julius Angerstein's small collection of Old Masters was displayed, slowly...
The Marginalian
What It’s Like to Be a Falcon: The Peregrine as a Portal to a Way of Seeing and a State of Being
"You cannot know what freedom means till you have seen a peregrine loosed into the warm spring sky...
6 days ago
"You cannot know what freedom means till you have seen a peregrine loosed into the warm spring sky to roam at will through all the far provinces of light."
Josh Collinsworth
A decade of code
A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and...
6 days ago
A personal (read: meandering) post inspired by the realization that I first began to learn HTML and CSS exactly ten years ago, reflecting on the lucky turning points that brought me to where I am today.
TheCollector
Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony
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Weighty Thoughts
The Real Risks of AI
Humans are really the ones to be scared of
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Humans are really the ones to be scared of
Passing Time
An Ode to Manchester Wall
A 19th-century bridge's contribution to climbing culture
a week ago
A 19th-century bridge's contribution to climbing culture
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Frank
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I read a lot of Perry Bible Fellowship, desperately...
a week ago
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I read a lot of Perry Bible Fellowship, desperately afraid that somewhere I'd amnesia-stolen this script.
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TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies?
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Prolost
Apple’s “Let Loose” iPad Event was Shot on iPhone — With Panavision Lenses
Still from Apple’s “Let Loose” video.
Apple unveiled their new line of iPads yesterday in a...
a week ago
Still from Apple’s “Let Loose” video.
Apple unveiled their new line of iPads yesterday in a pre-recorded video titled “Let Loose.” As with the previous “Scary Fast” MacBook Pro launch video, “Let Loose” ends with a tag proclaiming “Shot on iPhone” — this time adding “Edited on...
Retail Design Blog
Landevenneg by Studio Boam
Landevenneg is a small village in Finistère, Brittany. It is famous for its Benedictine abbey and...
a week ago
Landevenneg is a small village in Finistère, Brittany. It is famous for its Benedictine abbey and its religious history. Landevenneg...
Quanta Magazine
Game Theory Can Make AI More Correct and Efficient
Researchers are drawing on ideas from game theory to improve large language models and make them...
a week ago
Researchers are drawing on ideas from game theory to improve large language models and make them more consistent.
The post Game Theory Can Make AI More Correct and Efficient first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Works in...
What did Henry George think about cities?
Solving the terrible urban conditions of the 1800s by abolishing cities
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Solving the terrible urban conditions of the 1800s by abolishing cities
Retail Design Blog
Bear Capital office by Oktra
Oktra designed a purpose-built office space for Bear Capital in Richmond, transitioning from angular...
a week ago
Oktra designed a purpose-built office space for Bear Capital in Richmond, transitioning from angular to curved architecture to enhance flow...
Quanta Magazine
Will Better Superconductors Transform the World?
Scientists are pursuing materials that can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency under ambient...
a week ago
Scientists are pursuing materials that can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency under ambient conditions. In this episode, the physicist Siddharth Shanker Saxena tells co-host Janna Levin about what makes this hunt so difficult and consequential.
The post Will...
Arduino Blog
Expanding possibilities: Blues Wireless amplifies Opta’s connectivity
Blues Wireless and Arduino have joined forces to create the game-changing Blues Wireless for Arduino...
a week ago
Blues Wireless and Arduino have joined forces to create the game-changing Blues Wireless for Arduino Opta, unveiled this week at the Automate Show in Chicago. The expansion module is an affordable solution to enhance connectivity options for Arduino Opta micro PLCs, and marks a...
TheCollector
Mobutu Sese Seko: The Rise and Fall of Congo’s Infamous Dictator
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NeuroLogica Blog
Havana Syndrome Revisited
Last month I wrote about Havana Syndrome, the claim that a number of American and Canadian diplomats...
a week ago
Last month I wrote about Havana Syndrome, the claim that a number of American and Canadian diplomats and military personnel were the targets of some sort of directed energy weapon attack causing symptoms of headache, disorientation, nausea, and sometimes associated with an...
Flashbak
‘Look at Me’: Scot Sothern’s powerful photographs of life on LA’s streets
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange...
a week ago
In amongst the crowds drifting along Hollywood Boulevard there’s an old guy sitting on an orange bucket. He’s wearing dirty jeans and a grey hoodie. The guy’s in his seventies. Weather-worn. Grizzled beard. Walking stick. Back trouble caused by “old spinal injuries and bad...
Retail Design Blog
AP House by Lissoni & Partners
Swiss ultra luxury watch maker Audemars Piguet continues to raise its profile in Europe‘s leading...
a week ago
Swiss ultra luxury watch maker Audemars Piguet continues to raise its profile in Europe‘s leading shopping destinations by opening flagship...
The Modern House
The Modern House: a potted history
Twenty years ago, The Modern House was a mere kernel of an idea; today, it is widely recognised as...
a week ago
Twenty years ago, The Modern House was a mere kernel of an idea; today, it is widely recognised as the UK’s leading design-led estate agency. How did we get here? Today, co-founders Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill were asked this very question on BBC Radio 4’s Gap […]
Old Structures...
Always Something New
No matter how many buildings you’ve seen, you can always find something that will surprise you. The...
a week ago
No matter how many buildings you’ve seen, you can always find something that will surprise you. The picture above is not an underwater shot from the Titanic, it’s the cellar of a circa-1900 rowhouse. This was a house of some pretension when first built. As in most wider...
Vadim Kravcenko
I’m sorry
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Answer:
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Question:
Answer:
The post I’m sorry appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Retail Design Blog
Highsnobiety – Unter den Linden by VAUST Studio
“The Shell” is born from a blend of diverse creative approaches, functional necessities, and spatial...
a week ago
“The Shell” is born from a blend of diverse creative approaches, functional necessities, and spatial dynamics. It embodies Highsnobiety’s refined...
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Disciples of Jesus Christ?
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Rest of World -...
Why Southeast Asia became a spyware hotspot
A new Amnesty International report raises difficult questions.
a week ago
A new Amnesty International report raises difficult questions.
Open Culture
Watch an Enthusiast Drive the First Car Ever Made, the 1885 Mercedes Benz
In 1885, Karl Benz built what’s now considered the first modern automobile. According to the...
a week ago
In 1885, Karl Benz built what’s now considered the first modern automobile. According to the Mercedes Benz website, the car featured a “compact high-speed single-cylinder four-stroke engine installed horizontally at the rear, a tubular steel frame … and three wire-spoked wheels....
Seth's Blog
Cats and dogs
Does your brand have a personality? When people expect you to act a certain way, you have a brand....
a week ago
Does your brand have a personality? When people expect you to act a certain way, you have a brand. And that expectation is worth understanding. Can you help us understand whether you’re a cat or a dog in the way you react, respond, delight or sneak around? And if you’re a dog,...
This Space
39 Books: 2000
In 1998 my friend John Harris mentioned that he was travelling to the US so I asked if he could pick...
a week ago
In 1998 my friend John Harris mentioned that he was travelling to the US so I asked if he could pick up a copy of the new translation of Peter Handke's My Year in the No-man's Bay, not available over here. He was the first to tell me about this new website called Amazon. This is...
TheCollector
Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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a week ago
diamond geezer
Ruby Tuesday Drive
As unexpected street names go, this is right up there.
And there are ten more where that came...
a week ago
As unexpected street names go, this is right up there.
And there are ten more where that came from.
Dartford not far from the QE2 Bridge. We're in Dartford because that's where Mick Jagger and Keith Richards grew up, met and went on to form the Rolling Stones. And we're here...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Artist Knows He Is Ready'
A young
reader complains that he’s “good with words” but doesn’t know what to write
about. It sounds...
a week ago
A young
reader complains that he’s “good with words” but doesn’t know what to write
about. It sounds as though he seizes up when he sits down at the keyboard. To
call his condition “writer’s block” would be premature. He’s too inexperienced
for that to be happening already. The...
Open Culture
Read the Uncompromising Letter That Steve Albini (RIP) Wrote to Nirvana Before Producing In Utero...
Today, Steve Albini, the musician and producer of important albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, the Pixies...
a week ago
Today, Steve Albini, the musician and producer of important albums by Nirvana, PJ Harvey, the Pixies and many others, passed away in Chicago, at the all-too-early age of 61. In tribute, we’re bringing you this classic 2013 post from our archive. Journeyman record producer Steve...
The American Scholar
Tramping With Virginia
A seminal essay about walking the streets of London can present challenges in the classrooms of...
a week ago
A seminal essay about walking the streets of London can present challenges in the classrooms of today
The post Tramping With Virginia appeared first on The American Scholar.
Mark Manson
How to Conquer Your Biggest Fear
What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that fear, once and for all?
In...
a week ago
What is your biggest fear? What would it mean if you could overcome that fear, once and for all?
In this article, I'm going to help you do exactly that by teaching you five tactics to conquer anything you might be afraid of. Heights, spiders, small spaces, strangely-shaped...
The Convivial...
The Ambling Mind
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 6
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The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 6
detreville
🎼This Is the Worst Trip I’ve Ever Been On 🎶
(A Lengthy Vacation Post-Mortem)
a week ago
(A Lengthy Vacation Post-Mortem)
David Heinemeier...
Hating Apple goes mainstream
This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything...
a week ago
This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything everyone has ever hated about digitization. It celebrates a lossy, creative compression for the most flimsy reason: An iPad shedding an irrelevant millimeter or two. It's destruction...
Handprinted - Blog
Preparing your paper and press for etching
When you’ve created an aluminium or zinc plate etching, you’ll want to have a go at pulling your...
a week ago
When you’ve created an aluminium or zinc plate etching, you’ll want to have a go at pulling your first print. To do this, you’ll need to learn how to prepare your paper and how to set the correct pressure on your press.
This blog is part of a series featuring tips and techniques...
TheCollector
Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist
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Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
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But they forget the people and the Street.
Artificial Ignorance
AI and the workplace
How employees and CEOs alike can plan for the future.
a week ago
How employees and CEOs alike can plan for the future.
The Rational Walk
Apple’s Dystopian iPad Video
When Steve Jobs spoke about the intersection of liberal arts and technology, he did not envision...
a week ago
When Steve Jobs spoke about the intersection of liberal arts and technology, he did not envision crushing symbols of art and culture.
Moneyness
Renovatio monetae
This silver pfennig from the Archbishopric of Magdeburg (1152-1192) was subject to a policy of...
a week ago
This silver pfennig from the Archbishopric of Magdeburg (1152-1192) was subject to a policy of renovatio monetae. Twice a year whoever held it had to bring it in to be changed for new coins at a rate of four old coins to three new coins. That suggests an annualized tax rate on...
Arduino Blog
This Arduino-controlled machine dispenses the perfect bowl of cereal
Breakfast cereal is controversial. Milk or cereal first? Best cereal to milk ratio? Favorite cereal?...
a week ago
Breakfast cereal is controversial. Milk or cereal first? Best cereal to milk ratio? Favorite cereal? Most attractive mascot? The opportunities for debate never end. But we can all agree that consistency is key when it comes to the milk:cereal ratio — nobody changes that up from...
Dan Slimmon
Podcast appearance: The Debrief from Incident.io
I’m so grateful to Incident.io for the opportunity to shout from their rooftop about Clinical...
a week ago
I’m so grateful to Incident.io for the opportunity to shout from their rooftop about Clinical troubleshooting, which I firmly believe is the way we should all be diagnosing system failures. Enjoy the full episode!
TheCollector
6 Assassinations That Changed History
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Tony Finch's blog
Introducing BIND9 dnssec-policy
Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature
to sign a DNS zone that is...
a week ago
Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature
to sign a DNS zone that is currently unsigned.
I am in the process of migrating my DNS zones from BIND’s old
auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy, and writing a blog post
about it. These introductory sections...
Quanta Magazine
New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks Assemble
Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of...
a week ago
Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold3 and other deep learning algorithms can now predict the shapes of interacting complexes of protein, DNA, RNA and other molecules, better capturing cells’ biological landscapes.
The post New AI Tools Predict How Life’s Building Blocks...
The Marginalian
Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say: A Tender Painted Lexicon of Consolation and Connection
“To be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” Emily Dickinson wrote. From the moment she pressed the...
a week ago
“To be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” Emily Dickinson wrote. From the moment she pressed the first wildflower into her astonishing teenage herbarium until the moment Susan pinned a violet to her alabaster chest in the casket, she filled her poems with flowers and made of...
TheCollector
Sufism in South and South East Asia
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Engineers Need Art
Building Quarter-Cab - Phase I
Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
a week ago
Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too”
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Old Structures...
A Holdout
In January 1958, Angelo Rizzuto took this photo from the east side of Lexington Avenue, between 53rd...
a week ago
In January 1958, Angelo Rizzuto took this photo from the east side of Lexington Avenue, between 53rd and 54th Streets, looking west toward Park Avenue. The block bounded by those four streets was at that time entirely empty except for this old rowhouse at 620 Lexington. It was...
History Today Feed
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
JamesHoare
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‘Churchill’s American Network’ and ‘Mirrors of Greatness’ review
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Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:16
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice?
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Rest of World -...
Writers and publishers in Singapore reject a government plan to train AI on their work
Singapore's literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their...
a week ago
Singapore's literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their published works, part of a growing global resistance.
Atoms vs Bits
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Can audio engineering ideas help us deal with life in the city?s
a week ago
Can audio engineering ideas help us deal with life in the city?s
Open Culture
Watch Animations Showing How Humans Migrated Across the World Over the Past 60,000 Years
Ex Africa semper aliquid novi. Attributed to various luminaries of antiquity, that saying (the...
a week ago
Ex Africa semper aliquid novi. Attributed to various luminaries of antiquity, that saying (the probable inspiration for Isak Dinesen’s poem “Ex Africa,” itself the probable inspiration for her memoir Out of Africa, which in turn was loosely adapted into Sydney Pollack’s...
Seth's Blog
The defensive arrogance of TL;DR
Every since there has been high school, there has been the instinct to read the Cliffs Notes. The...
a week ago
Every since there has been high school, there has been the instinct to read the Cliffs Notes. The internet took this idea, added a gratuitous semicolon and perfected Too Long; Didn’t Read. This is the mistakenly proud assertion that we are far too busy and too important to read...
This Space
39 Books: 1999
I've always preferred the Serpent's Tail edition of Pessoa's Book of Disquiet over the others...
a week ago
I've always preferred the Serpent's Tail edition of Pessoa's Book of Disquiet over the others published around the same time, such as from Quartet Encounters and Carcanet, the latter with a fussy variant on the title: The Book of Disquietude. But this one is the most pleasurable...
Escaping Flatland
On shortcuts and longcuts
There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they...
a week ago
There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they make. This gives the path a lovely human fit. But sometimes you want to do the opposite. You want to design ways to get people to take a longer path, a longcut, so they can see or...
TheCollector
Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides
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diamond geezer
Unblogged first week of May
7 unblogged things I did in the first week of May
Wed 1: While I was touring City churches I came...
a week ago
7 unblogged things I did in the first week of May
Wed 1: While I was touring City churches I came across this, the Lost London Churches Project. They've printed a little colour card for every church in the City of London - current and former - and the idea is to collect them all...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Will Your Birds Be Always Wingless Birds'
A
questionnaire sent to Louis MacNeice in 1934 – that “low dishonest decade” was
big on...
a week ago
A
questionnaire sent to Louis MacNeice in 1934 – that “low dishonest decade” was
big on questionnaires to writers – asked, “Do you take your stand with any political
or politico-economic party or creed?” The Irishman replied: “No. In weaker
moments I wish I could.” Never a...
Open Culture
A Bicycle Trip: Watch an Animation of The World’s First LSD Trip in 1943
On August 16, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was synthesizing a new compound called lysergic...
a week ago
On August 16, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was synthesizing a new compound called lysergic acid diethylamide-25 when he got a couple of drops on his finger. The chemical, later known worldwide as LSD, absorbed into his system, and, soon after, he experienced an intense...
The American Scholar
Bitten
The post Bitten appeared first on The American Scholar.
a week ago
The post Bitten appeared first on The American Scholar.
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