(It’s the last day of Halloween Week on Unsung, where we’re sharing scary, spooky, and creepy stories.) A great video about Polybius from Ahoy/​Stuart Brown: Polybius was a rumoured rare or secret 1981 arcade game published by Sinneslöschen that was addictive and had adverse effects on its players, causing hallucinations, amnesia, and seizures. In contrast with some of the August 32 videos which sport a certain “we know the authors denied this, but” posture, this video doesn’t waste time…

Missed the second half taking little kid to his karate lesson, so catching up now. Not many would dare to do what Morgan Rogers did for his goal (perhaps only Harry Maguire?), but he was aided and abetted by Mbeumo losing the ball in the centre circle and Baleba failing to win the ball back. Rogers was allowed to waltz through what remained of United’s central midfield and defence with both Maguire and Lisandro Martinez gving him free passage between them. Perhaps we need yet another new centre…

Delitzsch, eine mittelalterliche Kleinstadt in Nordsachsen, ist meine Heimatstadt. Trotzdem gibt es Seiten ihrer Geschichte, die ich erst nach und nach im Laufe der Jahre kennenlernte. Dazu gehört das jüdische Leben: die Menschen, die hier Geschäfte führten, Familien gründeten, beteten und ihre Angehörigen beerdigten. Beim Spaziergang durch die Altstadt erschließt sich davon wenig von selbst. Du musst wissen, wonach Du suchst. Die Sonderausstellung Jüdisches Leben in Delitzsch im Museum…

Welcome back to Dispatch, a personal roundup of videos, records, and anything that I found interesting this month. Think of Dispatch as my monthly mixtape from the internet with no real theme except “this was neat.” Videos Key by Cars & Bids spent 72 Hours in South Dakota the incredible car culture of the place with some cool cars and picturesque roads. If you couldn’t be bothered with the entire video then skip to 34:16 cause Tanner is bad ass and inspirational, PLEASE just watch that part 😂.…

I have written about the problem of photo metadata being leaked by blogging platformsMost shamefully this one before I fixed that problem for good. before. See Parsing XML EXIF from .avif files (plus a rant) and You Should Be Stripping EXIF Data out of Your Image Files Before Posting for the details but for the TL/DR: Cameras helpfully put a lot of metadata in your photos. Most of this is innocuous technical data, like the color space and the camera orientation. But the exact GPS coordinates…

A year’s membership in the Premium Newsletter for €50 €25 EUR (price includes VAT, where applicable) A couple of years ago I found some of the old journals I’d kept when I was a teenager. Some of the thoughts in it were innocuous and silly. Some of them were heavier – had a weight I still carry with me today – especially the passages I wrote when I was hospitalised for a summer. None of it’s great writing. But all of it helped at the time. Taking thoughts and putting them down into writing…

I recently read Marty Klein’s “Does Sex Still Matter?”, which argues that sex matters because it represents personal autonomy, pleasure, connection, and resistance to government interference. There is plenty in that argument I agree with. Adults should have considerable freedom to decide what happens with their own bodies and between consenting partners. Religious disapproval shouldn’t give someone authority over another adult’s private life. But the article opens by insisting that every sexual…

According to legend, Charlemagne would amaze his dinner guests with a stunt where he would toss a tablecloth that had stains on it into the fire, then pull it back out spotless. The cloth was woven from asbestos, and the trick worked every time. Image - courtesy of Pexels.The Ancient World Believed Asbestos Was MagicThe ancient Greeks called the material ‘asbestos’, which translates to ‘unquenchable’. Many medieval European people thought that the material was the hair of a salamander. When…

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Chatting with Oliver on Wednesday IRL was, as always, refreshing and reenergizing. Also, he added Hackergotchis to IcaPlanet the very same Wednesday!

Abstract architectural detail of Uptown Dallas’ Rolex Building, designed by renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. The post Layered appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Back in 2015, when I went to Japan for three months, I realized there that I wouldn't be able to just walk into a book store and buy a book to read. Sure, there are books in English (and French), b...

The Problem Apple recently started rolling out the new Siri AI functionality to existing devices that can support it. For me, the new Siri AI replaced my Spotlight search on October 29th. Unfortunately, it had one really bad conflict with how I work. I use the ⌘⇧␣ (Command+Shift+Space) keyboard shortcut to open a 1Password search dialog. Now with Siri AI enabled, this keyboard shortcut caused 1Password instant search to open, but then immediately a warning would come up that said “Siri…

This morning at 20th and Irving, #SanFrancisco:

What I'm... Playing Melvor Idle (down to one character now) Cleaning up problems Creating a business process diagram for managing problems in content packages and potentially collaborating with a content oversight committee (fun (not sarcastic)!) Watching Bluekandy VODs (bro just beat Heart Gold Ironman Kaizo again, very nice) Watching YouTube videos offline by downloading them sometimes Surfing YouTube feed Surfing Melvor Idle wiki Barely surfing Reddit (ugh) Drinking drip coffee (no 7 Brew…

Yesterday, while checking my RSS reader, my eye caught the long-dormant feed for Ben Bashford. I wondered how he was getting on and clicked through to an old post to see if there were any clues to his recent exploits. I found he’d reworked his site and there was a new feed at a new URL. RSS reader updated, today I’ve been catching up on some of what I missed. His post Are You an Artist? chimed with some other things that happened yesterday. Last night was the private view for INTERMISSION, the…

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I'm at The Gallery in Charlottetown. Their peanut butter cookies are particularly on point today — that's the beauty of the analog world — there can be variations that produce delight. I had to drag myself here. I felt guilty the whole drive over, convinced I should be working. I don't know how I became this way, but here I am.I'm at a table surrounded by wonderful letterpress art, the sounds of the kitchen, and a couple of older people sharing pictures of family younger than themselves on a…

Trying to practice four or five hours a day on music averaging two ours of electric guitar in open c tuning and a hour of live songs in concert tuning and a hour of dedicated vocal practice. Still not confident with my singing since I had all my teeth ripped out a couple of years ago… but even more than my song writing that is most often what I am complimented on. It’s a little weird being told I have a great voice mainly because I have never been confident with my singing. I am trying to get…

LC-3 assembly is an educational programming language. It is simple enough that complex programs can be written directly in it without needing a compiler, and thus it is often used in teaching assembly. An LC-3 textual assembly program is compiled to a binary object file by an assembler, and then executed by a virtual machine. Writing a virtual machine for LC-3 is a fun little exercise. However, in this post, we implement a disassembler for compiled LC-3 binaries back to textual assembly…

I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my attempts to teach my kids to grow food over the last dozen years, and it is through these mistakes that I’ve learned nine ways to do it better. They might not work for you, your kids, or your context. But in case they do: Let them choose […] The post Teaching your kids to grow food appeared first on Greg Alder's Yard Posts: Southern California food gardening.

by Kaye Dee Abandoning the Dream Ahead of his latest magazine review, The Traveller has kindly allowed me an opportunity to report on an event that's historic – but not for the reasons you might think. Black Arrow’s bright red fairings may give it the appearance of gigantic lipstick, but it has now demonstrated its … Continue reading [October 31, 1971] A Black Arrow (November 1971 Analog) → The post [October 31, 1971] A Black Arrow (November 1971 <i>Analog</i>) appeared first on Galactic…

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Yes, it rains in Hawaii too. It’s Halloween, and visitors to the island, here for blue skies and sunshine, must wonder what kind of scary place they’ve ended up in. We’ve had a system of tropical moisture funneling across the state for the past few days and it has been mostly gray skies and rain. Little rivers and waves. The water did follow directions. I was at Costco, having my car’s tires rotated, when the dreary weather unleashed one of its heavier downpours. Luckily, it eased up before my…

October always brings two things: Vaccines for me and vaccines for the cats. And pumpkins and spooky movies, but those don't matter right now. Gigabyte and Millimeter are true angels and are never aggressive unless provoked. So it's a very stressful experience to put them through the process of being examined and stuck with a needle once a year. It's also heartbreaking to see how sluggish they are and how little appetite they have for about 24 hours after getting vaccinated. Poor babies. But…

Reply to unrequested scrapers and aggregators (and AI) by slime journal blog (enter the void) “its also interesting to see what bots are hitting my feedunfortunately, it seems like some aggregators have found it somehow? maybe from scraping bubbles or somethingi dont usually mind, since its usually just a smallweb thing and maybe i could get some new readers off it” I agree with that and that’s what the smallweb is about, community and not trying to go trending (but things like Bubbles,…

(Continued from my previous post.) I finished the game (sort of) and then I finished it again (this time with more hints). I’ll explain what I mean in context– From the first issue of A & B Computing. One thing that helped was to realize, like Peter Smith’s Hitch-Hiker, a great deal of the action maps down to simply typing DROP. So the pass at the beginning you show to the guard can be dropped, as can the key that gets inserted right afterwards. This simplifies matters down slightly in terms of…