estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States has says that concentrations of CFCs, the harmful chemicals that damage the ozone layer, have now dropped by just over 50% compared to the 1980s. https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/09/19/the-ozone-layer-has-passed-a-significant-milestone-as-harmful-chemicals-drop-by-50
We don't serve faster-than-light particles here," the bartender says.
A neutrino walks into a bar.
"Here we go again. Neanderthals did something symbolic? Nah, they just copied modern humans. I think I’ve heard this story before."
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/did-neanderthals-make-art/
As Victor Hugo wrote: ‘For those who can decipher it, heraldry is an algebra, a language. The whole history of the second half of the Middle Ages is written in heraldry.’ https://www.historytoday.com/archive/making-history/written-heraldry
In the COOL THINGS department
Welcome To My Garden: A not-for-profit network of citizens offering free camping spots in their gardens to slow travelers. Appears to be primarily western Europe. https://welcometomygarden.org
How can cybersecurity professionals guard against it without clarity on what constitutes the threat? https://magazines.isc2.org/pages/2022/2022-09/doxxing/
In 2000, the authors wrote the book Linux IP Stacks Commentary in which we annotated the Linux kernel source code for TCP/IP as it appeared in release 2.0.36. The subject matter cried out to be updated to the most modern Linux kernel release. https://www.satchell.net/ipstacks/
Markwhen is a text-to-timeline tool. You write markdown-ish text and it gets converted into a nice looking cascading timeline. https://markwhen.com/
"Anytime you order nachos at a sporting event, there's a good chance they came from a molten-cheese empire in San Antonio, Texas." https://link.thehustle.co/view/5f3be7322c81bf631464881dhb14r.3e3j/6a0c5178
What is your most dog-eared, stained, heavily loved cookbook?
The first film adaptation of the often-filmed Mary Shelley story. This film was originally released on March 18 1910. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-fM9meqfQ4
How A Native American Artisan Keeps The 4,500-Year-Old Practice Of Wampum Alive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3RJ0OcJ3A&t=20s
From 2016: The history of the Dummies Guides
... But talk to Dan Gookin, who wrote DOS for Dummies, and you get a saltier version. “There was a lot of ego involved, and a lot of petty bullshit that always happens when you have something that’s a success,” he told me from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where he is a city councilman. “They would have wrapped that title around newsprint and it still would have sold.”
https://slate.com/culture/2016/04/the-history-and-delights-of-the-for-dummies-how-to-books.html
How to Build a Working Digital Computer is both an introduction to the “new and exciting field of digital computers” and a set of plans to build one. https://www.evilmadscientist.com/tag/vintage-computing/
Arizona is one of the first states to have its Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Plan given the stamp of approval from the Federal Highway Administration. The plan calls for stations to be no more than 50 miles apart wherever possible.
https://www.allaboutarizonanews.com/adot-statewide-electric-vehicle-charger-plan-gets-approval/
Need to waste some time this afternoon? This'll do it. https://oracleofbacon.org/movielinks.php
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017