Late last month, the archaeologist and his team located the remains of an ancient, abandoned Maya city home to numerous pyramid-shaped structures rising more than 15m nestled deep within Mexico's Balamkú Ecological Conservation Zone. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230704-ocomtn-a-long-lost-maya-city-that-was-just-discovered
Among the initiatives that they want to implement: accelerate adoption of memory safe programming languages, disrupt the ransomware ecosystem, and look into a Federal insurance response in case of a catastrophic cyber event. https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/national-cybersecurity-strategy-implementation-plan/686887/
A programmer needs up to 15 minutes to start editing code again following an interruption https://devm.io/careers/aaaand-gone-true-cost-interruptions-128741
How the IPG started: "5 April 1996 -- Writers, editors, and analysts from
around the world are uniting to take a stand against shoddy,
inaccurate reporting about the Internet."
We've never stopped. (cc @[email protected] ) https://groups.google.com/g/alt.internet.media-coverage/c/IuOb-FY75e8
It's been a while since I pointed anyone at this marvelous Star Wars Intro Creator. You can pay $12 to download the video you create. I don't have a particular need for it at the moment, but... maybe you do.
Gosh, it's fun. https://starwarsintrocreator.kassellabs.io/
Cantonese Font with Pronunciation https://visual-fonts.com
"The findings suggest that Mars may have had a far more active past than we realised – and could have significant implications for the search for alien life."
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/organic-matter-found-on-mars-rover-nasa-b2375176.html
A historical archive of flexible portion control sauces.
#internetisbeautiful l
https://www.condimentpacket.com
“I only have one month worth of results, but the numbers are pretty clear. Twitter is juking the stats.” https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-twitter-pay-to-play-now-early-results-of-my-blue-checkmark-experiment-are-in/
The group now sells bars in six “styles” that can be selected from a company catalog: Shop, Gastro, Victorian, Brewery, Country, and Celtic. https://www.eater.com/2017/3/7/14839472/irish-pub-design
People used to read out loud for fun. Reading silently to oneself is a relatively new phenomenon, beginning as recently as the late 18th century. https://qz.com/quartzy/1118580/the-beginning-of-silent-reading-was-also-the-beginning-of-an-interior-life
Most Iberians of the time were buried in group graves. However, the opulent grave discovered in 2008 contained only a single occupant. https://www.science.org/content/article/most-outstanding-leader-iberian-copper-age-was-woman
#botany #plants #flowers #orchids #pollinators
'An international team of scientists including researchers at La Trobe University and the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria have created a global database of pollination data for almost 3000 orchid species.'
Is distributed computing dying, or just fading into the background?
There seems to be much less excitement about distributed computing these days.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/is-distributed-computing-dying-or-just-fading-into-the-backdrop/
Mystery-o-matic – A daily murder mystery to solve https://mystery-o-matic.com
SF's Anchor Brewing Company, the country's first craft brewery, is shutting down after 127 years https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2023/07/legendary-127-year-old-us-brewer-anchor-ceases-operations/
Most biologists have assumed that ants wander aimlessly around a new environment. New University of Arizona research suggests that one species of rock ant actually searches in a more methodical way.
https://news.arizona.edu/story/ants-go-marching-%E2%80%A6-methodically
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