Resurfacing the past: More than 20,000 ships sank during World War II. One man is on a mission to map them all — and is uncovering untold stories along the way.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/41d4bd6029044afbb1b9ad805a4731d8

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Overheard: My problem is that when I need to shave a yak, I end up giving it a full makeover.

SF and Horror readers know how this story plays out.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/02/us-nasa-boeing-starliner-spacecraft-strange-noise

A golf ball. Pizza. Our dead. https://nautil.us/the-weirdest-stuff-weve-sent-into-orbit-758360/

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The Secret Coded Language of Postage Stamps
https://www.sitepoint.com/uncovering-secret-coded-language-postage-stamps/

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The IDEs we had 30 years ago... and we lost
https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and

I confess that I didn't know Deep Purple's Ian Gillan was in Jesus Christ Superstar. This analysis is wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7aAypGqITI

What Would a Kamala Harris Presidency Mean for Tech Policy?
Good, balanced, unemotional reporting.

https://www.publicfirst.co.uk/what-does-a-kamala-harris-presidency-mean-for-tech-policy.html

Happy anniversary to this perfect tweet

"The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium chip, the start of the long-lived Pentium family.1 The weaver, Marilou Schultz, created the artwork in 1994 using traditional materials and techniques." https://www.righto.com/2024/08/pentium-navajo-fairchild-shiprock.html

The Linux commands you should NEVER use
by @sjvn in 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20180220202812/https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/the-linux-commands-you-should-never-use-1712.html

"So some thoughts on JD Vance, misogyny, and closeted homosexuality." https://joshphilipross.com/hillbilly-lgbt/

Oh my. You’ll laugh. It’s worth it. (gift link) https://wapo.st/4gaEILh

As we all know, the world can be divided into two types of people: those who know how to load a dishwasher properly and those who, I swear to God, are just itching for a divorce. https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2020/july/how-to-load-a-dishwasher/

Using a clever mix of 3D printing and a few well-placed shadows, this sundial designed by Mojoptix projects the actual time as if displayed on a digital clock. The plastic component that casts the shadow—called a gnomon— is printed with extremely tiny holes that create pinpoint dots of light in the form of digits as the sun shines through during the day. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/02/a-3d-printed-sundial-displays-time-like-a-digital-clock/

The amount of lightning happening globally at any given time is impressive. https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;

"In this series, we travel the world's greatest museums through the eyes of leading tastemakers, asking one question: if you only had an hour, what would you see?"

I love the premise of this series. But I've been to the Met several times, and none of these would be on my own list.
https://cabanamagazine.com/blogs/travel/one-hour-at-the-met