Test your eyes with 151 visual phenomena and optical illusions. https://michaelbach.de/ot/index.html
I am free of the boxes people put me in.
I am plugged in.
I am fully charged.
I am unstoppable.
I am running into a chair.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-roombas-positive-affirmations
24 hours of Earth’s rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We’re all hanging out on this spinning rock.
Isn't it funny how sometimes we're sure we read a book years ago, but when we go to re-read it we realize that we never did? That was the case for me with Merchanter's Luck by CJ Cherryh, which I had acquired in the early 80s from the SF Book Club.
Really, I shouldn't have waited so long.
Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami
Oh my. Shopper was my first home.
“Our country has been remarkably effective at building roads, and now we can start funding projects that will help America’s wildlife cross them." https://apnews.com/article/wildlife-highways-collisions-infrastructure-ab02e06fda340d87a22e85132d0a503c
The Davis School District announced that a review committee concluded the Bible was too “violent or vulgar” for young children. https://apnews.com/article/utah-bible-ban-school-38a39017ee0ff96a96f24007a836302f
Despite the film's remarkable and timely relevance, Weir had no expectation that The Truman Show would prove so on-the-money. "I had no idea the tsunami of reality TV lay just below the horizon." https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230531-the-truman-show-has-a-film-ever-predicted-the-future-so-accurately
"The most painful, and least useful projects are migration projects, yet companies will replace technologies every 4 years." ...and other observations https://medium.com/swlh/amirs-10-laws-of-tech-64536bf8eeff
Volcano research can be a dangerous job, but United States Geological Survey researchers are employing the use of drones observe eruptions near the summit of Hawaii’s Kīlauea Volcano https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/mapping-volcano-eruptions-with-drones/
#Canada #journalism #transparency #FOIA
'Since the fall of 2021, we have filed more than 400 freedom-of-information (FOI) requests and spoken with more than 200 experts, all with the purpose of compiling the best resource Canada has ever seen. The result is a database of more than 300,000 FOI request summaries spanning more than 600 government and public institutions across the country.'
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-investigating-freedom-of-information-laws/
This is some damned fine writing. Worth it just for the lede alone.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/05/18/manhood-josh-hawley-review/
Want a good escapist historical novel? I liked (not loved) The Life She Wanted by Anita Abriel
Archaeologists call these sharp, multipurpose tools “backed artefacts”, but you can think of them as a “stone Swiss Army knife”: the kind of useful tool you carry around to do various jobs you can’t do by hand. https://theconversation.com/65-000-year-old-stone-swiss-army-knives-show-early-humans-had-long-distance-social-networks-184648
Casual bird buddies and ornithology obsessives alike can now trek to far corners of the globe and identify any feathered friend they find – as long as they have their phone with them. https://newatlas.com/biology/identify-every-bird-across-world-merlinbirdid/
Happy unintended consequences. https://news.yahoo.com/amanda-gorman-book-sales-hit-204554766.html
Moonlighter is a small satellite that will soon be launched, meant specifically to serve as a hacking sandbox. It will be part of Hack-A-Sat 4, an annual challenge, where finalists will get the chance to hack the satellite in orbit during DEFCON in August. https://www.issnationallab.org/spx28-moonlighter-cubesat-afrl/
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