estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
I really need to lose some weight, but I've just got too much on my plate right now.
Mamma Mia! An oral history of a Thoroughly Fun Movie. C'mon, you should indulge yourself by reading this.
https://www.vogue.com/article/oral-history-of-mamma-mia
Poets’ Odd Jobs
“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either,” Robert Graves famously said.
https://poets.org/text/poets-odd-jobs
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A nationwide AT&T outage is preventing customers from completing calls to users of other carriers, the company said. https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/tech/att-service-down/index.html
"If teachers could indoctrinate students, more people would use apostrophes correctly."--Adam Rothman
“The Thread of Memory” is a new online and in-person interactive experience that uses AI to animate archival photos, create 3-D type effects, automatically generate captions, and geographically reposition photographs as close as possible to their current location in order to superimpose maps from 80 years ago onto those of today.
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/80-years-after-d-day-microsoft-uses-ai-to-enhance-archival-materials-and-keep-memories-alive/
This is funnier than it deserves to be #kubernetes https://cloudnativenow.com/social-facebook/kubertenes-mixtape/
Four in five CISOs have been told to downplay a potential risk’s severity. https://securityboulevard.com/2024/06/cisos-and-senior-leadership-at-odds-over-security/
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The NIST Finally Hires a Contractor to Manage CVEs
https://securityboulevard.com/2024/06/the-nist-finally-hires-a-contractor-to-manage-cves/ by @sjvn
After much too long, NIST has finally hired a contractor to deal with the staggering number of unexamined CVE #security reports.
A birth control gel for males, which contains testosterone and a synthetic hormone called Nestorone that reduces sperm production, is showing promise in clinical trials. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mens-health/male-birth-control-gel-results-promising-rcna153349
An exhaustive collection of information about wood, with tons of articles, a wood identification guide, and more. https://www.wood-database.com
Build your own astronomical timepiece https://www.instructables.com/Astronomical-Clock-1/
How to make strawberry ice cream at home
Can confirm: This is a good recipe!
I don't remember this game at all. "Sky Skipper featured giant gorillas, just like Donkey Kong, but here the player was piloting a biplane and collecting anthropomorphic playing cards." https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/sep/11/the-quest-for-sky-skipper-the-rarest-nintendo-arcade-machine-in-the-world
The authors partnered with a perfumer to re-create what co-author Barbara Huber calls "the scent of eternity." https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/scent-of-the-afterlife-scientists-recreate-recipe-for-egyptian-mummification-balm/
A new study presents the development of 3D printed electrospun vascular grafts infused with tetramethylpyrazine (TMP), offering a potential solution to reduce thrombosis and restrain aneurysmal dilatation post-surgery. https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/246592/identifier/14478
Seems accurate.
https://wondermark.com/c/1548/
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Why butter chicken is such a contentious curry
The dish beloved around the world is now at the heart of a legal battle being waged by two of India's oldest restaurants. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240528-a-chicken-recipe-so-good-its-origin-is-being-fought-in-court
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017