September 26
If you're in the market for memory cards, these SanDisks are 20-65% off in a variety of sizes. Only $52 for 256GB?!
The trailer for Creed II. Adonis Creed fights the son of Ivan Drago, the man who killed his father.
September 25
If you're a US citizen, register to vote today! Even if you're registered, check to make sure that's still the case! DON'T WAIT…registration deadlines are approaching in some states…
September 24
Visualizing the Increasing Effect of Racial Resentment on Political Ideology among Whites, 1986 to 2016. "Even after considering economic measures, political ideology is increasingly driven by racial resentment in the modern United States."
A deep dive into the cameras on the new iPhone XS, with a focus (ha!) on how Portrait mode and Smart HDR works
Great thread about how rocket exhaust blows lunar dust. Crazy fact: so much dust kicked up from the Apollo 12 landing that it landed *everywhere on the Moon*, even on the opposite side of the Moon from the landing site.
September 21
Olive is a portal for virtual machines developed at Carnegie Mellon to run old, archived software on today's computers. "Think of it as a Wayback Machine for executable content."
Not every book or writer speaks to us in the same way over time. "On outgrowing David Foster Wallace"
An Oral History of Infinite Loop, Apple's old HQ. Lots of great anecdotes in here.
September 20
This Saturday is Museum Day and over 1000 US museums are offering free admission. Get your tickets here:
The winners of the 2018 Ig Nobels have been announced. One of the prizes was for a paper that showed "that chimpanzees imitate humans about as often, and about as well, as humans imitate chimpanzees".
September 19
A brief history of numeric keypads. Or: Why do telephones and calculators use different layouts for their keypads?
September 18
September 17
FYI: This Thursday, Sept 20 at 2:18 pm ET, mobile phone users in the US will receive an emergency test message from the President. You can't opt out.
Michael Moore made a documentary called Fahrenheit 11/9?! (It's about the causes and aftermath of Trump's election, out on Sept 21.)
September 14
A 73,000 year-old rock may hold the first human drawing ever found. (I mean, 73,000 years ago! That's a lot of years!)
Zach Lowe's modest proposal for the NBA to create a "Hall of Absurdities" to go with the Hall of Fame. Since the Banana Boat picture needs to be honored and remembered.
September 13
September 12
On NYC's vacant storefronts. "About 20 percent of all retail space in Manhattan is currently vacant, compared with roughly 7 percent in 2016."
The radical moral implications of luck in human life. "Acknowledging the role of luck is the secular equivalent of religious awakening."
September 11
Lego plans on making all their bricks from plant-based or recycled materials by 2030. "In essence, the company wants to switch the ingredients, but keep the product exactly the same."
The Ocean Cleanup project wants to rid our oceans of plastic waste. "A full-scale deployment of our systems is estimated to clean up 50% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 5 years."
What 5-minute piece would you play for someone to convince them to fall in love with classical music? Some picks: Ravel, Reich, Beethoven, Stravinsky.
September 10
The New York Public Library Lets Patrons Check Out Ties, Briefcases & Handbags for Job Interviews. Libraries are awesome!
If you live in the Carolinas or Virginia, you should start paying attention to Hurricane Florence. Predicting a Cat-4 landfall plus massive rainfall and flooding.
Video of a suborbital rocket launch taken from a satellite. God's own view.
How Money Affects Elections. The candidate who spends the most money usually wins, but how/why that happens is more complicated...
September 7
September 6
The Last Thing Mom Asked. "I am about to kill my mother."
Evidence of fermented dairy products from 7200 years ago has been found in Croatia. "This pushes back cheese-making by 4,000 years."
Based on a True Story? A scene-by-scene visualization of the truth of Hollywood movies. Selma gets a 100% true, Spotlight 76.2%, and The Imitation Game 41.4%.
Prosthetic Knowledge, the art/tech/computing blog, is done after nine years. Great site, thanks for all the info & entertainment over the years.
September 5
September 4
Twitter: "Hey, we made avatars round instead of square!"
Users: "Fix harassment and ban Nazis!"
Twitter: "How about online status notifications?"
Stellarium Web is an open source planetarium that runs in your browser. I'm gonna get the telescope out tonight and try to see Saturn.
September 3
