How the classic computer game Doom became a tool for science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is great: Channel Surfer is a retro TV guide that turns YouTube into live cable TV. Each channel plays videos on a deterministic schedule — like real TV, you tune in mid-show.” kottke.org/26/03/004855...

The perils of sampling bias… physicsworld.com/a/lunar-magn...

What I’ve read in the last week: ANALOG Mar/Apr 2026 INTERZONE #29 May/Jun 1989 ASIMOV’S Jul 2003 WATERMIND - M. M. Buckner (2008) FEAR THAT MAN - Dean R. Koontz (1969) TOYMAN - E. C. Tubb (1969) @analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social Phillip Mann Marianne Puxley @mmbuckner1 @deankoontz

Quantum entanglement as a tool to image distant astronomical objects www.nature.com/articles/d41...

For real-time war porn there’s this snapshot of current ‘unrest’ worldmonitor.app

What I’ve read in the last week: ANALOG Oct 1977 GALAXY Jan 1973 F&SF Sep/Oct 2012 HEAVEN’S REACH - David Brin (1998) BLAZE - Stephen King (2007) @analogsf.bsky.social @fandsf Peter Dickinson @davidbrin.bsky.social @stephenking.bsky.social

For the thunderstorm enthusiasts… wind shear and soil moisture profiles affect where storms initiate. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

56.5 mm in the gauge at 9 a.m. today in Wycheproof. 78 mm since Friday.

February in Wycheproof was hot and wet. Mean MaxT: 32.8°C (+1.8°C); HI=40.2°C (11th); LO=23.6°C (12th) Mean MinT: 16.0°C (+0.9°C); HI=25.2°C (22nd); LO=7.8°C (2nd) Rainfall: 49mm (+24mm); YTD: 50mm (+3mm)

What I’ve read in the last week: ANALOG Sep 1977 AMAZING Oct 1974 ASIMOV’S Jun 2003 SCATTERED SUNS - Kevin J. Anderson (2005) THE PURE COLD LIGHT - Gregory Frost (1993) @analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social @gregfrost.bsky.social

Is Donald Trump Alive? Now, this is a site that knows how to write factual headlines, e.g. “Donald Trump is alive and ranting and raving about foreign interests infiltrating the Supreme Court that he created”. Take note, NYT. kottke.org/26/02/004842...

Thunderstorm forecast for today in Victoria:

What I’ve read in the last week: ANALOG Aug 1977 WORLDS OF IF Feb 1973 F&SF Jul/Aug 2012 SPORTING CHANCE - Elizabeth Moon (1994) DERAI - E. C. Tubb (1968) @analogsf.bsky.social @fandsf Clifford D. Simak Michael G. Coney Colin Kapp Robert F. Young

Incoming…

Near real-time tracking of space debris using seismograph data physicsworld.com/a/earthquake...

What I’ve read in the last week: ANALOG Jul 1977 GALAXY Nov 1972 ASIMOV’S May 2003 CATCH THE LIGHTNING - Catherine Asaro (1996) THE ULTIMAX MAN - Keith Laumer (1978) @analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social @mathcat.bsky.social

Jupiter gets downsized — and squashed www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Victorian thunderstorm forecast for tomorrow (Sunday)

What I’ve read in the last week: ANALOG Jun 1977 AMAZING Aug 1974 F&SF May/Jun 2012 EXTREMES - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (2003) HELLSTROM’S HIVE - Frank Herbert (1973) @analogsf.bsky.social @fandsf Calvin Demmon @kristinerusch.bsky.social

“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.

My cousin Zak doing reproductive things with skinks… 😉 Nursing a skink: endangered alpine lizard numbers set to rise after Omeo falls pregnant in Victoria www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Longevity is in the genes: half of lifespan is heritable www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This! So much this! Spent a good deal of my teaching life trying to get this idea across. I used ice cream sales and drownings… Spurious Correlations kottke.org/26/01/spurio...

What I’ve read in the last week: ANALOG May 1977 WORLDS OF IF Nov/Dec 1972 ASIMOV’S Apr 2003 FORTY THOUSAND IN GEHENNA - C. J. Cherryh (1983) THE GRAY PRINCE - Jack Vance (1975) @analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social Piers Anthony Larry Eisenberg Doris Piserchia Mike Resnick

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

(rushes to be the first to make the THERE'S ALREADY A STARBUCKS THERE joke)

Watch Classic Episodes of Sesame Street for Free on YouTube kottke.org/26/01/watch-...

Great. Power out on west side of Wycheproof.

47.3C here in Wycheproof at 4.30 pm

Walpeup just broke the Victorian record for highest ever maximum temperature with 48.9°C at 3.36 pm. Plenty of time left to get even hotter!

This should be interesting... updated about midnight tonight in AUS. thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...

Progrediscovery - an occasional series. This time we head back to 1995 and artist Kevin Gilbert’s song ‘Goodness Gracious’ from the album Thud. With echoes of World Party and acerbic lyrics that could have been penned yesterday, it is great funk rock. youtu.be/KSVetAleJLw?...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A new type of computer memory? physicsworld.com/a/shining-la...

What I’ve read in the last week: ANALOG Apr 1977 INTERZONE #28 Mar/Apr 1989 F&SF Mar/Apr 2012 THE DARK FOREST - Cixin Liu (2015) THE WIZARD OF ANHARITTE - Colin Kapp (1973) @analogsf.bsky.social @fandsf @CixinLiu Albert E. Cowdrey Robert Walton Barry Malzberg Peter Beagle

Not to put too fine a point on it… but Wycheproof’s 7 day forecast is just nuts!

What looks like a wall of dust ahead of a storm NW of Wycheproof

What I’ve read in the last week: ASIMOV’S Jan/Feb 2026 WORLDS OF IF Oct 1972 ANALOG Mar 1977 THE LAST PRESIDENT - John Barnes (2013) THE WINDS OF GATH - E. C. Tubb (1967) @analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social Christopher Anvil Henry Melton Hayford Peirce Gordon Eklund Zach Hughes

Progrediscovery - an occasional series. Kingston Wall’s 1994 album Tri-logy contains this track: Time. With echoes of 1960s psychedelia and smooth, almost Santana-like guitar solos, it is a lost piece of crossover prog. Give it a listen. youtu.be/pMaa7r0R9K8?...

Being in the relative sanity of Bluesky you might get the impression that every citizen of the US is appalled at the state sanctioned murder of a concerned citizen...but dip briefly into the cesspit that is X and you will find bots, shills and brainwashed goobers aplenty gulping down Trumps' Koolaid

What I’ve read in the last week: ANALOG Jan/Feb 2026 GALAXY Sep 1972 ASIMOV’S Mar 2003 SUMMERTIDE - Charles Sheffield (1990) SON OF MAN - Robert Silverberg (1971) @analogsf.bsky.social @asimovssfmag.bsky.social W. Macfarlane Kris Neville Larry Eisenberg

Reached 45C here in Wycheproof at 2.30 pm

MTV Rewind kottke.org/26/01/mtv-re...

Lost episodes of Star Trek from the 70s. They were going to do a reboot of the TV series (without Spock!) but the project morphed into the first movie. There are 19 episode scripts & treatments from the project; a few were adapted for ST:TNG. kottke.org/26/01/004814...

My brain just broke.