I stumbled upon this this morning and I've been staring at it for literally multiple hours today https://sandbox-science.com/particle-life

Shenandoah Davis — We; Camera www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfPo...

Today I learned that there's a contingent of Wikipedia editors who keep restoring the caption on a photo of a particular economist so that it says "Guy Standing, sitting", and another group who keep deleting it (So I guess the former group are trying to make the page into an anti-de Sitter space)

April 2016. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work

It's time for Trivial but Annoying UI Gripe of the Week On websites that play video the space bar should always control Play/Pause rather than activating whatever button was most recently clicked That was Trivial but Annoying UI Gripe of the Week

The title of that article? "How to finally get around to throwing out that box of old cables"

british fan chat

One of the rosetta stones for Millennial humor and memes. Sacred texts, etc. Don't let anyone ever tell you Gen Z or Gen Alpha invented brain rot or humor based entirely in stupid non-sequiturs.

I was responsible for this (it was literally my idea while I was Product Manager for Media Playout at the BBC) and it is still my proudest achievement ever

They should invent noise-cancelling window frames

I will joyfully re-read this story every time it appears in front of me.

Unconventionally, the report into "Why did the Democrats lose in 2024?" has decided to answer by ostension rather than description

Voters say “inflation is a top concern” but when pressed they neither know nor care about the *rate of change* of prices, it’s just the politically savvy way of saying that prices are too high For the same reason, there are no decent voters who will be won over by a policy of “reducing immigration”

have you seen the ones that make shoelaces?? so much group theory happening 😍 youtube.com/shorts/UpRXK...

80 years ago today, Canadian-born physicist Louis Slotin, 35, received a lethal dose of radiation at Los Alamos Laboratory while performing a very dangerous criticality experiment known as “tickling the dragon’s tail” with a plutonium bomb core. He died from acute radiation syndrome nine days later.

Might make a youtube tutorial video showing people how to make a tutorial that is a series of written steps with explanatory screenshots. That should annoy pretty much everyone.

Estimation question: People at banks are good at counting cash very quickly. Suppose a person could keep as many £10 notes as they can count in their work day. What would their equivalent annual salary be? Would they get on the Times rich list, or would they be nowhere near? Who else acquires […]

You're *citing* other people's work? Coasting on their coat-tails in exchange for a tip of your hat? I suppose you also write "Thanks for lunch" on a post-it when you steal from the fridge? How about doing some honest work for a change: just reconstruct the original source from first principles

DIY movies The Wrench Connection Baby Screwdriver TENON Medusa Dulux The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Dyas

we all know I have no life, so:

In the original version of the play that later became the book Peter Pan, there's no Captain Hook. He was invented later. A lot of us who watched the Disney movie or saw a theatre production forget how the book ends. Most adaptations hide its grim conclusion: Hook isn't the villain. Peter is.

Yeah but my Mum has some tinned food at the back of a cupboard that's older than sharks

Musk is basically Mr C harpers.org/archive/1941...

Pick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone

Proust Baking Company Recalls Thousands of Madeleines

So Badgers has been added to the BFI archives. Honestly this feels like quiite an honor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqb...

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

Right. Here's my big pitch: Muppet James Bond James Bond in…A Heart-Felt Goodbye Dominic Cooper as Bond Kermit M Frog Mrs Moneypiggy Beaker & Dr Bunsen HoneyQ The agents of G.O.N.Z.O. want to kidnap the world's chickens. MI5 has a mole (Rizzo the Rat). An agent is undercover as a chef in Sweden.

Me: Five years ago you rejected me because I didn't have enough experience. So since then I've mucked out pigs, I've worked down the sewers, I've served on a cruise ship during a norovirus outbreak, I've cleaned mortuaries, I've scrubbed... Restaurant owner: I said *sommelier* work

If he had his portrait painted by David Rijckaert in the 1640s and he's still going today then he's doing something right

And Hanging on the Telephone is an all-time example of a cover version that you can’t believe is a cover version youtu.be/emy5mA8Ixtc?...

A couple of weeks ago I set a countdown timer on my iPhone to end silently instead of chiming, and since then it's been like "I guess we doin silence now" and so timers will just randomly fail to chime when they finish

"we need a united front against fascism" is a message that makes sense "the benighted & suffering hero voters have legitimate frustrations, which we appeasing, but we also must put aside our differences to defeat them electorally, even tho they're right" is not

David Morrissey's agent asking him to keep his diary clear for a few months

Platinumfrapp #SlightlyIncreaseABand

Ben Crumples Five

Voters say “inflation is a top concern” but when pressed they neither know nor care about the *rate of change* of prices, it’s just the politically savvy way of saying that prices are too high For the same reason, there are no decent voters who will be won over by a policy of “reducing immigration”

Whereas Buddhism appears to be mysticism but is actually lists

Looking forward to 50 years of nuanced debate in the literature between devotees of @lastpositivist.bsky.social and @zachweinersmith.bsky.social over the distinction between shenanigans and galaxy brain stuff

I made a small 1-level puzzle game about recursive bubbles! A variation on the mechanics of Patrick's Parabox, COCOON, Recursed, etc. I wanted to explore letting you easily visualize and modify the nested structure of rooms. Hope you enjoy! :) patrickgh3.itch.io/bubble-sort

What are the effects of reading headlines that reinforce your pre-existing beliefs without investigating whether the reported research is any good?

We should all spend less time bickering about our differences and more time celebrating our agreements, for example we all agree The Day Today and Brass Eye are the funniest shows and you can watch them on YouTube youtu.be/eTGE9153VFE?...

Awww! This internet! This internet of coffee pot webcams and under construction GIFs. This internet was nice.

Why not both? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VJv...

Moral compass implies the existence of a moral magnetic field that can be disrupted by geo-magneto-moralistic storms and I believe I have finally diagnosed the ills of contemporary society.

Also: A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Disappointing in ways that this margin is too narrow to contain: letterboxd.com/stuartpresne...

Mulholland Drive. It seems so obviously what it is: a TV pilot that was rightly rejected, that Lynch then hacked around and padded to movie length

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