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- l teaches about scripts and manuscripts, introducing learners to the sciences of paleography and codicology. Choose a manuscript culture and follow the development of scripts through the centuries!
- Browse and discover the voices of the past, drawn from the writings of those who lived, served, and died in Roman Britain.
- Every object humanity has sent past Earth's orbit. An interactive visual history of everything humanity has sent past Earth's orbit.
- 21 miles. ~21M barrels per day. 40 years of conflict. The world's most dangerous choke-point, mapped. An interactive visual essay.
- Every second, the world eats, searches, streams, swipes, and sends. Here's what one second actually looks like.
- One interactive visual essay, every week. Pop culture, sports, geopolitics, history.
- 43 major frauds. Hundreds of billions in investor losses, missing funds, and value destroyed. Different decades, different countries, different technology. Same seven steps. Every time.
- 49 graphics cards. 30 years. From Quake to Cyberpunk. The complete visual history of every GPU that mattered.
- by Cory Doctorow 6:21 am Sun Aug 5, 2018 Research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (paywalled, no Sci-Hub mirror) describes a fascinating experimental outcome in which subjects were asked to enact "meaningless rituals" ("knocking the table with their knuckles, closing their eyes and counting, among other things") before being confronted with a self-control challenge (eating two carrots, then deciding between a third carrot and a chocolate truffle).
- the original link shortener, so it has been stable. Some sites like BibSonomy or archive.today will refuse some long URLs and people have trouble dealing if copy & paste is not an option.
- ”Share a Disney quote that sums up how you’re feeling right now!” the post came from Disney’s official account on Threads it seems to have been the main corporate account doing a standard engagement prompt. The real sociological puzzle here — not the Disney post itself, but the collective mental state that allowed a harmless prompt to collapse instantly into a single, emotionally charged political theme. It’s how fast, how uniformly, and how emotionally they did so.
- by Cory Doctorow 6:58 am Tue Oct 2, 2018. In 1942, Horst Rosenthal was sent to the Vichy concentration camp Gurs, where he drew a comic-book that survived him.
- PairDrop, is a web app (not fully local) to transfer files Cross-Platform. No Setup, No Signup.
- Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction is a book written by Hassan Ait-Kaci. The book explains the Warren Abstract Machine and is now out of print. The author owns the copyright and for a time the book was available at: http://vanx.org/archive/wam/wam.html for free to anyone who wanted to use it for non-commercial purposes.
- a page that propose the practicality of a technique known as the `Clockwise/Spiral Rule'' which enables any C programmer to parse in their head any C declaration! Should be taken and I hope as intended as a gag and overcomplication that may be of service to newcomers to C...
- List of TV and Films that show frames containing source code
- Master storyteller Malcolm Gladwell tells the tale of the Norden bombsight (1/2 the cost of the Manhattan Project), a groundbreaking piece of World War II technology with a deeply unexpected result. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MIE_XXmGUg]
- part of The Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Memorial Lecture @ UC Berkeley. In it Thomas E. Ricks a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) that concurrently with his duties at CNAS, Ricks writes an online blog for ForeignPolicy.com called, "The Best Defense," and serves as contributing editor for Foreign Policy covers the drastic changes implemented by Richard Marshall (general) and present situation regarding command structure and selection.
- a circular bullet time array of 48 Chronos 1.4 high speed cameras, capable of recording 68 gigapixels per second - 720p at 72000fps! Video shows footage taken of experiences.
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