Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Antarctica scientist allegedly stabs colleague for spoiling the endings of books
A Russian scientist working in Antarctica is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly stabbing a colleague for telling him the endings of books he wanted to read.Sergey Savitsky, an engineer, is accused of stabbing welder Oleg Beloguzov in the chest, the Sun reports.
“The Vortex is a user-behavior pattern that begins with a single intentional interaction followed by a series of unplanned interactions. This unplanned chain of interactions creates a sense of being “pulled” deeper into the digital space, making the user feel out of control.”
Given the amount of energy this stuff uses, I’m not convinced.
“Add Climate Change to the List of Things Blockchain Is Supposed to Solve” 🙄
The urge to share news of our lives is neither new nor narcissistic
@kemonine I’m still fond of this comic strip: World’s Most Elusive Human Being
Gotta do something with them, I suppose: a 5-meter dome made entirely out of bicycle wheels in Whitehorse, Yukon. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bicycle-wheel-dome
Biosphere 2: A Once Troubled Social Experiment is Transformed
That means researchers from the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada don’t have to worry about harming the environment while studying how plants in the tiny rainforest adjust their water consumption.
Cool collection of then-and-now space images. https://www.planetary.org/articles/nasa-60-years
LIDAR survey reveals ancient Maya civilization had much bigger cities than we once thought.
This major discovery upends long-held theories about the Maya civilization
In the autumn of 1929, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her husband Charles flew across the Yucatán Peninsula. With Charles at the controls, Anne snapped photographs of the jungles just below. She wrote in her journal of Maya structures obscured by large humps of vegetation.
I found this old post I wrote on how Marvel or DC would have milked Lord of the Rings as an “event” comic book, with tie-ins, spin-offs, and character spotlights…
…and realized it’s not that far off from what the Hobbit movies actually *did*.
What If…Lord of the Rings had been an “Event” Comic?
We went to Long Beach Comic Con last weekend. Had a good time. Katie dressed up as Professor Trelawney, we found some cool art and hit some panels, and J. spent as much time as he could playing laser tag and looking at remote-controlled Astromech droids.
10 Years of Long Beach Comic Con! (2018) – K²R
Back in 2009, I attended the first-ever Long Beach Comic-Con, an event that filled the void left when Wizard World cancelled WWLA at the last minute. I had a good time, and it had a lot of support from the industry, but I wondered how long it would last. Ten years on, LBCC is still …
We’re designing bike lanes wrong
City streets and sidewalks in the United States have been engineered for decades to keep vehicle occupants and pedestrians safe. If streets include trees at all, they might be planted in small sidewalk pits, where, if constrained and with little water, they live only three to 10 years on average.
I was just wondering about this the other day. New Horizons has taken its first images of its next target (after the amazing Pluto flyby a few years ago), Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69. It’ll reach the object in January.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/now-well-beyond-pluto-new-horizons-sees-its-next-target
Apparently, Lego mini figures were relatively new when I had them as a kid.
https://geekdad.com/2018/08/happy-40th-birthday-lego-minifigure/
“The difference between an actual discussion (where we seek the right answer) and a political one is simple…”
Disney (yes, Disney) declares war on “overzealous copyright holders”
— via @BoingBoing