“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Pioneering MEdia Dragon
I’VE USED REPEATERS AND POWERLINE CONNECTORS WITH GOOD RESULTS: How to Soup Up Your Home WiFi With Multiple Repeaters and Access Points
YOU WILL BE MADE TO CONFORM: Church That Defied Coronavirus Restrictions Is Burned to Ground. “A message at the scene that said, in part, ‘Bet you stay home now,’ has led the police in Mississippi to suspect arson.”
Greil Marcus isn’t afraid, as one reader put it, to let “everything remind him of everything else.” It's both a gift and a liability
Law professor falsely accused of rape, wins defamation case. The woman who lied is named Morgan Wright. “In his blistering ruling on Tuesday, Hennepin County Judge Daniel Moreno wrote that Parisi’s former lover, Morgan Wright, had pursued an ‘untruthful narrative crusade,’ and her ‘accusations were false, and made with malice.'”
THE SHOOTER WAS DESCRIBED AS AN “ARAB MALE” IN OTHER REPORTS: Shooting at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi is terror-related, FBI says.
NYT Open – A team of technicians have scanned over a million photos into a New York Times database. It took a team of technologists to make those photos searchable. “A block away from the hustle and bustle of Times Square in New York City, buried three floors below street level, lies The New York Times archive. The archive is housed in a sprawling room that is packed with hundreds of steel filing cabinets and cardboard boxes, each containing news clippings, encyclopaedias, photographs and other archival material. Started in the late 1800s, the archive first served as a collection of news clippings about newsworthy events and people. In the late 1960s, it was merged with a photo library managed by The Times’s art department. The archive (which is sometimes referred to as “the morgue”) now contains tens of millions of news clippings and an estimated five million printed photographs. Many of these historical documents are available only in print form, however in 2018, The Times embarked on a project — as part of a technology and advertising collaboration with Google — to preserve the photographs in the collection and store them digitally. A team of technicians manually scan about 1,000 photographs per dayinto a server, and in July, 2019, they scanned their one millionth photograph. Many of these photographs have found a new life in stories produced by The Times’s archival storytelling project, Past Tense. With a digital photographic archive now at over a million scans, we needed to build an asset management system that allows Times journalists to search and browse through the photos in the archive from their laptops…”
NYT Open – A team of technicians have scanned over a million photos into a New York Times database. It took a team of technologists to make those photos searchable. “A block away from the hustle and bustle of Times Square in New York City, buried three floors below street level, lies The New York Times archive. The archive is housed in a sprawling room that is packed with hundreds of steel filing cabinets and cardboard boxes, each containing news clippings, encyclopaedias, photographs and other archival material. Started in the late 1800s, the archive first served as a collection of news clippings about newsworthy events and people. In the late 1960s, it was merged with a photo library managed by The Times’s art department. The archive (which is sometimes referred to as “the morgue”) now contains tens of millions of news clippings and an estimated five million printed photographs. Many of these historical documents are available only in print form, however in 2018, The Times embarked on a project — as part of a technology and advertising collaboration with Google — to preserve the photographs in the collection and store them digitally. A team of technicians manually scan about 1,000 photographs per dayinto a server, and in July, 2019, they scanned their one millionth photograph. Many of these photographs have found a new life in stories produced by The Times’s archival storytelling project, Past Tense. With a digital photographic archive now at over a million scans, we needed to build an asset management system that allows Times journalists to search and browse through the photos in the archive from their laptops…”
Unfiltered Livestream with JK
In these tough times, here’s an amazingly frank conversation between All Blacks legend Sir John Kirwan and Unfiltered’s prodigy, 24 year old Jake Millar on Mental Health and Wellness – and their own personal struggles – and solutions. Inspirational.
Yahrzeit
My father died at fifty-three
fifty-three years ago today.
I remember that the morning
after my daughter was born
in the middle of a long September night
my mother responded to the news
by telling me I had been born
in the middle of an even longer night
and on that night my father drove
home from the hospital, lit a cigar
and climbed through the living
room window. He sat on the fire
escape in the company of a dozen
pigeons and finished his fifth
of Cutty Sark and sack of salted filberts.
This was the rare story my mother
told about him that I could
verify because our former neighbor
from the apartment below sent
an email confirming it. For hours
while she and her parents lay awake
my father’s feet kept time against
the metal ladder just above them
as he sang “Flat Foot Floogie
(with the Floy-Floy)” over and over,
surely in honor of my strange first name.
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GAME OF PHONES: There is a setting
for magic, supernatural creatures and ancient wisdom in a time and place
other than the medieval period: the modern city. Urban fantasy is not only
enthralling — it offers a new way to understand our own urban existence.
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Journalists drink too much, are bad at managing emotions, and operate at a lower level than average, according to a new study
Pangaea is a supercontinent that formed on Earth about 335 million years ago and began to break up about 175 million years ago, eventually forming the familiar continents of today. Massimo Pietrobon made a map that shows where our modern country borders would appear on Pangaea. Check out the full-size version here.
The Horrific Ecstasy Of Burning Your Own Writing
Or, more usually, why writers instruct others to do it after their deaths. “The elemental annihilation of destruction by fire is so absolute, and this is where the horror lies for me. If writing is slow, quiet, creative work, burning pages is quick, loud, and flagrantly destructive. Where once there was something, afterward there is nothing. There’s something irresistibly dramatic about the act of applying a naked flame to the corner of a page and watching the paper disappear in a sheath of fire.” – LitHub
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THROUGH THE ANOMALY: Australia once had
goannas six metres long and kangaroos twice as tall as humans.
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ASMR isn’t necessarily sexual, but it is a kind of pornography: intimacy pornography — Rachel Elizabeth Fraser (Oxford) on the meaning, aesthetics, and ethics of “autonomous sensory meridian response
All On The Line: If This Movie Fails This Summer, It’s Big Trouble For Hollywood
“If ‘Tenet’ doesn’t come out or doesn’t succeed, every other company goes home,” said a marketing executive from a rival studio who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the news media. “It’s no movies until Christmas.” – Washington Post
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FRIDAY BLISS: In ancient Rome,
you could tell a lot about a person from the look of their garden.
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The World Is Changing. So What Is Art In A Time Like This?
“In a world where we are already confronting critical interconnected challenges: climate change, the refugee crisis, food scarcity, system collapse, etc. I think it is essential that we continue asking these questions: what is the role of art at a time of social transformation? Why do we make art, for whom and does it make sense to continue using the same formats and materials? What should art be focusing on and what difference can it make?” – Medium
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SAY WHAT! Mice quickly
built muscle mass and reduced obesity after receiving gene therapy, even
while eating a diet high in fat and not exercising.
A new blog on the philosophy of philosophy — from Tomasz Herok, a PhD student at Lancaster University A defense of Karl Popper against “confused”, “bizarre”, and “strange” criticisms — Jonathan Livengood (Illinois) responds to the recent critique of Popper by Michael Huemer (Colorado) … As Promised, the fire by David Kozinski. … A Field of Manhole Covers by Jason Baldinger. … Up In The Night by Ed Canavan. … Settlers by Eileen Tabios. |
