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Crisp Sandwich Day on St Crispin's Day [via mefi projects] . Also Buttystock - related crisp sandwich photo project promoted by aniola three years ago. [more inside]
posted by BobTheScientist at 11:49 PM PST - 22 comments

“At a 2.3% [economic] growth rate, [earth's surface] would reach boiling temperature in about 400 years. And this statement is independent of technology. Even if we don’t have a name for the energy source yet, as long as it obeys thermodynamics, we cook ourselves with perpetual energy increase.” — Tom Murphy (Do The Math), “Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist” / “Limits to economic growth” [PDF] [more inside]
posted by jeffburdges at 7:05 PM PST - 59 comments

The new DLC for the old Homestar Runner Halloween toon Homestarloween Party is finally out!
posted by DoctorFedora at 3:02 PM PST - 7 comments

If Updike sums up the American tradition that celebrates the US post and the principle of union, Pynchon and Ellison draw on another tradition, just as deeply rooted, that fears and distrusts the post, seeing it as an engine of conformity, a tyrannous system that infiltrates private life and suborns citizens as its empty vehicles. from These Swift Couriers: Postal Democracy and American Literature [LARB, June 2021]
posted by chavenet at 2:47 PM PST - 7 comments

The Guardian ranks Steely Dan's top 20 songs. [more inside]
posted by emelenjr at 1:42 PM PST - 58 comments

At the Digital Doorstep: How Customers Use Doorbell Cameras to Manage Delivery Workers. We wanted to understand how residents use and monitor these cameras, but more importantly, we wanted to know their impact on low-wage delivery workers who are routinely observed and recorded over the course of their daily work. How does this form of surveillance change labor conditions?
posted by spamandkimchi at 1:19 PM PST - 54 comments

Let's take a drive in the country

Slow Roads is a casual, procedurally-generated driving game which lets you disconnect from life for a while and run endlessly toward the distant horizon. Set the scenery to suit your mood, throw on some music, and
just drive.

From the developer.
posted by device55 at 8:55 AM PST - 43 comments

A lovely three part Twitter comic about pigeons and the people who love them, by Jenny Jinya: part 1, part 2, part 3. (Jenny Jinya previously.)
posted by MartinWisse at 7:16 AM PST - 5 comments

Butterfly wings pattern and junk dna “Reed’s lab has uncovered key color pattern genes: one (WntA) that controls stripes and another (Optix) that controls color and iridescence in butterfly wings.“
posted by Yellow at 6:15 AM PST - 4 comments

Is Taylor Swift doing a better job at building a metaverse than Mark Zuckerberg right now?
posted by signal at 4:13 AM PST - 31 comments

Who said "I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free." a) Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa; b) Bobby McGee; c) Nikos Kazantzakis; d) This Thread [more inside]
posted by taz at 3:01 AM PST - 77 comments

H.R. Giger's biomechanical landscapes are a disturbing fusion of decaying flesh, bone and machinery. Slideshow. Animation. Inspired by his work, SCORN challenges you to explore and survive within these nightmarish visions. RPS. Full walkthrough. (CW: horror).
posted by adept256 at 2:02 AM PST - 27 comments