December 9, 2022

Mosaic - a match-three Broughlike

Mosaic: A match-three "broughlike" (a term for a restrictive roguelike akin to the works of Michael Brough) from the 7 Day Roguelike Challenge 2022.
posted by solarion at 9:22 PM PST - 6 comments

Humans making progress

10 Top Technology Breakthroughs of 2022. It's been a good year for science and Tech says Derek Thompson in The Atlantic's inaugural Breakthroughs of the Year article.
posted by storybored at 9:06 PM PST - 17 comments

How to Uncurse Your Dice Before Game Night

Dungeons & Dragons dice are notoriously fickle friends. Here's how I un-cursed my oracle rocks before going into fictional battle.
posted by Etrigan at 7:35 PM PST - 35 comments

All aboard to Santa Land!

America's Most Loved Monorails: from Wanamaker's in Philadelphia to Meier and Frank in Portland, one highlight of Christmas Seasons past was a ride on the Department Store Monorail!
posted by vespabelle at 6:09 PM PST - 13 comments

Peru’s Pedro Castillo Dissolves Congress, Ousted from Presidency

LIMA — Peru’s former President Pedro Castillo announced on Dec. 7 that he was dissolving Congress, among other actions. Castillo made the announcement on the same day that Congress was scheduled to hold a vote on his impeachment. The move ultimately failed, and Castillo has been arrested by police for what has been called a “self-coup.”
posted by aniola at 5:33 PM PST - 20 comments

Breakfast Bangers

Breakfast Bangers Click the Full English and drop some jungle-full beats.
posted by swift at 3:24 PM PST - 11 comments

From AAC and BBI to YYZ and ZZU

CGP Grey dives into The Maddening Mess of Airport Codes!.
posted by cozenedindigo at 12:44 PM PST - 42 comments

Inadequacy of timelines

A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures. A digital monograph featuring interpretive essays on Islamic artifacts (Jerusalem in Java, Indonesia), texts (Tarikh-i Jahangushay is a Muslim chronicler’s account of non-Muslim Mongols), and phenomena entwining over fourteen centuries. Reader instructions.
posted by spamandkimchi at 12:12 PM PST - 3 comments

SimCityist, McCentury Modern, fast-casual architecture

A classic 5-over-1: retail on the ground floor, topped with several stories of apartments one wouldn’t want to be able to afford. The words THE JOSH have been appended to the canopy above the main entrance in a passionless font.
Why Is Everything So Ugly?
posted by Rumple at 10:48 AM PST - 85 comments

The digital zeitgeber of our entrainment

What Twitter [or social media more broadly] Does to Our Sense of Time (archive.ph) an essay by author Jenny Odell. "Entrainment, a term that originated in biology and then spread to the social sciences, refers to the alignment of an organism’s physiology or behavior with a cycle; the most familiar example would be our circadian rhythm. The signal driving entrainment, in this case light and dark, is called a “zeitgeber” (German for “time giver”)... The concept of entrainment points to the ways in which our experience of time can be affected by so much more than the number of hours we have in a day."
posted by gwint at 10:27 AM PST - 8 comments

Bye Felicia

Just three days after the reelection of Raphael Warnock gave Democrats a 51-49 advantage in the Senate, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema today declared in an op-ed in the Arizona Republic that she is leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an Independent. [more inside]
posted by Ben Trismegistus at 6:43 AM PST - 189 comments

The Kentler experiment

Rachel Aviv: The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles (SLTNY) CW: child abuse
posted by kmt at 6:21 AM PST - 27 comments

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