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The Brooklyn Museum has returned 1305 looted artifacts to Costa Rica, following the 2011 return of approximately 983 pieces. The Museum is returning approximately one third of the 16,000 looted artifacts transferred to the Museum by Minor Keith, an early 20th century railway and plantation owner who co-founded the United Fruit Company.
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“You Can’t Actually Blow Up the White House”: An Oral History of ‘Independence Day’ [2021] [more inside]
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Idaho Transfer is a 1973 science fiction time travel movie produced and directed by Peter Fonda. [more inside]
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Musical force of nature Tom Cardy has a helpful suggestion for finding that thing you can't find. [Note: a bit sweary.]
posted by cortex at 11:13 AM PST - 14 comments

It's difficult to describe Bigipedia. Unleashed on the unsuspecting world back in 2009, the two series (eight episodes total) ARE The Internet. You can look up Teddy Bear's Picnic, discover BigiKids, or participate in BigiStreetWatch. You can't escape The Internet! Find links to all 8 half-hour episodes (mp3 format) here! [more inside]
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A map of tree cover in any city in the United States is too often a map of race and income. This is unacceptable. Trees are critical infrastructure that every person in every neighborhood deserves. Trees can help address damaging environmental inequities like air pollution. [more inside]
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Best described on Youtube as a 'generational talent (slyt),' singer-songwriter-sax player Jorja Chalmers has a new album out of covers, some sax related. Jorja has played with Bryan Ferry and others.
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Men I Trust are a Canadian dream-pop band with infectious basslines, oblique lyrics, and a sound drenched in swimmy reverb and sunny nostalgia.
posted by escape from the potato planet at 5:32 AM PST - 6 comments

Matthias Kramm, a demo coder, shows us his setup: a Commodore 64, a monitor, and a 1541 disk drive, all connected together. He show us he's loaded a small program into the drive's memory. Then, he disconnects the computer from the monitor and the drive, severs and strips the drive's cable still plugged into the drive, connects them directly to the monitor with a resistor spliced in, opens and closes the drive's door, and the show begins. The fact that the demo has music without speakers isn't close to the most impressive part of it. There's an overview on his site, which has links to more details.
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