August 30, 2017
RIYL Things happening in sync to music for a while
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For the four-part USA Suite on America • Presented as an episode of Off The Air
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For the four-part USA Suite on America • Presented as an episode of Off The Air
? An Aquarium - Just the sensational tanks - Anemones &c
“These notes appear in the archives without an author, but display a series of one-line ideas, added over a period of time (months?) for developing the north London pleasure-ground of Alexandra Palace, which was perennially on the verge of bankruptcy. They provide a unique insight into the mind of a harassed Victorian entrepreneur.” [more inside]
Sword Guys Are a Thing and I’ve Had Sex With All of Them
Playing the saxophone while a brain tumor is removed
The challenge was that Fabbio would be lying on his side, so it would be difficult to play the instrument. Also, the pressure caused by the deep breathes required to play long notes on the saxophone could cause the brain, which would be exposed during the procedure, to essentially protrude from his skull. Fabbio and Marvin ultimately selected a piece – a version of a Korean folk song – that could be modified to be played with shorter and shallower breaths. Abstract.
I'm not even supposed to be here today, baseball edition
Last week, in the 9th inning of a blowout loss, Red Sox player Chris Young came up to bat... even though he was no longer in the game. According to RetroSheet, "This is the only case of illegal lineup reentry in Major League history. No one appeared to notice – not the umpires or either team."
Fulfilling an obligation
Last Friday, Rob Wilkins, former personal assistant to Terry Pratchett and manager of his estate, fulfilled a promise by having a steamroller named Lord Jericho destroy a hard drive containing Pratchett's unfinished works. [more inside]
Benevolence
“We want our audience, the viewers, to feel the closeness of the dance,”
When Dancing Becomes a Battle “Welcome to the Ballroom” [YouTube] “Poor Tatara Fujita. He’s a junior high kid with no idea what he wants to do with his life. He’s smitten by Shizuku Hanaoka, a smart and attractive girl in his class but he’s too shy to approach her. He has no job and he’s flat broke. What’s the solution to his problem? Ballroom dancing. Ballroom dancing? Well, yes. Even Tatara is surprised, at first. But he learns its value after he’s saved by Kaname Sengoku, a dance instructor who repels a gang of bullies by sheer machismo. Sengoku introduces him to dancing as a professional sport, where competitors earn prestige through hard work and determination. Tatara discovers that dancing is his passion, and thus begins Welcome to the Ballroom. (Ballroom e Youkozo)” [via: Animation Scoop] [more inside]
FOUND PERSONS
You know what? This song rules. B.E.R. rules.
How a throwaway joke on Teen Titans Go! helped an unknown song, written more than a decade ago, break into the charts.
"Announcers are part of the industrial complex of college football."
Ed Cunningham explains why he walked away from a job as a color analyst for ESPN.
Football has seen high-profile N.F.L. players retire early, even pre-emptively, out of concern about their long-term health, with particular worry for the brain. But Cunningham may be the first leading broadcaster to step away from football for a related reason — because it felt wrong to be such a close witness to the carnage, profiting from a sport that he knows is killing some of its participants.
“In its current state, there are some real dangers: broken limbs, wear and tear,” Cunningham said. “But the real crux of this is that I just don’t think the game is safe for the brain. To me, it’s unacceptable.”
In a dark time, the eye begins to see
Anonymous asked: What's your take on non-binary/agender gender identities?A brief piece on power, reason, art, love, and the body. By George Lazenby. [more inside]
I think those identities represent one of the most important realizations it’s possible for a person to have.
I’ll tell you a story...
How to fake working for the Mann
“It was like night and day,” says Dwyer. “It would take me days to get a response, but Keith could not only get a response and a status update, but also be asked if he wanted anything else or if there was anything else that Keith needed help with.”Sexism in tech is so bad, Witchsy cofounders Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer had to invent a male partner called Keith Mann to circumvent it.
Cyborg bacteria in the news
'Cyborg' bacteria deliver green fuel source from sunlight.
Scientists have created bacteria covered in tiny semiconductors that generate a potential fuel source from sunlight, carbon dioxide and water.
These newly boosted bacteria produce acetic acid, essentially vinegar, from CO2, water and light. They have an efficiency of around 80%, which is four times the level of commercial solar panels, and more than six times the level of chlorophyll.
We prize these cyborg bacteria and their ability to make acetate because they produce a substrate that we can already use to produce more valuable and more interesting products," said Dr Sakimoto.
Christies: 101 things we have learned from the Online Magazine
The Online Magazine, our weekly email of editorial highlights from Christies.com, celebrates its 100th edition this week. To mark the occasion, we present a miscellany of useful facts, tips and insights published over the past two years. [more inside]
Exposed bottoms, spherical balls and a moist clutch
So, then; it's back, despite rivals. But Mary has gone. Mel and Sue have, alas, gone. The tent has moved to Channel Four. An off-duty vampire has joined. Why? What were its secrets? Was it the most expensive tent? What's the new tent like? Will the innuendo remain or will it be like Cupcake Wars? Will fans stay? Is that the Frog Chorus?! Just say the code and, as the Clitheroe Cake Diva watches, the reviews come in for the Great British Bake Off... Alice Brine, Guardian, Belfast Telegraph, Independent, Radio Times, Irish Times, Daily Telegraph, Manchester Evening News, and the Great British public. The good news? The cakes were still interesting, and the firmest of British traditions has been upheld. [MetaFilter FanFare, previously and post title.]
Premium Mediocre
Premium Mediocre is food that Instagrams better than it tastes. Premium mediocre is Starbucks’ Italian names for drink sizes [...] Mediocre with just an irrelevant touch of premium, not enough to ruin the delicious essential mediocrity. Premium Mediocre is a kind of modern proto middle class, born of a vanishing old middle class, and attempting to fake it while waiting for a replacement to appear under their feet while they tread water.
The Tale Of Amniarix And The Rockets
Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens, one of the remarkable spies of World War II, died last week in France at the age of 98. Like so many intelligence officers, she had a gift for getting people to talk. But she had something else: dauntless, unblinking courage in facing the enemy.[more inside]
Don't pat yourself too hard on the back there, Starbucks.
THIS IS THE VOICE OF COLOSSUS.
Microsoft and Amazon partner to integrate Alexa and Cortana digital assistants. At first, it will require explicit call-outs for one to access the other, with "Cortana, open Alexa" and "Alexa, open Cortana", showing that the initial work is them being skills of each other, but both companies expect the integration to become smoother over time. Jeff Bezos and Satya Nadella also say that Amazon and Microsoft would welcome Google and Apple joining in. “There are going to be multiple successful intelligent agents, each with access to different sets of data and with different specialized skill areas. Together, their strengths will complement each other and provide customers with a richer and even more helpful experience,” says Bezos in an Amazon press release.
“People are so afraid of Google now.”
Did Google discipline a think tank it helps fund? A New America researcher praised the EU for scoring a massive judgement against Google, then NA's leader threatened to boot his job and team, according to Kenneth Vogel. As New America (previously) CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter (previously) put it, “just THINK about how you are imperiling funding for others.” [more inside]
One family's pursuit of their daughter's killer
"The police knew he had a history of violence. They knew another girl had died in his bed. They knew the width of the sofa. Two people couldn’t sleep on that sofa. It all came out in the trial and the jury took six hours to find him guilty. Why did it take them so long to charge him?” [slGuardian] [CN: domestic abuse, murder]
Shoot, dammit! Shoot each other in your faces!
The Emmy-nominated team at Honest Trailers is back with another hilarious fête, this time for the movie Face/Off. With over 200 titles under their belt, there's something for everyone, from old favorites like Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (Feat. Michael Bolton) and The Princess Bride, current hits like Deadpool (Feat. Deadpool) and Fate of the Furious, and even a few TV shows. Keep an eye out for special features like Retro TV Themes! w/ Michael Bolton & Friends and The Oscars (2017). Submit your own sugesstions on Twitter.
All The Stations
Vicki Pipe and Geoff Marshall have now completed their quest to visit all the rail stations in Great Britain, taking 14 weeks, 6 days, 8 hours and 22 minutes. The crowdfunded odyssey was recorded in charming
series of videos . [more inside]
The Bit Bomb
"Shannon paved the way to do this rigorously, by encoding our messages in a series of digital bits, each one represented by a 0 or 1. He showed that the speed with which we send messages depends not just on the kind of communication channel we use, but on the skill with which we encode our messages in bits. ... If we could not compress our messages, a single audio file would take hours to download, streaming videos would be impossibly slow, and hours of television would demand a bookshelf of tapes, not a small box of discs. All of this communication – faster, cheaper, more voluminous – rests on Shannon’s realisation of our predictability."
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