September 30, 2018
I was feeling nostalgic, and visited relics of a well spent youth.
Anyone who was a teen in the 1990's probably climbed out of a bedroom window with one of these in the pocket of their JUNCO's, In the mid 1990's midwest, teenage rebellion wore body glitter, platform shoes, and danced all night in abandoned warehouses to electronic music. It had piercings, and tribal tattoos, and despite the passage of time that so often makes one regret those choices, still looks badass in pictures. [more inside]
“...new things feel old by the time they come out.”
The Endless Stream of New Game Releases Is Exciting, but Also Exhausting [Waypoint] “E3 or Gamescom or any of the other major video game events are really just places where companies compete to stay in the same place in the minds of their audience. They release trailers and gameplay demos, sometimes one after another, at an unbelievable pace, simply to stay in the minds of their audiences. [...] The speed of releases; the speed at which we are meant to come to judgment; the speed at which we need to consume these games is hyper-fast. We need to assert that they are good or bad, worth our time or total wastes of it, six months before they even exist. And lets not forget the massive expenditures of time, labor, development money, advertising dollars, and sheer attention that go into games that are declared to be good or bad before they even exist. Funding a race to stand still and to remain in the mind of a potential consumer audience. A constant and eternal war, a contestation in all domains, and for what?” [more inside]
Cruising under your radar, watching from satellites...
"I tried to collect all these radars - past, current, and future - in one place, or, rather, one Google Earth file. Here it is - Russian Early-Warning Radars 2018.kmz." Via Russianforces.org: "The goal of the project is to provide Russian citizens and policy makers with information about nuclear weapons, arms control and disarmament based on open scientific analysis" (previously on Metafilter, and h/t @sovietvisuals).
At first glance, the idea seems bizarre.
"A bone-marrow transplant essentially reboots the immune system. Chemotherapy kills off your old white blood cells, and new ones sprout from the donor’s transplanted blood stem cells. It’s unwise to extrapolate too much from a single case study, and it’s possible it was the drugs the man took as part of the transplant procedure that helped him. But his recovery suggests that his immune system was somehow driving his psychiatric symptoms."
Ah yes, the Edge Case Saloon. A fine establishment.
Pentester Bill Sempf refurbed an old joke for a current problem he was working on:
QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a sfdeljknesv.Twitter responded.
The Movie Assassin
Everyone talks about the country falling apart in November 2016, but maybe it fell apart in November 1996, when America went to see The English Patient. What if we had all turned to each other and said, “This garbage is our idea of rave-worthy cinema? Anyone else see a big problem here?”, and then there had been a massive riot?
Smörgåstårta
Herregud! "Sandwich cake" is a Swedish dish, also popular in Estonia (as "võileivatort"), Finland (as "voileipäkakku") and Iceland (as "brauðterta"); also sometimes Norway (as "smørbrødkake"). It sometimes looks like a cake but it's a good way of using a lot of bread. It can be colourful, vegan, fish or meat based, fruity, modern, creative, pretty, sophisticated, bar-shaped, square, circular, a birthday cake and have many variations and divide opinions. You "...make a huge sandwich, cover it with more filling and decorate it, then cut it like a cake and eat it by the slice". Recipes: [1][2][3][4][5]. Other Nordic variations exist. Previously: [1][2][3]
Turns out snails are Instagrammy as hell
"This sounds weird, but as you can see, it is actually extremely cool." Chicago-based artist Aleia Murawski (aleia on Instagram), creates imaginative, dollhouse-scale worlds populated with live snails as the vignettes' surprisingly expressive denizens. [more inside]
Otis Rush, Blues Guitarist, R.I.P.
He helped develop West Side Blues and was a key figure of the city’s 50s and 60s blues resurgence Legendary Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush, whose passionate, jazz-like music influenced artists from Carlos Santana and Eric Clapton to the rock band Led Zeppelin, has died at the age of 84.
Here's an article from 1990 about his influence on Chicago and the West Side Blues: Otis & the West Side Blues [more inside]
To conquer hell
"The French have given us a hard nut to crack." One hundred years ago this week began the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the largest (1.2 million soldiers) and most costly (110,000+ casualties) American military campaign in history. Commanded by John Pershing (previously), the United States First Army attacked in the Verdun area (previously), aiming for Sedan. The successful offensive ended with the November 11th armistice that also concluded the First World War on the western front. [more inside]
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