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by jshprentz 2y ago
That X-Files episode may have been inspired by "Time Shards" [1] by Gregory Benford, a short story first published in 1979. TLDR: Too late to be included in the bi-millenium vault, a Smithsonian researcher discovers an audio recor
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Why Michigan Still Uses a Ford Model T for Official Government Business(theautopian.com)
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Noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store(techcrunch.com)
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by jshprentz 2y ago
All of my pigeon questions were answered at Pigeons.biz [1], a forum community dedicated to pigeon owners and enthusiasts. They have over 50,000 members and 900,000 posts. [1] https://www.pigeons.biz
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Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes(cointelegraph.com)
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Luminar, maker of Lidar for autonomous driving, lays off 20% of its workforce(theverge.com)
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by jshprentz 3y ago
In "The Lavender Hill Mob" (1951), Alec Guinness stars as a meek bank clerk responsible for gold bullion shipments. He joins three others in a plot to steal a gold shipment, cast the melted gold into Eiffel Tower souvenirs, and sm
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by jshprentz 3y ago
The Penpot Features page [1] proclaims, "Penpot is the Open-Source Design Tool for Design and Code Collaboration" and "A browser-based design tool that gets the web. Create beautiful user interfaces in collaboration with all
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Behold the Folded Circle Snack Discovery [video](youtube.com)
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by jshprentz 3y ago
Pete Beard provides a biography of Wanda Gág, the author of Millions of Cats, in part 25 of his video series "Unsung Heroes of Illustration" [1], with many examples of her work. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Car Thief Gets Instant Karma (The Final Glitterbomb 6.0) [video](youtube.com)
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by jshprentz 3y ago
I recommend Fortune’s Formula, a book about the Kelly criterion by William Poundstone. The book's blurb claims it "... traces how the Kelly formula sparked controversy even as it made fortunes at race tracks, casinos, and tradin
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by jshprentz 3y ago
Demo and documentation at https://crashoverride.com/
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Chalk: Open-source software security and infrastructure visibility tool(helpnetsecurity.com)
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FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4(fema.gov)
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by jshprentz 3y ago
Jasper Fforde has written a series of humorous novels about a character named Thursday Next. [1, 2] [1] https://www.carnegielibrary.org/staff-picks/thursday-next-se... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by jshprentz 3y ago
Knuth composed his list of questions first: > Here are the questions, verbatim, and composed before I had any idea of what any of the answers might be:
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by jshprentz 3y ago
Michael Meyer's recent book Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet details the origin and fate of his bequests to Philadelphia and Boston. The funds were intended to be loaned to aspiring tradesmen, who would repay their loans with intere
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by jshprentz 3y ago
Writing in The Mirror two years ago, OliviaRose Fox traced [1] this humorous obituary to a 2020 book by Keaton Patti, I Forced a Bot to Write This Book: A.I. Meets B.S. [2] [1] https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news&#x
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by jshprentz 3y ago
The first chapter of Men Too Wear Clothes (1939) by Dorothy Stote explains how to select a hat.
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by jshprentz 3y ago
It is interesting to compare the Japanese micro seasons with the 12 month names in the French Republican calendar [1]. The French month names derived from Latin or Greek words, translated here to English. Autumn: Vendémiaire (vintage), B
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by jshprentz 3y ago
When my wife was learning ceramics, her studio displayed student work for sale. I bought [1] a few pieces of fake pastry and a few pieces of fake sushi for her to display on the small trays she made. The trays sold. [1] https://d
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by jshprentz 3y ago
As an engineer, I enjoyed the recipe presentation at Cooking for Engineers [1], which has been discussed here on HN 16 years ago [2], 12 years ago [3], and again last year [4]. In addition to typical step-by-step instructions with photos, t
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by jshprentz 3y ago
The Monks and Friars Chapel [1], an organization in Detroit, Michigan dedicated to preserving the knowledge and craft of Letterpress printing, lists sources [2] for rollers and other consumables. [1] https://monksandfriars.org&#x
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by jshprentz 3y ago
The good people at The Alembic Press have compiled an extensive list of typecase layouts (lays) [1]. The hundreds of variations accomodate different alphabets, languages, countries, cabinet sizes, measurement systems, contents (upper case,
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by jshprentz 3y ago
The final quote, "... but often, on the ground, it’s one old farmer walking around to collect acorns. ..." reminded me of the the book The Man Who Planted Trees [1] in which a shepard single-handedly reforests a desolate valley
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by jshprentz 3y ago
Another way: the Batmobile's Anti-Theft Activator [1] from the 1966-1968 Batman TV series. [1] https://batlabels.tumblr.com/post/158029360040/anti-theft-ac...
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Evernote is relocating to Europe after laying off most of its US workforce(engadget.com)
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You can read the novel Horrorstör [1]. As of 2020, the film rights have been optioned by New Republic Pictures. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horrorst%C3%B6r
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by jshprentz 3y ago
Also see "The Tao of Sir Terry: Pratchett and Political Philosophy" [1] by the same author, J. R. H. Lawless, published on the same website four years ago. The earlier article covers different aspects of Pratchett's philosoph

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