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Banned http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/another-big-mistake-in-no_b_10199326.html

Ten Years Later http://hifructose.com/2015/06/22/exclusive-interview-illustrator-matias-adolfsson-discusses-his-award-winning-the-second-in-line/ Originally shared by Mattias Adolfsson http://mattiasa.blogspot.com/2016/05/ten-years-later.html

Finding The Cost Of Freedom Weekend Warriors... Originally shared by Damn interesting http://www.outsideonline.com/2072666/special-report-keyhole-seven?src=longreads

Available In Harvest Gold With Silver Accents via Scout Paget  Originally shared by Al Tlön Sourced:   http://modern1960s.tumblr.com/post/145087108353/robo-vac-1959

"It Just Has To Be Edible" Words to live by... With a better hair stylist, and a larger fryer, this could be my kitchen. Oh, and theme music. I probably would need different theme music. Originally shared by Robert Rambusch Good food should always be served with a side of fries. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kGtgBJKyZM

Needs River Lethe Aperitif Originally shared by Semicentenary Project The tortuous "It's a Small World" attraction opened in Fantasyland at Disneyland on May 28, 1966. The river upon which the park guests are transported past over 500 singing dolls is 1,400 feet long. The song heard in the attraction (for almost 15 long minutes) was written by Robert and Richard Sherman, who as a result, have since been commissioned to write an original soundtrack for the ninth circle of Hell.

Elucidating Your Idea "For three bills, you got the works: A thin Jewish brunette would pretend to pick you up at the Museum of Modern Art, let you read her master’s, get you involved in a screaming quarrel at Elaine’s over Freud’s conception of women, and then fake a suicide of your choosing—the perfect evening, for some guys. Nice racket. Great town, New York." Originally shared by Noah Friedman I know the author is persona non-grata, but I still love this short story. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/12/16/the-whore-of-mensa

Teetering Left Coast Platforms, On The Edge... Originally shared by Noah Friedman I'm tempted to vote for the obvious robot, although the challenge 10 giant chaos in economy is also compelling. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/05/favorite-candidates-senate-california

"Can't Pitch The Tent. Not Enough Space!" BEAM us out, Scotty! http://www.nasa.gov/feature/beam-facts-figures-faqs http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2016/20160526-beam-called-off.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/

Perceptual Art Originally shared by Ralf Haring http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/a-pair-of-glasses-were-left-on-the-floor-at-museum-and-everyone-mistook-it-for-art-a7049551.html

Measuring Up Roy Underhill's Woodwright's School is right next door to S&T's Soda Shop... http://www.woodwrightschool.com/ Astute viewers of the website gallery photos will spot the evidence... https://blog.lostartpress.com/2013/08/27/how-to-smuggle-a-tape-measure-into-the-woodwrights-school/

Cloning Isn't always a bad thing... https://www.ourstate.com/rathskeller-lasagna/

Row While You Pray "There is an old Greek saying: Pray for the Gods to get you to shore, but row while you do it." Also, breaking a system is not generally the least painful way to fix it. Originally shared by Meg L When it comes to Brexit, certain lefties can be as blinkered as their rightwing counterparts. Alex Andreou has written a good piece about it. https://www.byline.com/column/11/article/1062

"The Slug Who Would Be King" https://mobile.twitter.com/tomtomorrow/status/735590991864995840/

CQD Infighting about Training Infighting. The comments are worth the read. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/05/22/navy-seal-camp-fights-back-criticism.html

Two Views http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=398 http://oglaf.com/oriel/ http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=398

True and False http://sharonrandall.com/2016/05/false-start-summer-column-may-17-2016/

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First, They Came For The Tabloids... And I said nothing. Will say nothing. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Welcome to the Big Leagues, guys... Originally shared by Ralf Haring "Regardless of his politics, this news should disturb everyone. People talk a lot about the dominance of the 1% or in this case more like a tiny fraction of the 1%. But being able to give massive political contributions actually pales in comparison to the impact of being able to destroy a publication you don't like by combining the machinery of the courts with anonymity and unlimited funds to bleed a publication dry." http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-huge-huge-deal

Reasonably Priced Love! via Tamsin Cheyne  Originally shared by Snowgum Films It's the Glorious 25th of May... otherwise known as Lilac Day, Towel Day, or Geek Pride Day! Celebrate with us and let your geek colours soar! In honour of Sir Terry Pratchett and the Glorious Revolution... 100% of all TROLL BRIDGE pledges made through BackerKit within the next 24 hours will go directly to Alzheimer's Research UK. We'll wear the costs - and that's cutting our own throat! Pre-order here your copy here: https://troll-bridge.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Fizz Buzz via Ralf Haring Originally shared by Elie Bursztein Hilarious: solving the Fizz Buzz interview question in Tensorflow - http://buff.ly/22mKaye #ml #oveeengneering Jeff Dean​ http://buff.ly/22mKaye

Ghost In The Machine Originally shared by Rick Wayne (Author) This is a wonderful, lucid, and short essay on the fundamental flaw of contemporary cognitive science written by a preeminent psychologist. If you follow my rants at all, you know that philosophy of mind, particularly human judgment and decision-making, is a big interest of mine, and that I've said repeatedly, as Mr. Epstein does, that there's a reason 60 years of the computational theory has produced no significant advances. It's bunk, a textbook case of the trap of paradigmatic thinking. Some relevant excerpts: "By the 1500s, automata powered by springs and gears had been devised, eventually inspiring leading thinkers such as René Descartes to assert that humans are complex machines. In the 1600s, the British philosopher Thomas Hobbes suggested that thinking arose from small mechanical motions in the brain. By the 1700s, discoveries about electricity and chemistry led to new theories of human intelligence ...

Brain, Brain, What Is Brain? Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.guernicamag.com/features/vital-signs/

TIL Branding is Everything. Originally shared by George Station https://www.buzzfeed.com/victoriasanusi/people-are-angry-with-time-magazines-use-of-the-rainbow-flag

Lauds, Lauds, Lauds Originally shared by Assia Alexandrova By developing a searchable database, not unlike Google Books, we are basically creating an electonric monk. A device that knows all of the melodies. It’s as though a monk from 1,000 years ago walked into the room and started talking about music. It’s all there. http://mediarelations.uwo.ca/2016/05/19/new-music-research-project-uses-big-data-to-create-an-electronic-monk/

Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh So Labradors tend to overeat. Now it has been traced to genetic differences. "Dr Eleanor Raffan, a veterinary surgeon and geneticist who studies how genes influence metabolism at the Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge recently published a study that examines the genetics that underlie food motivation and obesity in Labrador retrievers. [...] When Dr Raffan and her team carefully examined this POMC gene variant, they found that a small 14-basepair section a little more than halfway down the gene’s length was missing. This deletion creates a frameshift mutation that results in the production of an abnormal protein where the last half is scrambled into a blob of nonsense [...]. Normally, the POMC is translated into the POMC pro-peptide, which is cleaved at precise sites to give rise to number of smaller peptides, including the appetite suppressing neuropeptides, ß-MSH & ß-endorphin, but the abnormal POMC pro-peptide do...

Scourges Of Spurges Even Aunt Agatha might be afeered of such a thing... Originally shared by Timothy Street 'Jeeves,' I said as he accompanied me to my car at the conclusion of the meal, speaking rather peevishly, perhaps, for I was not my usual sunny self, 'doesn't it strike you as odd that, with infant mortality so rife, a girl like Stiffy should have been permitted to survive into the early twenties? Some mismanagement there. What's the tree I read about somewhere that does you in if you sit under it?' 'The Upas tree, sir.' 'She's a female Upas tree. It's not safe to come near her. Disaster on every side is what she strews.' #Florida #tree  #plants   #botanical   http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/whatever-you-do-do-not-eat-touch-or-even-inhale-the-air-around-the-manchineel-tree?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura&utm_campaign=9c851d33cc-Newsletter_5_23_20165_20_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_62ba9246c0-9c851d33cc-62069921...

Fly By Night Originally shared by Timothy Street The pigeons have flown - an update of a previous post: birds alight take flight and light up the night; what a sight! , as protesters fight for the rights of the avians that refuse to be frightened for the unenlightened. #birds #art http://hyperallergic.com/298441/a-fleet-of-2000-pigeons-takes-flight-in-brooklyn-ruffling-protesters-feathers/ http://hyperallergic.com/298441/a-fleet-of-2000-pigeons-takes-flight-in-brooklyn-ruffling-protesters-feathers

Mondays @ 1:40 "Hand Me A Kniofe!" Don't Leave Home Without It. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d89-0-lp7yI

Morning Showers http://www.redbull.com/us/en/adventure/stories/1331794697857/race-boats-disappear-between-massive-ocean-waves

All That Jaz The early Dubner CBG systems used 14" Winchester removable platter drives. We were all suitably amazed when the next generation systems started using dinky but durable Bernoulli boxes. So when Iomega started selling their Zip drives for PCs, I was all over that, especially when they made one that would slide into a PowerBook bay. I was equally excited about the Jaz system, and bought an external SCSI version from LaCie just as soon as they were available. Unfortunately, it was not ready for Prime Time. I swapped out several drives and cartridges, but it was constantly jamming and self destructing. The enclosure, however, was really nice, and it got used to house a number of HDs over the years. I think it's about time for all the SCSI gear to go to that great Toxic Waste Dump In The Sky.

All Is Lost I've watched this several times, now. If you're a sailor, it won't take you very long to make a list of all the mistakes the protagonist makes. They aren't subtle. But folks make bad decisions at sea All The Time. This movie does a pretty damn good job of showing you how it feels to be in the middle of all that, bad decisions and all. What it looks like, what it sounds like. I still grimace at the stoopid, and the unlikely, and the "no, it doesn't work like that." But the feelings? Oh, yes. I get those feelings. Been there, done that. Always happy to get back home. Before I go out, again. http://www.pressherald.com/2013/11/08/maine_sailors_say_lost-at-sea_film_is_worth_its_salt_/ http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/10/all-is-lost-review-sailors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no1rl9Gvx-s

The Queen's Quietus Originally shared by David “not B” A We are amused. http://gawker.com/helen-mirren-dressed-as-the-queen-tells-street-drumme-493140087

Uncommonly Blessed From John McCutcheon's 2005 album "Mightier Than The Sword", which featured collaborations with some of my favorite writers, and a couple of unfinished Woody Guthrie songs. John McCutcheon-Ode To Common Things (inspired by Pablo Neruda): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0alEi0pEYg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0alEi0pEYg

Eggs On Their Faces The History Of Clown Eggs http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2046/are-clown-faces-registered-by-painting-them-on-eggs https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/lukestephenson/sets/72157606703952187 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd1ZPPAeA-U

Coloring Booke An activity for Nobles, coloring the maps of Albion's Glorious Ile. “I could wish you now and then, to exercise your Pensill in washing and colouring, which at your leasure you may in one fortnight easily learne to doe: for the practise of the hand, doth speedily instruct the mind, and strongly confirme the memorie beyond any thing else.” http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/21/17th-century-adult-colouring-in-book-albions-glorious-ile-michael-drayton-william-hole

"Crossing The River (Of Time) By Feeling The Stones" Originally shared by **** As rivers erode their way through deeper and older layers of different types of rock, the water smoothed and transported rocks and pebbles line their banks. Jller is part of an ongoing research project in the fields of industrial automation and historical geology. It is an apparatus, that sorts pebbles from a specific river by their geologic age (not sure if this is accurate), texture and rock type. These arrangements of rocks become art and are strangely beautiful. Learn more and watch the machine in action here: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/05/kinetic-rock-sorting-jller/ Here is the scientific background from Jller: http://www.prokopbartonicek.com/jller-ignorance-with-benjamin-maus-2015 Thank you Jenny Winder. Brad Esau, we need one of these!

Until She's Home And Safe With Me Billy Joel-Traveling Prayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Je0yXHpkw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Je0yXHpkw

Hey, Hey! http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/05/19/478417461/song-premiere-the-monkees-me-magdalena

Phaser On Stun Originally shared by lynn paden interesting article on rona barrett, gossip columnist of the seventies. she had a touch of hedda and louella in her, but without her, there may not have been a donahue, and an oprah. https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/all-the-dirt-on-rona-barrett-the-forgotten-gossip-girl

WiFi Wit 1. The 1-6-11 non-overlapping channel scheme would be the equivalent of a state-sanctioned communist planned economy (i.e. all too often like internal corporate culture). 2. Signal-to-noise optimisation is blatant libertarianism and probably more efficient. 3. And migrating to 5GHz should than be something like... colonising Mars. And my addition: 4. Microwave ovens are the Duchy of Grand Fenwick organizing a moonshot. http://superuser.com/questions/443178/is-it-better-to-use-a-crowded-2-4ghz-wi-fi-channel-1-6-11-or-unused-3-4-8

In That Splendid Mess "Though Morley is impeccable in dress, manner and thought, his office has always been a shambles. Visitors are shocked to see it: an avalanche of books: on art, on history. Old newspapers, old scripts. Remembrances of stories past. The cleaning crews were often horrified." Jeff Fager: "He loves being a reporter. He has always loved being a reporter. You get that when you're around him. It rubs off on you." Originally shared by G.K. Nelson Morley Safer was a great old school newshound. His work with 60 Minutes was always interesting, often riveting. He'll be missed. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-morley-safer-a-reporters-life/

Tagged Orange Formica Gondolas, and Parquet Floors. #tbt #ThrowbackThursday Don Dixon-Girls L.T.D.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbIpsPlj7_Y (I was going to post "Andy", from that same album, but it can't be found, except on the vinyl at my house).

Reach Out And Touch Someone The skin is the largest organ of our body, and its sensory qualities are often underrated. Ruminations on the nature of Haptic Intelligence. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/16/what-the-science-of-touch-says-about-us

Press Your Luck! Originally shared by Damn interesting On this day in 1984, a man reverse-engineered a popular game show for record winnings. http://www.damninteresting.com/who-wants-to-be-a-thousandaire/

You Don't Get Much Lovin'... But The Dough You Save... Nat "King" Cole, Oscar Moore, and Johnny Miller tear it up... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUEcIw6tUkM

Be The Gazebo Originally shared by **** MENTAL HEALTH TERMINOLOGY DEMYSTIFIED Mental health is a world within a world, complete with its very own vocabulary. These idiosyncratic names, phrases and expressions may seem odd, even bizarre, to newcomers and outsiders alike. However, if you intend to successfully navigate the crooked concrete corridors that lead, eventually, to sanity – familiarity with this specialized lexicon is strongly advised. Below is a list of commonly encountered mental health verbiage, followed by helpful definitions. 1. Cured This term describes a patient whose health insurance has run out. 2. Tibet’s Syndrome A patient who believes all mental health maladies can be cured by studying Eastern religion. 3. Mentalpause The state of being that separates mental play from mental fast-forward. It is characterized by tropical island fantasies and irritability. 4. Paranormia Paranormia describes an irrational fear of being abducted by aliens and forced to watch tedious, p...

As Seen On TV DNA testing will never be considered on a par with Phrenology... But Forensic Science has limits, which LE is loath to expose to examination, or criticism. Originally shared by Damn interesting http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/a-reasonable-doubt/480747/

Non-Concur Originally shared by Damn interesting Video: New short documentary from Errol Morris: Demon in the Freezer http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/opinion/errol-morris-demon-in-the-freezer.html?_r=0

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Loony Gas A useful story, for those who think that corporations don't need to be regulated, or that Science always wins. The UN proclaimed the benefits of (mostly) eliminated leaded gas in... wait for it... 2011. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40226&Cr=pollutant&Cr1=#.VzxSA5MrKuN More details here: http://www.damninteresting.com/the-ethyl-poisoned-earth/ http://www.thenation.com/article/secret-history-lead/ http://www.wired.com/2013/01/looney-gas-and-lead-poisoning-a-short-sad-history

http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/144503671457/guy-clark-townes-van-zandt-kpfk-folkscene-los http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/144503671457/guy-clark-townes-van-zandt-kpfk-folkscene-los

Get The Lead Out Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley,_Jr . Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh "Tomorrow (18th May) marks the date of birth of Thomas Midgley, who made significant contributions to something many of us make use of on a regular basis: petrol. Midgley was the research assistant to Charles Kettering, and the duo were responsible for the addition of the compound tetraethyl lead to petrol, an innovation that would have a lasting legacy – although perhaps not in the manner that they may have originally envisioned. [...] Today, unleaded petrol still contains anti-knock agents, but a range of different compounds that don’t contain lead are used. Ethanol is one such compound, as well as methyl tertiary-butyl ether (another compound which has attracted some controversy), benzene, and toluene, amongst others. Tetraethyl lead’s legacy still remains though – l...

Error 410 Gone via K.B. Burnfield Originally shared by Jim Feig FBI just chased a female programmer overseas Developer of anonymous Tor software dodges FBI, leaves US May 17 http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/17/technology/tor-developer-fbi/index.html -via Flynx http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/17/technology/tor-developer-fbi/index.html

Wish List Originally shared by Alex Osias Maybe someday, tv show! http://io9.gizmodo.com/kevin-smith-is-making-an-adventures-of-buckaroo-banzai-1776882034?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Wrong Side Of The Tracks Originally shared by **** Cleveland’s two high schools do literally sit a mile from each other, on either side of the railroad track. Collectively, they hold about a thousand students, which isn’t enough to overburden the high school system if combined into one, argued the Justice Department in its case against Cleveland. However, city leaders testified that “people in Cleveland are nervous, fearful, and resentful,” about the consolidation plan. http://www.citylab.com/politics/2016/05/why-a-mississippi-city-is-just-now-being-forced-to-desegregate-its-schools/483228/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheAtlanticCities+%28CityLab%29

First Pancake Rule Dave Rat ruminates on the effects that conditions and venues have on the FOH mix. http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/something_in_the_air/

No Substitutions, Please Originally shared by **** Lunch

Bottom To The Top To the limit here we go... Joan Armatrading-Bottom To The Top: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvMa9A7o-10 Originally shared by Steven Blatt http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2016/05/17/478337126/jane-little-longtime-orchestra-musician-collapses-on-stage-and-dies?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160517

Rug Burn Music For Sexagenarians Marshall Chapman : "...actually I like the idea of being married. There's a great Southern expression go where your spoken for. You know? And I like that. And I also like that you're really not looking over your shoulder, thinking you're going to find a better deal." Rachel Martin: "Except when you go to Mexico." Marshall Chapman: "And you go to Mexico, you get distracted. Hey, I'm a human being and I think it's important to have a lot of crushes. I wrote an article about crushes one time. I had about six going at that time. I think its part of being alive. I think the crush is an underrated relationship. Now, you don't have to consummate the crush but it's important, I think, to have them." "How is your crush count these days?" http://www.npr.org/2013/05/26/186511343/marshall-chapman-a-lifelong-rocker-reared-in-the-shadow-of-elvis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azPRk89nKaQ

Go Home It's time for this edition of Security Theater to go dark. Fun fact: The TSA's budget is roughly the same as the Feebs. Only upside? Many more (disgruntled, badly behaving) employees. Should be noted that, AFAIK, none of the haters of Big Government have anything bad to say about the TSA. Fear sells. Originally shared by Paul Heimann Purely on pragmatic grounds, the TSA is a failure. This doesn't even get into all the cases of TSA employees abusing innocent travelers. http://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11687014/tsa-against-airport-security

For The Birds Originally shared by Kee Hinckley No. No, I can't say any of those was my first choice. And what's with the pigeons?

Originally shared by Damn interesting https://medium.com/galleys/how-chris-mccandless-died-992e6ce49410#.ub8bu3nco

Originally shared by John Jainschigg Immediately Read This Book You know how, every time you click on an Amazon recommendation, it takes you (of course, YMMV) down into the long tail of the catalog, into realms of cringeworthy, self-published weirdness and dinosaur porn? Well ... very occasionally, it may also take you to Ann Leckie, my new favorite sci-fi author, who came out of relative obscurity about three years ago to sweep the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, and other awards (I believe the first time that's ever happened) with her first (non bodice-ripper, apparently) novel, Ancillary Justice , the start of a highly-successful trilogy. I'm only a couple-hundred pages in, at this point -- but here's my first pass on an exec summary: if you like Ursula ("Left Hand of Darkness," etc.) LeGuin and Iain ( The Culture series) Banks, run -- do not walk -- to your nearest device (or bookstore -- you know you can browse in bookstores without scrolling and popups?) an...

The Way It Will Be Originally shared by **** #americana   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO6SkStmhGY

#NotRightFoods #NotWaffles Eggs with greens and pumpkin seeds? Do hipsters eat scrapple? http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/05/13/477794736/breakfast-blowback-maybe-skipping-the-morning-meal-isnt-so-bad?sc=17&f=1001

Never Get Involved In A Land War In Asia Originally shared by The Old Map Gallery As the air age helped us recast our thinking about proximity and neighbors, this map from 1944 depicts southeast Asia, its nations, rivers and major cities. #oldmapgallery #pictorialmaps #airage #southeastasia

Data Caps, Explained Originally shared by Tim O'Brien

Big Data, Little Ethics https://www.wired.com/2016/05/okcupid-study-reveals-perils-big-data-science/

Just Say No To bayonet drill, grenade launchers, etc. We should know by now they don't even work that well overseas , much less at home. But mostly my point is, good peace officers ought not to need this stuff, and should have said so. The fact that they didn't should tell us volumes about what kinds of folk they are. Originally shared by The New Yorker The documentary film traces the transformation of police departments into forces that often look like our Army and Marines—and all too often act like them. http://nyer.cm/oBoQxPn

Don't Be A Heel Originally shared by **** The #FawcettflatsFriday hashtag was used to make the point that women do not need to wear heels to do their jobs, whether it’s saving lives, adding up accounts, or writing about internet memes. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/13/women-share-flat-shoe-photos-in-solidarity-with-fired-pwc-receptionist?CMP=fb_gu

Hot, Hot, Hot Shannon Wheeler (Too Much Coffee Man : https://www.tmcm.com ) is selling the original pages of this excellently told story about the McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit. Originally shared by Will Shetterly http://www.tmcm.com/tmcm/mcdonalds-coffee-lawsuit/

Do You Want To Live Forever? Originally shared by The New Yorker During a lawsuit centering on his mental competency, the ninety-two-year-old media mogul got in the last, nasty word. http://nyer.cm/CxlWDlR

First, Very Slowly... Then, All At Once.

Start Up Several years ago, Max Rubenacker posted a glitchy version of SMPTE color bars, discussion about which led to my bragging about my ability to imitate a quad VTR starting up with test tone: https://plus.google.com/+MaxRubenacker/posts/TgYHU2SBb7G The things you learn to do when you're trapped in a control room, editing intros and outros to PM Magazine... Test tone from the useful http://www.audiocheck.net/ site: https://app.box.com/s/0o1n15qlbdgmvp6fke2gdym82ei1f7hc My rendition: https://app.box.com/s/8gwyzn73r9er4ht01h0c

Waiting for Baudot Don't miss all the Baudy Talk on Yonatan Zunger 's repost of this. Tip o' the hat to Noah Friedman , and Chris Stehlik for the puns. Originally shared by Murphy Jacobs I used to live and die by this sound, waiting for my 300 baud to load me into Q-link of a Friday night, and running up my bill. Yes, children, once upon a time, one had to pay to access a social network. It was so different. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn2MVeu0XdY

Facial Recognition I had to go to (yet another) funeration yesterday, an activity that seems to take up more and more of my time as I get older. The reception after the service was full of people whose faces I recognized, but I could not attach proper names to, also something that seems to happen more and more as I get older. Might pay real money for a HUD app that would provide names and relevant details like a Roman nomenclator. Oh, except for the fallibility of algorithms, and various privacy issues, and how lovely my face would look all scrunched up trying to read the tee ninesy type flashing inside my glasses. Nevermind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ8Xj_I3aNU

Drivin' My Life Away Windshield wipers slappin' out a tempo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tvEvBUG8mY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tvEvBUG8mY

Freshness Dated https://mobile.twitter.com/JakeFrankel/status/730391384235102208

Rock On Hey kid, boogey too, did ya? David Essex-Rock On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1rIdSWWiQU http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/12/1971-never-a-dull-moment-rocks-golden-year-david-hepworth-review

Don't Get Caught Flat Footed Fleetwood Mac-Silver Heels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9yxVbs2xb8 Originally shared by The New Yorker "No one explained how stilettos—named for a dagger—would irreversibly cripple me." http://nyer.cm/dOalqNH

Queen Of The Sherpas via Acadia Einstein Originally shared by Shane Borza http://www.outsideonline.com/2078361/most-successful-female-everest-climber-all-time-housekeeper-hartford-connecticut http://www.outsideonline.com/2078361/most-successful-female-everest-climber-all-time-housekeeper-hartford-connecticut

Originally shared by Randy Culler Can't Tell the Boys from the Girls Little did Lester know how well this would stand the test of time #bluegrass   https://youtu.be/LwPtXjck95A

#WordlessWednesday #wordlessonwednesday

A Quiet Man “I prefer a world with alcohol than without,” he said. “I don’t understand how people get through this world without drinking.” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/dining/joe-allen-restaurant-nyc.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0

Getting The Wind Up http://videowall.accuweather.com/detail/videos/trending-now/video/4885394771001/complete-footage-of-reed-timmer-s-wray-colorado-tornado-chase?autoStart=true

Hot Trash More centralized infrastructure woes... Originally shared by Damn interesting http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-do-you-put-out-a-subterranean-fire-in-a-mountain-of-trash/

"Clouds Mean Death" Chuck Pratt was an outstanding ravist, among many other things. I, too, have spent some time climbing, and raving, but not as well as he did. Except maybe the raving part. Went looking for a letter that Sheridan Anderson wrote to him, many moons ago, and found this, instead. Worth reading every little bit of it, I think. http://www.supertopo.com/a/Chuck-Pratt/a146n.html

So Much Better Than It Was How often do you hear that , anymore? http://allaboutbeer.com/yuengling-so-much-better-than-it-was/

All American Genesee is hard to get in Southern climes, but I spent enough time in Vermont to develop a taste for it. And of course, San Francisco taught me the value of Anchor Steam. Yuengling is the current house standard. http://www.foodrepublic.com/2015/06/16/as-american-as-cream-ale-only-three-beer-styles-were-born-in-the-u-s-a-heres-the-story-behind-each/

Metaphor Prohibition really ruined many of America's beers. And the succeeding generations of family founders did the rest. Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323830404578143523214886126 How To Blow $9 Billion: The Fallen Stroh Family http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2014/07/08/how-the-stroh-family-lost-the-largest-private-beer-fortune-in-the-u-s/#233b73701ede Originally shared by **** This summer is bound to be what Ricardo Marques, a vice president from Budweiser, calls "maybe the most American summer ever." So Budweiser is going to potentially ingenious, potentially absurd branding extremes. http://www.fastcodesign.com/3059681/budweiser-renames-its-beer-america/1

Lost and Found http://www.ninapaley.com/NinasAdventuresArchives/NewAdv16.htm

The Sweetest Taboo I said it before, and I'll say it again. The way to fix this is to have unisex public restrooms. If you can imagine the outcry that would cause, you can understand the issue here, and why the eejit NC Repuglicans are going to get strong support, despite their badly written, last minute, over reaching law. It's all about the fear of breaching taboos, which are never rational. Originally shared by **** "So, is this as stupid as it's going to get, or is it going to get stupider?" "It's going to get stupider." http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/09/transgender-bathroom-law-north-carolina/84130210/

Sign Of The Dotted Line via Kam-Yung Soh Originally shared by Open Culture Al Jaffee, the Longest Working Cartoonist in History, Shows How He Invented the Iconic “Folds-Ins” for Mad (magazine). 95 years old and still going strong... http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/al-jaffee-shows-how-he-invented-the-iconic-folds-ins-for-mad-magazine.html

"Can't Act. Slightly Bald. Also Dances." Fred Astaire. Simply the best. Originally shared by The Cloberth “I just put my feet in the air and move them around.” Daddy Long Legs Born in Omaha, Nebraska on this date in 1899, American performer Fred Astaire. Natives of Omaha Nebraska, Astaire and his older sister Adele showed considerable talent as young children, and their parents soon decided to move to New York City to start the pair in show business. It wasn’t long before they had a contract and traveled the country on the Orpheum Circuit of theaters. The siblings performed together until Adele’s marriage in 1932. Disappointing screen tests with RKO led to an uncertain start in movies, but the 1934 partnership with Ginger Rogers in the Gay Divorcee led off a string of successes and over 20 years of dance films. Astaire had many partners beyond Rogers, including Eleanor Powell, Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland, Ann Miller, and Cyd Charisse. He is also remembered for dozens of ...

Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink, Say No More! http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/05/news/little-known-origin-team-bus_405069

B-tree Or not... Originally shared by David McKeever

Blowing In The Wind I'm pretty sure there is room for innovation in this area... Cringely makes some interesting points. http://www.cringely.com/2016/05/06/15262/

Wheel's On Fire Rather the opposite of Absolutely Fabulous... https://ww.youtube.com/watch?v=pCSKEM4-sO0 via Arthur Hollingsworth Originally shared by Kevin Guertin Unbelievable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieTQvIdG-Vo&feature=share

Half Baked Assorted distractions and malfunctions resulted in a less than perfect result, but still quite edible... https://plus.google.com/+CaraEvangelista/posts/3wRgUQbBRNp

Money Can't Buy It At least not always, not yet. Funny how disruptive businesses hate any type of regulation, ain't it? Originally shared by M Sinclair Stevens Politics: Austin Citizens Slap Uber and Lyft I wake up completely surprised by this turn of events. We Austin voters have defeated Proposition 1 which let Uber and Lyft write their own rules about regulating themselves. The companies poured millions of dollars into influencing the electorate and, perhaps, in the end the very hard sell was what began to make people suspicious: they are the Walmart of this generation. "It was spending on a scale that had never been seen in Austin politics, as Uber and Lyft singlehandedly funded the pro-Prop 1 campaign group, Ridesharing Works for Austin, to the tune of $8.6 million, campaign finance reports showed. That’s more than seven times the previous record of $1.2 million, which was set by Adler in his 2014 mayoral campaign." “You can elect governors in other states for th...

Before I Got Old Originally shared by G.K. Nelson Ha! This is great! http://gu.com/p/4tzdb/sgp

Shadows and Light Joni Mitchell-Shadows and Light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty_7d-qwYxs

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Gone At Last https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leWjp_CFt50

Clear As Mud I've found the Remix Mini device to be usable, mostly as a Smart TV accessory (Kodi, Netflix, Hulu, PBS). Also using Gmail and Dropbox. But there are a lot of rough edges and functions not working as expected. And Jide has abysmal communications with its users, and is only slowly making progress at squashing bugs and ensuring that promised features work correctly. I reckon I'll wait a bit before I try to update the OS and sideload the Google Play store. Here's the Remix FB page: https://www.facebook.com/remixglobal/ And the thread about sideloading Google Play: http://forum.xda-developers.com/remix/remix-os/app-install-google-play-services-remix-t3292087 #Jide   #RemixOS   Originally shared by Liliputing Remix OS is a modified version of Google Android designed to make Google’s mobile operating system feel like a desktop OS. It has a taskbar, a desktop, and support for running apps in windows that can be moved or resized. Remix OS developer Jide launched… ht...

Henscratches and Flyspecks "I want to persuade the rest of the Weavers that we should send some money to the Irish folk song archives for the song “Kisses Sweeter than Wine.” It’s an old Irish song: [sings]“Mush-a sweeter than thou.” It was a song about a dead cow. This Irish artist sang it to Leadbelly, and Leadbelly started singing it, but he put an African rhythm to it. And along comes Lee Hays and puts words to it, and it’s still being sung after all these decades. I sing it at every wedding I’m at." "You can only laugh if you don’t cry. The rich are getting richer and the poor are being left behind the eight ball and getting more and more angry. I don’t think there will be a human race here in 100 years unless the rich countries realize it’s in everybody’s interest that everybody in the world have a job and be decently fed and clothed." http://acousticguitar.com/happy-birthday-pete-seeger-watch-him-perform-if-i-had-a-hammer-in-1956-read-an-in-depth-qa-from-the-...

Trombone Studying with three teachers in three years, I was a trombone student in Oklahoma until I was about fifteen years old. Each weekend at one of their houses I'd wait in the kitchen until the trombonist in the basement would yell up at me to come down-- they all taught in their basements. I would descend, assemble my horn, sit in a folding chair, park my sheet music on the stand, weather some insult aimed at my embouchure, and play whatever I had not been studying for the last week. My teachers-- industrious, frugal, starving men-- had one thing in common other than my unpreparedness: they'd all installed do-it-yourself showers in those basements. These units stood in some corner, usually my corner, and they'd drip... ploink, ploink. There was nothing more ominous than basements with leaking showers in them, and there was no telling when fear began, but my trombone kept those home improvements at bay. I was a hero. I had fewer illusions about my playing. Bob Green was...

iTunes and Democracy "Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Originally shared by Richard Bensam http://www.imore.com/no-apple-music-not-deleting-tracks-your-hard-drive-unless-you-tell-it

Music Managers... Are the worst ... Apple isn't really the villain here, although it is a popular target. The requirements of DRM and Cloud based subscriptions are at fault, and all the services that I know of have similar pitfalls. Originally shared by Jens Reuterberg Why I steer clear of Apple Or maybe "Why user controlled apps are still relevant" "The software is functioning as intended,” said Amber. “Wait,” I asked, “so it’s supposed to delete my personal files from my internal hard drive without asking my permission? “Yes,” she replied." https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/

We Are A Team via Bruce Shark  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2cqQA_zsKY

Predeceased http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/obituaries-my-mother-wrote-for-me-while-i-was-living-in-san-francisco-in-my-twenties

The Nice One But he does get a bit hangry, from time to time... Originally shared by The Cloberth “I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?” Travelling Man Born in Broomhill, Sheffield, Yorkshire on this date in 1943, actor, author, and comedian Michael Palin. Palin has gained lasting fame as one of the founders of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Apart from the Python films, he performed in the comedies Time Bandits, The Missionary (opposite Maggie Smith), Brazil, A Fish Called Wanda, and Fierce Creatures. Starting in 1980, Palin found his true post-Python niche as presenter of several travel documentaries, including "Around the World in Eighty Days", "Sahara", and "New Europe", and most recently, “Brazil with Michael Palin”. He is a former president of the Royal Geographical Society. Among other awards, he received the Saturn for Best Writing for Ti...

"My God, It's Full Of Stars!" David Bowman, I mean, Bowie... Via K.B. Burnfield, Meg L http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7356858/david-bowie-blackstar-vinyl-sun-light-record?utm_source=GooglePlus

Poking And Tweaking Originally shared by Noah Friedman Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs was the best book about programming I ever read. I picked it up on my own since I never took any classes which used it. When I heard that MIT stopped using it in their courses I was bewildered and disappointed, but I see where Sussman was coming from, and he's right. Click through to see the video excerpt of him explaining how engineering changed through the 90s. (An aside: Sussman was the person who got me interested in watchmaking, sort of by chance, during a conversation he had one afternoon in our office.) http://www.posteriorscience.net/?p=206

Relocation Tom Petty-Refugee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ-bhM-xuec http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/03/us/resettling-the-first-american-climate-refugees.html

Location, Location, Location http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-antisemitism-row-naz-shah-israel-map-norman-finkelstein-obscene-a7012461.html Originally shared by Will Shetterly This is the image that Naz Shah shared on Facebook which got her suspended from the Labour Party. Frankly, I think it makes a lot of sense. I really should read Chabon's alt-history about the creation of Israel in Alaska. https://orderorder.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/shah.png?w=900 https://orderorder.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/shah.png?w=900