===== Cyborg Folly ===== Aug '24: Games Where You’re NOT the Main Character https://youtube.com/watch?v=szi24FesVYQ -------------------------------------------------- Jul '24: Why do we have grass lawns? https://www.vox.com/videos/361616/why-do-we-have-grass-lawns . o O ( I hate grass ) -------------------------------------------------- May '24: Non-Euclidean Doom https://youtu.be/_ZSFRWJCUY4?si=ADLDuq4p4J5egA6x -------------------------------------------------- 1967 Video about atomic experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory (via Attoparsec) https://youtu.be/GsuiLxcDuHY -------------------------------------------------- Jan '24: Tom Scott video about modern Long Barrows https://youtu.be/_G2Q1qsoGEU . o O ( Now I'm wishing I had a lot more property ) -------------------------------------------------- Nov '23: 4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour https://youtu.be/S7TUe5w6RHo?si=JyUbRTahLaIgJyMa -------------------------------------------------- Oct '23: Collars, by Matthew Dockrey https://www.cyphertext.net/collars.html -------------------------------------------------- Making a real Talkie Toaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HERkwJ0OIMo . o O ( Because it needed to be done ) -------------------------------------------------- Aug '23: Wonky shapes can be made to roll along a specific path of your choice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUYWZUP_r5Y -------------------------------------------------- Jun '23: Making A Billion-Year Lego Clock https://youtube.com/watch?v=kRzgCylePjk -------------------------------------------------- May '23: Auto Tape Wrapping Machine https://hackaday.com/2023/04/28/auto-tape-wrapping-machine-is-amazing-for-cable-management/ . o O ( This is genius and I need one ) -------------------------------------------------- Jan '23: The Dawn Of Synthetic Milk https://hackaday.com/2023/01/05/the-dawn-of-synthetic-milk-when-milk-becomes-more-like-beer/ . o O ( I honestly had no idea there were actual products available. Gonna hafta try some when I get a chance. ) -------------------------------------------------- Excuse Me, Your Tie Is Unzipped https://hackaday.com/2023/01/05/excuse-me-your-tie-is-unzipped/ . o O ( A history of zip ties. I always called them “tie wraps”, because that’s what my dad called them, but didn’t realize I was spelling it wrong and it was a brand name. ) -------------------------------------------------- Dec '22: Meander (via attoparsec) https://roberthodgin.com/project/meander . o O ( A procedural system for generating historical maps of rivers that never existed ) -------------------------------------------------- The Two Thirds Keyboard (The worst keyboard in the world?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdP_sTMOWYo . o O ( My friend gets more ridiculous with time ) -------------------------------------------------- Nov '22: Pocket Typewriter https://youtube.com/watch?v=14WBiDV02DE . o O ( My friend is a ridiculous nerd ) -------------------------------------------------- Disco Elysium and the death of art https://boingboing.net/2022/11/27/disco-elysium-and-the-death-of-art.html . o O ( Well, that made me sad ) -------------------------------------------------- Adam Conover: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Bankman-Fried are actually… shockingly dumb https://youtube.com/watch?v=jUMXOrM5g10 -------------------------------------------------- Oct '22: Making a Fremen Thumper https://youtube.com/watch?v=jI-KMPBLAhs -------------------------------------------------- Sep '22: What it’s like to work in the world’s greatest office (via Vox) https://youtube.com/watch?v=yb-kYt1lpnI . o O ( Kind of a sad ending. ) -------------------------------------------------- Crypto Rebels (1993) https://www.wired.com/1993/02/crypto-rebels/ . o O ( 1993 was kinda crazy. Also, both weird and sad how little has changed since. ) -------------------------------------------------- Reimagined Ramen Comes In Edible Package https://hackaday.com/2022/09/15/reimagined-ramen-comes-in-edible-package/ . o O ( As a consumer of a lot of ramen, I like this idea ) -------------------------------------------------- Senior Engineers are Living in the Future https://www.zerobanana.com/essays/living-in-the-future/ -------------------------------------------------- The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up https://florentcrivello.com/index.php/2019/09/04/the-efficiency-destroying-magic-of-tidying-up/ -------------------------------------------------- Desktop Democracy - 1993 https://www.wired.com/1993/05/desktop-democracy/ . o O ( Proto-resistbot ) -------------------------------------------------- Aug '22: Rota counter https://hackaday.com/2022/08/19/ro%cc%86%cc%bdta-counting-with-style/ . o O ( This looks really cool and I want one ) -------------------------------------------------- May '22: Vox: Who made these circles in the Sahara? https://youtu.be/twAP3buj9Og -------------------------------------------------- Apr '22: Huge If True: Would you use an artificial womb? https://youtube.com/watch?v=mLYMAkgvZsI -------------------------------------------------- Watch the ice maker work from inside the freezer https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/04/ice/ -------------------------------------------------- Jan '22: Vox: Linoleum flooring is cool, actually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIWKjBMYfBw . o O ( Don't eat the linoleum ) -------------------------------------------------- Dec '21: Permission Marketing https://seths.blog/2008/01/permission-mark/ -------------------------------------------------- Haunted By Data https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm . o O ( Big data is bad, m’kay? ) -------------------------------------------------- Oct '21: The Programmer's Dream https://nickbradbury.com/2014/12/11/the-programmers-dream-a-ramble/ -------------------------------------------------- The Guy Who Worked For Money https://www.shareable.net/the-guy-who-worked-for-money/ -------------------------------------------------- Sep '21: Programming Sucks https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks . o O ( Yeah..... yeah. ) -------------------------------------------------- Apr '21: Country Centered Map Projections (via JWZ) https://engaging-data.com/country-centered-map-projections/ -------------------------------------------------- Shapeshifting Streetlights https://hackaday.com/2021/04/18/shapeshifting-streetlights-are-the-future-we-want-to-live-in/ -------------------------------------------------- Dec '20: “Lose Yourself” to a horse race https://boingboing.net/2020/12/18/eminems-lose-yourself-as-if-the-rapper-was-a-1940s-horse-race-announcer.html -------------------------------------------------- Oct '20: 99PI - For the Love of Peat https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/for-the-love-of-peat/ . o O ( Bogs are Best ) -------------------------------------------------- Sep '20: Unsurprising how the Declaration of Independence is so applicable https://www.jwz.org/blog/2020/09/a-new-american-manifesto/ -------------------------------------------------- Aug '20: Podcast On A Floppy Disk (via Hackaday) https://hackaday.com/2020/08/09/45-minute-podcast-served-up-on-a-floppy-disk/ -------------------------------------------------- Jul '20: Shining City on a Hill? (via BoingBoing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObqBtoz_fRA -------------------------------------------------- Jun '20: Color Copy Paste https://colorcopypaste.app/ . o O ( A rather cool little tool. Just aiming it around my room was fun. ) -------------------------------------------------- May '20: Pizza arbitrage via Doordash https://boingboing.net/2020/05/18/doordash-charges-16-for-a-24.html -------------------------------------------------- Touch-Typing On Fingertips https://hackaday.com/2020/05/09/touch-typing-on-fingertips-prototype-says-it-could-work/ . o O ( Iiiinteresting. ) -------------------------------------------------- Alka Seltzer, oil and water in a glass https://boingboing.net/2020/05/16/when-you-put-alka-seltzer-oil.html . o O ( Pretty, in a slightly off-putting way. ) -------------------------------------------------- Volcano-dwelling snails https://boingboing.net/2020/05/14/these-volcano-dwelling-snails.html -------------------------------------------------- Someone invented convertible hospital beds that turn into coffins https://boingboing.net/2020/05/15/someone-invented-convertible-h.html . o O ( Convenient AND horrifying ) -------------------------------------------------- Nov '19: Extreme solar collection = cleaner cement et al https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/business/heliogen-solar-energy-bill-gates/index.html -------------------------------------------------- Aug '19: Mexico City judge gives permission for recreational cocaine https://boingboing.net/2019/08/21/mexico-city-judge-gives-two-pe.html --------------------------------------------------