Links
Interesting Things
Articles, tools, and rabbit holes I've found fascinating.
Crowdsourced map of license plate readers. Know where you're being watched. Which is apparently everywhere.
Archived screenshots of game studio sites from the early 2000s. Back when web design had personality and Flash was king.
MTV stopped being MTV years ago but now it's official. RIP to something that was already a corpse.
Massive endlessly expanding pixel art animation. I've lost hours in here and I regret nothing.
Information theory analysis of an MTV dating show. Even random guessing gives you decent odds at a million dollars. Math is beautiful.
Neal.fun never misses. This one lets you scroll through organism sizes from viruses to whales.
This is a real academic resource on lasers hosted at a UK university. The domain is not a joke. I love the internet.
Searchable database of the released documents. Does what it says on the tin.
Checkout.com got ransomwared. Instead of paying they donated the ransom amount to cybersecurity research. King shit.
Enamel regeneration. If this pans out I will personally apologize to every dentist who told me to floss.
Thomson, Illinois. Brand new facility, alarming body count. Probably don't read this before bed.
Sentence calculators and prison facility comparisons. You know, for research.
Intestinal oxygen delivery is real science. The headline writes itself and I'm not gonna improve on it.
Dragons. Robots. Inexplicable women in armor. Graphics cards used to have personality and now they're just black rectangles.
Stinkbugs have a leg organ that grows protective fungus for their babies. What's your excuse.
He's worth about $1.19 now. Someone bought this domain and committed to the bit. I respect that.
Strippers knew the 2008 crash was coming before economists did. Maybe we should listen to them more.
Peer-reviewed physics paper about why my pasta clumps. This is what academia should be doing.
Her work makes me feel things I can't articulate. Somewhere between uncomfortable and moved.
No backups. NO BACKUPS. I would simply walk into the sea.
Actually useful for helping people understand sensory overload. Wish more empathy tools were this direct.
Life-sized animatronic T-Rex for $3,000. If I had a yard this wouldn't even be a question.
Brave of them to say what a lot of people have been thinking.
Corporate interests muscling out community maintainers. Tale as old as open source.
DHH declaring something a failure. Agree or disagree you're gonna have an opinion.
Turns out treating people like people works. Shocking development.
Same starting conditions, wildly different vibes. One planet got its shit together and the other became a 900 degree acid bath.
Biology just doing whatever it wants apparently. Rules are fake.
The interior looks exactly like you'd expect from the Eraserhead guy. I want it.
This is the kind of unhinged project I aspire to. Making Tom Nook sentient through GameCube memory hacking.
Genuinely hopeful medical news which means I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Drunk guy at 2am vs voice recognition trained on corporate focus groups. There was only ever going to be one winner.
The Onion remains the only reliable news source.
Everyone's too busy doom scrolling to get laid apparently.
How did a studio become a personality type.
Spoiler: probably not. The math is mathing and it's not in their favor.
Nothing says 'we care about vulnerable people' like maximizing quarterly returns on their care.
Brutal but fair.