Installed zsh-fast-syntax-highlighting everywhere.
Yeah, yeah, Steamboat Willie, yeah, but the work that I’m most excited about becoming public domain today is The Front Page. I hope to see versions of it proliferate because I find it so entertaining. The most well known version of it right now is His Girl Friday.
The final episode of The Day the Universe Changed (on what questions society allows science to ask, how that affects our understanding of the universe, and how those change over time) is such a kick in the pants.
Growing up in the Chicago area in the 1980s makes this so weird: blockclubchicago.org/2023/12/2…
Some fine weirdness: Stone Giants: The Girl With The Great Ideas (That I Steal) 📺🎵
Hearing a pop song for the first time outside of a Breakmaster Cylinder mashup on Canada’s Drag Race…
Hour-long interview of Ben Burtt by Adam Savage.
Nicely done.
Burtt says that “THX”, the name of the sound system, is not derived from Lucas’ movie title.
Firefox can now force links to always be underlined. This option can be enabled in the Browsing section of the Firefox Settings menu.
Eat it, form-over-function designers.
Third party cookies start going away next year. I have my doubts about how fast this will actually happen.
“What would a magnitude 15 earthquake be like?": www.youtube.com/watch 📺
Ugh. All these -15 “earthquakes” happening around my chair.
🍂
If you have an iPhone and you haven’t explored the settings in the Magnifier app, you should spend five minutes playing around with them, just to know what is available. You may not need any of them usually, but they’re good to have available when you get your eyes dilated or misplace your glasses.
Getting back into Last.fm after 11 years and, yeah, my tastes appear to be as esoteric as ever. I understand power law applies, but, dang, so many people listen to the same stuff.
Bring on the weird music.
Fairly good explanation of why I am disappointed in @manton every time he mentions DHH or any of the other 37S-related products or people: blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023…
Schema design win of the day: splatting “description” and “notes” columns over even the most trivial of entities so that unexpected ad hoc data can be associated with things and we could track the history of some bad hardware inventory.
Pigface had many times the number of members of This Mortal Coil and twice the output, but was way more chaotic and hit-or-miss. Grateful for both. 🎵
Still find the output of This Mortal Coil to have been miraculous. How such an amalgamation of a large number of artists, even under the direction of a couple of people, put out so much lasting music is beyond me. 🎵