a delightful opportunity for a new sensation
After the 1885 completion of the first Canadian railroad to cross the Rockies, Prime Minister John A. MacDonald and his wife Agnes resolved to travel the length[...]
sciatrix
Keeping the damn things in place
Boosting face mask efficacy: a cheap 3D printable solution.
Keeps potentially contaminated droplets INSIDE the mask ... and keeps your glasses from steaming u[...]
Sheydem-tants
It has no interest in the Holmesian or Christie-an dazzle of truth
"[D]espite having the conventions and plot structures of a detective story, the pleasures that Clue offers aren't the pleasures of a successful detective story.[...]
mixedmetaphors
Dramatic Stonehenge Discovery
In ancient times / Hundreds of years before the dawn of history / Lived a strange race of people, the Druids / No one knows who they were or what they were doin[...]
Hypatia
A Demoparty in a Browser
In 2016, the internet archive added a repository of console demos, which today has almost 600 entries.
Demos involve bare metal hardware hackery to get the bes[...]
kaibutsu
the ballad of Captain Cowpie
"When I mentioned that male sage grouse often copulate with dried cowpies, I didn't do the situation justice. I will elaborate in a twitter thread. For most mal[...]
ChuraChura
She was shamed for still having her Christmas lights up.
Neighbors are now putting theirs back up in solidarity. "No one really knows what is going on inside the house or why we didn't take down the decorations," said[...]
folklore724
Its Cheese Pull Can Span Multiple Feet
A Guide to America's Regional Pizza Styles
box
Their aim was to create a new world... but this was a fantasy...
Documentarian Adam Curtis (many previouslies - here are just a couple) has a new series - Can't Get You Out of My Head with all six episodes available now on iP[...]
deeker
All about the flea circus in five minutes or less
history of the flea circus, flea jumps through a hoop, fleas pull carriages I am reminded of pet leeches.
aniola
What does it condition us to see?
The Zoom Gaze: Video conferencing offers an illusory sense of unilateral control over conversations (Real Life): Film scholar Laura Mulvey theorized a "male gaz[...]
not_the_water
Would I have been just as lost, only with more words in my head?
In Sequel Rights: A Review of Locus Reviews, Foz Meadows critiques a review written by Katharine Coldiron of The Ikessar Falcon by K.S. Villoso in the latest is[...]
j.r
Inside Baseball
A smuggling operation, a scientific analysis and a cracked code. All helped an astrophysicist conclude that a portion of major league baseballs used in 2020 wer[...]
infinite intimation
Tainted Love?
As we've seen, though, debates about PWAs being represented with dignity and agency date back to the start of the epidemic, as does the fight to preserve sex-po[...]
MartinWisse
Saving The Butterfly Forest
Photographer Brendan George Ko captures monarch butterflies at their southernmost migration stop in central Mexico, and the environmental destruction and violen[...]
adrianhon
Some goodies for your screen saver
The Atlantic presents the winners of the 2021 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest. More information on the UPY home page, including short video clips f[...]
Harald74
"expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize"
UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders In 1967, the FBI quietly unleashed a covert surveillance operation targeting "subversi[...]
Lexica
How bad is this song? Let me spell it out for you
Hall and Oates "Method of Modern Love" Every once in a while and completely unbidden, the lyrics to Method of Modern Love leak out of the toxic waste disposal u[...]
elkevelvet
Loud Enough to Wake the Dead
Introducing the Skelecaster: yes, this dude built a guitar out of his dead uncle's skeleton. Bone-shredding video included.
Ten Cold Hot Dogs
Untitled (Your Body Is a Battleground)
An oral history of Barbara Kruger's famous poster from The Gentlewoman -- its beginnings in 1989, its travel to Poland in the 1990s, its contemporary life as mu[...]
Hypatia
Joss was the Vampire.
Charisma Carpenter accuses Joss Whedon of abuse. Charisma Carpenter alleges Joss Whedon "abused his power on numerous occasions" while she performed on Whedon's[...]
leotrotsky