Tuesday, 15 October 2024
quote [ The tale of the founder of GoDaddy, a Vietnam vet who figured out the formula for getting regular people to buy domain names. ]
Take it online like GoDaddy.
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quote [ Avoidance, matching, and centering. There were a few finer points—the farther towards the periphery each “boid” drifted, for example, the stronger its pull back towards the center of the flock was. But that was, largely, it.? ]
Nice story on the advent of models and biological simulation via VFX.
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Monday, 14 October 2024
quote [ What exactly is a kumquat? For her 10th story in The Crop Cycle series, Shane Mitchell lands in a Central Florida town, where the last growers hold out against developers, to learn why these curious sweet-tart citrus cousins are so celebrated. ]
Like the segment of a kumquat
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Sunday, 13 October 2024
quote [ To see these artworks, a tall viewing platform is erected ]
Inspired by the recent post on Corn Mazes.
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quote [ Researchers found a flaw in a Kia web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will—the latest in a plague of web bugs that’s affected a dozen carmakers. ]
Mind is racing like vehicles, being tracked down from unpaid tolls
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Saturday, 12 October 2024
quote [ The a-maize-ing history of getting lost among the stalks. ]
Fuckin’ lost in the corn maze!
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Friday, 11 October 2024
quote [ Vaquita have long been collateral damage for Mexico’s totoaba fishers, but conservationists believe there’s a solution. The only hitch? It’s illegal. ]
la que entrega esta vaquita voladora
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Thursday, 10 October 2024
quote [ I didn't realize how much my parody would blow up(compared to 99% of my other content lol) in the interim, but here's a music video I recorded in October with a lot of help from Louise Messenger
(video filmed after pillaging the noble's castles) ] Theres some lords in this house.
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quote [ Ten years after Silicon Valley remade TV, it’s become clear how the streaming revolution distorted our collective viewing habits — and sense of the culture. ]
If you applied the logic of the media business to Netflix, it looked uncertain, but Netflix was operating by tech-sector rules — spending boatloads of cash to acquire customers, changing their habits and overwhelming competitors until, at the other end, an entire industry was transformed.
And that is exactly what Netflix did.
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quote [ “Make films about the people, they said”, Jean-Luc Godard once quipped, “but The Crowd had already been made, so why remake it?” Gideon Leek rewatches King Vidor’s classic, in which a young man with big dreams moves to New York City and becomes an identical cog who learns to love the machine of modernity. ]
There's a man in the crowd got a fire in his head
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