The Hero with a Thousand Faces -
Why do we keep telling the same stories over and over?
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Friday, 26 April 2024
quote [ OpenOrb is a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds. ]
Builds a little search index on the feeds you want to scrape. The example page leans heavily onto programmers but you could set one up on your own computer by running a lovely little set of Python commands.
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Wednesday, 17 April 2024
quote [ How one crew risked radiation, storms, and currents to save Japan from digital isolation. ]
This internet thang
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Friday, 12 April 2024
quote [ Australia is turning to virtual fences to cut down on car-kangaroo impacts. ]
surprised when suddenly a kangaroo ran close by.
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Monday, 8 April 2024
quote [ Turning off a gene early in mouse development led researchers to end up with an accidental six-legged embryonic mammal. ]
Keep going until we create Centi-musculus.
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Friday, 5 April 2024
quote [ With dozens of lunar missions on the horizon, a standard time-keeping system for the moon will assist with precise navigation, docking and landing ]
Full moon madness, now is time
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The Appeal -
podcast hosted by Adam Johnson, is where we take a deeper look at the most important criminal justice stories of the week.
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Sunday, 31 March 2024
quote [ To increase public access to archival photography collections,
To provide tools and resources to help interested researchers enhance the photographs? descriptions and other metadata, and To return this new information to the contributing cultural member organizations, and To protect and attend to the long life of this unique collection. ] a nice tool ? launched this year ? to easier follow through permissively licensed archives on Flickr. Found via blog of Alex Chan (working at Flickr + having co-build this portal)
thumb is Hong Kong radio station '69 via The National Archives UK "most recent" feed.
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Saturday, 30 March 2024
quote [ jesus, I hope you like beer cuz we owe you a free lifetime supply. ]
This is all over the internet by now: a social-engineered backdoor inside SSH servers, being repacked inside Linux distros and only noticed by accident yesterday. Quote is Mastodon, thumb xkcd ? some more info on LWN and a lengthy FAQ.
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Thursday, 28 March 2024
quote [ Cheap to maintain: Most webpages should work indefinitely without falling over.
Cheap to leave: Opting-out of the web should be painless. Cheap to access: Most websites should be compatible with screenreaders, etc. Cheap to participate: Interacting with the web should be possible on a Wii. Cheap to explore: Exploring the web should be pleasant on 1W of power. Cheap to contribute: Making/hosting websites should be easier than scrapbooking. ]
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Tuesday, 26 March 2024
quote [ The use of English as the norm poses challenges for scholars from regions where English is not widely spoken. They must decide whether to publish in English for global visibility, or publish in their native language to make their work accessible to local communities. And when they work in English, they end up expending more time and effort writing and revising papers than their native English-speaking peers. ]
Some notes on scientific inclusion ? as a study, no less.
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Sunday, 24 March 2024
quote [ ?Addiction is not fundamentally a moral failing ? it?s not a disease of weak-willed losers. When you look at the biology, the only model of addiction that makes sense is a disease-based model, and the only attitude towards addicts that makes sense is one of compassion.? ]
Musings from 2011 about web dopamine starting from a neuroscientist's interview about his book on NPR. This was in the earlier smartphone times.
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Magick: Book 4 -
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will.
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