severak
24.12.2024 14:36:08
Stalker: in search of Tarkovsky’s Soviet sci-fi locations
Andrei Tarkovsky’s seminal sci-fi, about a trio of travellers searching for wish fufilment by crossing into restricted territory, made a dystopian malady of life in the then Soviet Union. Forty years after the film’s release, Patrick Gamble heads to Estonia to track the Stalker, the Writer and the Professor in his own attempt to get into the Zone.
severak
17.12.2024 09:50:37
What Did Ada Lovelace's Program Actually Do?
In 1843, Ada Lovelace published the first nontrivial program. How did it work?
severak
15.12.2024 22:59:33
She was a notorious hacker in the ’80s — then she disappeared
Claire Evans searches for Susy Thunder.
severak
25.10.2024 17:36:07
‘Musk’s Twitter Buy Makes No Sense – Unless It’s Part of Something Bigger’
severak
25.10.2024 10:53:15
Tragédie sionismu. Proč Izrael neochránil Židy před antisemitismem
from https://denikalarm.cz/2024/10/tragedie-sionismu-proc-izrael-neochranil-zidy-pred-antisemitismem/
severak
24.10.2024 21:54:07
Medieval Myths Bingo
from https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/medieval-myths-bingo/
severak
4.9.2024 11:47:07
Dálnice nestačí. Na periferiích chybí spolkový život a dobré školy
S politologem Jakubem Lyskem jsme hovořili o tom, co Fialova vláda neudělala pro strukturálně znevýhodněné regiony, jakou roli mohou regionální rozdíly hrát v krajských volbách či o vztahu mezi korupcí a periferií.
severak
29.8.2024 13:24:31
Two Dots Too Many
The Turkish newspaper Hürriyet reports a tragic consequence of the failure to localize cell phones.
severak
26.8.2024 10:05:28
Pavel Durov and the BlackBerry Ratchet
from https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2024/08/25/pavel-durov-and-the-blackberry-ratchet/
severak
16.8.2024 17:33:56
The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine - First Draft | Books in Progress
Books in Progress is what we call a “public drafting tool”: Drafts will be made available for comment from the public, allowing for direct collaboration between author and reader.
severak
12.8.2024 16:43:47
Poetry Was an Official Olympic Event for Nearly 40 Years. What Happened?
Pierre de Coubertin hoped the modern Games would encourage the ancient Greek notion of harmony between "muscle and mind"
severak
9.8.2024 22:03:58
What are the Olympics Shooting Competitors Wearing On Their Faces? - Core77
If you happened across the Olympic Air Pistol event for the first time, you might've been puzzled by the competitors' wearables: So those are mechanical irises. Shooting competitors fine-tune them to bring their gunsights into sharp focus. Here's an example of one by manufacturer Gehmann:
severak
29.7.2024 02:26:36
Italy’s “Sun Motorway”: the story of an exceptional infrastructure
May 19 1956 marked the laying of the first stone of the A1 Milan-Naples: check the gallery Domus and discover the story of the Sun Motorway in Italy.
severak
27.7.2024 15:17:45
A Forgotten Athlete, a Nazi Official, and the Origins of Sex Testing at the Olympics
In 1936, the Czech track star Zdeněk Koubek became world-famous after undergoing surgery so that he could live openly as a man.
severak
22.7.2024 23:48:43
#120 INVCEL | Reply All
How a shy, queer Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet’s most toxic male communities.
severak
22.7.2024 13:07:54
Was BASIC that horrible or… better?
from https://retrofun.pl/2023/12/18/was-basic-that-horrible-or-better/
severak
17.7.2024 16:55:36
Important Women in CS Who Aren't Grace Hopper
I’m tired of hearing about Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton, and Ada Lovelace. Can’t we think of someone else for once? I went ahead and compiled a bunch of really important women according to some fairly arbitrary rules: There’s a specific thing you can point to and say “That. That’s their contribution.” This leaves out a lot of really qualified people who made lots of general contributions, but I wanted to keep this list fixed on soundbites.
severak
9.7.2024 15:51:10
The War on Estonian Forests
Originally published in Estonian World on 11 April 2022. It’s a cold spring morning and I’m watching a tour guide in the Old Town of Tallinn. With her back to a park built on a city block destroyed in World War 2 and facing a set of mediæval buildings not far from the old town square, head in a warm beanie, she’s explaining Estonia to a group of cruise ship tourists.
severak
18.6.2024 10:37:21
Why Self-Checkout Is and Has Always Been the Worst
Automation is often presented as an inexorably advancing force, whether it’s ushering in a threat to jobs or a promise of increased leisure or larger profits. We’re made to imagine the robots rising, increasingly mechanized systems of production, more streamlined modes of everyday living. But the truth is that…
severak
30.5.2024 16:07:45
The Naughty Words the FAA Removed From the Sky
New FOIA records from the FAA shed light on the frantic effort in 2015 to rename navigation waypoints related to Donald Trump and reveal the list of naughty waypoint names that were changed over the years.
severak
29.5.2024 15:10:09
Petr Pithart: My a Izrael, vždy na jejich straně. Anomálie s hlubokými kořeny — HlídacíPes.org
severak
19.5.2024 23:11:32
El Pueblo Unido: This song accompanies the protests in Chile
from https://thebetter.news/el-pueblo-unido-this-song-accompanies-the-protests-in-chile/
severak
13.5.2024 01:02:51
Top 10: Plastic People of the Universe (Joe Yanosik)
from https://rockcritics.com/2022/08/26/top-10-plastic-people-of-the-universe-joe-yanosik/
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