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How to Make the Internet Small Again
from https://www.raptitude.com/2022/02/how-to-make-the-internet-small-again/
An incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, and bad journalism
The moment /r/antiwork died was tailor-made for infamy. Head moderator Doreen Ford went on with Fox host Jesse Watters for an interview…
The most consequential project in postwar Japanese rail history (not named Shinkansen)
The “Sleng Teng” riddim revolutionized reggae music in the mid-1980s, and has spawned hundreds of versions in the decades since then. Less well known is the story of how the distinctive bassline originated in a preset sample included on a Casio electronic keyboard and the work of a young developer fresh out of college.
When inventor David Mayman took to the skies, it seemed he’d answered an age-old longing for flight. So why did no one seem to care?
Claire Evans searches for Susy Thunder.
Why Don't We Use the Math We Learn in School? - Scott H Young
from https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2022/01/24/why-dont-we-use-the-math-we-learn-in-school/
A dive into Seoul Metro's Line 9
The Internet Changed My Life
from https://pointersgonewild.com/2022/01/19/the-internet-changed-my-life/
All the growth in the music business now comes from old songs—with consumption of new music actually shrinking. How did we get here, and is there a way back?
Why do so many TV shows and movies look like they were filmed in a gray wasteland?
Naladili nás radioamatéři až v Japonsku, vzpomíná bývalý technik vysílače Topolná
Protest kurýrů digitálního supermarketu upozornil na tajemství "božího jídla bez front". A připomněl, kdo platí za pohodlí spokojených zákazníků.
Carl Størmer (1872-1957) enjoyed a hobby that was very, very unusual at the time. He walked around Oslo, Norway in the 1890s with his spy camera and secretly took everyday pictures of people. The subjects in Størmer's pictures appear in their natural state. It extremely differs from the grave and strict posing trends that dominated in photography during those years.
A Few Things I’ve Learned About Livestreaming
from https://dantepfer.com/blog/?p=1005
The Billionaires’ Fantasia
from https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-billionaires-fantasia
It has been very frustrating watching the rise of cryptocurrency (which, forgive me cryptographers, I will be calling "crypto" from here on) because a whole bunch of smart people in tech seem to be very, very excited about it. When good new things show up in tech, I've generally found them intriguing. I'm by no means an early adopter, but once the train is leaving the station I am generally on board. But crypto hasn't grabbed me like that. Every time I dig into crypto I find things that s
The JPEG image format was introduced in 1993 and GIF was released in 1987. Was it possible to watch nude photos on this lovely portable…
As long as there has been digital real estate, there have been digital housing crises, which typically stem from a shortage of digital land.
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