What's the equivalent of Plant Society (AU-based) for America? Looking for Plant Twitter to come through here. https://theplantsociety.com.au
Small fragments. Things I read, heard, or couldn't stop thinking about. These are too short for essays but too good to lose. Sort of like commonplace book meets tumblelog.
429 bits, and counting.
There wasn't much time to have mental health issues, it was just, fuck it, it's boozing or sleeping. But I'm sure it did, as they were very depressing times.
— GQ
I can't wait to watch the Get Back documentary by Peter Jackson next year.
The live demonstration featured the introduction of the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor.
Today, much of the relevant work to compression is in an obscure corner of the internet between lengthy PhD thesis papers and hard-to-find gems.
I don't believe you can capture the true Kodachrome look only in post, it must be designed in the color palette being photographed and with the tight contrast and unforgiving exposures and nuances.
Essentially, the scientist has overdriven the plants' immune systems: the idea is to develop a resin-based energy source, or bio-fuel, that also captures carbon dioxide in the air.
Within the fresh identity for Munken is a new logotype, classically paired with the characterful icon of a monk, referencing both the Swedish word 'munk' meaning 'monk,' as well as the traditional Swedish village, Munkedal, the mill resides in.
Speculative fiction—science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, and slipstream—gives voice to those who explore societal and technological change, along with deeper considerations of underlying archetypes of human experience.
...mathematicians noticed something even more surprising in dimensions 8 and 24. Spheres in those dimensions shrank just the right amount to be able to fill the gaps with new spheres, producing ultra-dense packings of those higher-dimensional spaces.
Isn't America this grand experiment to keep making mistakes and correcting them in the open and share it with the world? That's the American experiment.
— Audrey Tang, via Tyler Cowen
Fira Code is a free monospaced font containing ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations. This is just a font rendering feature: underlying code remains ASCII-compatible. This helps to read and understand code faster.
Sublime fights this by being developed by just two people who don't have much free time on their hands. As a result, every detail in ST is essential, and everything that is not is just not there.
— tonsky
I sob, and the rivers of people run in the streets.
Lots of tears in this household after reading this essay.
Winamp Skin Museum https://skins.webamp.org/
Gemini is a new, collaboratively designed internet protocol, which explores the space inbetween gopher and the web, striving to address (perceived) limitations of one while avoiding the (undeniable) pitfalls of the other.
The objects survive the survivors. They will soon be all that's left to tell the story.
— AFAR
I'll get Jay (Watson) and Dom (Simper) and we'll do this kind of electronic jam with heaps of equipment around us and we'll recreate the songs with samplers and sequencers
I love the internet http://cloudkicker.50webs.com
Simple math: a $50 million fund with average fully-diluted ownership of 5% at exit needs to generate roughly $5 billion of enterprise value. No small feat!
— CK Thoms