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1939-1979

"First, the playa fills with water, which must be deep enough to allow formation of floating ice during cold winter nights but shallow enough to expose the rocks. As nighttime temperatures plummet, the pond freezes to form sheets of "windowpane" ice, which must be thin enough to move freely but thick enough to maintain strength. On sunny days, the ice begins to melt and break up into large floating panels, which light winds drive across the playa pool. The ice sheets shove rocks in front of them and the moving stones leave trails in the soft mud bed below the pool surface."

In-progress, complete, and multiple-angle photos from 2011: "3D street painting made by Leon Keer, Ruben Poncia, Remko van Schaik and Peter Westerink duing the 4th Sarasota Chalk festival in Florida US. This 3d street art is inspired by the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, instead Legoman where used as models."

"The “old ways” are actually a prime opportunity to learn, escape today’s exhausting digital environments, and get inspired"

"Retrocomputing is about a lot of things, and I feel like it differs per person. For me, it’s a little bit of nostalgia, but primarily it’s about learning....There’s a lot to learn from platforms that are no longer among us..."

"Too much water on exoplanet surfaces would mean high pressure ices, not life."

"When technology becomes absurd, we must respond with absurd inventions.
More than that, we must straight-faced embrace the absurdity. Otherwise the pomposity of today’s technology will eat us alive."

"Linkwarden is an open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages."

"Together, Smith and Graves risked travel unchaperoned, often donning men’s clothing and cowboy hats. In their photos, they can be seen joyfully handling cameras, guns, and kingsnakes, while at the same time capturing on film all the wilderness they encountered."

"I’ve been thinking about how to say this for a long time now — I love time travel stories, but I don’t love the kind of time travel stories where everything falls into place and you realize that the rubber duckie at the beginning of the story was actually put there by the guy at the end of the story."