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“If you truly loved pop music in the 1960s… there was no ducking the choice and no cop-out third option,” one writer remarked. “You could dance with them both,” but there could never be any doubt about which one you’d take home.

"Describing these institutions as having “failed” misrepresents the reality of why Grenfell happened. Deregulation, cost-cutting and outsourcing were not “failures” of government, but flagship policies of austerity that were carefully planned and coordinated. "

"Handwriting suggests Prague doctor named Johannes Marcus Marci tried to decode in 1640."

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."