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January 2024

Shantell Powell @Shanmonster@c.im

#classics #pigeon #odyssey #odysseus

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Old Book Illustrations @oldbookillustrations@mastodon.social

High on a throne of royal state.
Gustave Doré, from "Milton's Paradise Lost" New York: [ca. 1880?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/high-throne/

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January 2023

Randy Lubin @randylubin@dice.camp

Works entering the public domain include:

Written work by: Agatha Christie, Baroness Orczy, Hermann Hesse, Marcel Proust, Upton Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf

Art by: Ansel Adams, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, and Tamara de Lempicka

Films including The Jazz Singer, Metropolis, Napoléon, and Trolley Troubles

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I had an awful time building the blog because of errors fetching content from Twitter. This, I suspect, has to do with their new policies on unauthenticated access. So I’m getting rid of my link files dating back to 2016 (though I’m keeping them archived just in case). I’m still keeping my account, but not adding anything that isn’t already going to be available on my presence on Mastodon or Facebook. In the unlikely chance you might have had something bookmarked, sorry. To me, it’s just not worth the trouble.

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I’ve been on the platform for a number of years, but have been following the crowd reducing the exposure to the turmoil on Twitter. Here are a few of the items from the last few months I marked as favourites. The styling isn’t quite what I want, so I might change some of the tooling to bring it more in line with the other pages here.

I’m bumping up the version of Hugo from 0.92.0 to 0.101.0 and specifying nodejs 14.x instead of 11.x at Netlify, so I’m moving my content to a new structure from the older version. Please let me know if things are broken.

I thought I’d put out another collection of tidbits I ran across that give me ideas of things I might want to do or create. There are lots of other preoccupations in my mind besides these, but I prefer to collect the ones worth keeping around

• Every night we are witnesses to a bigger bunch of explosions than anything ever shot up into the sky, though we don’t get to hear the sounds of all that energy being released. Some observer looking at our galaxy from outside might notice this as the only interesting thing going on in our little patch of stars.
  The Great Orion Nebula Is Even Greater Than You Know
  
• From your browser you can dive down and down into the centuries-old canvas and wonder how little flecks of pigment end up assembling into full-blown forms in your mind. It’s like a different kind of space exploration
  HIROX - GIRL WITH PEARL EARRING - GIGAPIXEL PANORAMA
• I guess by now “impartial” has completely taken over the former meaning of the word and isn’t going to give up its place, no matter how old fussy pedants like me say they don’t like it.
  Disinterested or uninterested? How long we should cling to a word's original meaning.
  And similarly with the phrase that describes a circular argument.
  Beg The Question // Get it right.
• This game is a little like that cake cutting problem in mathematics, but rather than wanting to make the pieces equal in size, you need to partition it using only a few straight cuts. After a while I was starting to formulate a kind of strategy when faced with something that looked impossible to solve at first. Slices
• I will always love Japanese poetry, aware that it really cannot be rendered into English.
  Wim 🅾: "Here is an amazing poem by the Buddhist priest M…" - Octodon

Like most people, I like roaming around the web looking for cool things, and sometimes get the feeling that I’ve run across something worth bookmarking, something I want to mull over in the future. Some of them are worth saying a few words about, and I was thinking I would put these up on the blog in hopes that someone might find them fascinating too.

• This is the kind of video I think people are looking for in the middle of a frightening epidemic while there is talk of unrest liable to break out at any moment.
  Woodturning - The Pencil Globe !!
• There was one of these blooming in the Conservatory of Flowers just across the bay from me, but I missed seeing (and smelling) it for the usual 2020 reasons.
  Breathing Life Into the Corpse Flower
• Here is an impressive image gallery showing how nearly alien the many faces of our own sky can appear.
  Capture the night
• Here are some clips from a video game under development. I don’t know how the story is turning out, but I think these vignettes show lots of promise.
  section9interactive game clip
• How many names for colors do I think about? I don’t work in the visual arts or creative realms but I’m always eager to find out about the specialized vocabulary that that people use in those fields. Here it’s just the gradations of hue, across the spectrum and ranging from dark to light, given names that English-speaking people have a chance to remember. When I used to be an active stamp collector, I remember puzzling over listings of one old stamp described as crimson vs. scarlet or maybe carmine lake. This was long before the Internet existed to give some kind of easily shared meaning.
  Tertiary color
• We really don’t need more reasons to preserve the creatures we share the planet with. But sometimes we find out how our self-interest is aligned with their welfare.
  Neuroscientists isolate promising mini antibodies against COVID-19 from a llama: Preliminary results suggest anti-COVID19 nanobodies may be effective at preventing and diagnosing infections – ScienceDaily

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• Predictive text parody sites produce a Trump White House exposé and a lifestyle website
• I haven’t investigated much into how this Amazon money laundering scheme makes sense for whoever is running it, but it seems like a way to generate profit with little effort.
• Is this really a good name for a shoe brand? Seriously?
• Data is king. Here are numbers for violent crime incidents in large and small cities around the country.
• Quincy Jones obviously doesn’t need to shade the facts at this stage in life.
• When you need a random number generator but lack resources, you come up with ways to improvise

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I’ve been keeping an eye on the some items that

• Something on a little bit of fossilized legal speech you have probably heard at some time.
• In my past life I did a few years of work on neutrinos, enough to find it that something as small as the Earth could manage to absorb them when conditions are right.
• True life crime can be more crazy than what thriller writers think up. The story of Susan Kuhnhausen.
• You can search for any term you like in the Trump Twitter Archive to find out what our leader has opined on the subject.
• Some of these trilobites look ready to get up and swim around.
• I could watch these traffic intersection simulations

I actually had a few more, but these are the best.

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Instead of passively consuming the nearly endless stream of content coming my way I thought I’d gather together a few items to share with everyone here.

• Forty-nine years ago this happened: