Chris SiebenmannThanks to the Fediverse, I will never forget that sharks are older than the north star (which is to say the brightest star that makes up Polaris), and horseshoe crabs are not crabs and are older than horseshoes, horses, and crabs. And sharks.
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The Hotel Giraffe
The 9th floor of The Standard located in Greenwich Village of New York City. Pre-pandemic. I wake up mid-day and a full-sized giraffe stands in the corner of my hotel room. The view of mid-day downtown Manhattan is obscured by a full-sized living breathing giraffe. This animal is staring at me. Bli
Daring FireballMarkItDown: Python Tool for Converting Files and Office Documents to Markdown
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/12/13/markitdown
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/12/13/markitdown
James ThomsonI've mentioned it before, but I've been dealing with a serious family health thing this year, and I haven't really had the brain power to do much outside of that, hence the lack of updates. And, family comes first, I know.
But income this year has not been exactly stellar as a result, so I could do with a little holiday bonus. Any help in boosting my Black Friday sales is appreciated.
Is this emotional blackmail? Yes. Am I going to shamelessly do it anyway? Also yes.
★ How It Went
https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/how_it_went
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Possible mad-list idea. How about offering hooks into Shortcuts so advanced users can do this type of thing themselves?
Green’s Dictionary of Slang
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/12/greens-dictionary-of-slang
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/12/greens-dictionary-of-slang
Bryan CantrillAs someone who worked at both Babbage's and WaldenSoftware as a teenager in the early 1990s, this piece is deeply evocative https://huguesjohnson.com/features/loser_phase/
mccOh this is … this is one of the strangest solo projects I've ever seen. "Volumetric Display using an Acoustically Trapped Particle". Dude has two speakers facing each other, they emit a wave that contains enough force a light foam bead is forced to levitate in the air between them, then by varying it he can move it around, and by changing the light of an LED shining on it he can give it color. He can draw basic 3D shapes and persistence of vision makes them appear real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCC1C5KIeUA
A Volumetric Display using an Acoustically Trapped Particle
Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoIn 1943, U.S. forces in Britain expected to export racial segregation. When white American Military Police (MPs) insisted a local pub segregate, the owner said he would. When MPs returned next day, they were met with “Blacks Only” signs & British barmaids telling white soldiers to wait their turn when they thiught they would be served before black soldiers. This set the stage for the epic Battle of Bamber Bridge.
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