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Another brilliant one from Alek

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Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult
Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult Try out Odoo and get your first app for free at https://www.odoo.com/r/uOADid you know that color TV existed decades before it became mainstream? In this vid...

Great animated explanation of the invention of color tv

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Fantasy FAANGball
Fantasy FAANGball episode 3 of Paradise: our new sketch comedy series co-created with @AlexisGay // New episodes dropping weekly through March! // Thank you to our sponsors of...

Joking aside, the fact that top FAANG engineers get paid like sports stars, makes this plausible

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Fantasy FAANGball
Fantasy FAANGball episode 3 of Paradise: our new sketch comedy series co-created with @AlexisGay // New episodes dropping weekly through March! // Thank you to our sponsors of...

Joking aside, the fact that top FAANG engineers get paid like sports stars, makes this plausible

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Los fans de Trump decían que negociaba como si estuviese jugando al "ajedrez 3D" pero desde aquí parece un viejo chocho intentando jugar al Risk con los billetes y las casitas del Monopoly.

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Abomination

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Thoughts on slowing the fuck down Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

"We have basically given up all discipline and agency for a sort of addiction, where your highest goal is to produce the largest amount of code in the shortest amount of time. Consequences be damned."

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When We Hold The Door a story in 12 drawings

When We Hold The Door - a story in 12 drawings

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Why curling rocks come from just two spots on Earth The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so special?

What makes the rocks from these places uniquely suited for sliding across a rectangular slab of ice toward a bullseye target? And are these really the only places to find suitable stones?

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

300 issues of NME

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Salzburg Sight and Sound (1965)
Salzburg Sight and Sound (1965) Featurettes The Sound of Music (1965)A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval of...

un tesoro

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Smuggling podcasts into a Burmese prison

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350 En busca del tequeño perdido ¿Qué más? ¡Tenemos Ayatolá nuevo! Daniel se desprende de sus últimos lazos. El Club Sándwich como eslabón faltante. ¿Cómo hablar de la guerra con tus hijos? La pronunciación de Epstein. Música: Shoes and Soc…

Esta semana en el podcast: El Club Sándwich como eslabón faltante. ¿Cómo hablar de la guerra con tus hijos?

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Pi and the Seductions of Infinity This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book. “My business is circumference,” Emily Dickinson wrote in one of her most cryptic letters. Since ancient times, human beings have been enc…

And yet the decimal point of π taunts us like the gun barrel of the unimaginable. If we ever reach the last digit of π, we will have known the universe.

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“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

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I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

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Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo

Can this be a solution?

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I Pressed ⌘B. You Wouldn't Believe What Happened Next - Marcin Wichary, Figma (Config)
I Pressed ⌘B. You Wouldn't Believe What Happened Next - Marcin Wichary, Figma (Config) Whenever you press ⌘B in Figma, what happens is a choreography of events of surprising complexity. It’s a collision of two worlds – keyboard shortcuts and ty...

Such an innocent key combination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVD-sjtFoEI

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What Birds Dream About: How Evolution Invented REM in the Avian Brain So We May Practice the Possible in Our Sleep “It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real… It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality…

A study of zebra finches — songbirds whose repertoire is learned, not hard-wired — mapped particular notes of melodies sung in the daytime to neurons firing in the forebrain. Then, during REM, the neurons fired in a similar order: The bir...
www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/11/birds-dream-r...

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Why curling rocks come from just two spots on Earth The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so special?

But what makes the rocks from these places uniquely suited for sliding across a rectangular slab of ice toward a bullseye target? And are these really the only places...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-quirky-geolo...

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How Did Hendrix Turn His Guitar Into a Wave Synthesizer? How did Jimi Hendrix turn his guitar into a wave synthesizer? Dive into the engineering behind his iconic sound.

Hendrix’s mission was to reshape both the electric guitar’s envelope and its tone until it could feel like a human voice. He tackled the guitar’s constraints by augmenting it. His solution was essentially...
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¿Qué Más? 11 Marzo 2026 YouTube video by ¿Qué Más? podcast

En vivo ahora por youtube.com/live/Brg1oK-...

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damaged goods

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The Window Chrome of Our Discontent In a WWDC 2011 session, Dan Schimpf explained some of the goals of the refreshed design for Aqua in Mac OS X Lion were “meant to focus the user attention on the active window content”. This sentiment was echoed by John Siracusa in his review of Lion for Ars Technica: Apple says that its goal […]

20+ years of broken promises
https://pxlnv.com/blog/window-chrome-of-our-discontent/

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349 A Very Disney Funeral, feat. Rubén IGT ¿Qué más? El lugar más feliz de la tierra en el momento más oscuro. Este episodio lo tiene todo. Música: Shoes and Socks Off, Emerald Park.

349 A Very Disney Funeral, feat. Rubén IGT

Este episodio lo tiene todo.

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Never met a song quite like you before (10 covers de Bizarre Love Triangle) Pedro me escribió el otro día compartiendo un cover de Blue Monday de Orkestra Obsolete, que es una maravilla, y aproveché para comentarle que Triángulo de Amor Bizarro por fin había hecho un cover…

Cuál es tu cover favorito de Bizarre Love Triangle?
https://www.afinidades.org/6913

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Deer Create Mysterious Ultraviolet Signals That Glow in Forests Deer have the ability to see ultraviolet light, and a recent study shows they can also leave a glowing trail visible in those wavelengths, too.

When the deer damage plants, they expose woody lignin and plant terpenes, types of compounds also known to exhibit photoluminescence.
www.sciencealert.com/deer-create-mysterious-u...

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Deer Create Mysterious Ultraviolet Signals That Glow in Forests Deer have the ability to see ultraviolet light, and a recent study shows they can also leave a glowing trail visible in those wavelengths, too.

When the deer damage plants, they expose woody lignin and plant terpenes, types of compounds also known to exhibit photoluminescence.
www.sciencealert.com/deer-create-mysterious-u...

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Mapping New York Chinatown | Reflective Urbanisms: MAPPING New York CHINATOWNTHROUGH TRANSFORMATIONS IN ITS ARCHITECTURE REFLECTIVE URBANISMS: Mapping New York Chinatown is an interactive web project that ma ...

Mapping New York Chinatown | Reflective Urbanisms
https://nyc.reflective-urbanisms.com/

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Mapping New York Chinatown | Reflective Urbanisms: MAPPING New York CHINATOWNTHROUGH TRANSFORMATIONS IN ITS ARCHITECTURE REFLECTIVE URBANISMS: Mapping New York Chinatown is an interactive web project that ma ...

Mapping New York Chinatown | Reflective Urbanisms
https://nyc.reflective-urbanisms.com/

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