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Posts by John J. Workman

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MECO: It's 2026 and four humans are beginning their journey to the Moon for the first time 54 years.

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HyperCard Changed Everything This video traces the history of Apple’s HyperCard from Vannevar Bush’s idea of the Memex to the Mother of All Demos to the Xerox PARC Alto to Bill Atkinson, the inventor of HyperCard, who said: HyperCard

A history of Apple's HyperCard ("it was the web before the web"), where it came from, and what happened to it. [kottke.org]

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guy's Ring cam captures a meteorite hitting his driveway in a first-ever video recording of an object from space hitting earth

www.npr.org/2025/01/16/n...

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Hard agree! As a parent, I would pay *so much* money for a robot that could do daily housework: laundry, dishes, putting toys away, cleaning, unloading groceries, etc. And the common physical interface is, "just do it like a human would."

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Conceptual art: Put a humidifier, dehumidifier, and hygrometer in a sealed plastic cube. Pipe the drain of the dehumidifier to the reservoir of the humidifier. Let time pass and watch the hygrometer, as well as the energy bill.

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Perfect fall day in NYC

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just setting up my bsky

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