- ClosedAI.com. Clicking around enters you into a deep rabbit hole whose contours or reason for existing i am yet to figure out.
- The slow radioactive flood of Kyrgyzstanâs breadbasket
- The Samples of Sonic Rush
- âAgain, in a dispute with Cicero, Metellus Nepos asked repeatedly âWho is your father?â âIn your case,â said Cicero, âyour mother has made the answer to this question rather difficult.ââ
- I would like to give a shoutout to the Don Q Inn, a truly audaciously themed motel in Wisconsin.
- The magic of the monster-spawner minecart, Minecraftâs forgotten mechanic
- The Druridge Bay curlew, or, the most controversial bird in English history
- IC 342: âIf the galaxy were not obscured, it would be visible by naked eye.â
- Trevor (duck)
- Canadian engineers are sworn to wear the Iron Ring upon their hands in a ritual penned by Rudyard Kipling. Incredible.
- This video has singlehandedly added years onto my lifespan.
- Oh, and whilst iâm here, Lords of Misrule has begun rolling out its entries for the Saturnalia season. Do check the first one out should you have the time.
Posts tagged as âlinksâ
Mx Tynehorneâs link roundup, volume XL
- They found a mummified sabre-tooth kitten!
- Technology Connections buys a freeze-dryer so you donât have to
- Machine-learning-generated Minecraft is a constantly-shifting immaterial nightmare where any action is but a suggestion and object permanence is anathema. In other words: close enough, welcome back, LSD: Dream Emulator.
- A detailed inventory of cuss words in Ancient Greek â including, even this far back, ΟΡĎĎοκοίĎÎˇĎ mÄtrocĹĚtÄs âmotherfuckerâ!
- Incredible toponomy going on in Utah with the Oquirrh Mountains, pronounced /ËoĘĚŻ.kÉÉšĚ /.
- The Antarctic Fire Department. Part of me is a little disappointed they plumped for a .org domain rather than the rarer .aq.
- Flavour swapping Doritos and Mountain Dew
- The painful pleasures of a tattoo convention
- Subpixel art
- Nuking things with a twenty-thousand-watt âmacrowaveâ, for science!
Annihilation: In defence of the Shimmer
Alex Garlandâs Annihilation is nominally a horror film.1 Team of scientists goes into an evil forest, gets picked off one by one with cool body horror effects, blonde final girl makes it out and is irreversibly traumatised, movie ends, many such cases.2 But iâve never seen it that way.
Might i just be a contrarian? Certainly, the biosphere our characters enter is cruel, but i think itâs a useful exercise to consider the situation from its perspective. The government is on their Gods-know-how-manyth expedition into the Shimmer at this point, and up until now, itâs all been military men. Cripes, if i were a sentient self-regulating ecosystem and all these feds started probing around my internals because they want to kill me, iâd develop an immune response too.
The world beyond the Shimmer is beautiful beyond description. It is a place where the sky glistens in iridescent3 waves, where every sort of plant grows from every sort of bush and beast, and where death is just one step in a beautiful cycle of life and rebirth.4 It blurs the line between not just the species but kingdoms of life â flora, fauna, and funga all mingling and merging together equally under one roof. Barring the terrifying humanâbear hybrids, thatâs a world iâd like to live in.
Plus, it seems willing to learn. In the ending âfightâ (cue the noise), allegorical for the obvious as the visuals may be, the alien throws not a single punch. Itâs learning by doing, mimicking every move Lena makes, enough to turn into a rudimentary facsimile of her â and even after its destruction, the ending glimmer in her and her husbandâs eyes makes clear a part of the Shimmerâs essence is here to say. I say thatâs for the better.
P.S. Hereâs some stuff iâve been listening to recently (sorted from âbleep bloopâ to âstrum strumâ):
- Jane Remover - Kodak Moment
- Caroline Polachek - Blood and Butter
- FEX - Subways of Your Mind (FKA âthe most mysterious song on the internetâ)
- Geordie Greep - Holy, Holy
- Munly and the Lupercalians - Ahmen
Mx Tynehorneâs link roundup, volume XXXIX
- How British-Nigerians quietly made their way to the top
- PS5 Has No Games: The Musical (Brought To You By Talking Heads)
- On the naming of America â iâm still an Amerrisque truther myself.
- Point Nemo, the most remote place on Earth, has a lot going on there
- Crokinole! A Canadian board game of flicking discs into holes.
- A river in Wiltshire is being ârewiggledâ to reduce flooding.
- Abuna Yemata Guh, an ancient church hewn into an Ethiopian mountaintop and only accessible by a treacherous foot journey.
- In which a runaway inflatable pumpkin blocks a road in Ohio. Happy Halloweâen!
- âFound this book at the park and it's full of stuff about feet??â
- In continuing âold culture is eating new cultureâ news, The Ringer reports on the revival of repertory screenings.
- Deep into Youtube: A punk rock song against the Intellivision Amico
- In which TimothĂŠe Chalamet crashes a TimothĂŠe Chalamet lookalike contest
- Bowling Green, a park in New York where, during the revolution, a statue of George III was taken down and decorative crowns on the fences were sawn off â the marks of which are still visible today!
Mx Tynehorneâs link roundup, volume XXXVIII
- ALS stole his voice. Machine learning gave him it back
- Urban British foxes are slowly self-domesticating
- The Mormon Dream Mine
- Patina and intimacy
- TidyBot, bringing the dream of having robots do every single chore one step closer (via Interconnected)
- Finn-men
- The last format war: blu-ray versus HD DVD
- The death of the magazine, and quality writing with it, is one of the sadder trends of the internet age. They can pry Empire and Private Eye from my cold, dead hands.
- The top-secret rooms where top-secret documents are top-secretly read
- A beautiful complex function plotter
- Gravity wells
- Bop Spotter
- Living allohistorical dreams and nightmares on The Campaign Trail
- Britainâs last coal power station closes its doors.
- âGoogleâ (1953)
Mx Tynehorneâs link roundup, volume XXXVII
- The wonderful miniatures of The Hudsucker Proxy
- ĺĺĺĺ
- In which the maintainers of the universal time-zone database find out a Norwegian town wants twenty-six hours in a day
- Streamer wanders into a network of machine-learning-generated accounts, goes slightly insane
- âAurora is a rumored mid-1980s American reconnaissance aircraft.â
- The quest to beat Minecraft in under sixty seconds
- Marco Pierre White, the final boss of cooking
- âA true hermaphrodite rabbit served several females and sired more than 250 young of both sexes.â What an icon.
- The National Gallery demolished some false columns and found a note from a rich donor saying he always thought they were ugly
- We have successfully made Doom run on nothing
- Four Thieves Vinegar: âRight to repair for your bodyâ
- Putting a classified nuclear warhead schematic in your product logo like a boss
- Cooper*
Mx Tynehorneâs link roundup, volume XXXVI
- The Poozeum of Williams, Arizona, self-described as â#1 for fossilized #2â.
- The Ivorians recruited for a football team that doesnât exist in a country that doesnât exist
- i guess we doin circles now. I love these dumbass memes.
- An Italian burglar was caught after stopping to read a book about Greek mythology. Heâs literally meâŚ
- An abandoned underwater strip club off the southern coast of Israel
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Several articles that can be summed up as âthe what people of where now?â:
- The Confederates of Brazil
- The Marshallese of Arkansas
- The MÄori of London
- The ManichĂŚans of China, still around long after their religion stopped being a major player on the world stage
- The Cagots of France and Spain, a group who were persecuted for reasons nobody really knows and then assimilated into wider society
Mx Tynehorneâs link roundup, volume XXXV
- Britain should build a new town where the East Coast Main Line and EastâWest Rail meet
- Highway 1 is falling into the ocean
- How thick cold water could (could) have jump-started multicellular life
- Surfing (in) the American Dream (shopping centre)
- New Euripides fragments just dropped
- In âwe live in a world of unparalleled luxury and itâs kind of boringâ news: American Airlines has so many flights theyâre running out of numbers
- Terry Wallis, a man from Arkansas who randomly woke up from a vegetative state after nineteen years
- What to do if a nuclear missile is heading for your location right now. Thankfully, itâs not, because nothing ever happens.
- Danny Filippidis, a Canadian skier who went missing only to turn up in Sacramento six days later with no memory of the incident
- Big fan of this âWorld Travel Mapâ by one Zhaoxu Sui â with a thematically appropriate use of the Mercator projection, to boot!
Mx Tynehorneâs link roundup, volume XXXIV
- The saola, a large mammal which was discovered in the Vietnamese forest in⌠wait for it⌠1992! Really makes you wonder what else is hiding out there.
- Circuits
- â Can studies of living animal colour constrain the colours of dinosaurs? A case study with big theropodsâ
- A record history of the Cannonball Run, the illegal street race from New York to Los Angeles
- Really enjoyed this documentary about the varied weirdos of the life-extension movement. I came away surprisingly endeared by that one billionaire guy with the cock monitor.
- Absolutely gutted to find out that you could stay in a hotel shaped like a giant beagle until just this year.
- Walking Nairobi
Mx Tynehorneâs link roundup, volume XXXIII
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In the category of âmost likely to graduate to the full linkrollâ, we have
Aporee.org, a collection of soundscapes from all around the
world
- And on a similar note, hereâs some sounds of the forest(s)
- William Buckley, a convict who was sentenced to Australia and proceeded to successfully escape and live with the natives for thirty years
- Epic dishwasher haxx
- Eight speedrunning categories that have completely broken
- TIL about Karaite Judaism, the Jewish equivalent to Islamâs Quranism or Protestantsâ sola scriptura
- Tidings.potato.horse, a mediĂŚval content farm with news stories written by generative bards
- Eighty guys singing the Halo theme in a bathroom
- Centuries of childhood
Mx Tynehorneâs link roundup, volume XXXII
- Nobody will believe you when you say this, but the phrase âsweet summerâs childâ is from Game of Thrones. Every citation before that is supremely literal, talking about an actual child of summer.
- A 3D tour of the Temple of All Religions in Kazan, Russia. Almost normal until you get to the Egyptian room.
- Trying on Nasaâs new spacesuit
- That one lost pop song that was found in a porno
- Calcuttaâs Pen Hospital will nurse your broken fountain pen back to health
- How actors remember their lines
- Äryabaášha numeration turns numbers into compact pronounceable syllables. Kind of genius â we already took our digits from the Indians; why didnât we lift this as well?
- The U.S.âs purge of naughty waypoint names from the skies
- JetBlue Flight 191
- Elizabeth Prophet, the prophet who failed after the apocalypse that wasnât
- The Horny-Award-winning drug semaglutide now shows remarkable benefits for kidney disease in addition to everything else. I give it a year before we find out it cures cancer or something.
- The best, worst, and weirdest Star Wars knockoffs
- Someone on /r/Gallifrey is going through nearly every piece of canonical Doctor Who media in chronological order and iâve never been more intimidated.
- Donât be a Mimsy
- Radio Caroline marks its sixtieth year on the waves
- Zubrinâs nuclear saltwater rocket â one of the most powerful rocket engines ever proposed, described as âpowered by Chernobylâ.
- Hereâs an interesting historical curio: an instructional video from the British government on travelling to West Berlin through East Germany.
- Why ornament went away. We are so back: âSo it is now possible to buy perfectly proportioned classical ornament, nearly indistinguishable from stone, that has â if the molds and the factory infrastructure are treated as a given â taken only minutes of labor to produce.â
Mx Tynehorneâs link roundup, volume XXXI
- The Verge takes a trip on a submarine-cable-repair ship
- Vici.org, an âarchĂŚological atlas of antiquityâ that shows you GrĂŚco-Roman history and artefacts in your area
- In Vesuvius Prize news, the vulcanised scrolls have now revealed Platoâs precise burial place
- Ian Ridpathâs Star Tales: âMyths, legends, and history of the constellationsâ. I did not know there used to be a reindeer constellation around the north pole!
- âBring back the âRenaissance Manââ
- A gallery of n-wheeled vehicles, where 1 ⤠n ⤠1496
- Simon Tathamâs Portable Puzzle Collection
- Why are so many bodies in Britain found in a decomposed state?
- Kanye fails the quick-time event
Mx Tynehorneâs link roundup, volume Νʚ
- Frank Sinatra covers âSmells Like Teen Spiritâ
- Mini rope bridges built in Forest of Dean to help dormice. Accidentally clicked to the main news page from here and broke my months-long streak of refusing to keep up with British politics, but, you know what, totally worth it.
- âOyler conceives of her own claim to cultural elitism as a series of adolescent signifiers flung on with the pride of a Goth teenager donning her first Hot Topic belt.â
- In âthe singularity is here, itâs just not evenly distributed yetâ news, hereâs a machine-learning-generated song about taking a fat dump and getting paid for it that will stay in your head forever and refuse to leave
- Fifteen years of a road slowly getting torn apart by the San Andreas fault
- Bloomer update: Zoomers are way rich
- Finding human fossils in bathroom tiles
Mx Tynehorneâs link roundup, volume XXIX
- âSpacebloom: A Field Guide to Cosmic Xfloraâ. What? Via last roundupâs Complete Review.
- The Bulbdial Clock: a clock that has lights instead of hands
- Went down a bit of a slide rule rabbit holeâŚ
- How the Netherlands feeds the world with the future of technology. Please stand for the national anthem.
- New otter species just dropped
- Richard Eijiro von Coudenhove-Kalergi, the half-Japanese Euro-federalist count who suggested âOde to Joyâ as the continentâs anthem and thought all races and castes would merge in the future into âsomething like the Ancient Egyptiansâ
- A self-stabilising robotic tail designed for astronauts in microgravity. OwO?
- One blasted level is all that stands between the Super Mario Maker community and finishing every level ever uploaded before Nintendo shuts down the servers in two weeks.
- Further proof mathematics is evil and fake: Chaitinâs constants, numbers which exist but whose value we can never know.
- The new Porter Robinson track is, of course, a banger.
Mx Tynehorneâs link roundup, volume XXVIII
- Every Best Picture winner ranked by how good a Muppets version would be
- Well this is fucking insane: real-time machine-learning image generation.1 The singularity is here; itâs just not evenly distributed yet (as the saying goes).
- Motion extraction
- A (perhaps overly credulous) profile of âProject Cetiâ, which wants to talk to whales using machine learning
- âI went to a rave with the forty-six-year-old millionaire who claims to have the body of a teenagerâ
- Selfish reasons to want a larger human population
- I donât know if this is real â i just follow the links; i donât make them â but hereâs something that claims to be an animation test for a never-announced cancelled Disney movie called King of the Elves.
- The Complete Review, a âliterary saloonâ of reviews specialising in translated obscura
- Hillmanâs Hyperlinked and Searchable Chambersâ Book of Days. Iâd quite like to do something like this with Apsley Cherry-Garrardâs The Worst Journey in the World once i get around to finishing it.2
- Movies that have the aesthetic of a sample video file youâd see early Windows computers use to demonstrate their media players