- Ranking all 43 US presidents by looks
- There’s a statue of Hermaphroditos in Den Haag. I might have to pay a visit next time i’m back home...
- Oh, to be a lesbian crofter sustainably farming with my wife in the highlands of Scotland
- In 2008, the mother of a gender-non-conforming son started a gender-non-conforming summer camp — 14 years later, a photographer with the New York Times revisits the attendees
- Pacific islands face more complex climate issues than just sinking
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July 2021 recap
The month of July is almost over, so it’s time for the traditional wrap-up of all that happened.
On the nineteenth of the month, with just over half of our population fully vaccinated against the virus, England finally opened up and embraced full covid anarchy, come what may. For me, the primary feeling was an overwhelming sense of relief: no more having to suffocate myself with a mask at the shops, no more will-they-won’t-they, just… getting on with life.
I’ve taken the opportunity that is the unlocking to (vaguely) plan a series of posts which may come to this blog in the near future. Keep your eyes peeled!
Films and TV watched
The Big Lebowski — A film about three dudes who just want to bowl. I have heard great things about this film since roughly the moment i clicked on the “Internet Explorer” icon for the first time, and i can’t help but feel i would have enjoyed it a little more had it not had all the hype about it. It’s an excellent film, and one i’ll be rewatching soon, but i suspect years on the internet inflated my expectations to an unreasonable extent. (Very good/10)
Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
Paddington — Watched with some friends over Discord. A fine family film, and a decent contender for the dictionary definition of “wholesome”. We could all strive to be a little more like Paddington Bear. (Hard stare/10)
Fargo — A film about a man who just wants to sell a used car. A great black comedy thriller with even better accents (oh yah). (Super/10)
What’d this guy look like, anyway?
— Oh, he was a little guy… kinda funny lookin’.
— Uh-huh. In what way?
— Oh, just a general kinda way.
Inside №9 — This comedy-horror-drama-plot-twistiness-is-that-a-genre?-probably-not anthology show just doesn’t miss. Almost every episode is uproariously funny, slightly creepy, and has a twist that will leave you with your mouth hanging open at the screen.
Highlights include The Riddle of the Sphinx (the one with the crosswords), A Quiet Night In (the one without the dialogue), Cold Comfort (the one with the Samaritans), Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room (the one with the washed-up comedians), The 12 Days of Christine (the really sad one), and, of course, their exceedingly meta live special, Dead Line. (40 tablets/10)
Links for the end of July
- New Zealand has its own, crummier Stonehenge
- Wendy Carlos demonstrates her Moog synthesiser in 1970 [4 minute watch]
- Guy debunks 9/11 truthers with an actual steel beam [2 minute watch]
- Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of MH370?
- What's the deal with the Erdställe, the thousands of odd mediæval tunnels scattered across Europe?
- The Young Director’s Guide To Lighting (via interconnected)
- Furries are making virtual reality worth visiting
- Why does “Turn! Turn! Turn!” equal 241217·524881?
Links for the 25th of July
- How to spot a good fake ID [in the state of Massachusetts]
- The race that only finishes when there’s just one person left running
- Paralysed man’s brain waves decoded into sentences
- Whatever happened to IBM’s Watson after Jeopardy? The New York Times answers
- The cosmic importance of interplanetary quarantine (via bldgblog)
- What went into giving Kamala Harris a name in American Sign Language…
- The Jessica Simulation: the story of a man who used a chatbot to simulate his dead fiancée (via waxy)
Links for the 6th of June
- Via National Geographic, The campaign to (theologically) abolish hell
- Why is central London suddenly full of US-American sweetshops? (via lmg)
- The search for Ban Tran, forgotten video game pioneeress (ditto)
- Exploring London’s forgotten tram tunnel (via things)
- Miniature models of old Hong Kong (ditto)
- A Royal Military Police video shown to first-time travellers along the corridor to West Berlin through East Germany in the ’80s
- As the US withdraws from Afghanistan, the locals are taking back the Pokémon Go gyms
Links for the 29th of June
- A hundred 3D animators put their own spin on the same basic scene. Awesome stuff… the human ability for creativity will never cease to amaze me.
- A digital museum of art depicting scenes from Dante’s Divine Comedy. A lot of it is in untranslated Italian, but hey, visual art is visual art.
- Keeping on the subject of digital museums: an extremely in-depth and extremely 2008 museum of toasters. Would that every website still looked as good and functioned as well as this!
- Artwork by eccentric artist Madge Gill (and Myrninerest?) has appeared around the Line, a sculpture trail in eastern London.
- The battle over the future of the U.S. Libertarian party. Low, low stakes here — even our Green parties are more relevant than them...
Links for the 18th of June
- A profile of Chris Barrett, the ‘pizza pusha’ who sells pizza laced with cannabis on the grey market
- ‘Field Notes: Miami’, a nice little profile of what makes the city of Miami special
- The Shortcut
- The man who jumped into Lake Michigan every day for a year (Certainly one way to spend your quarantine…)
- Walking from Land’s End to John o’Groats to celebrate being rid of one’s boring civil service job
- Influence: a fun little territory-capture game; each move not only captures a single space but a little bit of the spaces around it
- Guy makes airline food at home for some reason
- Rest in peace, Clive Murphy
Links for the 9th of June
- Stanford University’s Orbis, like Google Maps for the Roman world
- Yan Tan Tethera
- Bo Burnham’s “Welcome to the Internet” — a little bit of everything all of the time
- National Geographic have (gasp) finally recognised the Southern Ocean as a distinct ocean
Links for the 4th of June
- Ofcom maintains a list of every swear word in the English language by severity. Taxpayer money at work!
- ‘The Michelangelo of Middlesbrough’: Man spends twenty-seven thousand hours on a scale model of the destroyed St. Hilda’s district
- Blue Abyss: Plans to build the world’s deepest pool in Cornwall
- 50 Years of Text Games covers Silverwolf, one of many games made by St. Bride’s School, a *checks notes* lesbian Victorian schoolgirl cult
- New Chvrches song just dropped, featuring Robert Smith of the Cure
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The Youtube rabbit hole:
- Blade Runner but Mr. Blobby is there [30 seconds]
- Incredible million to one train shot [1 minute]
- Can you really move the French–Belgian border by accident with a tractor? The twist at the end opened my fourth eye [9 minutes]
Links for the 26th of May
- The Berglas Effect, the greatest and unexplainedest card trick of all time — the comments speculate that he has 52 pre-shuffled decks with a card in each position; perhaps they’re on to something
- The London Blossom Garden
- Uberduck.ai — finally, you can get a synthetic Jeremy Clarkson to cuss your friends out
- Topotijdreis — compare survey maps of the Netherlands from 1815 to the present day [NL]
- Similarly, the National Library of Scotland lets you compare satellite photos, modern-day maps, and old Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain
- Down the Youtube rabbit hole:
Links for the 22nd of May
- The Crossrail omnishambles: “There were times when there was no design for anyone to work from.”
- “Oerknal: now that’s clear language”: an appreciation of the disappearing scientific words of Dutch [NL]α
- The Netherlands could become the second country where you can be legally unreachable in your free timeβ [NL]
- A third thumb, controlled by pressure sensors in the foot: okay, now where do i buy one of these?
- The North Paw: an ankle bracelet that vibrates to tell you which way is north. Intriguing, but no longer in stock — and wearing it would probably make you look like you’re meant to be on house arrest
- River Runner: Click to drop a raindrop anywhere in the contiguous United States and watch where it ends up — absolutely entrancing, nine-year-old me would have loved this
Welcome to the new Garden
Ah, i see you made it over. Welcome, one and all, to the new, improved, Press-tastic The Garden! After months of having to toil away at arcane computer code and consoles for the old version, i’ve coughed up the money for a real web host, freeing me to use the much more user-friendly WordPress.
The new home is a little rough around the edges in some places; as a novice, i wasn’t able to fully replicate everything. I think, though, that the missing pieces are more than made up for by what’s new: you can now natively search through the archive of posts, i can post shorter postsα without having to go through so much faff, and most importantly, we now have comments!
So, with pride, here is the first dump of links of the new blog:
- Churchill sings the best of Queen
- Ben Perkins, teenage blacksmith
- Fifty beautiful photos of Earth from the Apollo programme, restored to their full glory
- Coke and Mentos bottle hits cameraman — this one’s a vintage, from 2012
- Randomly discover cool links with Stumbled — if you remember StumbledUpon, it’s like that
- Popcat.click
- ThisFuckedUpHomerDoesNotExist.com
And allow me to finally say: Leave your thoughts in the comments below! (Or don’t. I’m not your mum.)
Welcome to the new Garden
Ah, i see you made it over. Welcome, one and all, to the new, improved, Press-tastic The Garden! After months of having to toil away at arcane computer code and consoles for the old version, i’ve coughed up the money for a real web host, freeing me to use the much more user-friendly WordPress.
The new home is a little rough around the edges in some places; as a novice, i wasn’t able to fully replicate everything. I think, though, that the missing pieces are more than made up for by what’s new: you can now natively search through the archive of posts, i can post shorter postsα without having to go through so much faff, and most importantly, we now have comments!
So, with pride, here is the first dump of links of the new blog:
- Churchill sings the best of Queen
- Ben Perkins, teenage blacksmith
- Fifty beautiful photos of Earth from the Apollo programme, restored to their full glory
- Coke and Mentos bottle hits cameraman — this one’s a vintage, from 2012
- Randomly discover cool links with Stumbled — if you remember StumbledUpon, it’s like that
- Popcat.click
- ThisFuckedUpHomerDoesNotExist.com
And allow me to finally say: Leave your thoughts in the comments below! (Or don’t. I’m not your mum.)
Welkom bij de nieuwe Tuin
Ah, je hebt het gemaakt. Welkom, een en al, bij de nieuwe, verbeterde, Press-tastische Tuin! Maandenlang zwoegd ik met esoterische computercode en consoles voor de oude versie. Nu heb ik eindelijk het geld opgehoest voor een echte webhost, met de véél gebruiksvriendelijker software WordPress.
Op sommige plaatsen is het nieuwe site een beetje ruw: ik ben maar een beginner, dus ik kon niet álles kopiëren! Maar ik denk dat de missende stukken goedgemaakt worden door wat nieuw is: ingebouwd zoeken, het vermogen om kortere berichten te postenα, en bovenal, reacties!
Dus hier is, met trots, de eerste linkverzameling van de nieuwe blog:
- Churchill zingt het beste van Queen
- Ben Perkins, 17-jarige hoefsmid
- Vijftig prachtige foto’s van het Aarde als gezien in het Apollo-programma, hersteld in hun volle glorie
- Cola en Mentos-fontein raakt cameraman — deze is een vintage, van 2012
- Ontdek willekeurig coole links met Stumbled
- Popcat.click
- ThisFuckedUpHomerDoesNotExist.com
En sta me toe om eindelijk te zeggen: Laat uw gedachten achter hieronder! (Of niet. Ik ben niet je moeder.)