Tag: video

The BookBook

this is amazing

Laniakea

you’ll want to update your address to end with laniakea, to make sure your packages are delivered properly.

Tolerating flakiness

this is very true, and i wonder if there is a longer term equilibrium. it has become nearly impossible to plan an event where you have expenditures without asking for money down from people, or you’ll end up holding the bag.

Write them faster

something to tide you over for GoT

SaviOne

the R2D2 sound royalties consumed a majority of the venture funding.

Viruses most ancient life?

these viruses “represent a form of life that either predated or coexisted with the most recent organism from which all other organisms on Earth are descended. If giant viruses are as old as Caetano-Anolles’ calculated, the implications are staggering. It means that a giant virus or one of its ancestors existed before other types of life and may have played a major role in shaping life as we know it. This could mean that viruses are one of the dominant evolutionary forces on this planet and that each organism has a deep, viral past.

2021-09-01: See also Giruses, giant viruses, which may have been there since the beginning.

Cyriak

you’re welcome.

Humans need not apply

nice explainer for the many confused people who think we need “stimulus” to fix our economic problems.

1000 robots

now imagine tiny drones doing that, look a swarm of midges. that will freak people out for sure.

ISIS

vice reminds me of CNN, when they were actually good (in 1991). very impressive work.

VICE News reporter Medyan Dairieh spent 3 weeks embedded with the Islamic State, gaining unprecedented access to the group in Iraq and Syria as the first and only journalist to document its inner workings.