Matt Gray is Trying: Line Marking
I knew this would require some skill and practice, but wow. The people who do this day in day out are so good!
Thanks to Total Line Marking for letting me come over and ruin their car park!
Please donate to @internetarchive to stand by your library.
100Petabytes and growing-- building a record of our time for us all to enjoy.
If it's all getting a bit much, watch the nice, calm video of a model railway from that nice Tim Dunn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMsJ_P6d-zg
Christmas day, 5:56am, there is a star in the east https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/view.cfm?country=United_Kingdom®ion=England&city=London
Today is the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. I only learned *this year* that the Great Bengali Famine of 1770 was a precipitating factor in the protest, and so I collaborated with my historian colleague, Dr. Robert Martello, to share the globe-spanning story of colonialism and corporate power that we think should be much more widely known.
https://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-80-tea-and-famine
3D map of internet cables https://he.net/3d-map/ #map #internet
This is a 100% serious request: Does anyone have access to a ground-penetrating radar we could borrow?
We’ve just published a detailed analysis of how libel firm Carter-Ruck acted for OneCoin, a massive cryptocurrency fraud. The evidence is reasonably clear that Carter-Ruck were reckless in choosing to act for OneCoin and how they acted. They missed obvious signs of fraud. That had serious consequences.
London Liverpool St station gets more passengers than Birmingham New Street, Leeds, and Manchester Piccadilly stations added together https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2023/12/anorak-corner-rail-edition.html #trains
A deep dive into the GOV.UK cookie banner (more interesting than it sounds!)
https://nooshu.com/blog/2023/12/12/govuk-cookie-banner-browser-privacy-and-security/
Sitting down or getting up from my Ikea chair seems to generate enough EMI to de-sync the HDMI monitor on the other end of the room.
Evidently, this is somewhat common: https://mastodon.social/@haeckerfelix/110272427676278609
What was Carl Sagan like as a child? Pretty much exactly how you’d expect. https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2023/12/carl-sagan/
Just found this...
Does anyone remember these ? :)
I'd be interested in a drive if anyone can spare one. (I realise they are incredibly rare)
Man Announces He Will Quit Drinking by 2050.
A Sydney man has set an ambitious target to phase out his alcohol consumption within the next 29 years, as part of an impressive plan to improve his health.
The program will see Greg Taylor, 73, continue to drink as normal for the foreseeable future, before reducing consumption in 2049 when he turns 101. He has assured friends it will not affect his drinking plans in the short or medium term.
Taylor said it was important not to rush the switch to non-alcoholic beverages. “It’s not realistic to transition to zero alcohol overnight. This requires a steady, phased approach where nothing changes for at least two decades,” he said, adding that he may need to make additional investments in beer consumption in the short term, to make sure no night out is worse off.
https://theshovel.com.au/2021/10/26/man-announces-he-will-quit-drinking-by-2050/
#GlobalWarming #Oil #BigOil #FossilFuel #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Drinking #Problem
TIL a 100MW battery storage place got built this year, a few miles down the road from me. Good to see the grid being updated! https://stateraenergy.co.uk/projects/dollymans-storage #electricity
From my favorite charity: Early findings from the world’s largest Universal Basic Income study
Basically, receiving one big sum is way more efficient to escape poverty than a monthly payment -- people can invest at once in equipment that will give them both immediate and long term returns, rather than just covering their immediate needs.
+ as expected, people know what is good for them and came up with a way to transform many tiny sums into a big one for investing.
Role-playing honour and shame
https://fabledlands.blogspot.com/2023/11/a-sense-of-shame.html
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