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Watch game reviewer Raptor be endlessly delighted by the simple, elegant building game Tiny Glade.Tiny Glade is a building game by Pounce Light, an indie studio of two developers, Anastasia Opara and Tomasz Stachowiak. Opara has been at the forefront of procedural generation in games, leveraging the power of Houdini to create environments using algorithms. It's a different way to create 3D Art than...

Old cigarette lighters are more than just lighters. A one minute video showing the imaginative design and function of cigarette lighters from the last century. No smoking involved.

Government highway agencies have enabled the blatant falsification of traffic model results. As a result, the United States wastes billions on road expansions that fail to cure congestion and make it harder to get around without a car.

The 2024 Nobel physics prize has gone to two pioneers in machine learning. US scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday, October 8, for discoveries and inventions in machine learning that paved the way for the artificial intelligence boom [Reuters]. Their work was begun in the 1980s. The Atlantic's take: Of course AI just got...

Holy cow! 40 years ago today: I ate the 72 oz steak at the Big Texan in Amarillo, Texas "First, as time passed, the steak was getting cold and the juices started to solidify. Second, my jaw was getting really tired and chewing became more difficult. I started cutting the remainder of the steak into 1 inch by 1-inch chunks. I starting chewing them,...

"The decision to transfer the [Chagos I]slands to their new owner will result in the loss of one of the tech and gaming industry's preferred top-level domains: .io."The Internet has had to deal with the loss of TLDs (top level domains) before, most notably .su (the Soviet Union) and .yu (Yugoslavia). But today's Internet is FULL of .io domains - from popular sites like...

Didn't vote in 2020? Get paid up to $100 right now if you apologize to America and make your voting plan. If you didn't vote in 2020, Cards Against Humanity will PAY you to apologize, make a voting plan, and publicly post "Donald Trump is a human toilet"—up to $100 if you live in a swing state and lean blue. Kind of like a...

Corn sweat is real. Corn draws in water, then releases it into the air through evaporation. And all that moisture produced by more than 90 million acres of corn nationwide can make it more humid.

To further commemorate the 30th anniversary of their 40x Platinum-certified album Dookie, Green Day has announced the launch of their new project "Dookie Demastered"—re-releasing the album into 15 "obscure, obsolete or bizarre formats".Green Day collaborated with BRAIN to recreate the original tracks into accompanying objects to go with each one. "Basket Case" is represented by a Big Mouth Billy Bass, "When I Come Around"...

"MyLifeElsewhere is a collaborative community that allows you to compare the country you live in with other countries around the world. We'll show you various statistics that differentiate your country from others, including cost of living, geographic size, and more.""We'll show you various statistics that differentiate your country from others, including cost of living, geographic size, and more." Be sure to check out the...

Enjoy the Library of Congress' Magazine back issues for free. See for example, Great Photographs. And Brilliant Broadway. Or A Century of Fashion. The task of Saving the Sounds. Perhaps Secrets Revealed.Each issue has a collection of shorter but no less intriguing stories on historical items, archival challenges and trivia.

Ugly Nasty Commie Bitch Rich People Be Good BackboneCool Kids Sweet Lorraine What Is This Thing Called Love As GoodGolly.MissLolly said in a comment above, I don't know the magical algorithm that brought her to me but I am completely smitten and fully grateful I have her in my life. To which I say Amen. But I do know who brought her in my...

Two teens got caught up in a system unprepared to handle kids on either side of the drug trade. (slProPublica) - CW: teenage death, drug use

Tonight - for the first time since 1985 - the BBC are broadcasting Threads, a gritty northern drama showing family life before, during and after a nuclear war. Brutal lessons of 1984 nuclear bomb drama Threads (BBC): "One young woman told the BBC's Look North news programme: "When I was doing it, it was just a good laugh, you know? I didn't really think...

Intercity buses carry an estimated 60 million people annually — twice the number of people who take Amtrak every year — but companies have cut service and closed terminals in recent decades. Cities lost nearly one-third of intercity bus service between 1960 and 1980 and more than half of the remaining service between 1980 and 2006, according to Chaddick Institute research. Houston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Tampa,...

I don't know what life is. I know nothing about what life is. I have never understood life, the real life. Where do I really live? I do not know. I do not know where I come from, where do I go. Where am I, where am I? I do not know. I do not know where I am, and where I am going...

HBO digs into the Satoshi Nakamoto mystery - Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery coming on the heels of Vitalik: An Ethereum Story. Did Bruce Sterling and others predict our current reality?"Alex did not find it surprising that people like the Chinese Triads and the Corsican Black Hand were electronically minting their own cash. He simply accepted it: electronic, private cash, unbacked by any government,...

"Something is increasing the trade": First detailed study reveals scale of Australian species for sale overseas. A new study reveals the scale of Australia wildlife being smuggled overseas, with dozens of species recorded for the first time. But government authorities insist its crackdown is working.

Dozens of kangaroos have set up home in a residential area south of Newcastle (Australia) attracting a wave of badly-behaved human tourists. Don't feed wild kangaroos. Feeding wild kangaroos leads to kangaroo vs human conflict when the kangaroos get used to it, and approach humans who either don't have any food or won't give it to them. Don't feed kangaroos fried chicken.And for the...

The 2016 election crushed the girls. Now women, they're revenge voting. The hatred seen on that 2016 campaign trail had worked. The kind of bullying that would get a kid at their middle school suspended got Trump the Oval Office. The promises that they could be anything, do anything, dream anything felt suspended.They believed the rancor and division of 2016 would calm after the...

Acclaimed actress Kathy Bates sat down with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz for CBS Sunday Morning yesterday, talking about her storied career in Hollywood, her role in the new Matlock reboot, and how it explores the frustrating "invisibility" of older women. The highlight of the interview, however, comes when Bates talked about her late mother -- specifically, a deeply painful memory from the...

The first mistake, he said, was allowing proportional representation to become part of the conversation at all.

Progress on open source E-ink tablet, the PineNote. Finally firmware based on Linux Debian has been put together by developer Maximilian Weigand. It even runs Doom.From an UK blog (where I first read about it): https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/10/pinenote-linux-powered-e-ink-tablet-returns The PineNote now has a reliable Debian-based OS, developed by Maximilian Weigand. This is described as "not only a bare-bones capable OS but a genuinely daily-usable system that...