Boing Boingadded this to All Stories · 5dSql Geek's idea to get "NULL" license plate ends up backfiringboingboing.net - David Pescovitz California security researcher Droogie came up with what seemed like a good way to avoid having to pay any parking tickets issued to his vehicle: He …
JJoeadded this to InterestingStuff · 4dBooks What Makes a Red Sky at Night (and at Morning)The New York Times - By RANDALL MUNROEAccording to popular lore, you can predict the weather based on sky color. The saying typically goes, “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.” This saying has been
Neatorama · August 5Eddie Van Halen When Did People Start Turning Things Up to 11?neatorama.com - Miss Cellania When you hear someone say "turn it up to eleven," that is likely a reference to the scene in the 1984 movie This Is Spinal Tap in which guitarist …
Cartoonist Randall Munroe Will Be Your Answer Manpublishersweekly.com - By Mike Harvkey Originating in sixth-century Zen Buddhism, the term mu means “no thing”—not yes, not no—and is commonly interpreted as a rejection of binary thinking. …
common Senseadded this to I want to Read It! · July 25 A Full List Of Bill Gates’s Book Recommendations From 2012 To 2019bookriot.com - Blaga Atanassova Every year for the past seven years, Bill Gates has dedicated two posts on his blog (in summer and in winter) to his personal reading …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoRecession Does the Economy Guarantee Trump’s Re-Election?politicalwire.com - Taegan Goddard Axios suggests President Trump is well-positioned to win re-election based on the strength of the economy based on this statistic: “Every incumbent …
Daily Kosadded this to Daily Kos Trending · July 16 July is Reset Your Password Month on Daily Kosdailykos.com - elfling The world continues to advance in its weird ways to break into your privacy and infringe on your data. In light of this, we are upgrading our …
Edmonton Journaladded this to Edmonton Journal News · July 4U.S.-Mexico border Gravida and Parity: 'Thing explainer' exposes gaps between childhood explanations and adulthood realitiesedmontonjournal.com - Ryan Garner A couple of weeks ago, my nearly eight-year-old pulled my copy of Randall Munroe’s Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words off the shelf. …
Citizen Science Fall 2019 Announcements: Sciencepublishersweekly.com - By Everett Jones The fall’s titles delve deeply inward, into the human body and brain, and expansively outward, into the Earth’s wild spaces, (hypothesized) …
Kotakuadded this to Overwatch · June 20Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Wiki Titles You Can Sing To The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Theme Is Good TwitterKotaku - Mike Fahey In 2014, webcomic XKCD introduced readers to the joy of Wikipedia article titles that can be sung to the tune of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja …
nnyemadded this to Data Visualization · June 22 Data Visualization Comicsmedium.com - Martin Telefont Humour! It’s good for you! It releases tension, and if you laugh with somebody you start to bond because it shows that both of you are pleasantly …
The A.V. Club · June 17Play buttonMichelangelo And now, a Twitter bot that collects phrases you can sing to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles themeThe A.V. Club - Reid McCarterIn the mid-‘90s, when consumer internet began spreading to homes across the world—back before corporations figured out how to exert control over every aspect of this technology they could think of—the
TNWadded this to Distract · June 17Play buttonWikipedia Wikipedia titles you can sing to the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' theme song, tweetedTNW - Callum BoothCartoons have given us a lot over the years. They’ve entertained, they’ve taught us valuable life lessons, but – and most importantly of all – they’ve provided us with some bonafide musical bangers. Just
Boyd Watersadded this to Hardware · June 11Ann Arbor, MIAnnouncing: the tour for "How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems," Randall "XKCD" Munroe's nextboingboing.net - Cory Doctorow [Randall Munroe traces the phenomenal success of his webcomic XKCD with this Boing Boing post; and I've avidly followed his career ever since (he's …
Adam Savage BookCon 2019: Life Coachespublishersweekly.com - By David Varno Randall Munroe, creator of the sensational web comic Xkcd, meets Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage to offer some helpful (and sometimes hilariously …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHistorical Fiction Alternatives and realitycolumbia.edu - Andrew I saw this cartoon from Randall Munroe, and it reminded me of something I wrote awhile ago.The quick story is that I don’t think the alternative …
Webcomics Disk Usagexkcd.com Manage -> [Optimize space usage, Encrypt disk usage report, Convert photos to text-only, Delete temporary files, Delete permanent files, Delete all …
Inverseadded this to Innovation · April 23Tesla Model 3 Tesla World Map Shows EV Hot Spots in Cities Across the GlobeInverse - Mike Brown Tesla could have a strong advantage in the race to deliver full autonomous driving: a global fleet of camera-equipped vehicles. At the company’s …
MMichael Thompsonadded this to Bayesian · April 15Statistics One Statistical Paradigm to Rule Them All?imperialvalleynews.com Gaithersburg, Maryland - Now, if you’re familiar with either statistics or J.R.R. Tolkien, I know the title grabbed your attention. And if not, don’t …
Ilker Ozupakadded this to Cosmos · April 11Space To Truly Appreciate The M87 Black Hole Pic, You Need to See Just How Huge It IsScienceAlert - Mike McRae By now, we've all seen the history-making snapshot of the supermassive black hole at the centre of galaxy M87 staring back at us like the flaming eye …
Dusan Jovicicadded this to Cool · April 12Black Holes Here’s How Big the M87 Black Hole Is Compared to the Earthfuturism.com - Dan Robitzski On Wednesday, a team of scientists from around the world released the first ever directly-observed image of the event horizon of a black hole. The …
Daily Kosadded this to Daily Kos Trending · April 11Black Holes The Black Hole Underscores the Vastness of the Universedailykos.com - Kittencaboodle I am going to share two photos that really drive home how big our universe is, and how small we really are. Much like Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” image, …
The Vergeadded this to Culture · April 5Webcomics Webcomics: an oral historyThe Verge - Cat FergusonIt can be hard to remember how primitive the internet landscape was in the late ‘90s, the era when webcomics came of age. The only way to share things was through email and instant message, and a seconds-long
MEL Magazineadded this to Culture · April 3For Men ‘Charge Your Phone’ Is the Ultimate Reply-Guy Replymelmagazine.com - Miles Klee He’s half shaming, half mansplaining on a topic where literally everyone in the developed world is an expertEvery woman on Twitter — and not a few …
The Mercury Newsadded this to Ask Amy · March 26Amy Dickinson Ask Amy: He points out the flaws in everything I like, even xkcdThe Mercury News - Amy Dickinson DEAR AMY: I’m writing about a curious thing my husband does that tends to hurt my feelings. I’m not sure how inconsiderate he may be, or how …
The San Diego Union-Tribuneadded this to Lifestyle · March 26Amy Dickinson Ask Amy: Husband's deep research into web comic isn't funny - The San Diego Union-Tribunesandiegouniontribune.com Dear Amy: I’m writing about a curious thing my husband does that tends to hurt my feelings. I’m not sure how inconsiderate he may be or how …
Hertz 80: Cites are not endorsements (with Sean Rife) — Everything Hertzovercast.fm We chat with Sean Rife, who the co-founder of scite.ai, a start-up that combines natural language processing with a network of experts to evaluate …
Juan Cisnerosadded this to Cisneros Digest · March 14Long-form Journalism The World Wide Web turns 30: our favorite memories from A to ZThe Verge - Verge StaffOn this day 30 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal with the dreary title “Information Management” to his superior at the European physics laboratory CERN. It began by asking how future scientists
