Friday, July 10, 2020

Friday Links!

Anyone who's seen Blade Runner (especially me, since I've seen it seven times) will love this:
Man turns Los Angeles into Blade Runner after hypnotic aerial footage of illegal fireworks goes viral.

From Wally, and man, this is musical brilliance: Stairway To Gilligan's Island. Yeah, this is terrifying, all right: AI & Robots Crush Foes In Army Wargame. This is very, very cool: How Students Built a 16th-Century Engineer’s Book-Reading Machine.

From David Gloier, and it's huge: Astronomers have found the source of life in the universe.

From C. Lee, and I had no idea this was possible: How to Make Smoked Foods From Around the World on Your Stovetop. This seems convenient: How to move your role-playing game nights online. A terrific article:  The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD. A remarkable man: How One Man and His Dog Rowed More Than 700 Kākāpōs to Safety.

From Ken Piper, and I approve: Poland Is First Government Worldwide To Add Video Game To Official School Reading List As Educational Resource. This is amazing: Human Interface: What (almost) every button in an F-15C fighter’s cockpit does. Incredible: NASA’s New Horizons Probe Is So Far Away, It Now Sees Stars in Different Positions Than We Do. This is puzzling: A Black Hole Collided With Something That Shouldn't Exist. This sounds like an utter disaster: Your next BMW might only have heated seats for 3 months.

Finishing off this week, from Allen Varney, it's the theme park that just keeps on giving: The Life-Threatening “Ride” That Action Park Actually Decided to Abandon.

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