Why Everything is Becoming a Game

All the easier to control you | Continue reading


@gurwinder.blog | 13 minutes ago

The Book of Chaos: To Believe

The question to you, Mr. Chaos is simple.The question becomes what have you done for me?What have I lost on your behalf and where has this led me? where have you taken me,besides to you, and either constantly or consistently and somehow or persistently, and for the record;I am su … | Continue reading


@thewrittenaddiction.com | 17 minutes ago

4/20/2024

Cool with a clearing sky at sunrise. A blue-headed vireo’s soliloquy. The smell of damp earth. | Continue reading


@morningporch.com | 19 minutes ago

Kia EV9: First Impressions

There was a time when Kia was the bargain basement brand. Quality sucked, but the price was low. In recent years, Kia has made an amazing turnaround and has become an automotive leader. Nothing seems to prove this more than the company’s fast-charging and reliable EV offerings. S … | Continue reading


@cleantechnica.com | 23 minutes ago

Rare 'porcelain gallbladder' found in 100-year-old unmarked grave at Mississippi mental asylum cemetery

Archaeologists have discovered the burial of a woman with a rare "porcelain gallbladder" who was interred at the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum's cemetery 100 years ago. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 26 minutes ago

First massive electric harbor crane sparks worldwide attention with its incredible ability: 'It is a versatile and powerful machine that can handle any type of cargo'

"The crane is not only unique in its performance and capabilities. It is also the first of its kind to operate fully electrified." First massive electric harbor crane sparks worldwide attention with its incredible ability: 'It is a versatile and powerful machine that can handle a … | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 26 minutes ago

LAP Open Wire, April 20, 2024

Wally and I are busy today helping students turn the sticks shown above into sawbenches. But Chris is back this week, eagerly awaiting your Open Wire questions. So, please post your (succinct) woodworking questions in the comments below, and Chris will answer. You can also ask hi … | Continue reading


@blog.lostartpress.com | 26 minutes ago

Makaron z polędwiczką wieprzową i szparagami

Przejdź do treści Menu Na skróty Hity Kwestii Smaku Znane i lubiane Filety drobiowe Polędwiczki Schab Karkówka Kotlety Burgery Pulpeciki Potrawy tradycyjne Popularne ciasta Więcej... Szybki obiad Szybkie ciasto Obiad na niedzielę Bar mleczny Naleśniki Pierogi Kluski śląskie Kopyt … | Continue reading


@kwestiasmaku.com | 42 minutes ago

A few sheep are mowing the lawn in the park. And there is at least one lamb too! 🐑🐑🐑 “määähhh” | Continue reading


@jlelse.blog | 45 minutes ago

Architect turns to centuries-old technique to revolutionize how we build houses: 'This will be a very attractive method'

"The challenge was to create a home using earth as the primary building material." Architect turns to centuries-old technique to revolutionize how we build houses: 'This will be a very attractive method' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 56 minutes ago

Glitching on the Sea

This week, we’re back the original idea behind this newsletter – a newsletter that’s informal and “what I’d send you if you were to ask me what’s on my mind this week.” On my mind this week: the sea. It started last weekend when I read William Langewiesche | Continue reading


@registerspill.thorstenball.com | 1 hour ago

Medieval LOLs: Fabliaux

Medieval LOLs: Fabliaux Posted on Saturday, Apr 20, 2024 6:25AM by Morgan Meis | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 1 hour ago

‘Everything Must Go’ by Dorian Lynskey

Fara Dabhoiwala at The Guardian: Everything Must Go is about how, over the past 200 years, writers and artists have built on this inheritance to create new kinds of non-Christian eschatology. Ever since Lord Byron’s poem Darkness (1816), which dispensed with God, people have been … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 1 hour ago

Byron

Benjamin Markovits at the New York Times: This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death. The most famous poet of his age (an odd phrase now) died fighting for Greek independence in the marshes of Missolonghi. “Who would write, who had anything better to do?” he once sa … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 1 hour ago

The idea of memory-safe programming in context

I’ve been watching the current debate over memory-safe programming with interest. On the one have you have Rust and Go advocates talking about the need to replace C with its buffer overflows and other security problems, and on the other you have different fingers. And people say … | Continue reading


@rubenerd.com | 1 hour ago

Michael Meeks: 2024-04-20 Saturday

Wedding Anniversary; 22 years of happiness. Off to see R&A's new daughter; exciting. Caught up with blog in the car, up-loaded some slides on background save from COOL days. | Continue reading


@meeksfamily.uk | 1 hour ago

The Prophets: Octavia Butler

The science fiction writer warned that environmental decay and technological advances would spark an American decline. Now, we are seeing the future she predicted. | Continue reading


@thefp.com | 1 hour ago

Gardener shares 'creative' tip to save on common seed-starting materials: 'This is going to really help your plants'

"You learn something new every day." Gardener shares 'creative' tip to save on common seed-starting materials: 'This is going to really help your plants' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 1 hour ago

NASA Spacecraft Sees a Lava Lake With Islands on Jupiter's Moon Io

In our top science stories this week, reporter Ed Cara explores the similarities and differences between today’s popular obesity drugs and fen-phen, a briefly trendy weight loss aid that was pulled from the market after doctors discovered dangerous side effects. NASA confirmed th … | Continue reading


@gizmodo.com | 1 hour ago

Japanese borrowings and reborrowings

Most Americans probably know a few Japanese loanwords, especially those who were alive in the two or three decades after WWII, when so many terms from Japan entered the English language — kamikaze, banzai, bonsai, origami, and so forth — with soldiers returning from the war in th … | Continue reading


@languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu | 1 hour ago

Good Vibes

Song of the Day: Good Vibes – Chris Janson Flower of the Day: Daffodil Game of the Day: Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Boston Bruins | Continue reading


@cimple.life | 1 hour ago

Painting: The Supper At Emmaus

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily until his death. His pa … | Continue reading


@beetleypete.com | 2 hours ago

Weekend Funnies: Mixed Selection

Most are cat or dog related, with a few others mixed in. | Continue reading


@beetleypete.com | 2 hours ago

What's the largest waterfall in the world?

If your mind has gone straight to the thundering waters cascading down Venezuela's Angel Falls, think again. | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 2 hours ago

Technology provider announces robotics system to keep solar panels at peak performance — here's how it works

This technology could make it easier for homeowners to keep their panels spotless. Technology provider announces robotics system to keep solar panels at peak performance — here's how it works first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 2 hours ago

Conservation, Inflation, and Boeing

“‘This Will Finish Us.’” I finished reading Wendell Berry’s Unsettling of America this week with a group of students, so this heartbreaking essay by Stephanie McCrummen about how the Tanzanian government, oil money from the Gulf states, and “conservationists” are evicting Maasai … | Continue reading


@frontporchrepublic.com | 2 hours ago

Week 2024-16

The weekend started with brunch in the Kreuzberg neighborhood of Berlin. Just the three of us—tinyScientist, scientist, and me. It was a sunny morning, so we decided to sit outside. The brunch plate for two was more than sufficient for the three of us, and we even used tinyScient … | Continue reading


@otavio.cc | 2 hours ago

Stickybana, the Perpetually Forgotten Art of Cannabis Arrangement

The Japanese art of flower arrangement, Ikebana, is a captivating practice that aims for poetic synthesis of human hand and natural beauty in each composition. Stickybana, as documented on this Instagram page, is a sub-genre that centers cannabis within that tradition. The pairin … | Continue reading


@core77.com | 3 hours ago

A Quilt is More than Fragments

A Quilt is More than Fragments By age 92 my mother was no longer independent, though she lived in the house my parents had bought sixty years before. My brother and I were far away, and Mom depended on the kindness of neighbors and a bit of hired help to shop for her, do her […] | Continue reading


@stellafosse.com | 3 hours ago

Best fitness games for the Meta Quest 3 – How to get fit in VR

Ever since the days of the PlayStation Move, Wii Balance Board or the Xbox Kinect, software publishers have dreamed of… Continue reading Best fitness games for the Meta Quest 3 – How to get fit in VR The post Best fitness games for the Meta Quest 3 – How to get fit in VR appeared … | Continue reading


@readwrite.com | 3 hours ago

Gardener shares worrying photos of landscaping fabric harming tree: 'I don't doubt that [it] played a role'

"I see a lot of thick roots running along the surface of the dirt just under or intertwined with the fabric." Gardener shares worrying photos of landscaping fabric harming tree: 'I don't doubt that [it] played a role' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 3 hours ago

Saturday Mac riddles 252

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Waterproof to […] | Continue reading


@eclecticlight.co | 3 hours ago

Suddenly micro-factories are real ... with prices starting at $300,000

Construction is the world’s largest industry, employing seven percent of the planet's working-age adults, contributing 13 percent of the world’s GDP and completing floor space equivalent to the city of Paris every seven days. Continue Reading Category: Good Thinking, Lifestyle | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 3 hours ago

Easy Kids Pasta Salad Recipe

Today we are making kid friendly pasta salad. There is something so simple yet healthy about a Kids Pasta Salad… The post Easy Kids Pasta Salad Recipe appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading


@kidsactivitiesblog.com | 4 hours ago

Pluralistic: Greedflation, but for prisoners Greedflation, but for prisoners (20 Apr 2024)

Today's links Greedflation, but for prisoners: The first-ever survey of national prison commissary prices is a fucking nightmare. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've … | Continue reading


@pluralistic.net | 4 hours ago

Woman stunned after finding dumpster full of perfectly good, unopened snacks: 'This is my dream find'

Dumpster diving is legal in her state — and, in fact, in every state. Woman stunned after finding dumpster full of perfectly good, unopened snacks: 'This is my dream find' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 4 hours ago

Vintage Japanese Fireworks Archive

nobody posted the beautifully minimalist Hirayama Fireworks' Illustrated Catalog of Night Bomb Shells from the 1890s, via the Yokohama City Library. | Continue reading


@bestof.metafilter.com | 4 hours ago

Saturday Poem

Death is Smoking my Cigars You know: I’m drunk once again here listening to Tchaikovsky on the radio. Jesus, I heard him 47 years ago when I was a starving writer and here he is again and now I am a minor success as a writer and death is walking up and down this room… | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 4 hours ago

TARTA ZE SZPARAGMI I Z TRZEMA SERAMI

Sezon na szparagi w mojej kuchni trwa. Dziś przychodzę do Was z przepisem na ekspresową tartę rozpływającą się w ustach. Jeśli pogoda Wam pozwoli, koniecznie zabierzcie ją ze sobą na wiosenny piknik. Skład: 1 opakowanie ciasta francuskiego (z dobrym składem) 1 pęczek zielonych sz … | Continue reading


@makecookingeasier.pl | 4 hours ago

Searching with regular expressions: the mighty regex

How you can use regexes to make search more powerful and reduce the number of irrelevant entries it returns. | Continue reading


@eclecticlight.co | 4 hours ago

Officials devise unconventional plan to eliminate invasive fish species: 'There are 100 million of them'

Since the blue catfish don't have enough natural predators to control their population, they now threaten native species. Officials devise unconventional plan to eliminate invasive fish species: 'There are 100 million of them' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 5 hours ago

Peanut Butter Sheet Cake

Weekends in my house are always time for baking and cake. I love to have a good cake in the house at the weekend, and this lush Peanut Butter Sheet Cake is a really lovely one to have in! The recipe is for a largish, 9 by 13 inch sheet cake, which cuts into 12 squares. Having sai … | Continue reading


@theenglishkitchen.co | 5 hours ago

Exploded Berlin fish tank to be transformed into hanging garden

What remains of the Radisson Blu’s giant cylindrical aquarium will be converted into a vertical garden, stretching to the sixth floor of the hotel in Berlin. Radisson Blu... | Continue reading


@iamexpat.de | 5 hours ago

YouTube inventor makes explosive pool cue, then plays his friend

Taking his "cue" from an old Tom and Jerry cartoon, YouTube content creator Alex Apollonov from the 'I Did A Thing' channel has created an explosive billiards stick. Then he played his friend in a game. What could go wrong? Continue Reading Category: Lifestyle Tags: Inventors, Yo … | Continue reading


@newatlas.com | 5 hours ago

[Checkin] Dan Q found GCAP4K8 Village Hall Series 1573 – Standlake

This checkin to GCAP4K8 Village Hall Series 1573 - Standlake reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. FTF! Can’t remember the last time I got one of those; it’s been a while. I woke up this morning thinking about an errand I need to run today that would … | Continue reading


@danq.me | 5 hours ago

Risk assessment issues stark warning for major region amid rising temperatures: 'A huge wake-up call'

Solutions exist, but our window to avoid the worst is shrinking fast. Risk assessment issues stark warning for major region amid rising temperatures: 'A huge wake-up call' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 6 hours ago

Shopper shares warning after examining soil of newly purchased plant: 'Make sure to check'

"You never know." Shopper shares warning after examining soil of newly purchased plant: 'Make sure to check' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 6 hours ago

Shopper shares photo of 'dystopian' children's toy for sale at Costco: 'The point is brand indoctrination as young as possible'

When the toys themselves are ads, it can contribute to the hyperconsumerist churn of wasteful products. Shopper shares photo of 'dystopian' children's toy for sale at Costco: 'The point is brand indoctrination as young as possible' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading


@thecooldown.com | 7 hours ago