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The photo above is when I met William Gibson during his “Idoru” book tour, at Andromeda in Birmingham, 1997. Loved Ulysses 31 as a kid (can’t remember the ending though). Nice little find via Facebook The History of Ulysses 31: A Worldwide Hit Barely Registered in the US. I’ve had the MP3 of this for years, but of course somebody would have uploaded it to YouTube. William Gibson’s epicNeuromancer, dramatised by the BBC.
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The Project Behind a Front Page Full of Names “Putting 100,000 dots or stick figures on a page “doesn’t really tell you very much about who these people were, the lives that they lived, what it means for us as a country,” Ms. Landon said. So, she came up with the idea of compiling obituaries and death notices of Covid-19 victims from newspapers large and small across the country, and culling vivid passages from them.
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Cozy Lego I’ve never heard the term before I listened to the tested.com “This Is A Test” podcast but wow these photos look amazing. Words don’t do it justice, go and check out Architeclego over on Instagram. The Five Deeps Great article over at The New Yorker about the expedition to visit the 5 deepest points of the 5 oceans. They also stopped at Titanic. The real Lord Of The Flies For his new book, Humankind: A Hopeful History, Rutger Bregman uncovered the real-life story of 6 schoolboys who were stranded on a Pacific island for 15 months in 1965-66.
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Fayaz Ahmed has posted a great list over on dev.to “I am surprised more people are not using these tools!!”. Some really nice inclusions for API, HTML email, image optimisation… Well worth a coffee and some digging into.
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CleanShot X for Mac This screenshot/video capture tool is great - even lets you capture scrolling regions intelligently. Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’ Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us.
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Future Crunch seriously nailed it in this week’s edition. So much good stuff in there, but here are some of their quick links from near the end of the newsletter: At the beginning of every disaster movie, there’s a scientist being ignored “I never hear scientists, true scientists, good quality scientists, speak in terms of nationality.” Never before have so many of the world’s researchers focused so urgently on a single topic.
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Location data of phones on a Florida beach during Spring Break via The Loop Life size pizza table and meatball pizza via Under Consideration Quarantined photographer executes fantastic FaceTime fashion shoot via Cult Of Mac ‘RoboCop 2’: The crazy story of how Cain got his CG puppeteered head “What’s ironic about that is – the stop-motion that Tippett Studio did in RoboCop 2 is astounding. In my opinion, Cain is the pinnacle of stop motion as a realistic VFX technique.
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Nintendo Customer Support Goes Above And Beyond For 95-Year-Old Grandma’s Busted Game Boy Nine Inch Nails make Ghosts V-VI available for free Astronaut Chris Hadfield Reviews Space Movies, from ‘Gravity’ to ‘Interstellar’ | Vanity Fair Flight 008 first podcast episodes are now online “Eleven of the biggest writers in science fiction, through eleven unique stories, follow one single thread: a non-stop flight from Tokyo to San Francisco that passes through a wrinkle in spacetime and lands in the year 2040.
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Flight 008, a multi-part science fiction story Following on from the XPrize “Seat 14C” science fiction competition from 2017. “Eleven of the biggest writers in science fiction, through eleven unique stories, follow one single thread: a non-stop flight from Tokyo to San Francisco that passes through a wrinkle in spacetime and lands in the year 2040. With performances by an all-star cast Dan Stevens, Calista Flockheart, Reid Scott, Keith David, Alfred Molina, and Danny Trejo Flight 008 is an audio experience unlike any other.
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