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In 2018, Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie teamed up to make a short PSA about the dangers of frame rate interpolation, a.k.a. the soap opera effect: It’s a strangely boring video from the men known for exciting filmmaking, but it...
The Confederation Centre of the Arts is nearing the end of a dramatic renovation. As a neighbour, watching the Centre extend itself out and up over the last two years has been fascinating, and I’ve been endlessly curious about what the...
A paper I read on astronomically calibrating pre-Cambrian sediments to get a more accurate chronology of important evolutionary events led me to look up where Earth’s rotational axis has pointed over geological time.
I bought Trades, Quotes and Prices a few years ago and it came with access to some free data to help you understand the concepts. That data was from LOBSTER and it has the limit order book (LOB) of five tech stocks for a single day in...
☕️ It took me far too long to pull the trigger on an insulated French press (I’ve been getting by just fine with a V60 and AeroPress thank you very much). What I have loved about the French press is the volume. Being able refill through...
Stardict Dictionaries — An archive of dictionaries in StarDict format GoldenDict-ng — Dictionary lookup program that supports multiple formats. KOReader — Document viewer for e-ink readers. KOReader User Guide — Documentation for...
This is the third of three posts on the experience and design of the Goose Creek Connector, following up on the good and the bad of the implementation of the design. Today I want to talk about the elements of the Goose Creek Connector...
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades. anothermartz made a couple of Parappa the Rapper videos that look and sound very close to the original, albeit in its...
Standing in the Age of Mammals Hall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is one of the most delightfully perplexing mammals ever to paddle, wade or lumber along the Pacific coast.At first glance, its skeleton appears...
I have written before on here about Guinness signage across London. One of the signs I've photographed most often is the broken Millennium clock on the corner of the Archway Tavern, London N19, announcing GUINNESS TIME with a repair man...
The end is in sight. This week, we start with the top shelf of my very last set of bookshelves in this tour of my personal comics library. This particular set of bookshelves is the very oldest, one so old that I can't remember where it...
A friend running a company was telling me about a run of hard decisions he’d had to make recently to get to a major milestone – hitting cash flow positive. Or, as he put it with a grin, going from “default dead” to “default alive.” It’s...
I don't usually get excited about read-later apps. I've tried most of them (Instpaper, Matter, Readwise, Omnivore), kept none for long. But Quick Reads is different, and not because it does more than the others. It does less, and it does...