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With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. With truly sufficient thrust, what lands will be more akin to bacon. Oink? Splat!

More synth-y soundtracking from the films I've never seen. This mysterious Paul Hertzog fella only did a handful of scores. 1988's Bloodsport was his second after the legendary My Chauffeur in 1986. Who knows what he did after the early 90s. I'm guessing since this synth-y style of soundtracking became unfashionable he probably ended up in education like the rest of us. Still you'd think some of these 21st century …

You’ve probably had some exposure to the concept of fight or flight by now. It’s a pretty well known, evolutionarily programmed response living things have to sensing and responding to perceived danger in their environment that includes responding with lightning speed and without a whole lot of prefrontal cortex input. Which is a good thing if we want to stay alive. (If you would like to read more about fight …

You are all cordially invited to the exhibition opening of “Bibliophiles Beware: The Situationist International and the Art & Politics of Cultural Hijacking”, to be held at the Book Club of California at 6pm Pacific on March 3, 2024 . Reception will begin at 5:30pm, with remarks by yours truly from 6pm to 6:20pm or 6:30pm or so. A few dozen items from my archive will be exhibited through May …

The Moon will soon experience human beings on its surface again, working and living on a regular basis. But when humans go back there, this time it will be to stay.

Table of contents Context What I want vs What I offer Usage-based pricing Per-seat - Recurring pricing Conclusion References Pricing for a SaaS, or online digital products in general, is a hot topic for debate. All the time. In this article I explain the pricing model I like as a customer of a SaaS product, and then compare that to the model I would (will) offer in my own SaaS …

Howdy to Deliberate Internet – my newsletter combining nuanced perspectives on Remote Work, Technology, Psychology, and other latest obsessions. Smart people tend to sacrifice a lot to make sure everyone around them knows they are indeed clever. Sometime in your thirties, once you have your first few scuffles with the world, you are faced with a choice: You can sound clever by finding holes in everything and start getting bitter …

A new study breaks down the biomechanics of one of the marine world’s most unusual hunting behaviors. Thresher sharks have one of the strangest body plans of any fish, with almost half their body comprised of a scythe-like tail. It had long been suspected that that they use this tail is a whip to stun ... Read More "Here’s how thresher sharks whip their tails back and forth" »

“Dark Wave,” hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs' Matt Sebastian, airs 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern every Sunday on Sirius XM satellite radio's 1st Wave. The post Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted by Slicing Up Eyeballs (2/18/24) appeared first on Slicing Up Eyeballs.

Statically typed languages are also good for ad-hoc scripting. This article is part of a short series of articles that compares ad-hoc scripting in Haskell with solving the same problem in Python. The introductory article describes the problem to be solved, so here I'll jump straight into the Haskell code. In the next article I'll give a similar walkthrough of my Python script. Getting started # When working with Haskell …

It is time to celebrate! Today marks the 94th anniversary of Pluto’s discovery by Clyde Tombaugh on February 18, 1930, at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. The observatory is celebrating with its annual I Heart Pluto event this weekend, featuring a Pluto pub crawl, a talk by writer Diana Gabaldon, and various science talks and demonstrations. In honor of this anniversary, National Geographic has published an article titled, “Did …

This week’s theme: Jazz With Strings. Featured artists include Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles McPherson, Bill Evans, Kronos Quartet, Ben Webster, Sonny Stitt, Cannonball Adderley, Clifford Brown, Sarah Vaughan.The post Podcast: Jazz Vinyl With Strings first appeared on jazzcollector.com.

A gedetineerde (literally: detained) is a prisoner. You may find them in prison records. From the late 1800s, some prisons took photos of their prisoners. You can find those in the records of the prison, usually kept at the archives in the provincial capital. You can also check the secret register of released prisoners. Six prisoners in the prison in The Hague, 1890. Call no. 484, Records of prisons The …

WWW: Robocop, The Sea Wolves, Sign of the Gladiator, and The HillROBOCOP (1987) --- Outlaw action thriller they’d not dare today, Robocop silly on surface, a title giving exclamation to that, but don’t confuse with safe spandex served over twenty years past (really, that many?). Robocop runs rapid, tawdry in the cut-price doing. Used to be flummoxed by those calling the eighties a golden era, or “last” golden era, but …