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I “discovered” one of my heroes, Stan Freberg, in the early sixties when he was still making comedy records and also making a name for himself with innovative and funny commercials. His spots for Chun King Chow Mein were especially infamous…and one of the few times that the public was ever aware who was responsible for an advertising campaign. In 1962, the company that marketed Chun King — which was …

Alternate Universe keeps comic books super in New Haven The store, which has two locations in Connecticut, is supported by a loyal customer base. Christina Lee 11:37 pm, Feb 21, 2024 https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/02/21/alternate-universe-keeps-comic-books-super-in-new-haven/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rhAziDRsgs Azuki announces LOST YOUTH, CASES AND THEN SOME, and two more MediBang! titles [digital manga subscription service] Rebecca Oliver Kaplan 02/22/2024 https://www.comicsbeat.com/azuki-announces-lost-youth-cases-and-then-some-and-two-more-medibang-titles/ Manta Expands into French-Language Digital Comics Market [South Korean digital comics platform] Feb 21, 2024 …

If you’re wondering why so much comic news broke today, it’s because ComicsPRO, the Comics Professional Retail Organization, is hosting its industry meeting over the next three days. As a part of that meeting, comics publishers are presenting some of their future plans to attendees and, in many cases, releasing that news into the wild. DC was one of many publishers on hand to talk to retailers, and gave several …

This is massively a MQoS Not Dead Yet posting, noting that I am currently in a state of body and mind unlike anything I’ve previously reported on, and opening up a lot of questions about the many experiential states that are depressive in one sense or another. I’ve been sleeping a lot (10+ hours at night the last two nights, plus a couple of hours napping during the day), but …

1984 In early 1984 Scottish band The Blue Nile released their debut album “A Walk Across The Rooftops” including the single Tinseltown in the Rain. After 40 years the album is still regarded as a classic, and in all that time the band have released only three other albums. 2010 A user called XTC343 uploaded some files to a USENET newsgroup: a fan-made multi-channel version of The Blue Nile’s “A …

A commercial, robotic spacecraft has become the first U.S. vehicle to land on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. "Odysseus," Intuitive Machines' first Nova-C lander, touched down near the lunar south pole on Thursday (Feb. 22). Carrying both privately-booked and NASA-contracted payloads, the IM-1 six-legged probe delivered science instruments, artwork and data archives to the moon, as well as several technology demonstrations.

Mahdi Bchatnia (via Daniel Jalkut): A simple Mac app for symbolicating macOS/iOS crash reports.Supports symbolicating:.crash and .ips crash reportssample and spindump reports

Apple is internally testing a new ChatGPT-like generative AI tool that will enable employees to offer faster technical support going forward. Apple recently launched a pilot program that provides select AppleCare support advisors with access to a new tool called "Ask" that can automatically generate responses to technical questions they receive from customers, according to information obtained by MacRumors. Advisors can then relay the info to customers in online chats …

*ChatGPT “inference kernel” bug causes the AI to spout bizarre prose to users

All the morning at the office. At noon with my wife and Pall to my father’s to dinner, where Dr. Thos. Pepys and my coz Snow and Joyce Norton. After dinner came The. Turner, and so I home with her to her mother, good woman, whom I had not seen through my great neglect this half year, but she would not be angry with me. Here I staid all the …

Singapore Airlines knows what it’s doing. No airline is perfect, but Singapore earns its status as a fan favorite for frequent fliers. Flying one of their long-haul premium cabins has been one of my AvGeek dreams for a while. So when I snagged a lucky award ticket during a trip to Asia/Australia — and on the A380, no less — I was EXCITED. I’m not going to bury the lede. …

Justin Garcia, Dan Sullivan, Jay Cridlin, and Olivia George, Tampa Bay Times: Tampa media consultant Tim Burke was charged Thursday with 14 federal crimes related to alleged computer hacks at Fox News. […] According to the indictment, Burke and an unnamed person used “compromised credentials” to access and save protected commercial broadcast video streams, then disseminate specific clips after taking steps to mask where they came from and how they …

Paraphrasing the Soul Sonic Force and sorting through today`s releases for tunes that could have graced Alfredo Fiorito & Leo Mas’ Amnesia dance-floor… Jan Gleichmar, aka Disrupt`s dusts off 2 tracks from his archives for a fresh 45 of “digital laptop reggae”. Drops like only he can do, they`re prefect additions to his Leipzig label Jahtari`s Lo-Fi aesthetic. Arcade Addict dates from 2006, and is cover of the Prince Jazzbo-produced …

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Let ℤ² be the lattice of points in the plane with integer coordinates. You could think of these points as being the centers of the squares in a chessboard extending to infinity in every direction. Cantor tells us that the points in ℤ² are countable. What’s more surprising is that you could count the points using a knight’s move. If you place a knight at the origin, there is a …