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I just did something I’ve wanted to do for years — rewatched all three Andy Serkis Planet of the Apes films back-to-back — before moving on to the fourth film (or rather, the first film in a potential sequel trilogy), Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, now streaming on Hulu and Disney+ along with the other three films. (Well, you have to have the D+/Hulu package to get them …

Meta’s Orion prototype. (Image: Meta) The game is to create a wearable, augmented-reality device that takes everything that’s great about a smartphone and overlays it on your vision, making the entire world a smartphone canvas. It’s part of a larger strategy, which is to own the next must-have technology device that supplants or augments the smartphone. This game has no rules. There’s no single accepted way to play it. Earlier …

Only one mention of Aphex Twin this week, sorry about that.

Scott Steiner’s shoot promo on Ric Flair on WCW Monday Nitro (7th February 2000) is one of my favourite promos in wrestling history and I had no idea it was on Genius.com. Kids should study this in schools. The post Scott Steiner’s infamous shoot promo on Ric Flair appeared first on Playrface.

1993 and a party in Brockley put on by Vox Populi sound system to raise funds to replace their rig which had been stolen from the Deptford Urban Free Festival in Fordham Park shortly before ('local people built the rig for free parties and festivals'). Venue was a furniture warehouse on Mantle Road.flyer from 56a Info Shop archiveKrumpo on twitter recalls going to another party at the warehouse, possibly put …

seekingstars: Bob Hicok

Details about Cicero’s life – well attested through many documents from antiquity – were almost forgotten during the Middle Ages. Substantial interest in his biography reemerged in the fourteenth century in the context of the North-Italian city-states (comuni).

"Do we ever truly let go of the people with whom we’ve been intimate on some level? Doesn’t a part of them live on inside us forever?"

🔦 Nitecore MT1A Pro EDC Flashlight Review on ZeroAir Reviews 🔦The Nitecore MT1A Pro EDC flashlight uses on UHi 25 LED, giving it great throw and output. It can run a 14500 cell (included) but also can run AA, too! Read on! The post Nitecore MT1A Pro EDC Flashlight Review first appeared on ZeroAir Reviews. RSS feed managed by AIOSEO.

Oliver Reichenstein (Mastodon, Hacker News): A couple of months ago, Google changed its API policy and revoked iA Writer’s access to Google Drive on Android. By freezing up Android’s main storage option, our app was frozen in carbonite. It still lived but we couldn’t move forward before resolving it. In order to allow our users to access their Google Drive on their phones we had to rewrite privacy statements, update …

“My own interpretation of this painting changes from day to day, hour to hour, and is based on nothing more than letting my mind wander whilst staring at the print on my wall. My thoughts vacillate. Sometimes I see an image that’s profoundly unknowable. A painting from tens of thousands of years ago surely lies beyond some horizon of intelligibility. Such painting, separated from the world that gave rise to …

I run 3 businesses: Design System University, an online school to help people working at enterprise organizations to design and build at scale through self-paced and live courses. Great Job!, a platform to help parents and caregivers design their own handbooks for raising amazing kids. Dan Mall Teaches, private consulting and coaching from me around design systems, design process and leadership, and career growth (though no one ever sees this …

🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Estimates based on surveys suggest that more than a third of all employed people are convinced that their own job is so pointless it wouldn’t matter at all to anyone if their position would cease to exist tomorrow. Not only is this making people miserable, it also makes little economic sense, but still the invisible hand of the market astonishingly won’t solve the situation …

Our Route to Fredericton We were through the no-hassle U.S. Border Control and back in Lubec, Maine with less than a 5-minute wait. We were so close to Eastport, Maine, we decided to take a little sidetrip. It’s the easternmost ‘city’ in the USA… versus easternmost town or point, a very important distinction. Eastport is the epitome of ‘Downeast Maine’. Why Downeast, you ask? In the days of old, ‘downeast’ …

Did you know that Moleskine notebooks have their own ISBN? I used to run a bookshop in a tweeting vending machine called Machine Supply. It was the smallest member of the Booksellers Association (I had a sticker on the glass and everything) and I partnered with a great book wholesaler. So the book business relies on wholesalers. They buy the books from the publishers and bookshops buy the books from …