Anish Athalye and friends added a touchscreen to a MacBook with only a $1 camera part. How'd they do it? Magic? No. Software. And ingenuity. The basic principle behind Sistine… Read the rest of the article: Clever software and a $1 camera add touchscreen capability to a MacBook
Granted, the ancient box hosting rhyal.com has had a few upgrades This site is being hosted and served by a Macintosh SE/30 running MacOS 7.5.5. This SE/30 is a 16MHz… Read the rest of the article: Website hosted on 1989 Macintosh SE/30
An explosion at a military base in Siberia rocked residents of remote Kamensk Sunday, according to reports, and 11,000 were evacuated. The blast was caused by wildfires reaching ammunition stores.… Read the rest of the article: FOOTAGE: Explosion at remote Siberian military base
Heartwarming, but also quite tailwarming.
You're fretting about hackers, political shenigans and data breaches. Then your creepy uncle shares photos of your newborn baby, complete with its location, to his thousands of fake facebook "friends".… Read the rest of the article: The biggest threat to privacy? Your own family
Via Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post, here's the official White House transcript of President Trump's remarks on the terrorist mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio. It includes his mistaken statement… Read the rest of the article: Official White House transcript of President's remarks on mass shooting in [TodayGunMassacreCity]
That Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining features a wealth of subtle references is not in doubt, not least the inconsistent geography of the Overlook Hotel, which seems unremarkable at first… Read the rest of the article: Detailed maps of the Overlook Hotel, from The Shining
Under Covers is a delightful NSFW animation by Mighty Oak. On the night of a lunar eclipse, we uncover the sweet, salacious, and spooky secrets of a small town. From… Read the rest of the article: Under Covers: stop-motion animation about the mysteries of bedtime
It's as if the Dog of Wisdom and Hi Stranger had a puppy together. I'd like to credit the genius who created this, but can't find the source. Previously: Do… Read the rest of the article: Do not watch bark.mp4 while high
Sony's FE 135mm f/1.8 GM (Amazon) is a serious lens for its full-frame cameras, costing about $2000 and winning over critics. PetaPixel compares it to $12k glass after finding it… Read the rest of the article: Teardown of Sony's new 135mm full-frame lens
Franky Zapata is the first person to cross the English Channel on a flyboard. The Frenchman, who invented the hovering device, made the 22-mile trip in 22 minutes, wearing a… Read the rest of the article: Man crosses English channel on flyboard
It is, evidently, not a nice job. But you do get to be alone, if that's your thing, with The Inventory, boxing things all day. This eBay seller gets into… Read the rest of the article: What it's like to be a professional eBay seller
At least 10 people were killed after a gunman opened fire in a Dayton nightclub early Sunday, targeting revelers in the Ohio city's Oregon Historic District. 26 more victims were… Read the rest of the article: 10 killed in Dayton mass shooting
At least 19 people were killed after a gunman opened fire in an El Paso Walmart on Saturday, targeting back-to-school shoppers. Forty more victims were reportedly injured. The shooter was… Read the rest of the article: 19 killed in El Paso mass shooting
Adventurer! Will you attack with easy nobleness, taking reputation points from you everytime you hit back, ten times? Or will you tell the priest to finish what's been going on… Read the rest of the article: AI Dungeon offers infinite, baffling adventures created with GPT-2
100,000 stars has apparently been around for years, but I loved how much fun it makes zooming in and out of the Milky Way and checking out nearby stars. I… Read the rest of the article: Explore 100,000 stars in the browser
Jurors found that Katy Perry's Dark Horse "improperly copied" an earlier song titled Joyful Noise by Flame, a Christian rap artist. The case focused on the notes and beats of… Read the rest of the article: Jury: Katy Perry's Dark Horse's infringes copyright of earlier song
Bellowphone made a unique organ and now demonstrates it in action: "the sound of my most recent skweeze-ball instrument, with a song from Mozart's Magic Flute."
King of the Hill is "The greatest anime of the late 90s," writes Gamblor on YouTube. QED.
Ugly Gerry is a typeface where each glyph is a conspicuously gerrymandered congressional district. The district boundaries are manipulated thus by incumbent politicians to arrange voters to their own party's… Read the rest of the article: Ugly Gerry, a font based on gerrymandered districts
