Enjoy this surprisingly relaxing and accurate performance of game console startup chimes by Bored Piano. Below, all the MS Windows startup chimes and nightmare beats.

In this scene cut from the original theatrical release of Saturday Night Fever (1977), watch John Travolta do the Robot to the song "Disco Duck." Our family went to this… Read the rest of the article: Watch John Travolta do the Robot in deleted scene from Saturday Night Fever

Some good news: Sorry to Bother You creator Boots Riley teased a new TV series, an "episodic joy ride" titled I'm a Virgo: "I have a show about a 13-ft… Read the rest of the article: Boots Riley teases new "dark, absurd" series "I'm a Virgo"

Apple took on the challenge of Isaac Asimov's magnificently boring masterpiece Foundation, which has managed to evade screen adaptation for fifty years. Here's the trailer. I'm looking forward to episode… Read the rest of the article: Teaser for Foundation TV series

Researchers at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology in Basel, Switzerland have attempted to isolate the Neanderthal DNA from certain human stem cells. A leader on the project, Grayson… Read the rest of the article: Swiss scientists grew mini Neanderthal brains in petri dishes

A chart of newly-confirmed cases of Covid paints a grim picture of a suddenly-resurgent pandemic in the United States. Published by the Financial Times and based on data from the… Read the rest of the article: Covid cases soar in U.S.

Last summer, I worked with IBM and the Weather Channel on some climate- and energy-related content for their Forecast Change campaign. I just learned that the project apparently won a… Read the rest of the article: Floatovoltaics are a cool way to super-charge your solar panels with water

Apple is to phase out Intel CPUs in favor of its own ARM-based chips, it announced yesterday at the WWDC trade show in California. ARM designs are more energy-efficient and… Read the rest of the article: Apple to switch Mac lineup to its own chips

The border between Canada and the United States has been closed to everything but essential travel, for some time now. This means that Canadians and Americans can't enter each other's… Read the rest of the article: Americans are getting fined for goofing off in Canada

Following up on their advice on how to safely topple a statue using science, Popular Mechanics has another great new article on dealing with LRAD (long-range acoustic device) cannons. A popular… Read the rest of the article: Handy advice for dodging and disarming the sonic weapons used by militarized police

A performance in Portland, August 26, 2017.

If you create content for the web, you already know it takes time to build websites, write blog posts, create videos, produce graphics, and all the other steps that go… Read the rest of the article: Learn how to optimize your site's SEO with the help of this analysis tool

I bought a USB microscope a few years ago because I wanted to examine kitchen knife edges after I sharpen them using different sharpeners. I'm still having fun with it.… Read the rest of the article: Photos and videos of bugs and stuff with my USB microscope

Among Apple’s idiosyncratic quirks is a general discouragement when it comes to attaching peripheral devices. Sure, they aren’t vocally opposed, but through compatibility and other means, they don’t exactly make… Read the rest of the article: This hub keeps up to 8 devices plugged in at once so you can keep grinding

It turns out that police unions and benevolent associations lied and exaggerated about police officers being poisoned by Shake Shack milkshakes. From the New York Post: Police sources explained it… Read the rest of the article: The three New York cops who drank "poisoned" milkshakes didn't get sick

Since Trump's standout flub during his Tulsa rally debacle, in which he said, “When you do testing to that extent, you’re gonna find more people, you’re gonna find more cases.… Read the rest of the article: No joke: Trump says again today that we're "way ahead" if we slow down testing

I forgot about Standard Ebooks until this morning, and when I checked it out I discovered they have a bunch of new novels available, including Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, Eugene O'Neill's… Read the rest of the article: Standard Ebooks is still creating high quality ebooks of public domain novels

Studio Ghibli is releasing its first CGI movie, called Aya and the Witch. It's an adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones' children's book Earwig and the Witch. (The late Jones was also the author… Read the rest of the article: Still images from Studio Ghibli’s upcoming CGI film, Aya and the Witch

Outdoor apparel brand Patagonia said it is joining the #StopHateForProfit boycott against Facebook (and Instagram, owned by Facebook) because Facebook continues to promote "hateful lies and dangerous propaganda." Last week… Read the rest of the article: Patagonia joins advertising boycott against Facebook