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Auralnauts – Star Wars
A friend pointed me in the direction of this amazing treasure trove of gems, amazing editing, amazing cuts, ep2 and ep3 are my favourites, I think:
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select count(data leak) > 1.2 billion
boingboing reports: No one knows who owns the Google Cloud drive that exposed 1.2 billion user records… boingboing Yeah, not sure anybody will own up to that 😉
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Standard Ebooks
Standard Ebooks is an organization that tries to make really nice (e)books out of available, free and/or liberated books: Standard Ebooks is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, and free.
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MySQL Raytracing
2019 released at the Deadline demoscene party. A MySQL raytracer in an SQL statement.
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There was a Lake Bodom Trial in the 2000s??!
This completely passed me by. Read on Mentalfloss Spoiler Warning: —– —– They found some DNA evidence in 2004, brought charges, sought a conviction, court did not see sufficient evidence…
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Atari Commercial
This Atari Commercial is making its rounds on the internet: Looking at this with “now-eyes”, it is a bit funny how much more fantasy was required back in the day. In a way playing a video game was much more theater-of-the-mind than nowadays with (near) photorealistic everything. On the one hand a designer can now…
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I (better) wear my sunglasses at Space-Night
Using data from the Fermi space telescope scientists have discovered a Star system that is bright AF! In their article published in The Astrophysical Journal, they describe that this is most likely comprised of a binary star system with a rapidly rotating neutron star as one part of the light emitting duet.
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Star Wars in one Picture
Click and scroll down. If you have a printer with endless paper, I think you know what you need to do.
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The Beasty Americans
Excellent mashup from Malcom Edits, not caught up on the latest seasons of The Americans, but this really catches the spirit of the show and the song:
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Jupiter got a new profile picture taken by Hubble!
This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals the giant planet’s trademark Great Red Spot, and a more intense color palette in the clouds swirling in Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere than seen in previous years. The colors, and their changes, provide important clues to ongoing processes in Jupiter’s atmosphere. NASA…
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Le Mont Saint Michel – Drone View
Beautiful drone video of a quaint little island off the Normandy coast. When I read up a bit about the island, I was surprised to learn that the original site was apparently “founded by an Irish hermit, who gathered a following from the local community.” (wikipedia, also citation needed) via kraftfuttermischwerk
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Kurzgesagt – Complement System
Excellent video from kurzgesagt about the complement system. I knew next to nothing about this and I find it extremely interesting. “Cells that swallow you whole, trap you in a tiny prison and then kill you with acid”…