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Things to use or delete.

https://watabou.itch.io/procgen-mansion

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/random-mansion-generator.html

Facebook post about weird food

Spoon Falls Baby Calls

Artificial Palmistry

Apple Perfume: "OS X for Men" https://boingboing.net/2019/06/27/jony-ive-leaves-apple-but-wil.html

Zacharoon

Tallow sapiens - Organic golem - sentient fatberg

In the beginning was the Word, and in due course -- allowing for tragicomic delays such as QWERTY -- came the word processor. From there is was a short hop to databases and web pages. Why not a wiki?

By topic:

Canvas

5x7 stretched canvas, artist archival quality.

  • 8 ounce cotton duck
  • Acrylic gesso triple primed
  • For acrylics and oils
  • 1.5" staple-free edges
  • Kiln dried, beveled stretcher bars
  • Professional frame construction
  • Removable for restretching
  • Hangs with or without frame

Manufactured by Art Alternatives.

Extreme Ditches

Boing Boing reports on the Panama Canal:

For more than a century, the Panama Canal has helped move shit by ship around the world. It's acted as a pinch point in international diplomacy, made vast sums of money off of the vessels that pass through it and, is so important to some shipping routes that many cargo vessels are designed specifically to fit within the canal's locks. This video breaks down the canal's importance and history into easily digestible facts that may bore folks at a party, but absolutely fascinated me.

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/08/the-panama-canal-the-worlds.html

To do: Extreme Ditches, a reality television show about terraforming.

Project A119

Project A119, also known as A Study of Lunar Research Flights, was a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force. The aim of the project was to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon, which would help in answering some of the mysteries in planetary astronomy and astrogeology. If the explosive device detonated on the surface, not in a lunar crater, the flash of explosive light would have been faintly visible to people on Earth with their naked eye, a show of force resulting in a possible boosting of domestic morale in the capabilities of the United States, a boost that was needed after the Soviet Union took an early lead in the Space Race and was also working on a similar project.

The project was never carried out, being cancelled primarily out of a fear of a negative public reaction, with the potential militarization of space that it would also have signified, and because a Moon landing would undoubtedly be a more popular achievement in the eyes of the American and international public alike. A similar project by the Soviet Union also never came to fruition.

The existence of the US project was revealed in 2000 by a former executive at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Leonard Reiffel, who led the project in 1958.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119

Two Chessboards Fighting

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Slurry-Eyed

"She was so, how do you say, slurry-eyed, so beguiling I could not resist."

"Sloe-eyed. I think you mean sloe-eyed."

He sighed. "Well, it could be. We were drinking gin."

Sarah glared at them mildly. "Doe-eyed."

Science

Putting science in the category of the supernatural seems like a dangerous rhetorical move to make. It would put science in the same category as religion. Or, it would be dangerous if people like this actually cared about such things.

“It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.” - Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“The priests of science can blatantly, publicly, verifiably walk on the Moon as a faith-based miracle, and your priests’ faith can’t do the same.” -Eliezer Yudkowsky

See also 1 Kings 18:20-40, from a time when priests and prophets were willing to subject their faith to controlled experiment and abide by the results.

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/texas-republican-says-vaccines-are-sorcery/143927/133

Joey Diaz on Donald Trump

"Donald Trump ... I could not believe it ... just what he did in New York ... in New York in the Eighties when he was ... doing all that developing ... somewhere along the line this Trump was in bed with organized crime ... had to be ... Trump Plaza, Atlantic City, just look at the locations ..."

Humans

therobotmonster:

Humans do not have biological castes. Kill their commander and another will take its place. Soldiers left alone on a planet will start farming and manufacturing to survive. Farmers and manufacturers will take up arms and kill you if pressed. Just because two humans look different doesn’t mean they cannot do each other’s jobs.

Breeding does not kill them. A single human can mate dozens or hundreds of times in a lifetime. They often do so as recreation. Xenobiology team six believes they do not have a mating season but this is too strange to be true.

Their appendages are not designed for hitting, so they developed special training to make them very good at hitting anyhow.

The proteins making up their bodies are toxic and cause prion disease. Do not touch anything humans have touched. Do not consume earth foods. Fire does not adequately remove this contamination.

Humans perceive sixteen times the colors we do. Do not hide in bushes or vines from humans. They can distinguish your pelt from the foliage with ease.

We tried venting waste gas into the tunnels to kill the humans when they attacked. Turns out they breathe it.

Everything on their planet came from a single biological strain. They developed comprehensive genetics BEFORE they developed space travel.

They lack radio receptors and cannot be brought into compliance with right-thought simply by broadcasting to them. Even after we learned how to translate it into sound-waves one of their hatchlings drove the Great Authority mad by responding to every demand with a single question: “Why?”

https://what-are-even-humans.tumblr.com/post/165260088885/artifactrix-sorcyress-silentstep/embed

See also Reading list (nonfiction).

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