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Here's Alex Brundle, interviewing one of the cars
Autonomous car racing is a bit of a mess. A slightly sarcastic overview of the first ever Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League event (previously)
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
Palm OS and the devices that ran it - a retrospective on the popular PDA and precursor to the smartphone.
Re-light my fire
A discovery about how a circular trough filled with lighter fluid can create looping mini-flames leads to a fascinating set of experiments and an explanation of excitable media.
“I can lose a bag of flour to have a good employee”
Learning how to make pizza at a NY slice shop (with varying levels of chaos) [SLYT]
Everyone loves Bidoof
Bidoof's Big Stand, a cute short film about everyone's favourite normal-type beaver-inspired Pokémon. Bonus: a 2 hour metatextual analysis of Bidoof's contribution to society.
I saw a drug deal in a playground, and watched parakeets cavort
James Gingell describes walking London's Capital Ring.
You can lace your signature guitar sound with some truly epic farts
This chart is a work of art
Katelyn Gadd highlights a CNN chart which is more than a little misleading. Bonus: more terrible charts!
100 Visions of Parenthood
A collection of photographs and words celebrating the complexities of motherhood and fatherhood (via Kottke).
Practice until you get it wrong every time
The Mistake Waltz - a short ballet choreographed with intentional and comical errors that can't help but make you smile. (via Kottke)
Pinch / clench
Among a collection of upcoming improvements for people with disabilities is an amazing demo of AssistiveTouch features on Apple Watch supporting people with limb differences.
We’ve tried a beautiful experiment here; this is where the future lies
KITTEN WITH HEAD STUCK IN BONGO DRUMS
“If a sheep could, it’d die twice.”
The knackerman - an affecting portrait of a man and his job of removing the farm animals who didn't make it. (Trigger warning: animal death)
State-sponsored non-existent coffee shops
The Guardian describes how you can manipulate the conversation on Facebook by commenting from Page accounts, courtesy of former employee Sophie Zhang who describes how this technique is used to distort political discourse around the world.
Let's smelt some plants!
The NYT covers phytomining - the process of retrieving metals from certain types of plant. Their sap can contain a higher concentration of nickel than regular ore, bringing the prospect of planting over abandoned mines, slowly cleaning the soil and extracting the remaining metals at the same time - phytoremediation. (hat-tip to Boing Boing)
".... It is a really nice day."
Sneaking, Urgency, Misdirection, Scarcity, Obstruction and more!
Knot fun
Shut up and dance
Dance 10000 shows a young girl dancing through her day, part of a Swedish project to get kids moving.
"Everyone says to me: why the 70s? And I say: why not?"
Homes that are portals to the past - talking to people who have the interior decor of their homes based on what was popular in the good old days.
Literally playing with fire
How to play Snapdragon, a Victorian Christmas party game!
"I may have just found my new favourite content discovery mechanism"
"Very simple, but powerful images with a beautiful clarity."
A collection of photographs of teenagers dressed up for proms cancelled due to Covid-19 wins this year's photographic portrait prize. See the winners and the other finalists in the virtual exhibition.
Its origin and purpose still a total mystery
The Utah Department of Public Safety has found a monolith in Utah.
What is a hole?
Everyone wants to see St Paul's Cathedral
Do not approach or touch any object as it may explode and kill you
Why 'The Broomway' is the most dangerous path in Britain, taken from The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane (previously).
"Any criminal that uses an encrypted phone should be very, very worried"
International cooperation between police forces enabled them to spy on an encrypted phone network, Encrochat, since the 1st April 2020. The result is a massive operation arresting 746 suspects in the UK alone.
Commence eye-roll sequence
"This is magic. We are watching magic unfold here."
A sublime 25 minutes of watching someone solve a Sudoku puzzle with some extra restrictions - starting with a grid containing just two numbers.
Stuff wot people have made
People keep creating stuff! Get inspiration for your own creations, or simply marvel at the amazing makers.
"I'm calling in black today."
Aaaaaaaaaaaargggghhhh!
The Roomba that screams when it bumps into things. (NSFW: swearing - lots of swearing)
"Code’s effects can surprise everyone, including the coders."
This post just might include all letters of the alphabet
Robin Houston explains the history of a tweet (Threadreader) which contains all the letters of the alphabet while also describing itself.
"And it's here. Almost."
'Ultra racing - when I first heard about it, I thought, "That's stupid"'
GBDuro 2019 was the first of an annual self-supported ride across the United Kingdom, using a route that includes roads, gravel trails, singletrack and everything in between. Organised by The Racing Collective, it was won by a pro rider Lachlan Morton who had his first steps into ultra racing documented in a beautiful and inspiring short film.
Piano composition
Nahre Sol explains really clearly how you can go from simple to complex when composing music for the piano.
She’s there to ask one thing: is this game being ignorant?
Kate Edwards helps game developers think about the geography and symbolism in their games in an interview with RPS and a talk from GDC 2016.
Motion capture madness
Ed Sheeran's new music video features motion capture.
You may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's
Where we are in 2019 - a view of the current set of spacecraft in our solar system and beyond, courtesy of The Planetary Report.
Cat and Mouse
A cat is chasing a mouse which is trapped in a circular pond. The cat can run around the outside of the pond four times faster than the mouse can swim. Can the mouse escape?
Overwatch Workshop
Blizzard recently announced a new feature in Overwatch - the Workshop. This allows anyone on PC or console (currently only on the Public Test Region) to create new game modes using the existing maps and art, which can be debugged and then shared using a short code.
Panicked, he jumped off the mountain to his death
In search of the Brocken spectre - a photo essay about visiting Burley Moor in Yorkshire to get a glimpse of an unusual optical illusion in the fog.
Craftmanship
Forged and Filed is a video by Jesse Beecher showing the construction of Seth Gould's piece "Coffer", a modern armada chest (more armada chest images).
Who, me?
The four elements: Water, Wind, Fire and Soap
The number two reason for buying more Lego
Intrepid researchers discover if eating Lego is dangerous.
The ancient ritual of the earth
Earlier in the summer, he had told me he would prepare for the world championship by drinking five pints the night before. When asked if any other international athlete adopted a similar strategy ahead of a major competition, he disputed the terms: “I wouldn’t say athlete.” The Guardian covers the World Ploughing Championships.