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DJ Set recorded on February, 2024 on the island of Florianópolis
"I was at a party in space with creatures of all kinds and shapes you can imagine, and this was the music playing, the vibe was unbelievable. Influenced by the 1970s space disco, with its synthesizers, funky grooves, and a certain psychedelia, the space DJs know what they're doing, it's time to listen to the voice that comes from beyond, or rather, from the infinite and beyond." COSMIC GROOVES - A Funky, Disco & House Grooves MIX from Outer Space [2h]
...Ready for It (Football's Version)
Welcome to the fallow week between the final game of the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl between Kansas City and San Francisco. You could watch the Pro Bowl in Orlando, but filling the air with analysis, predictions and odds is an absolute must to keep the hype train rolling, but this year the Internet has stepped in to help keep the conversation going....
This is why I love Naomi Kritzer
The Year Without Sunshine is a new story by Naomi Kritzer. It's about what happens after the really big disaster. Kritzer is perhaps best known for Cat Pictures Please, but her other works have been lauded on MetaFilter previously (previously; previously; previously - So Much Cooking; previously - Better Living Through Algorithms, plus her election guide); previously - Paradox; previously; all the previouslies).
How to cut the most common vegetables
Chef Jean-Pierre Bréhier shows us how to cut the most common vegetables.
The Pharmacy in the Cupboard
It's cold and flu season - buckle up and watch yourself on trains and subways, because if you get what I've had, it's a doozy!.
Let's bone up on how to make yourself (or your loved ones) feel better when you/they feel terrible. And by all means, share your favorite remedies!
Do you like autumn? Do you enjoy the soundscape in Fallout?
Then this atmospheric animated screensaver, featuring falling leaves and oldies in the background might very well be the right mood for you today!
Scout finds a forever home
"He’d had enough of being at the animal shelter, so Scout the dog climbed over one tall fence and then another, crossed a busy highway in the darkness, entered the automatic doors of a nursing home down the road, walked unnoticed into the lobby, hopped onto a couch, curled into a ball and quietly went to sleep for the night."
CW - sympathetic mention of animal abuse at the start (non-graphic).
CW - sympathetic mention of animal abuse at the start (non-graphic).
Free Online Browser tools: Big list of free In Browser, Single Use tools
You need to do a thing - NOW!
For when you need to calculate a thing, or look up a thing, or be able to do the thing in your Browser without any faff.
Most of the tools listed are NOT from https://freetinytools.com/ but I had to put a link in the description....
Egg Man
The Incredible Edible Egg, the symbol of life. There's been a long debate about the health benefits and negative effects of the humble egg, but for many, the scrambled egg is the go to breakfast choice. The real question is which scrambled egg? Milk? Cream? Nothing? Salt? No Salt?
Again, as with all things culinarily inclined, this list is short sighted, full of gaps, holes, glaring errors and misconceptions, etc. Feel free to scramble over any and all bare spots!
Time Team: Time Team
In the runup to the online premiere of the 23rd series of Time Team episodes (First up a look at a potential Knights Hospitaller that premieres on YouTube Friday March 24th at 7PM GMT / 2PM ET / 11AM PT on TimeTeamOfficial) - why not revisit the long running staple of British television?
a funnel, the tinsel, sifting, forgetting, remembering
Here, have 2 heartwrenching short speculative fiction stories where parents, trying their best, say or do terrible yet ordinary things; their children eventually find imperfect ways to cope or heal. "Coming Through in Waves" by Samantha Murray -- content notes at the top -- "[My mother's] sentences all sound … reasonable on the surface. She’s pulling any immediate clues from the environment, from my expression, from words that knit well together, to cover the gaping wound which is her mind.". Summary of "Sand" by Jasmin Kirkbride: When Suzy was born, her parents filled her mouth with sand. But this is normal and natural and the way things are always done. And if she finds it uncomfortable to keep it there, to eat with it there, to talk with it there, she’s just going to have to learn to live with it.
"Baah!" "That's enough!"
Caterina Valente shows Dean Martin how to sing the one note samba.
An utterly charming performance.
This is Vin Scully, wishing you a very pleasant good afternoon.
"You and I have been friends for a long time, but I know in my heart that I’ve always needed you more than you’ve needed me, and I’ll miss our time together more I can say.
But you know what — there will be a new day, and eventually a new year. And when the upcoming winter gives way to spring, rest assured it will be time for Dodger baseball.
So this is Vin Scully, wishing you a very pleasant good afternoon, wherever you may be."
Avtar Singh Jouhl - How One Man Helped Desegregate Britain’s Pubs
Breaking the Color Bar
- David Jesudason, writing at Good Beer Hunting
During the early 1960s, the IWA used these tactics in the town’s pubs, organizing pub crawls with white left-wing university students who would buy their comrades of color pints in a nationwide campaign. When landlords noticed the color bar was being broken, they would bar the “offenders,” and campaigners such as Jouhl would then give evidence at licensee meetings, which resulted in some pub landlords losing their licenses.
During the early 1960s, the IWA used these tactics in the town’s pubs, organizing pub crawls with white left-wing university students who would buy their comrades of color pints in a nationwide campaign. When landlords noticed the color bar was being broken, they would bar the “offenders,” and campaigners such as Jouhl would then give evidence at licensee meetings, which resulted in some pub landlords losing their licenses.
First they came for our news, then our homes, now our pets
There are many reasons life is unaffordable for many Americans. Stagnant wages and the high costs of housing and healthcare have been well covered by the media. What there’s been less writing about is how private equity has impacted the houses we live in, the news we read and even how we care for our pets. Mass changes in ownership overtaking entire economic sectors raise important questions for Americans: Should we be pressuring our politicians to create policy that ensures whole industries don't get eaten up by the investor class? If so, at what point should we intervene?
Randall Cunningham Seizes The Means Of Production
In the latest installment of Pretty Good, Jon Bois discusses the Philadelphia Eagles, the 1987 NFL strike, and how to use a football play to metaphorically give owners the bird. (SLYT)
Dogs never die. They are sleeping in your heart.
I wrote this several years ago in memory of Bolo, a black and white Pit Bull who would always go for a walk, right up to the day he died. He might only get 15 feet before he stopped and looked at me and gave me the look: "I can't go any further. But don't you think for one minute I'm done walking."
I'm Just a Guy Whose Library Went Dark
"Friends tell me I’ll be remembered as the author of the definitive book on football [The Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football]. Or as the writer who popularized weekly NFL picks. Or one of the early crossovers into 24-hour sports television. To me, none of that matters. Right now, I’m just a guy whose library went dark on November 22, 2008."[auto play video] - Paul Zimmerman, known as Dr. Z, collaborates with Ken Rodgers, the supervising producer for NFL Films, to tell his story. Thank you, Dr. Z. Yours truly, Everybody.
Looks like you could use a pick-me-up.
Strong Female Protagonist is a (currently 16-page, but ongoing) webcomic that "follows the adventures of a young middle-class American with super-strength, invincibility and a crippling sense of social injustice."
Talking Thrillers
Listen to a conversation between
legendary American crime novelist Raymond Chandler and James Bond inventor Ian Fleming recorded by the BBC in 1958. The talk ranges from Mafia hits to the nature of villainy to the difference between English and American thriller.
And the winner is . . .
Oscar Night In Hollywood
"If we can huckster a President into the White House, why cannot we huckster the agonized Miss Joan Crawford or the hard and beautiful Miss Olivia de Havilland into possession of one of those golden statuettes which express the motion picture industry's frantic desire to kiss itself on the back of its neck?"
The Atlantic reprints an indispensible Raymond Chandler article from 1948.
We're running out of beer! EVERYBODY PANIC!!!11!!!!1
Is the hopocalypse upon us? Hops are an essential ingredient in beer (even dictated by law in Germany). But recent shortages and rising worldwide demand (pdf) have many craft brewers, hops dealers and homebrewers worried. How can you cope? Maybe it's time to try some gruit or mead.
Last call
Michael Jackson the Beer Hunter (not the other one) passed away this morning. Beer fans remember the man and his impact on the world of beer. Among other things, he is responsible for establishing the definition of worldwide beer styles. He is also credited with reviving the Belgian beer industry and inspiring the U.S. microbrewing renaissance. I'll raise a glass of ale to him tonight because he was a friend and inspiration.
viagra for plugs
How do you secure a plug so that even if someone yanks on the chord, it doesn't come out of an outlet? It does need to be POSSIBLE to get the plug out sometimes, and it won't work to glue/staple the chord to the wall, because sometimes equipment needs to be moved to another room.
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