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Fans of the band Wilco will recognize one of the Conet Project's recordings as the source of the woman repeating "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" in the song "Poor Places" from the eponymous…

Yes! And every day the California Citrus State Historic Park is open for tours and tasting of various citrus varieties: https://www.californiacitruspark.com

And I remember going to Radio Shack at the mall as a kid and wanting that Armatron robot so badly! Being able to get these things now for pretty cheap and fixing them and playing w…

A parenting tip for those with geeky kids: You can get some of these (like the smaller TOMY robots) for pretty cheap on eBay. They're usually broken, but the innards of these robot…

In the site's defense, it is emulating like ten different operating systems as you scroll.

Here's a cross-section through the theatre portion of the Barbican showing the complexity of the engineering: https://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/5w9ep7/cross_...

I'm guessing the title was meant to be a nod toward the meaning of the English word iota , "an extremely small amount".

Yup - the first few minutes of one of Technology Connections' videos on electromechanical pinball machines shows this mechanism in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3p_Cv32t…

Your post reminded me of Mark Twain’s very funny short story “The McWilliamses And The Burglar Alarm”: https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story...

Here's a Python script I wrote that generates storage bin labels and prints them using a cheap 2" by 3" label printer: https://github.com/wgrover/jamie The name 'jamie' is in honor…

I miss Pine too. I could read/file/delete scores of plaintext emails in seconds using single keystrokes. Every email client I've used since Pine has been better at dealing with all…

Thanks for the suggestion - I looked into music recognition algorithms early on but struggled to adapt them for image use. But I'll revisit them.

Thanks! There are related structures in electronic circuits called physical unclonable functions (PUFs) that find uses in cryptography - you might find them interesting: https://en…

Here's some work I did a couple years ago using some of these principles to fight counterfeit medicines: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11234-4 A side note: I think the…

You might also find moiré-effect navigation beacons interesting, like the one that Tom Scott visits here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d99_h30swtM

Can anyone recommend a backup strategy for iCloud? Specifically, my Macs' hard drives aren't big enough for any one computer to store everything locally, so some documents end up l…

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/future/mars.pdf

I had the same thought. BTW, the movie is titled "The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!" in the UK (same as the book it's based on). The studio changed the title for Americ…

https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr Random musings of a professor of Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside. A few highlights: - https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2017-12-10…

https://www.simplify3d.com/3d-printing-the-curta-calculator-... And a fun video of Adam Savage playing with Marcus Wu's 3D-printed Curta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9uRckJLqL…

Lovely work. Here's a similar project where I showed that randomly-placed multicolored candy particles (nonpareils) can be used to confirm the authenticity of pharmaceuticals: http…

Based on the title, I was expecting something quite different...