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Linotype machines were revolutionary. The New York Times used them for 127 years until 1978 and this documentary shows them in action for the last time: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

No. We put a lot of references into Fallout, but that wasn’t one of them. (And we didn’t have any toads on the team, just a scorpion the artists used as a reference and no one was …

You might want to check out Slate: https://www.slate.auto/en No embeded modem.

The Kriegsmarine had more secure procedures for transmitting the setting key, added more rotors for more possible combinations, and eventually introduced a new Engima with four rot…

Interesting article, but those videos aren’t. Not even pre-MTV quality. While checking out the gallery, came across this image: https://www.tryai.dev/gallery/d3725e9b-1df9-4c10-8a2…

According to the store page, the cards were printed and bound in China. There are a lot of different card manufacturers there. For very small runs of 1-10 decks, I've used places l…

It took me twice as long to read Hard Boiled as it should since I spent so much time looking at Geof Darrow’s intricately detailed art. Great story, but the illustrations are on an…

Like T2, Jurassic Park is a blend of CGI with practical effects and animatronics. JP only had 63 CGI scenes with many more practical effects. https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/20027…

We live two hours from the closest Costco. We make a day of it once every 45-60 days plus shop at other stores we don’t have in our small town and see some family. We don’t have an…

It would also be far cheaper to send that nuclear waste to Mars. It takes 55 times the energy to fly to the Sun than it does to go to Mars: https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/its-su…

The T-800s HUD scene in the first Terminator used 6502 assembly from Nibble magazine. https://www.theterminatorfans.com/the-terminator-vision-hud-...

Thanks to Wikipedia TIL Johnny Cash released a song about Sequoyah called "Talking Leaves". From the same album as the much more famous "Ballad of Ira Hayes". https://en.wikipedia.…

My parents are retired fire-fighters. They had an American pygmy goat named Bleve. Those goats commonly have very rotund stomachs[1] that look like they are about to explode. [1] h…

When I say something inappropriate on the phone or over Discord, I always tell the NSA guy listening it was a joke.

That was an excellent read for explaining why space isn’t just hard, but expensive.

I've seen Magic the Gathering fakes that are higher quality than the real cards.

The Jaguar catalog was mostly meh, but there were a few gems that I really enjoyed (Aliens vs Predator, Doom, Wolf 3d, Iron Soldier, and Tempest 2000). AvP alone was worth the pric…

I design boardgames and it's easy to write a lot of rules. It's more difficult to write concise rules. Most of my time is spent editing rules to their absolute minimum. "I have mad…

The website has some more info on the biometric vs. password debate and legal situation: https://paniclock.github.io/