This YouTuber has a *lot* of incredibly mundane videos that are surprisingly interesting. They are largely videos shot in public places over the years… stores, malls, etc. on average days and remarkable days. https://www.youtube.com/@vampirerobot/videos For instance, shopping at a mall in 1984 is a fundamentally different experience than any mall I’ve seen in over a…
It turns out that Peter Jackson filmed about 1,300 *hours* of footage for the Lord of the Rings. Seven million feet of negative is sitting in a Warner Brothers vault, not doin’ nuthin’. Granted the majority of this is alternate takes and bloopers, but almost certainty there is enough quality additional scenes there that the…
Normally people are impressed with aircraft going higher, faster. And that’s certainly worth getting impressed about. But prepare to be impressed with aircraft going *incredibly* slow… Someday it will be practical to 3D print structures of incredibly lightness using carbon fiber, with structures decimeters long and hair-thin, while still rigid. With skins of graphene and…
Again. The Dating Pool Dropouts Yet another article about how young men are simply giving up on ever meeting anybody. The article isn’t *wrong,* it simply provides no solutions. Which… is kinda understandable. Nobody really knows how to solve this other than to destroy, outlaw, ban, erase social media and online dating and the ability…
Lyft Can Now Connect Women and Nonbinary Passengers With Drivers of the Same Gender The article doesn’t state it outright, but the descriptions by both the writer and Lyft make clear that the goal here is to make female passengers feel safer by giving them a driver that has certain characteristics they prefer. Two questions…
Disney Celebrates 100 Years With a $1,500 Box Set I guess $15 per movie is reasonable enough, but the article doesn’t say whether these are Blu Ray or 4K. Oddly, “Song of the South” doesn’t seem to be included, so if you were thinking of investing in order to be censorship-resistant, I have some bad…
Lots of people think we’re on the cusp of ditching fossil fuels in favor of an all-electric “renewable” and “green” world. There are of course a vast number of problems with this… when they say “all electric” they almost never mean “all nuclear,” but instead want to pave over the fields with a million acres…
Russia’s war in Ukraine has driven home the usefulness of dropping things from quadcopters. They can carry surprising payloads a good distance and place them with some fair accuracy; in war, payloads such as grenade, mortar shells, RPG warheads are obvious and useful choices. But then there’s this: It’s not immediately obvious why the owner…
