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[23:33] In 2008 there was an art installation in London and New York mimicking a Telectroscope.
[19:22] Closing vim is one thing that confuses many people at first. The good news is that it is fairly well documented. :)
[18:38] Here's a digital meta clock made from 24 analog clocks.
[14:24] Turns out emoji scissors mostly wouldn't work.
[11:56] Geir Isene made a font inspired by M.C. Escher. The letters M and W keep confusing me.
[06:06] I recently played Tiberian Sun and wanted to edit one specific setting in the rules.ini file, which I knew was possible but have never done before. A quick web search later I had found these tools (the XCC Mixer, specifically) and this guide to editing the game. After changing the setting I had in mind, I started toying with other stuff, started mixing units to create my own. A neat little rabbit hole to fall into.
[20:30] So barcode art is a thing, apparently.
[20:28] Here is a switch modded to be a switch. (Yes, I know. Technically, more of a bridge. But name!)
[13:27] dmbaturin has a Web 1.0 memorial. :)
[13:22] Met a former neighbor yesterday who just like me is not really good at staying in touch with people. However, they had a neat, if somewhat nerdy idea: whenever they feel it is time to get in contact but lack a topic, they'll just send "keepalive" to the other person. (Might not work with less geeky people, though.)
[19:06] Behold the InstallShield Wizard! :D
[15:53] Weird art from the internet: Flarf poetry
[15:42] urban tetris is a tetris-ified version of Sofia, Bulgaria.
[21:04] Who at Microsoft decided that they need to cram the word "experience" into every mail, blog post, event talk at least once? Just a bit earlier one guy at their recent event actually talked about a "pen experience" without even seeming to want to curl up and die. Seriously, this is annoying as fuck.
[21:00] An elite tactical unit of the German Federal Police stormed a former NATO bunker to seize servers hosting illegal content. Cyberpunk is now.
[04:08] Stuff I'll have to take a closer look on: a plain text music sequencer.
[21:36] Today I learned there are devices that bullshit smartphones into registering steps taken, so the step counter can be bumped up. And apparently people are actually paying for stuff like that instead of just getting up and walking. Lazy fucking morons.
[16:25] I came across a really cool map making tutorial for GIMP.
[23:46] Wikipedia has a list of unusual units of measurement. :)
[21:51] Oh, modern times! First crime commited by a person in space.
[22:40] Here is a list of the colors Github uses to mark languages. You can use this to make stuff like this, for example.
[22:32] There is an approach to captchas that I might not hate: Metal captcha. Discontinued, of course. Narf.
[21:31] Holy Zarquon! A model of the solar system made with CSS (and the Github repo).
[19:57] Ever wanted to know which programming language uses the least energy?
[21:40] A person in Virginia, US is leaving old TVs on front porches, while wearing a TV as a helmet. I am by now absolutely positive that reality simply crashed a while ago and we are now on an unpatched pre-alpha backup reality running on broken servers.
[21:18] The North American Fiber-Seeking Backhoe is a dangerous beast!
[23:05] IPv4 addresses are kind of weird, sometimes.
[22:49] Someone wrote an article on the Tildeverse on Wikipedia.
[22:55] Netflix has a Chaos Monkey that will kill prod systems at random to guarantee that availability is thoroughly tested.
[22:29] Experts at work again: Canadian police had the cat filter on during a press conference live stream on a double homicide.
[22:07] Have you ever been interested in the weight of your files?
