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[20:24] Open Reel Ensemble is a japanese music project with an interesting choice of instruments. (see also, see also)

[21:21] There are exactly two things I'd really like to have in AR glasses: Ctrl + F on piles of items in view and grep on printed text. I can absolutely do without games and all that, but these two things would actually get me interested.

[18:21] Starring The Computer lists computers that appear in movies. (see also, see also)

[02:08] Fixed a little bug in the function generating my RSS feed. I'm pretty sure this was when I broke it. The line numbers to delete are hardcoded, so as soon as all older posts not yet containing the publication date were gone the thing was bound to break. Which, due to my recently pretty low frequency of posting here, took a while.
I'll need to take another look at the script. It still works fairly decent, but it is pretty obvious that I had hardly any experience scripting when I wrote this. Also I have no idea what some of the variable names I chose even mean.
[01:53] A museum of Internet Artifacts. (see also, see also)

[22:42] There is a standardized method for brewing tea. (tea and coffee are important beverages, it seems.)

[02:35] A badge for websites not written by "AI". Called it! (According to a quick whois, the domain was registered about two and a half weeks after this blog entry, so picture me with a smug grin.)

[17:26] Did not know there was a name for the series of symbols in a speech bubble when a character in a comic book is cursing. Turns out it is called Grawlix. (see also)

[21:29] The term "Excel art" makes me think that cells are used as pixels, but you can create beautiful vector graphics with it, too. (see also)

[03:34] Jon Foreman makes beautiful, ephemeral sculptures from stones and leaves.

[23:38] Just finished watching "missing" on Netflix. Interesting concept: The entire movie takes place on the screens of various computers, phones et cetera. New to me, but apparently this is a thing: it's called screenlife.
Also not a bad movie.

[01:25] With printers generally considered spawns of the devil, this truck is right on track to succeed Christine. (see also)

[00:32] Oh, very nice! A DIY rocket "treehouse" with quite extensive documentation on the project. (via)

[22:08] A mechanical implementation of Conway's Game of Life, built using Lego. Also recommend a look at the other videos on this channel. (see also, see also)

[00:43] This website has a collection of websites with dumb password rules. (see also)
[00:23] Since websites began using "AI" to write articles I guess it will only be a matter of time until someone comes up with a trust seal that promises zero AI participation. Which, of course, will be as untrustworthy as all these other seals.