#LibriVox audio book of Michael Faraday's lectures on the chemical history of a candle, adapted from his famous Christmas Lectures.
"Taking the everyday burning of a candle as a starting point, Faraday spans the arc from combustion and its products, via the components of water and air (oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon), back to the type of combustion that happens in the human body when we breathe."
https://librivox.org/the-chemical-history-of-a-candle-by-michael-faraday/
Looking thru old folders to move over, and I find this. It looks OK, moves a little herky-jerky, but doesn't really do anything. 60% of a game at best.
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Battle Sloth pin. In 1987, two opposing sloth tribes went to war. The battle lasted for five weeks. There were zero casualties, as the sloths only made it 20 feet across the battlefield.
https://collabs.shop/uk5yfz
i wrote a 120,000 word book on my experience growing up in the BBS and dial-up internet era, from ~1985-1997
it's chock full of stories about ibm pc and macintosh hardware and gaming
it's going to be published this autumn as an ebook and might get a print edition
but i have a far more stupid idea for it: how about a floppy disk edition with a custom dos/windows 3.1 & macintosh system 6 ebook version
has anyone written a Voyager Expanded Book using the VEB Toolkit in 30 years?
(if you haven't heard of Expanded Books, michael crichton and voyager's team wrote an *excellent* version of Jurassic Park)
is there an ms-dos or windows 3.1 equivalent to VEBs? I swear that back in the 90s someone made ebooks using "Asymetrix Multimedia Toolbook", but i can't seem to find any examples of it
@vidak @aartaka (Today I'm thinking of you both, because I've been nerdsniped into reading about TECO: https://github.com/blakemcbride/TECOC)
@izzy yeah, I honestly pity them. Maybe that sounds arrogant but these techbros probably think they can actually solve the trolley problem... in ruby, or something ๐คฃ
bbs enthusiasts might remember the name Telegard - a bbs server written based on wwiv's source code and hugely popular with the ibm pc/ms-dos crowd
telegard had a long and tumultuous history by its authors, and its own source was eventually leaked and was modded into many more popular (pirate-friendly) ms-dos boards like Renegade, Oblivion and Iniquity.
while i was doing research a few months ago on the history of those systems, i found out that telegard.net - the original home of tg - was taken over by a domain squatter in 2010, populated with ads for the past 15 years.
two months ago, i noticed that the squatter had not renewed the domain, and it went into the long grace/redemption/auction/expiry cycle. i checked on it every single morning, and to my absolute delight, it was released this morning for purchase. ๐ธ
the domain will be used purely for historical preservation of telegard and its many descendants
update: restored the old site from the WBM archived version to https://telegard.net
who up std::transform_reduce'ing they std::vector<std::tuple<size_t, std::shared_ptr<std::vector<std::shared_ptr<std::string>>>>>
In these trying times, it's good to treat yourself.
- procure some enchanting pants
- throw a party for your mind goblins
- color your hair to match your favorite nebula
- eat a block of cheese the size of a car battery
You deserve all this and more.
The QLD government got heaps mAd when people in Brisbane/Meanjin wanted to walk across Story Bridge today in solidarity with Palestine. The cops applied to the courts to stop it & the courts agreed because *checks notes* 'public safety'. Instead, marchers crossed Victoria Bridge and ah, there was a truckload of 'em.
An afternoon of slideshows & fellowship for the AI-avoidant.
https://breakingthegloom.com/
Date: 27th September
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Location: SET Social, Red Bar, London
WATCH & SHARE: A prominent youtuber is giddy (but also very convincing & thorough in covering the joys, advantages, issues and challenges) about how trying biking for transportation in London has changed his life.
Easy to watch & more convincing probably than 99% of public campaigns.
the impact of a good mural on a dreary city cannot be overstated