Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for January 7th from 13:44 to 07:45:

• trees are harlequins, words are harlequins — In case anyone was wondering (maybe no one was… –
• Blackout Bug: Boeing 737 cockpit screens go blank if pilots land on specific runways • The Register –
• Lord of the Rings, 2020 and Stuffed Oreos: Read the Andrew Bosworth Memo – The New York Times –
• Paper on furniture ESD – gas chairs and EMP –
• This Is the Box Former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn Allegedly Hid in to Escape Japan – The Drive – This is mental

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for January 7th from 07:50 to 09:51:

• Video Games Presentation Pack | Royal Mail –
• Lemmings, Worms, and Tomb Raider celebrated in new British postal stamps – The Verge – I WANT THESE
• Maf Vosburgh on Twitter: “I devised and coded the Mac IE 5 media toolbar in the second half of 1999. The toolbar could stream music playlists or play video in a floating movie window, while you browsed the web. It had a lovely UI designed by Nikki Barton. –
• Disinformation For Hire: How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online – everyone who lol'd at media studies
• Here are your finalists for the 2020 Independent Games Festival Awards! | IGF –
• 2019 Douyin (Chinese Tiktok) Data Report — Katherine Wu –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for January 6th from 10:29 to 14:05:

• Chris B – NSF on Twitter: “Before the days of fancy CGI videos, mission promos would often be these beautiful artistic drawings. Here are three examples – focused on Shuttle/Deep Space Probes – found by NSF’s @Ronsmythe3 digging into the Virginia Tech Lib –
• Intel teases Ghost Canyon NUC, its tiny modular gaming PC – The Verge –
• My favorite thing so far at CES – The Verge – This is *very* Apple-y, I think. Well. Not quite. For lots of reasons. But definitely for the "takes lots of stuff that's been around for a while and puts it together in just the right combination that works really well"
• Tumblr rolling out an internet literacy initiative to help combat misinformation – The Verge –
• Portal’s abandoned prequel, ‘F-Stop,’ surfaces in a new video authorized by Valve – Polygon –
• For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity | Star Tribune –
• Jimmy Grewal on Twitter: “1/ Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the introduction of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 5 for Mac. This was both the most important release of Internet Explorer for the Mac, and the last release. Here are some anecdotes and –
• CES 2020: Withings Unveils ScanWatch Featuring AFib and Sleep Apnea Detection – MacRumors –
• Twenty Years Ago, Steve Jobs Showed Off the Aqua Interface for the First Time – 512 Pixels –
• Opinion: Science fiction and the unforeseeable future: In the 2020s, let’s imagine better things – The Globe and Mail –
• Joe Miller on Twitter: “@mulegirl In 2003, I was teaching just war theory to West Point cadets. I’ve been thinking a lot about 2020 vs 2003. IMO the biggest difference is the shaking off of hypocrisy. A friend once observed that Republicans understand pow – I've been thinking a lot about 2020 vs 2003. IMO the biggest difference is the shaking off of hypocrisy. A friend once observed that Republicans understand power, while Democrats understand rules. 1/
• 🅐🅩🅛 on Twitter: “looking for more examples of abstract arguments/explanations that are made out of shapes. this graphic is super interesting to me bc it’s something between an icon set and a hieroglyphic language https://t.co/9ZgKOta30q” / Twit –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for January 5th from 19:45 to 08:56:

• Elad Blog: Products I Wish Existed, 2020 Edition –
• The compromises and consequences of AI – YouTube –
• Ingrid Burrington on Twitter: “Only a little bummed that they didn’t use the parts where @BrendanCByrne and I talked about America being on stolen land and stuff https://t.co/wX3sFn3JsY” / Twitter –
• Kit Kat on Twitter: “@nuggetcomfort You are ticking off a crap ton of people today with your games! Entering payment info and the item then becomes sold out? Really?!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬” / Twitter –
• Brooke Binkowski on Twitter: “You can see that sort of shoehorned in to some stories. “He made his comments at the opening of his new shop, where he plans to sell rebuilt watches.” Others are subtler, but those mentions are always there… until the aggre – “Until the aggregator sites”
• This Is What The Boom Operator’s Station On The New KC-46 Tanker Actually Looks Like – The Drive –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for January 3rd from 16:59 to 14:45:

• Extraocular Vision in a Brittle Star Is Mediated by Chromatophore Movement in Response to Ambient Light –
• SHADOWPLAY – Visualizing tweets like Unknown Pleasures
• Sorry, Ms. Ehmke, The “Hippocratic License” Can’t Work – Bruce Perens –
• U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software – Reuters –
• First evidence found of tool use by seabirds –

This is an auto-posted collection of my public links posted to Pinboard.in for January 3rd from 12:26 to 14:47:

• Dispatch from the Digital Health Frontier: Reinventing CDS Requires Humility in the Face of Overwhelming Complexity –
• Good times create weak men @ tonsky.me –
• O.E.M. Text / Tony Fadell – General Magic –
• cripes does anybody remember Google People @ Things Of Interest –
• postlight/awesome-cms: ? A collection of open and closed source Content Management Systems (CMS) for your perusal. –
• (3) Matt Stark on Twitter: “The effect can now handle collisions and multiple photos #madewithunity #gamedev #vfx #polaroid https://t.co/NXKt8KGIcZ” / Twitter – this is fantastic
• View of Cartographic Pleasures: Maps Inspired by Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Art | Cartographic Perspectives – this is amazing and I want the t-shirt

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for January 2nd from 12:34 to 10:06:

• Fax on the beach: The story of the audacious, totally calamitous iPad of the ’90s –
• Parking Meters Across NYC Not Accepting Credit Cards, Were Never Programmed To Work In 2020 – CBS New York –
• erica robles-anderson on Twitter: “Users sketching algorithmic operations — verrrry interesting https://t.co/EmI2SGEMJs” / Twitter –
• Mysterious drones fly over Colorado and Nebraska, prompting a Federal Aviation Administration investigation – The Washington Post –
• The Polygons of Another World | Hacker News –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for January 1st from 15:29 to 10:16:

• Deep magic explained –
• The polygons of Another World: Amiga 500 –
• The polygons of Another World –
• How Canada’s military reacted to seeing Pokemon Go players trespassing on its bases | CBC News –
• Alexa Answers –
• Woefully Unprepared – Mark O’Neill –
• Alone in a Crowded Milky Way – Scientific American –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for December 29th from 08:54 to 00:32:

• bellingcat – Guide To Using Reverse Image Search For Investigations – bellingcat –
• ‘Shattered’: Inside the secret battle to save America’s undercover spies in the digital age –
• BBC Two – Paddington: The Man Behind the Bear –
• Amjad Masad on Twitter: “Work/life schism, or what’s now known as “balance,” originated from the physical segregation of work and residential areas. https://t.co/HT69QMXzx0″ / Twitter –
• Christmas Decoration Ornaments – Krebs Glas Lauscha –
• How much of a genius-level move was using binary space partitioning in Doom? | Ars Technica –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for December 28th from 18:54 to 04:46:

• media.ccc.de – The Internet of rubbish things and bodies –
• media.ccc.de – Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware –
• Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code –
• Michael Tsai – Blog – Putting the “Author” in “Authoritative” –
• Apple Computer: Scorpius Architectural Specification (1988) | Hacker News –