Friday, 26 April 2024
quote [ In NYC, many wildlife rehabbers see pests as part of a thriving urban ecosystem. ]
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Thursday, 25 April 2024
quote [ During covid-19 a preacher lured thousands of people into a remote forest. Then he told them to stop eating ]
Guidance guidance through a cult
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Wednesday, 24 April 2024
quote [ Little-appreciated, semiaquatic, and cute-as-hell, muskrats can survive almost anywhere. So where are they? ]
And they whirl and they twirled and they tango
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Tuesday, 23 April 2024
quote [ “The biggest limiting factor right now is that almost everything that anyone wants is has to be from existing IP,” says Johnston, whose newest project is an animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “The Twits” for Netflix. ”And that that the notion of an original idea is somehow scary, certainly to a marketing entity, because they just have to work harder to get it into the public’s consciousness. That’s the bummer.” ]
Notes on copyrights, reusing and remixing, featuring some remarks from Dntel in the end. Thumb via some 10 year old mix from the latter.
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quote [ English inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, renowned for his groundbreaking steel manufacturing process that still bears his name, once lamented, “Few persons have suffered more severely than I have from sea sickness.” ]
Stormin' makin waves till I'm gettin' motion sickness
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Monday, 22 April 2024
quote [ Get the classic novel Dracula, emailed to you in real time as it happens. ]
That was a promise too interesting not to mention. Reminds me of this other gamey dialogue that reads the whole of Moby Dick to you (can't seem to find it, gladly). Via Fallen London newsletter.
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quote [ The nonprofit turns organic farms into vacation spots with the goal of teaching people about sustainability ]
Things ain't working out down at the farm
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Sunday, 21 April 2024
quote [ Why 3DO’s true innovation wasn’t its early 3D hardware, but its business model—a model that perfectly matches its founder’s philosophy. ]
They get left in the dust like Panasonic 3DO
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Saturday, 20 April 2024
quote [ In 1908, a small Scottish whaling ship was wrecked in the Arctic waters between Greenland and Canada. The crew became trapped with a community of Inuit on a frozen archipelago. They had little food or shelter, and winter was approaching. Facing frostbite and starvation, a young seaman set off with his Inuit friends on a hundreds-of-miles journey across broken ice floes, vast glaciers, and berg-filled seas on an epic quest to find help. ]
Snowdrop (take a, take a breath)
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Friday, 19 April 2024
quote [ What can 24 nights solo in our endangered Okefenokee Swamp reveal? Photographer David Walter Banks found something wild and haunting and alive. This is his tale - in words and art. ]
Through the Okefenokee I waded pass the gators
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