Monday Links from the Plague House vol. DCLI

[northernladuk]

It's like watching a strange red spider crawling over the world when you move the globe around

LOL so it. It's cool for that feature alone

[ladymuck]

• Hub and spoke - Drag this map around and it will show you the nearest eight airports to the chosen location. Handy if you want to get somewhere - or get away from somewhere, come to that

It's like watching a strange red spider crawling over the world when you move the globe around

[Guy At Charnock Richard]

Yes, it is indeed unpleasant.

Worst for me was it made coffee taste like ditch water and eating sweet potato fries was like eating polystyrene ceiling tiles.

Wishing you a speedy recovery!

[vetran]

sorry to hear about your lurgi hope you feel better soon

[northernladuk]

You can listen to UVB-76 aka The Buzzer on 4625Khz live on you Tube here if you are that way inclined.

Oddly it's infinitely more interesting than reading anything by the Charnock sockie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUgzv-8_EMc

[NickFitz]

I finally got covid. It's horrid

• The Doctor, the Dentist, and the Killer - ”Brenda thought she and Ricky would be together forever, until he left her. Kendra thought she and Ricky would be together forever. Then Brenda took matters into her own hands. Inside the case of jealousy, spying, and murder that shook Uptown Dallas.” Another excellent Texas Monthly true crime story.
• Wheel Made of ‘Odd Matter’ Spontaneously Rolls Uphill - Physicists getting weird again, though this time they're actually making stuff happen: ”The odd wheel’s unorthodox mode of travel exemplifies a recent trend: Physicists are finding ways to get useful collective behavior to spontaneously emerge in robots assembled from simple parts that obey simple rules.”
• Drought Reveals 3,400-Year-Old City In Iraq - ”Drought conditions have caused the 3,400-year-old city of Zakhiku to re-emerge. Located in modern-day Iraq, the architectural site from the Mittani Empire was inundated after the Mosul dam was erected in 1980. However, as Southern Iraq has become increasingly dry, the Tigris River has receded, once again making Zakhiku accessible.”
• The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run - Numbers Stations don't always have numbers: ”It is thought to be the headquarters of a radio station, “MDZhB”, that no-one has ever claimed to run. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the last three-and-a-half decades, it’s been broadcasting a dull, monotonous tone. Every few seconds it’s joined by a second sound, like some ghostly ship sounding its foghorn… Once or twice a week, a man or woman will read out some words in Russian, such as ‘dinghy’ or ‘farming specialist’. And that’s it. Anyone, anywhere in the world can listen in, simply by tuning a radio to the frequency 4625 kHz.”
• Big in India - ”Hugeness has been one of the more flamboyant features of the Modi government’s tenure.”
• You haven’t got your sister pregnant, have you? - Jacqueline Rose and Sam Frears on Eastenders: ”EastEnders is not, or not only, a slice-of-life drama. Like all soap operas, like all operas, it repeatedly oversteps the limit. The idea of ‘digging the dirt’ is given a whole new meaning, as if the show’s task is to burrow into the community unconscious and come up with truths that are both in your face and impossible to see… The spoken and unspoken assumption is that no one ever completely escapes from Albert Square.”
• Hub and spoke - Drag this map around and it will show you the nearest eight airports to the chosen location. Handy if you want to get somewhere - or get away from somewhere, come to that
• Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire” - ”UC-Berkeley’s Nicholas Weaver has been studying cryptocurrency for years. He thinks it’s a terrible idea that will end in disaster.” Is Bitcoin still plummeting in value?
• The CPU Shack Museum - ”2011: I haven't updated this page in some time. I still plan to recode most all of the site and have around 4000 new CPUs to add (yes THAT many) I aqm just waiting until I have the resources (financial and time) to build the site to support it. I added the blog as a way to more easily post research articles and other insight into computer archeology as well as post the occasional interesting chip I come across.” Lots of interesting stuff about CPUs already there though
• The Big Picture 2022 Competition Winners - This one by David Slater is Sea Lion Fall: ”Batstars encompass a lifeless sea lion at the bottom of Monterey Bay. While this scene appears melancholic, rest assured the sea lion is giving back to the community with which it once swam. When the batstars have had their fill, any number of creatures big and small will be able to derive energy and shelter from what’s left behind for years to come.”
  
  

Happy invoicing!