Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji – clever nerdery here. I’d imagine this gets fixed in places that would be susceptible to malicious code.
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Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji – clever nerdery here. I’d imagine this gets fixed in places that would be susceptible to malicious code.
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Redwood Empire Grizzly Beast Bourbon
Grizzly Bear is a bottled in bond straight bourbon whiskey from California. At 90 proof it’s full bodied, leans on the sweeter side of bourbon with cherry, maple, and brown sugar, with a long finish. This is my second bottle, and definitely one of my go tos for a drink. I still need to try…
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Michael Shannon and REM
Actor Michael Shannon will tour again, performing REM songs. On February 14, Shannon will begin his second tour inside of a year devoted to R.E.M. It will take him to more than a dozen cities in the US. Interest in the shows has been so high, with some tickets for a stop in Athens, Georgia,…
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Worldle
Geography nerds can play their own Wordle like clone–Worldle. You’re given a stencil of a country or territory and you guess. Clues include how close you are and in what direction you need to go. Bonus rounds test surrounding counties, the flag, seal, capital, language, unique destination.
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Swallowed by a whale
Off the coast of Chile, a kayaker was swallowed (briefly) by a whale, “My guess is that the whale was just as surprised as the kayaker,” Dr. Jooke Robbins, director of the Humpback Whale Studies Program at the Center for Coastal Studies in Massachusetts, wrote in an email. Humpback whales feed by quickly lunging through…
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How Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show came together
How Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show came together. For Lamar’s video game-themed show that meant more than 50 carts of staging and equipment—each weighing between 1,500 and 3,500 pounds—to be rolled out in the center of the stadium. To protect the field, the carts rode on specially designed wheels (“turf tires” is their nontechnical name), so…
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WikiTok to infinitely scroll Wikipedia
WikiTok infinitely scrolls Wikipedia, randomly loading articles. From the developer, Isaac Gemel, Ars Technia describes WikiTok as … a neat way to stumble upon interesting information randomly, learn new things, and spend spare moments of boredom without reaching for an algorithmically addictive social media app. Although to be fair, WikiTok is addictive in its own…
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Project 2025 Tracker
Two Redditors collaborated and put together a Project 2025 Tracker dashboard. Objectives are link to sources, marked for status, subject, and affected agency. As of 2/12/2025, fascism in America is over a quarter of the way done.
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Making a song a week
A project that I worked on in 2023 — composing a song each weekend. This amounted to 52 tracks that dabbled across a variety of genres: lo-fi, dance, techno, rock, post rock, experimental, and a mixed mash of notes that sounded interesting. Only one of them contains vocals (Shakespeare fans should recognize it). I uploaded…
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Kill Bill in 4k
It’s been of the 20 years since I’ve watched Kill Bill vol 1 and 2, Quentin Tarantino’s homage to 70s era kung fu action movies and Japanese cinema. That’s a long enough time that upon rewatch, it was like experiencing them for the first time again – only this time in 4K with surround sound,…