Hotel guests leave behind millions of half-used bars of soap every day. A nonprofit is on a mission to repurpose them.

For reasons I won’t get into, I’ve been working on a tricky reverse engineering puzzle recently: how to patch the operating system of a 26-year-old synthesizer. To be specific, the Kurzweil K2500, a sample-based synthesizer released in 1996. As...

Europe gets the option to "reject all" of Google’s cookies

How a Swedish skier was basically frozen—but lived.

In the discussion on my minimal chords post, someone commented: I have no idea what any of this means (what is a chord? what is a major chord? what is a note? what is a first/fourth/fifth note? is there a 65th note? what is a scale? what is a major scale?…

The upcoming Fedora release includes a change proposed by Peter Robinson and yours truly, that disables all the Frame Buffer Device (fbdev) drivers in the Linux kernel package. This means that star…

High-End-Netzkabel für extrem audiophile Anlagen und kompromisslose Spannungsfilter. 72V DBS-System und Leiter aus massivem PSC+-Kupfer und PSS-Silber.

We've been waiting since April 24, 2012 for a Google Drive Linux client.

On TikTok and online, the youngest workers are rejecting work as we know it. How will that play out IRL?

Twitter went mad last week because somebody had transferred almost $150m in a single Bitcoin transaction. This tweet was typical: There was much comment about how expensive or difficult this would …

A French defense contractor riding in a Dassault fighter learned the hard way that the grab bar next to his seat was actually the ejection handle.

I was just alerted to this story by one of the followers of this blog…  Last month Voyager 2 began returning some unusual signals.  This story is being reported by alternate news outlets as s…

The obsolescence of the slide rule is mostly un-mourned, but as with many technological obsolescences, we have lost something valuable with its demise. The type of thinking which goes along with us…

The autonomous aircraft have shuttled blood to rural, mountainous areas for years. A new analysis proves they’re faster than driving.

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From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

Some of the forces blocking really new ideas in science