Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor.

A Boeing 747-400BCF freighter registered VQ-BWT (MSN 24975) flying for Bermuda-based Longtail Aviation took off from runway 21 at Maastricht Aachen

Jayson E. Street tells us a story about the time he broke into a bank in Beirut Lebanon.

TabFloater is a cross-browser extension that allows you to multitask by moving browser tabs into floating windows, similar to the “Picture-in-Picture” functionality on TVs. You can keep browsing the web in all windows at the same time.

There is a popular movement on Choosing Boring Technology started by article by Dan McKinley, followed by some discussions on Hacker News…

Facebook on Sunday deleted the main page of the Myanmar military under it standards prohibiting the incitement of violence, the company said, a day after two protesters were killed when police opened fire at a demonstration against the Feb 1 coup.

Gamers to the right, miners to the left.

I was reading the Slate Star Codex review of The Cult of Smart. Part of it discusses charter vs state schools and the allegations of fraud of various kinds undermining charter schools record of better achievement. Reading it, I realized that I took for granted…

Released in 1972, Silent Running was a kitsch take on the space movie. Lewis Gordon explores how the film anticipated 21st-Century technology.

A tale of equipment consoles spanning fifty years, stitching together a lifetime of invention and geeky adventures.

API, CLI, and Web App for analyzing and finding a person's profile in 1000 social media \ websites - qeeqbox/social-analyzer

Eastern Washington had cheap power and tons of space. Then the suitcases of cash started arriving.

In the face of climate change, some environmentalists are fighting not to close power plants but to save them.

An introduction to the TCC course “Formalising Mathematics”

issue no. 0011

“Seconds and minutes” from total catastrophe, the state struggled to handle an extreme weather event, which led to the largest forced power outage in U.S. history.