4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour
CyborgFolly
@tithonium@clacks.link’s link blog. The name is a play on Robot Wisdom.
Auto Tape Wrapping Machine
This is genius and I need one
https://hackaday.com/2023/04/28/auto-tape-wrapping-machine-is-amazing-for-cable-management/
The Dawn Of Synthetic Milk
I honestly had no idea there were actual products available. Gonna hafta try some when I get a chance.
https://hackaday.com/2023/01/05/the-dawn-of-synthetic-milk-when-milk-becomes-more-like-beer/
The Two Thirds Keyboard (The worst keyboard in the world?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdP_sTMOWYo
(My friend gets more ridiculous with time)
Robots are obsessed with 1990s web aesthetics
Maybe let’s not enslave AIs, huh?
https://buttondown.com/thehypothesis/archive/robots-are-obsessed-with-1990s-web-aesthetics/
Why Bell Labs worked and Google doesn’t
Algorithms are breaking how we think
Games Where You’re NOT the Main Character
Non-Euclidean Doom
1967 Video about atomic experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory (via Attoparsec)
Tom Scott video about modern Long Barrows
Now I'm wishing I had a lot more property
Collars, by Matthew Dockrey
Taylor Swift: The Complete Eras Megamix by Joseph James
This is really quite well edited
Wonky shapes can be made to roll along a specific path of your choice
Making A Billion-Year Lego Clock
Excuse Me, Your Tie Is Unzipped
A history of zip ties. I always called them “tie wraps”, because that’s what my dad called them, but didn’t realize I was spelling it wrong and it was a brand name.
https://hackaday.com/2023/01/05/excuse-me-your-tie-is-unzipped/
Meander
https://roberthodgin.com/project/meander
(A procedural system for generating historical maps of rivers that never existed)