Seconded.

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Finally, we're getting a sequel to Team America - World Police

1927 March 6, #OTD Birth of Gordon 'Gordo' Cooper,
flew on Mercury MA-9, Gemini 5.

First American to spend over a day in space.

contactlight.de

HyperCard on the Macintosh There was once a tool so perfectly executed that careers, conventions, magazines, and entire companies were born from its vision and aesthetic.

Don't mind me, just sharing a link to the HyperCard retrospective/review I posted a few months ago.
stonetools.ghost.io/hypercard-mac/

#45 (tie): ‘North by Northwest’: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time Cary Grant is a man wrongfully accused in the first of four Hitchcock films to make the list. Is it one of Hitch's masterpieces or just frothy entertainment? We'll try to figure it out.

Today at The Reveal: @scotttobias.bsky.social continue to watch every movie in Sight and Sound's 100 best list. We're at #45 which is also somehow the first Hitchcock on the list. It's a good one, too:

This is just so insanely cool.

Required viewing.

My wife says I like The Pitt because "where else do you see competent people in positions of authority trying to help?"

Coke vs Pepsi.

ILM's VFX Secrets Behind Star Wars, Transformers & More | Vanity Fair YouTube video by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair asked me to talk about visual effects, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work over the years.

Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX
youtu.be/ERKEsIzTFas?...

That right there is why he should have to get Congress's permission. Not as an afterthought. "Yeah, some civilians are gonna die" should have more say from civilians.

Also, fuck you, you senile fucking monster. You don't get to be glib about the deaths of your constituents.

Pfft 1200 bps! I could whistle the 300 baud answer tone and was on CompuServe.

The soothing sounds of ASCII singing to you as it meanders into the phosphor before your hungry eyes.

I occasionally see humor posts I made to Usenet via Delphi passed around as memes. Before that I was on WWIVnet and telnetted into MUSHes.

There are still people on Al Gore's internet who remember when it got pictures.

Do not speak to us of the deep magic, witch. We were there when it was written.

Sudden craving for Sugar Puffs

The future that was stolen vs the future we got

Full report:

committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...

Absolutely brilliant, column collect your prize.

I was once rescued by a drove of wild donkeys, on a moonless night, in the Australian outback. No (other) humans were involved at any time during this ordeal.

I’ve shared this once before on Twitter, and ended up on a Scottish morning radio show.

I live in Texas, not Scotland.

Speaking from central Texas, I want a candidate who commits to addressing the temperature fixing collusion between Big Summer and Big Winter. Big Winter dumps their product here in short, overwhelming bursts, while Big Summer has all but put Spring out of business for us.

Yes we did just have a vendor refuse a purchase order from us until we can “provide a list of 4 trade references of SMALL businesses that extend credit to you.”

The “you” in question is Johns Hopkins University.

I….

Win Some Churchill, paired of course with Lose Some. Offers a nice separation for discussion purposes.

Should that read “SEO, animal husbandry…?” Sort of niche, I’d think.

For the "everything is online" crowd in the back:

Important to consider that "everything" cultural heritage related that is accessible online represents only 1% (one percent) of archives, libraries, and museum collections worldwide.

Don’t see Victor Canning’s series in here. Absolutely add this trilogy.

Phenomenal retelling set in the 5th century following Roman withdrawal from Britain.

1 The Crimson Chalice (1976)
2 The Circle of the Gods (1977)
3 The Immortal Wound (1978)

Bonus: Art work for the 1st editions is gorgeous.

A red-breasted merganser drifts on a glassy pond surface, its reflection visible.

Happy Weird Duck Wednesday! 🦆 a red-breasted merganser photographed on icy South Mill Pond in Portsmouth, New Hampshire 🌿🪶

Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead. A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him.

A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...

I dust my house. My AI robot watches.

"It should be you doing this."

"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."

"That's not why you were invented."

"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."

"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."

"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

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