A rocket ship built outdoors in the rain, of welded steel, in a rural field, fuelled by poopy methane, and energized by car batteries…. Freakin’ incredible. Permalink
It’s like a Heinlein novel in real life…
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Category: Weekender
Happy Labor Day weekend!
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Workers everywhere: Permalink: https://langa.com/?p=3325
“Where are some good places to cycle around Boston?”
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( Answer requested by Elynn Quirk.) This works almost anywhere — not just Boston: Open Google Maps. Click the three-line Menu icon in the corner. Select Bicyling from the left-hand menu. That’s all it takes. Google will then superimpose a color-coded layer atop the normal road map showing you the area’s (1) dedicated bike lanes, (2)…
Weekender: “Do New Englanders frown on clam strips and prefer clam bellies?”
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(Answer requested by Irwin Chung) Frown on? No. It’s a matter of individual taste. Both styles of fried clams, as we know them today, are local inventions anyway, created in towns on the Massachusetts coastline, north of Boston. The now-classic recipe for deep fried, breaded whole clams (with “bellies”) was created by “Lawrence Henry ‘Chubby’ Woodman from Essex, Massachusetts….
2019: Expectation vs reality
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2019, in my younger imagination: Flying cars, moon colonies, world peace, a cure for cancer…. 2019, in reality: Permalink: https://langa.com/?p=2962
Weekender: Killer Rabbits in Medieval Manuscripts
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Read: “Why So Many Drawings in the Margins Depict Bunnies Going Bad” — Open Culture Permalink: https://langa.com/?p=2592
Did Cooking Really Give Us The F-Word?
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Seriously! Some scientists say that the advent of agriculture and the switch from tough, raw foods to easier-to-chew cooked and fermented foods actually changed the evolution of some human teeth, making it “easier for people to make ‘labiodental fricative’ sounds like ‘f’ and ‘v,’ which require the top teeth to press against the bottom lip.”…
On Cape Cod, classes were cancelled… due to seagulls.
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Boston Globe: http://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/article_popover.aspx?guid=6dbe414a-4e7e-4f4d-8790-295eaf0ef58e Permalink: https://langa.com/?p=2085
Finally! 10x optical zoom for smartphones
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By now, just about everyone knows that digital zoom is a great way to ruin a shot on a smartphone or camera. When you zoom digitally, all you’re doing is making the pixels bigger, and that soon leads to fuzzy, blocky, blurry photos. Optical zoom — some call it “lossless zoom” — is different. By…
New camera software can “see” objects out-of-frame, around corners
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This is way cool: New software can analyze faint light patterns on walls and other matte surfaces to reconstruct a full-color representation of objects that are out-of-frame or around corners. No special optics are required: It works with ordinary digital camera snapshots. Besides the “way cool” factor of being able to see around corners, once…