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Interessante artikelen en andere links registreer ik via Pinboard. Deze worden wekelijks, op zondagavond, gebundeld weggeschreven. Hier vind je het archief. - Kirsten Dunst’s Feminine Urges
- For three decades, Dunst has been one of our preëminent performers of conflicted womanhood. With “The Power of the Dog,” she might be finally getting her due.
- Thwaites: Antarctic glacier heading for dramatic change
- Thwaites is a colossus. It's roughly the size of Great Britain, or Florida, and its outflow speed has doubled in the past 30 years.
- Your 'Best Shows of The Year' Lists All Have One Glaring Omission
- Spoiler: Mare of Easttown
- Waarom oude, gedragen bandshirts ineens voor flinke bedragen over de toonbank gaan
- Literature Clock
- How The Matrix 4.0 resurrects an iconic 20-year love story
- Decades after 'The Matrix' changed movies forever, Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss return for the year's most timely sequel.
- Tom Morello Signs Open Letter Denouncing Amazon's Palm-Scanning Concert Tech
- That Time I Bought 50 Pairs of Jeans. For Science.
- We’re going to talk about all the ways that all of these jeans failed. We will also talk about the two pairs I kept and why they’re okay if not great and what I’m actually wearing day to day.
- Reddit Reads
- Book reccomendations from reddit
- Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago
- It was terrible then, and it’s terrible now.
- The ‘Succession’ Cast On the Astonishing Season-Three Finale
- The Curious History of Steam Heat and Pandemics
- Steam heating and radiators were designed to heat buildings on the coldest day of the year with all the windows open.
- The economics of movie product placements
- Today’s films are brimming with products from big-name brands. How exactly do these partnerships work?
- Amsterdam's New Plan to Keep Waffle, Souvenir Shops Out
- The city’s latest bold initiative is offering up cash to help local community groups oust touristy businesses.
- 52 things I learned in 2021 by Tom Whitwell
- How the Netherlands will survive in floating cities
- With sea levels rising, the Dutch are pondering floating cities — while also exporting their engineering know-how to turn a tidy profit.
- Cancel Mel Gibson, Hollywood's Leading Anti-Semite
- When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Isaac Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost
- The TV version of the classic sci-fi saga sidelines its source’s most pressing questions about power and precarity.
- How we came to depend on the week despite its artificiality
- The week is the most artificial and recent of our time counts yet it’s impossible to imagine our shared lives without it
- Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand
- /Film spoke with several Oscar-winning sound designers, editors, and mixers to learn why it has become tougher to understand what characters are saying.
- Defensive CSS
- Content is dynamic, and things can change on a web page, thus increasing the possibility of a CSS issue or a weird behavior.
- Professor VS veegt vloer aan met onze basismaatregelen: 'Volledig achterhaald'
- Omicron’s Rapid Case Growth Is a Warning
- We don’t know how severe Omicron is, but we do know it’s spreading very fast.
- The best tiny houses of 2021
- Celebrating Grace Hopper and the Origins of Debugging
- Happy birthday to Grace!
- Nederland koopt voor 175 miljoen een Rembrandt. Heeft het Rijks echt een vaandeldrager nodig? | De Volkskrant
- Met de aankoop van Rembrandts De vaandeldrager wordt de canon van Hollandse kunst andermaal bevestigd – niet aangevuld, gecorrigeerd of opgefrist, betoogt kunsthistoricus en Volkskrant-redacteur Wieteke van Zeil.
- Be usable, not consistent, not uniform
- if you don’t know what you want to a design to be consistent with — and why — then consistency risks confusing your users.
- Modern for Wikipedia
- A redesigned user interface for Wikipedia
- SODAQ AIR
- A highly intuitive air quality monitor, designed to help everyone, everywhere understand the quality of the AIR.
- The strange, slavery-defined border of Oklahoma’s Panhandle
- Sometimes strange borders hide in plain sight. Every panhandle has a story but none that were defined almost entirely by the fight over slavery.
- The medieval Dutch solution to flooding
- In a world of more frequent and more intense flooding, one way to protect against the worst can trace its roots back to the Netherlands, nearly 1,000 years ago.
- Ask HN: Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next?
- Underrated reasons to be thankful
- Oh, and also that the universe exists at all, and that life exists on at least one planet in it.
- Surveillance, Companionship, and Entertainment
- Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems, and sex robots have been part of the human imagination for thousands of years.
- The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020
- Predictions by Wired from 1997
- Covid denial to climate denial
- Anti-lockdown movements online are turning their attention to climate conspiracy theories.
- Is 'Dopesick' a true story?
- What the show gets right about the opioid crisis
- Keanu Reeves interview 2021
- Keanu Reeves on Matrix Resurrection, John Wick, His Personal Life
- ICU is full of the unvaccinated – my patience with them is wearing thin
- Most of the resources the NHS is devoting to Covid in hospital are being spent on people who have not had their jab
- The State Of The Web
- The opening presentation from An Event Apart Spring Summit held online in April 2021.
- Kyle Rittenhouse has walked free. Now it’s open season on protesters
- Demonstrators in the US must fear not only police brutality but also rightwing vigilantes
- The Long, Hidden History of the Viking Obsession With Werewolves
- A symbol both of chaos and order, the wolf came to represent many things for the Vikings.
- Interstellar 8-Track: How Voyager's Vintage Tech Keeps Running
- Launched in 1977, the probe is vintage space hardware. [..] Looking at the machine’s specs is a reminder of how far electronics have come in the intervening years.
- What’s the music industry doing about climate change?
- From touring to festivals, vinyl and even streaming, when it comes to the environment, there aren’t many clean hands in the biz.
- Fifty percent of Facebook Messenger’s total voice traffic comes from Cambodia.
- Keyboards weren't designed for Khmer. So Cambodians have just decided to ignore them
- Was Ebola a near-miss? - Lessons From The Crisis
- Almost every wrong ‘official’ belief of the early covid era was deployed with equal confidence against ebola six years previously.
- ‘3rd Rock from the Sun’ Cast Reunites at Vulture Festival
- Het Chinese Liuzhou is de elektrische-autohoofdstad van de wereld
- De microwagens zijn al te koop vanaf 4.000 euro, opladen kan overal, parkeren ook. [..] hoe milieuvriendelijk is het?
- Marilyn Manson Abuse Allegations: A Monster Hiding in Plain Sight
- Long Range E-Bike
- Developer Tools secrets that shouldn’t be secrets
- "I am a principal product manager for developer tools in Microsoft Edge and these are things I encountered during working on the tools, documenting them and going through user feedback."
- The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload
- Six biases that lead us to have too many meetings — and how to overcome them.
- Merlin's Wisdom Project
- Or: “Everybody likes being given a glass of water.”
- 99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice