Fan Spending Quarantine Creating Virtual LEGO Builds For Each Episode Of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’: Two great tastes that taste great together!
Links
Stuff I find around the web that interests or amuses me.
Wealth, shown to scale: Mindblowing.
We Can Be Heroes
Seattle artists create murals on shuttered stores
As businesses in Seattle closed their doors, many storefronts nailed plywood over their windows – but it created the feeling of a ghost town. So artists came together to create something beautiful and uplifting, turning these wooden coverings into murals.
How are you holding up today?
During a Pandemic, ‘How Are You?’ Is a Bad Question:
The innocuous “How are you?” at the start of a conversation—which is normally understood in American culture to be a polite way of expressing concern for a person’s well-being, and to which the socially agreed-upon response is “I’m good,” “I’m fine,” or “I’m doing well”—hits differently in the COVID-19 era. The coronavirus pandemic and its effects are dramatic and widespread enough that it’s safe to assume everyone’s life has changed for the worse in some way. This moment has laid bare the extent to which “How are you?” is a mere pleasantry and not an honest inquiry in search of an honest answer. To ask “How are you?” is either to make the conversation very gloomy, very fast or to force someone to lie straight to your face and say they’re fine. We need better questions to ask.
LEGO Is Making 13,000 Visors a Day for Medical Workers, and say they could ramp up to 58,000 a day. Neat!
Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device: Australian Dr Daniel Reardon ended up in hospital after inserting magnets in his nostrils while building a necklace that warns you when you touch your face.
Proxyman – Modern and Delightful HTTP Debugging Proxy on macOS: Proxyman is a native, high-performance macOS application, which enables developers to observe and manipulate HTTP/HTTPS requests.
Adventurous Eating
Note to social media content managers: Check your scheduled posts. King 5 Seattle’s article about which Capitol Hill restaurant has the “most adventurous brunch menu” that published today is…poorly timed. Note the “Breaking News” banner up top, too.
Interesting side effect in Thailand: Coronavirus means drop in international tourism means fewer tourists feeding the monkeys means monkey troupes are hungry and overrunning the city.
New Mac app Slideas is like Keynote powered by Markdown: Saving for later: A Keynote/PowerPoint-style presentation app powered by Markdown formatted text. Requires macOS Mojave, though, so I can’t run it yet.