This Twitter thread of someone watching The Princess Bride for the first time is wonderful.
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Stuff I find around the web that interests or amuses me.
Goop’s Netflix series: It’s so much worse than I expected and I can’t unsee it: “Disclaimer: This review contains detailed information about the Netflix series the goop lab with Gwyneth Paltrow. If you plan to watch the show (please, don’t) and do not wish to know details in advance, this is not the review for you. Normally, we would refer to such information as ‘spoilers,’ but in our editorial opinion, nothing in this series is spoil-able.”
YouTube RSS: “1. First I find a YouTube channel I want to watch. 2. View its source code in my browser 3. Search for ‘channelid’ 4. And append the Channel ID to the end of this URL https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=“
I’ll admit, I never was much for Thomas the Tank Engine…but I think I’m all sorts of interested in the reboot.
The Tokyo 2020 Official Art Posters are fascinating, with a wide range of styles and imagery. I’m particularly fond of this one for the Paralympic games, which has a very retro-SF feel to it.
A bonus: This 73-page, 15MB .pdf showcasing summer Olympic posters from 1896 to 2016.
Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens: It’s the Real Deal: “Today, Mojo Vision announced that it has…put 14K pixels-per-inch microdisplays, wireless radios, image sensors, and motion sensors into contact lenses that fit comfortably in the eyes.”
How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy: “We’re in an age of manufactured nihilism. The issue for many people isn’t exactly a denial of truth as such. It’s more a growing weariness over the process of finding the truth at all. And that weariness leads more and more people to abandon the idea that the truth is knowable.”
In Roald Dahl’s Car: “‘[My stories] can be pretty horrible. They don’t always end well; there’s often a twist in the tail. Actually, I think I’m writing funny stories, because they can be very comical. There’s such a narrow line between the macabre and laughter.’ I could sense him smiling as he said it.”
Prepping For ‘Star Trek: Picard’ – A Procrastinators’ Guide: “To help you prep (or at this point, cram), TrekMovie presents a list of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes that showcase Jean-Luc Picard’s exploits with the Borg and Romulans, plus a few essential Captain Picard episodes that reveal his character. We also include a bonus list of a few Seven of Nine-centric episodes of Voyager.”
The One Remaining Use of the Word “Macintosh”: “Some weeks ago, I was struck by the thought that Apple had almost entirely managed to scrub its corporate communications of the word ‘Macintosh.’ It’s not surprising, of course, but I was curious if the company had slipped up anywhere.”