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We linked to a Skawo video yesterday, the one about flash card rumble motors activating when playing Link’s Awakening DX. Well I happened to have this one open, so here’s another: the last gasps of a failing PPU chip, shown off in...
Cry contagion, or contagious crying, amongst human infants is a well documented phenomenon, one that anyone who has worked with groups of young people has learned about first hand. One infant's crying triggers nearby infants, especially...
YouTube will always need more. More viewers, more time spent on the site, more more more. Some folks want to “monetize their channels,” meaning, get a cut of the ad revenue from views. Before you had to 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch...
I recall reading this story some years ago, but it was fun to read it again today. It's the story of how the mouse came to the Apple II, and it relates to how Bill Atkinson didn't think the Apple II could host a graphical user interface....
Here at MPorcius Fiction Log we are reading stories from 1920s issues of Weird Tales, the widely beloved pioneering speculative fiction magazine. Today we are going to tackle four WT stories from the era by an author closely associated...
August is my favorite month for the farmers market. Yes, I’m sweating through my clothes while shopping, but all that fresh, bright, in-season produce more than makes up for the brief (and very damp) discomfort. My late-summer survival...
I missed a Blaugust post yesterday! I took off work and went with my family to Dollywood, Dolly Parton's theme park. It's close to where I live, so going there is far from a new occurrence to me. It had been a few years since my last...
Paulo successfully defended his PhD thesis this Monday. Throughout his PhD, Paulo studied the challenges that arise when writing modular robotics software using ROS. To help detect several types of misconfigurations, Paulo developed...
At the heart of equality saturation lies a clever data structure called an e-graph. If you know how an abstract syntax tree—or expression tree—represents a single program, an e-graph does the same for many equivalent variants of that...
What do you get when you mix the unique battle system from Megaman Battle Network, the high-speed intensity of Eschatos, Cho-Ren-Sha 68k and other similar shoot-em-ups, and the addictive gameplay loop and procedurally-generated...
We saw the two current issues of 'cornucopia' back in December, and one of these in Jan., and there was another, similar beast, in the queue, until I visited Peter Evans the other day, and he gave me a second, so we're looking at them...
Enjoying Idaho while ignoring IllinoisToday is the first day of my life that I am unemployed. And not by choice.As I mentioned on LinkedIn last week, me and about 160 of my colleagues, staff and faculty, untenured and tenured, lost our...
Bloodfray giants are barely sapient true giants, Huge in size, with extraordinary Strength and Constitution and little else going for them. They have two attack actions, one melee, one ranged, but their combat role is unambiguously that...
I had no idea what the film Wicker, coming to theaters October 30, 2026, was
6 minutes catching up on art posting with some more sticker designs from this year: sag̱a̱gyemgm duus (print) title translates to “sunny cat”. really happy with how may’s design turned out.. i had a tiger head formline sketch collecting...