Bloody Disgusting has a nice little editorial on George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead.
Linkspam: No More Room in Hell: ‘Dawn of the Dead’ Remains a Masterpiece 45 Years Later
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Bile Beans in August ’24
York Minster with the Bile Beans sign, August 2024
York Historic Environment Record Blog RSS Feed
So the City of York Historic Environment Record department has a an interesting, if infrequently updated, blog covering archeology and historic conservation efforts in York.
Now my preferred way of reading blogs – especially those which are not frequently updated – is to stick that particular blog’s RSS feed in my reader and to let the updates come to me. Unfortunately the YHER Blog doesn’t have an obvious link to a feed, but, after a little poking around at the page’s HTML, I’ve managed to find a URL that seems to work: York Historic Environment Record Blog RSS Feed.
And that should perfect to be fed into your reader of choice!
I Am the Antichrist to You / Kishi Bashi & Nu Deco Ensemble (2020)
Doomsday Machines
My current-thing-of-the-moment is ‘Doomsday Machines‘ by Alex Wellerstein of NukeMap/Nuclear Secrecy Blog fame. Fairly new, it looks at the post-apocalyptic world in both fact and fiction and, if you’re looking for a starting point, then I’d suggest ‘The end of The Road‘ – a look at Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and McCarthy’s own take on the themes of the novel.
UKUSA Agreement (1946)
In June of 2010, the National Archives released copies of the 1946 US-UK intelligence sharing agreement generally known as the ‘UKUSA Agreement‘. These files were, at one point, stored here. Alas, time and link rot comes for us all, and all that following that link will get you now is a ‘404 – Page Not Found’ error.
So I’ve extracted them all from the Wayback Machine and attached them below!
The core of the UKUSA agreement is covered in HW80/4, with the files HW80/1-3 and HW80/5-11 covering various amendments and procedures.
Continue readingLinkspam: Everest Basecamp to Summit Via Drone
It looks like a lovely day for it…
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Concept Art / NASA (1973)
A lovely spot of concept art from what became July 1975’s Apollo–Soyuz mission.
Via NASA.
Photographs – A Trip to The National Railway Museum
It’s been a little while since I last added any photographs, however you can now find a selection of images from at May 2024 trip to The National Railway Museum here!
Linkspam: MIT fed an AI data from Reddit, and now it only thinks about murder
Apparently the hot new things is to train your A.I. on Reddit – something that doesn’t have a particularly great track record…
