It’s now 25 year since 9/11, so it’s probably a good time to point you all back at the Internet Archive’s Understanding 9/11 TV timeline.
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Suddenly We Looked Like Giants / Patrick Jonsson (2018)
Patrick Jonsson’s Suddenly We Looked Like Giants from 2018.
Welcome to the Machine / Pink Floyd (1975)
It looks like the Pink Floyd team have commissioned a new music video to an old song. I like it and think the grainy Scifi-esque landscape works really well with the dystopian nature of Welcome to the Machine.
Moon Phases by Galileo Galilei
Galileo’s watercolours of the various moon phases from 1609. Note how the terminator between the light and dark sides is not smooth – thus showing that the moon’s surface is also not smooth.
Last night on YouTube: BBC Archive
The Lion & Unicorn has an interesting dive into the BBC’s YouTube archive channel.
I’ve featured a few things from that archive, but none of the videos featured in the article. It’s a nice read and covered a similar ground to some thoughts I’ve been having around archive footage and what it means today.
MacOS Tahoe’s Terrible Icons
One Foot Tsunami has an entirely reasonable rant about MacOS Tahoe’s terrible Squircle icons. They’re just corporate blanding to the max.
ChatGPT Atlas User Agent.
It looks like ChatGPT’s new browser is identifying itself as a bog standard Chrome instance. That should make it both hard to block and hard to track.
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"A Breakdown of the SpaceX Superheavy Landing from Yesterday.
A nice little breakdown of yesterday’s SpaceX Superheavy booster capture. The whole thing is tremendously ‘Thunderbirds’…
Phobos transiting the Sun as seen from the Martian Surface.
Popping Caps
Fun!