- Just in time for Penguin Awareness Day (on Thursday, January 20th), the Wildlife Conservation Society‘s Argentina Program has released amazing underwater selfie video recently taken by a male Gentoo penguin fitted with a special camera.
- Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, said, “I don’t know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.” – via The Curious About Everything Newsletter
- In the city of Poznań, Poland, a group of eight clams controls the local water supply through a clever bio-monitoring system. – via kottke
- I have been trying unsuccessfully for a while now to find the recipe for the Pistachio & Orange “Redemption Cake” that Amelia Le Bruin made on The Great British Baking Show: Holidays (S7: E1 “The Great Christmas Baking Show”). If anyone has any leads, please let me know. [Update: I sent her an Instagram DM and she replied to tell me she’d try to find the recipe in her notes!]
- Oysters and Beer Have Always Been on the Menu at One of America’s Oldest, Most Renowned Restaurants. I have been here many times, including a memorable birthday dinner in my 40s, and can confirm that The Union Oyster House is a national treasure. – via my dad
- Netflix Is Telling Writers to Dumb Down Shows Since Viewers Are on Their Phones – via The Dailies
- The essay Who Goes Nazi? from the August 1941 issue of Harper’s Magazine should be required reading at every high school in America. – via Laura Olin (threads / bluesky)
- It was fun to read about all the wild Christmas gifts NFL quarterbacks got their offensive lineman last week. Did you know that NFL teams are required to provide “three dozen sliced oranges for halftime” for the visiting team? And that each team easily goes through at least 80,000 Uncrustables each year? Oh, and Notre Dame winning the Sugar Bowl on January 2, 2025 ensured a Black head coach will be in an FBS national championship game for the first time ever. – via The Athletic (threads / bluesky)
- People often ask me what I think their children should study to learn how to be a programmer, or create video games or apps and I always answer that they should start with the absolute basics. Learn Bash Scripting in 10 minutes is a great example.
Posts tagged “virus”
An Existential Crisis
A terrifying podcast on research, science, and disaster
- Better Marriage Blanket: Contains the same type of fabric used by the military to protect against chemical weapons!
- I’ve been using Twitter since April 23, 2007. How about you?
- I’m not 100% sure, but I think the premise of this article is that superheroes seem to be getting less super, and that’s bad. If that’s what he’s saying, I agree. If that’s not what he’s saying, then I don’t get it.
- It’s been almost fifteen years and the Ike Hilliard Stop and Pop is still one of the most amazing plays I’ve ever seen.
- Nimoy Sunset Pie is a lot like Selleck Waterfall Sandwich.
- How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, by Douglas Adams
- “The Township will feature an ensemble cast, including actors Wendell Pierce and Dominic West from The Wire as a pair of successful, well-adjusted real estate agents who occasionally grab one quick drink after work before returning home to the families they love.”
- “When the worm was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cyber-security experts didn’t know what to make of it. It infiltrated millions of computers around the globe. It constantly checks in with its unknown creators. It uses an encryption code so sophisticated that only a very few people could have deployed it. For the first time ever, the cyber-security elites of the world have joined forces in a high-tech game of cops and robbers, trying to find [its] creators and defeat them. The cops are failing. And now the worm lies there, waiting …”
2024-07-26: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
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How to Open Outlook Attachments
A friend of mine sent me a link to an iTunes song he thought I’d like. Of course I was unable to open it because it came delivered as an attachment. (Cue scary music.) Microsoft thinks that I can’t possibly be trusted to not open some flesh-eating virus, so by default Outlook blocks everything. It’s
AmericanGreetings Valentine Virus
If you get an email with the subject line “Valentine’s Day eCard !” that looks like it came from AmericanGreetings <services@americangreetings.com>, it’s most likely a virus. I’m not even going to take a chance by clicking the link. The link appears to be to the americangreetings.com domain, but if you hover your mouse over it
Protect Yourself
Here is a must-read: 7 ways to protect your home PC link via What’s On It For Me?
Sims
“Imagine a computer game in which you follow all the rules, but your characters still die, because someone has introduced a virus into the game. Not only that, but the person who invented the game is the one who is distributing the virus.”
Code Red Virus
Hi! You have no idea who I am, but I have this file here that I thought you could double-click for me to install a virus on your computer that I would like your advice on. Thanks, me
Foot-and-Mouth Believed to Be First
Foot-and-Mouth Believed to Be First Virus Unable to Spread through Microsoft Outlook! “Researchers Shocked to Finally Find Virus That Email App Doesn’t Like”