The usual collection of links from the depths of ye olde internets, dumped here for your enjoyment:
- I Ate Four “Deadpool & Wolverine” DiGiorno Pizzas – Matt Singer continues to sacrifice his body on an almost decade-long promotional food odyssey.
- I (Barely) Survived ‘Horizon’: How Kevin Costner’s Western Epic Fails Even His Most Diehard ‘Yellowstone’ Fans – I dunno, I kinda enjoyed Horizon (or, er, the first quarter of Horizon that’s been released so far), but this pan of the film is pretty funny:
During the last hour of “Horizon,” a man sitting several rows behind me descended the steps in the dark theater, spilled his half-full bucket of popcorn midway down, reached to pick it up — but was interrupted when he let out an audible fart. At this point, he abandoned the bucket and hustled to the door. If only “Horizon” matched that level of compact storytelling and wit, featuring a memorable character facing challenging odds.
- Can a TV show save your sanity? – What starts as an overview of a ridiculous Bigfoot-hunting “reality” show turns into a pretty good encapsulation of why escapism is valuable, particularly in the environment of continual outrage stoked over the past decade or so.
- Disappearing Polymorph – There are crystal structures that won’t form anymore, even though they existed just fine in the recent past. This phenomenon is of particular concern to the pharmaceutical industry, which has “lost” drugs to polymorphism.
- Calculus Made Easy – A textbook written in 1910 that should be required reading for students today, as they’d get the point much quicker than today’s textbooks…
- Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices (in particular, the “difficult case” on page 17) – Woman hears voices in her head saying things to the effect of “Don’t be afraid, we’re here to help.” Doctors put her on anti-psychotic meds and they work for a bit, but the voices come back and tell her to seek immediate treatment, giving her a specific address and telling her to get a brain scan. It turns out to be a hospital, and just to reassure her, the doctors order a brain scan. They identify a brain tumor and eventually remove the tumor. After the surgery, the voices say “We are pleased to have helped you. Goodbye.” She never hears the voices again. Several mundane explanations are proposed, but no one knows for sure what actually happened.
- Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public Record – It’s interesting how much influence you can gain in internet institutions simply by showing up… granted, you have to do so consistently for, like, decades, but still. Anyway, Wikipedia remains pretty useful as a starting place, even if this guy seems a bit goofy (and his influence is limited to certain specific areas).
- Captain Tony Soprano – Perfect
- Dave’s Pickle Warehouse – Yes
- I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again – This data scientist has absolutely had it with all the AI talk of late.
That’s all for now…