I made a video about a homebrew 3D display that uses LEDs and rapidly spinng parts!
Vimto gets its name from "vim tonic" — it was an early kind of energy drink before it was a cordial, so what you get now is kind of a non-energy-drink version of an energy drink.
They've now released a Vimto energy drink, so you can get the energy drink version of the non-energy drink version of the energy drink.
The range also includes a zero-calorie version of the Vimto energy drink, which is an energy-free version of the energy drink version of the non-energy drink version of the energy drink.
I find it's better with sugar.
Happy to announce that the internet’s no.1 crisp sandwich stock site will be getting an update in time for Crisp Sandwich Day, a whole new category of content https://vole.wtf/buttystock/
Right. It's Jenny Needs A New Side Gig time. Previous one ended cos they drank the AI Kool-Aid, thus documenting software as a profession has fallen to slop.
So what can I do? Chances of finding another website to write for are slim, any likely candidates would tread on Hackaday's toes.
Annoyingly I have lots of skills such as electronics stuff that don't show on my CV, because of my odd career.
It's all very difficult.
Thirty two years ago today, Palm Computing announced the release of Graffiti, their gesture-based handwriting technology for #NewtonOS, General Magic #MagicCap, GeoWorks GEOS, Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing, Microsoft Winpad, and PenRight! devices.
https://www.grot.com/zoomer/zoomer-list/zoomer-list-3Q1994/0048.html
@foone I tried https://marginalia-search.com/ recently and it's different. The result aren't as good as pre-Prabhakar google search but they are truly refreshing
"When the Doctor loses control of the Tardis, he finds himself transported to #Scarfolk, a town forever timed-locked in the 1970s. There he faces dangerous foes including a telekinetic child-owl called Roy; an overhead projector possessed by a demon, and a group of tutting pensioners"
Doctorow: "In automation theory… a centaur is a person who is assisted by a machine. … Riding a bicycle or driving a car makes you a centaur; so does using the mute button on your TV remote when an ad comes on. Wearing a hearing aid makes you a centaur, and so does using a calculator to multiply large numbers."
We had a slightly different word for all of that when I was in school: cyborg.
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