The New York Times delves into dining alone and its experiences.
I’ve had mostly good experiences dining alone. Good service, occasionally bad table, even got to speak with a local chef about Maryland style crab cakes.
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Dining Alone
The New York Times delves into dining alone and its experiences. I’ve had mostly good experiences dining alone. Good service, occasionally bad table, even got to speak with a local chef about Maryland style crab cakes.
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Woman finds man under a bed
Nightmare fuel: Kansas babysitter checking for monsters finds man hiding under bed
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Torpedo baseball bats
Major League Baseball bat science doesn’t change much. Every so often there’s an innovation such as the Yankees and their torpedo bat designed by an MIT physicist.
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ChatGPT turning images into Studio Ghibli
ChatGPT turning images into Studio Ghibli The trend kicked off pretty wholesomely. Couples transformed portraits, pet owners generated cartoonish cats, and many people are busily Ghibli-fying their families (I’ve stuck to selfies, not wanting to share with OpenAI my siblings’ likenesses). It’s an AI-generated version of the human-drawn art commissions people offer on Etsy —…
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HTML Review issue 4
The HTML Review is a literary magazine that exists only on the web and takes advantage of tricks web browsers can do to make text interactive or active.
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Severance is about slavery
An interesting take by Matt Pierce: Severance is about slavery. Yet “Severance” and its parable about double lives has become hard to watch. Season 1’s subtler commentary about workplace alienation has given way a far more brutally explicit Season 2 plot, which is still being told as a “Lost”-style mystery: What is Lumon up to?…
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Airline safety videos become entertainment
I don’t fly often, so I guess I missed out on this train, but increasingly, airline safety videos are not filmed on on a plane. … The airlines weren’t just making safety demonstrations. They were making entertainment, engaging in an arms race to make their safety videos bigger, better, and frankly: more ridiculous. To track…
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How Adolescence pulled off those one takes
Fascinating behind the scenes of how Netfix’s show Adolescence pulled off four one take episodes (steadicam & harness) plus seamlessly attaching a camera to a drone.
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A 500-year history of monsters
Natalie Lawrence goes through 500 years of monsters. Their origins often reflect the society and culture of the time. At different points through history, individual monsters – both ancient and new – have had their moments in the limelight. They’ve becoming the emblems for specific events, conflicts and concerns that were troubling society at particular…
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Corner Yard