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bessere Werbung geht doch quasi nicht:
"The Southern California hardcore scene has a new player in the game with the formation of Wasted Oath, a supergroup consisting entirely of dickheads, assholes, and some other notable pieces of shit who were kicked out of other bands." (The Hard Times)

Nachtrag: "Literatur? da wird mir übel" (Nina Hagen)

Try catch throw by Andrew Neil Gray

Nature is celebrating Wells and Star Trek with a sci-fi special, which includes a long-running graphic novel.
"It happens to be 150 years since Wells's birth, 70 years since his death and 50 years since Star Trek was first aired. All satisfying multiples of ten, but measured in units based on the revolution of a small planet round an unremarkable star in the suburbs of an ordinary galaxy. As Wells lamented, we are shackled to our past. It might be a while before we run such commemorations based on binary representations of elapsed numbers of Planck time units."

Even Good Bots Fight (arXiv):
"In recent years, there has been a huge increase in the number of bots online, varying from Web crawlers for search engines, to chatbots for online customer service, spambots on social media, and content-editing bots in online collaboration communities. The online world has turned into an ecosystem of bots. However, our knowledge of how these automated agents are interacting with each other is rather poor. In this article, we analyze collaborative bots by studying the interactions between bots that edit articles on Wikipedia. We find that, although Wikipedia bots are intended to support the encyclopedia, they often undo each other's edits and these sterile "fights" may sometimes continue for years. Further, just like humans, Wikipedia bots exhibit cultural differences. Our research suggests that even relatively "dumb" bots may give rise to complex interactions, and this provides a warning to the Artificial Intelligence research community."

You might know about Urban Heat. This is a virtual flight over a city, where space is coloured according to the heat that is expected.

Habt Ihr Euch auch immer gefragt was es mit den Abkürzungen auf sich hat, die Jonny Rotton in Anarchy in the UK singt? Ich habs mal nachgelesen:

"The abbreviations used in the lyrics are an alphabet soup of civil war references from ’70s headlines ... The IRA and the UDA were the largest paramilitary armies in the conflict in Northern Ireland: the heavily armed IRA (Irish Republican Army) were on the Republican (anti-British, pro-unification) side, while the thousands-strong UDA (Ulster Defence Association) were on the Loyalist (pro-British, anti-unification) side. The MPLA were further away: they’re the political group that took control of Angola, formerly one of Portugal’s African colonies, in a 1975-76 civil war, and still run the country today. (The initials stand for Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, or the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola.) ..." (wikipedia)

A bit out-dated, but nevertheless interesting: No Man's Sky vs. Elite Dangerous vs. Star Citizen. Certainly, Elite was ground breaking - btw, Elite: Dangerous was crowdfunded (see also).

Nachtrag: ct

Sushi 2016 (Foto by Julia)
aka: save the whales

Surprises of the Faraday Cage (gefunden bei fefe)