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Let's start with a blooper reel of various black and white films. And from there, movies that were based on magazine stories, with links to the archives of the publications so you can read the originals (although I'll bet many of them have subscription requirements).
Murderbot giveaways, in anticipation of more Murderbot arriving.
Having stepped into the abyss, and been there for a while, the contours of the abyss, and of the web that connects everyone, are more easily seen.
There is a certain je ne peux pas dire quoi about having a religious observance about the time where people were going to die, needed to stay inside, and somehow, to mark that they were one of the houses to be spared.
A possible background soothing music and noises for you while you work and do things.
The United States Postal Service will continue to exist, we are told, because they are necessary for the profitability of every other delivery service in existence, but those people who want to be profitable have to find some way of making sure that the USPS doesn't become a preferred alternative to them. And also, because USPS will deliver live scorpions (in very limited circumstances).
More video feeds to be entranced by if your Internet access is still stable and strong. Additionally, things like cameras for the giant panda enclosures at the National Zoo. And virtual exhibitions of the Smithsonian Museum's collections, to use if D.C. is not on your list of permitted places to be (and, of course, it's closed to the public at this point anyway). The City Parks Foundation is offering marionette shows once a week, Youtube offers videos of cooking dishes that are less instructional and more aesthetic, the Bronx Zoo has a virtual zoo, as well as digital resources for educators.
(Unsurprisingly, a lot of people are turning to nature cameras to get their dose of the outdoors, and building communities over what they see.
The Feldenkrais project is offering, for a time, lessons and exercises in their style for all people to peruse and use.
Did we mention that The Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. also has a ton of open access materials for people to use? As does the Met, which has a collection of art materials available for free.
An archive of folk music from around the world. There is a definition about what qualifies as "folk" on the site, just in case you wanted to know what they will and won't accept.
A Twitter thread about the purpose of Hamlet grilling Horatio about what he thought he saw and the beauty of how it establishes Horatio as the reliable narrator he will need to be at the end of the play.
Being weird compared to the group has benefits to self and to others. The trick is, of course, that once you have enough weird in the same direction, you need a different weird to keep reaping those benefits.
Michael Sheen continues to be a person more interested, at least at the moment, in walking the walk rather than doing much talking at all.
The matter of paper, and toilet paper, and the shortages within, and how it's not just about paper, but how the paper gets places, and what paper is being requested.
Capitalism at its finest: when threatened with a temporary cap on how much they could charge restaurants for providing them with delivery services, several major services immediately threatened to make up the difference by charging the people ordering more.
( SARS CoV-2 / COVID-19 specific matters )
Stories of everyday household objects. The resurgence of a yokai that was supposed to help cure disease by having their picture shown around, and a nice explanation of the image and why it might have made a resurgence in Japanese social media.
As much as everyone wants them to, sport is unlikely to return any time soon, simply because the logistics of playing sport and keeping everyone safe are mind-boggling to try and do, and have way too many possible failure points.
An art gallery for gerbils, part one of the Ask A Manager community's animal coworkers, part two of the Ask A Manager community's animal coworkers, penguins gathering round to get weighed,
Technologically speaking, while popular, Zoom is not necessarily the most secure thing to do any sort of meetings with. Which also them adds in things like ways of making sure you're not zoom-bombed and ways of getting around the nanny-like attention tracking feature so that you aren't called to attention if your attention wanders for half a minute or so. To their credit, Zoom decided they needed to address these issues and is putting resources toward fixing them, security vulnerabilities, and other things that have cropped up with the more widespread use of Zoom. Soak testing is good, but there's rarely anything that beats actually having people use your product. Because then you discover just how inventive people are at using (or misusing) anything, and whether or not you took the correct approach in designing the thing so that when people are inevitably going to be jerks about it, you still have a more safe and secure platform to use.
Firefox updated their browser, and for some, that means the new changes are bad changes. For now, there's a way of reverting to the old address bar behavior, but it may be temporary.
Sally Ride's notes need volunteer transcription, so if you want to peer into the mind of an astronaut and help people find things more easily in them, that's something worth putting some time into. That's part of citizen projects that need volunteer help and projects to help transcribe archives that you can participate in.
Science Fiction technology terms, from a web version of a NASA guide for Space Educators. A website that is also in its excellent 2000-era web design. (But it also still works, just fine.)
NASA has explorations for children and the curious involving their branch of STEM.
The art of mending and of many of the things covered in "home economics" are coming back with the lack of places that do those kinds of things professionally.
Using current technology to teach and try and preserve many languages of the first people of just about any colonization has touched. And blending indigenous culture and STEM education in Australia for those who can get encouragement and exposure for both.
And at the very end, pictures of Luna over landmarks.
A story of a little free library, and those who are grateful for the materials within.
Also, several fans of Hamilton recorded themselves singing Non-Stop, and the Hamilton crew mixed them together into the song. It's great.
The March Past of the Kitchen Utensils.
The various regional accents of the United States, some of which are very specific to certain boroughs of New York City.
(And another possible song to wash your hands to, courtesy Sesame Street in its more psychedelic phase.)
Murderbot giveaways, in anticipation of more Murderbot arriving.
Having stepped into the abyss, and been there for a while, the contours of the abyss, and of the web that connects everyone, are more easily seen.
There is a certain je ne peux pas dire quoi about having a religious observance about the time where people were going to die, needed to stay inside, and somehow, to mark that they were one of the houses to be spared.
A possible background soothing music and noises for you while you work and do things.
The United States Postal Service will continue to exist, we are told, because they are necessary for the profitability of every other delivery service in existence, but those people who want to be profitable have to find some way of making sure that the USPS doesn't become a preferred alternative to them. And also, because USPS will deliver live scorpions (in very limited circumstances).
More video feeds to be entranced by if your Internet access is still stable and strong. Additionally, things like cameras for the giant panda enclosures at the National Zoo. And virtual exhibitions of the Smithsonian Museum's collections, to use if D.C. is not on your list of permitted places to be (and, of course, it's closed to the public at this point anyway). The City Parks Foundation is offering marionette shows once a week, Youtube offers videos of cooking dishes that are less instructional and more aesthetic, the Bronx Zoo has a virtual zoo, as well as digital resources for educators.
(Unsurprisingly, a lot of people are turning to nature cameras to get their dose of the outdoors, and building communities over what they see.
The Feldenkrais project is offering, for a time, lessons and exercises in their style for all people to peruse and use.
Did we mention that The Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. also has a ton of open access materials for people to use? As does the Met, which has a collection of art materials available for free.
An archive of folk music from around the world. There is a definition about what qualifies as "folk" on the site, just in case you wanted to know what they will and won't accept.
A Twitter thread about the purpose of Hamlet grilling Horatio about what he thought he saw and the beauty of how it establishes Horatio as the reliable narrator he will need to be at the end of the play.
Being weird compared to the group has benefits to self and to others. The trick is, of course, that once you have enough weird in the same direction, you need a different weird to keep reaping those benefits.
Michael Sheen continues to be a person more interested, at least at the moment, in walking the walk rather than doing much talking at all.
The matter of paper, and toilet paper, and the shortages within, and how it's not just about paper, but how the paper gets places, and what paper is being requested.
Capitalism at its finest: when threatened with a temporary cap on how much they could charge restaurants for providing them with delivery services, several major services immediately threatened to make up the difference by charging the people ordering more.
( SARS CoV-2 / COVID-19 specific matters )
Stories of everyday household objects. The resurgence of a yokai that was supposed to help cure disease by having their picture shown around, and a nice explanation of the image and why it might have made a resurgence in Japanese social media.
As much as everyone wants them to, sport is unlikely to return any time soon, simply because the logistics of playing sport and keeping everyone safe are mind-boggling to try and do, and have way too many possible failure points.
An art gallery for gerbils, part one of the Ask A Manager community's animal coworkers, part two of the Ask A Manager community's animal coworkers, penguins gathering round to get weighed,
Technologically speaking, while popular, Zoom is not necessarily the most secure thing to do any sort of meetings with. Which also them adds in things like ways of making sure you're not zoom-bombed and ways of getting around the nanny-like attention tracking feature so that you aren't called to attention if your attention wanders for half a minute or so. To their credit, Zoom decided they needed to address these issues and is putting resources toward fixing them, security vulnerabilities, and other things that have cropped up with the more widespread use of Zoom. Soak testing is good, but there's rarely anything that beats actually having people use your product. Because then you discover just how inventive people are at using (or misusing) anything, and whether or not you took the correct approach in designing the thing so that when people are inevitably going to be jerks about it, you still have a more safe and secure platform to use.
Firefox updated their browser, and for some, that means the new changes are bad changes. For now, there's a way of reverting to the old address bar behavior, but it may be temporary.
Sally Ride's notes need volunteer transcription, so if you want to peer into the mind of an astronaut and help people find things more easily in them, that's something worth putting some time into. That's part of citizen projects that need volunteer help and projects to help transcribe archives that you can participate in.
Science Fiction technology terms, from a web version of a NASA guide for Space Educators. A website that is also in its excellent 2000-era web design. (But it also still works, just fine.)
NASA has explorations for children and the curious involving their branch of STEM.
The art of mending and of many of the things covered in "home economics" are coming back with the lack of places that do those kinds of things professionally.
Using current technology to teach and try and preserve many languages of the first people of just about any colonization has touched. And blending indigenous culture and STEM education in Australia for those who can get encouragement and exposure for both.
And at the very end, pictures of Luna over landmarks.
A story of a little free library, and those who are grateful for the materials within.
Also, several fans of Hamilton recorded themselves singing Non-Stop, and the Hamilton crew mixed them together into the song. It's great.
The March Past of the Kitchen Utensils.
The various regional accents of the United States, some of which are very specific to certain boroughs of New York City.
(And another possible song to wash your hands to, courtesy Sesame Street in its more psychedelic phase.)
