Friday, August 21, 2020

Are You There, iPod? It's Me, Margaret

Now Is A Great Time To Go Back To An Old iPod, Notes From A Flat Earth Conference, The Fascinating Story Of The Girl Who Survived A 10,000-Foot Fall, I Lost My Wife To A Cult
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TALL TALES
BEAM ME UP
Notes From A Flat Earth Conference
willpatrick.co.uk
Two and a half years ago I went to a conference to take portraits of people who believe the earth is flat. I thought it would be straightforward photography project. It was not.
'I WAS IN A FREEFALL'
The Fascinating Story Of The Girl Who Survived A 10,000-Foot Fall
medium.com
Juliane Koepcke, a 17-year-old teenager survived 10 days alone in the Amazon rainforest after falling nearly 10,000 feet during a plane crash.
POD SAVE AMERICA
Now Is A Great Time To Go Back To An Old iPod
gq.com
Fed up with streaming? You're not alone. And these days, there's a whole micro-economy of custom iPod options, whether you want a 2 terabyte hard drive or built-in Bluetooth.
DIGITIZING THE PAST
Creating Photorealistic Portraits Of Roman Emperors Using Their Sculptures
geekologie.com
Artist Daniel Voshart has taken it upon himself to create photorealistic portraits of Roman Emperors using machine learning applied to images of their busts.
SMART TECH WE DIGG | SPONSORED
The 24/7 Smart Home Monitoring Kit Parents Need To Conquer The School Year
ecobee.com
No matter what, start the school year with confidence. ecobee has created a smart home monitoring kit to help moms and dads manage parenting in the "new normal."
WHAT WENT WRONG?
'I WILL KILL WHEN INSTRUCTED'
I Lost My Wife To A Cult
vice.com
Christian fundamentalists turned Nathan's wife into a haunted stranger. Now he's fighting to protect others from a similar fate.
'WHY HAD HE ATTACKED ME?'
What Happened When A Black Lineman Went Knocking On Doors In A White Neighborhood
si.com
When a Black lineman from Colorado State went knocking on doors in a white neighborhood, he found himself at the dangerous intersection of a national racial reckoning and a world of internet-conspiracy fanaticism.
'AN AUDIENCE OF ONE'
What's Really Going On With The Lincoln Project, The Anti-Trump, Republican-Led PAC That's Pissing Off Lots Of People
vox.com
Twitter loves the ads. Does that matter?
MONUMENTAL MISTAKE
How A Typo Created A Melbourne Monolith In 'Microsoft Flight Simulator'
kotaku.com
When the game relies on AI recreations of existing Bing data for smaller suburbs — like Melbourne's North — then accidents can blow up into a bigger deal.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
NOT PHONING IT IN
Someone Removed The Polarization Filter From An iPhone, And This Is Some 007-Level Tech Wizardry
digg.com
Sometimes you just don't want people to see what's on your phone.
IN THE NEWS
Eight Takeaways From The DNC's Final Night
At Least Five People Killed In Northern California Wildfires
Watch Joe Biden's Full Speech At The DNC 2020
USPS Email Tells Managers Not To Reconnect Sorting Machines
Netflix Apologizes For 'Inappropriate' 'Cuties' Poster
DIGG PICKS | SPONSORED
We Love This Weather-Resistant Jacket, And It's Back In Stock
huckberry.com
Autumn chills are nearly here, and that has us thinking about one of our all-time favorite outerwear finds. This waxed trucker jacket from Flint and Tinder will keep us warm and dry for years to come.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
THE SILENT TWINS
We Two Made One (2000)
newyorker.com
Why did identical twin sisters decide to speak only to each other in a way no one else could understand?
AFTER-SCHOOL CODEBREAKERS
Cicada: Solving The Web's Deepest Mystery (2015)
rollingstone.com
How one teenage whiz kid found himself in a world of international intrigue.
Sometimes typos are funny, sometimes they can create a whole building from scratch.

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