Classic humor from Adam West. His phone book listings in Ketchum ID https://t.co/GVCGJOtRaf

it's time: here's a cephalopod appreciation thread!!! https://t.co/qvHjcDk00R

I JOKINGLY MANSPLAINED @MLB AND GOT MANSPLAINED HELP I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING https://t.co/GYADkZdFJU

this is it this is my favourite one https://t.co/EFYMO90Q4o

She took gender reveal to a whole other level

May we all strive to be as relaxed and cool as those two buddies depicted above.

• Seinfeld Hug Denial - it's the perfect combination of understandable and entirely awkward.
• Big Dipper - "LaCroix Boy" - I will point out that the choreography here was put together by KK Apple but there's no one part that supercedes another. It is, from start to finish, a joy.
• C3PO Wampa Gag - Two things. 1) I rarely post Star Wars related anything because, frankly, you've seen it all. 2) I've never looked up deleted scenes from any of the movies because... why? With that in mind, this is a ridiculous "gag" from Empire Strikes Back that didn't make it. It was pointed out to me that this is the only time you see paper in their universe. Bizarre.
• Mogwai - "Coolverine" - new Mogwai, new post-apocalyptic video. I love this Trevor Risk writeup on it. It's a fairly tame Mogwai track but I enjoy it none the less.
• David Lynch , Season 3 interview - Seth Pomeroy's Ultimate Funny does a great bit on Mr. Lynch. Masterfully edited and quite absurd. Actually pretty on point.
• Rock Climbing Goes Wrong - short, sweet and rewarding.
• Dad says "Huh?" - I don't know why this is so adorable but it's adorable.
• Ron Livingston Keyboard Cat - seven years ago actor Ron Livingston posted this video to his YouTube channel. It is the only thing he's ever posted. HT Reddit

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Guys I just ran a test and the best pizzas include smoked cheese, tons of garlic, and/or prosciutto. Other pizzas not as good.

How can people still be racist?

early stream on NPR

I happened to run across a gallery in New Orleans that was showcasing these enormous images of the outskirts of the Louisiana country. The long nighttime exposures were taken from a boat, capturing abandoned and remote homes, surrounded or consumed by water. It was often hard to tell if the derelict homes were a result of Katrina aftermath or simply a means to living in poverty.

It turns out, the works are all a result of the hard work of photographer Frank Relle. The gallery I stumbled into, is his. Most of his projects emerge from similar physical setups - long exposures at night of questionably abandoned places. The Nightscapes I and II are gorgeous but nothing struck me quite as hard as the Until the Water series. Be sure to view these as large as your browser will go, it definitely helps.

Absolutely fascinating article from Terry Crowley on What Really Happened with Vista. Anyone that's been computing for 15 years has certainly seen the ebb and flow of Microsoft being respected to being laughable bad to being back on the rise. So, to read through Crowley's insight on exactly how that journey occurred. It's a lengthy read but engaging from the start. Here's a tiny blurb regarding a bad bet on Internet Explorer:

Also catastrophically, the bet on Avalon had been paired with a major disinvestment in IE. The IE team was gutted to staff Avalon and IE was left on life support struggling to address the torrent of security issues cascading in. The vision was that HTML would be a legacy technology and the kinds of applications our competitors were targeting for the browser and HTML would be built on top of the new Avalon infrastructure.

This was a huge strategic mistake and opened up a gap for the rise of Firefox and then the Chrome browser from Google. Whether continued investment in IE would have prevented that is impossible to tell, but it certainly did not help. It also hamstrung the IE team and left them unprepared and unstaffed to address the continuing rapid evolution of web technologies which degraded IE's reputation with web developers. The fact that it was a mistake was apparent across the company immediately; there was no need for twenty-twenty hindsight. Office and other parts of the company had large investments in the web and HTML. There was no plausible path where those investments would move over to Avalon, much less expecting the entire industry to move. In fact there was never even an attempt by the Avalon team to describe a plausible path - something magical would happen and suddenly everyone would be building Avalon apps instead of on HTML. It was absurd as well as being unconscionable. Immediately after we "won" the browser wars and saw Netscape absorbed by AOL, we radically cut further development in these open standard technologies. It was not until Windows 7 that we re-staffed the IE team and restarted aggressive investment in IE and standard web technologies.

As I mentioned, it's lengthy. Oh, and it's nerdy and technical. But having a high level overview of what happened through the stages of Windows 95 to XP to Vista is well worth your time.

Cool: Everything just qualified for an Academy Award, making it the first time this has happened to a game/interact… https://t.co/RVXaOYmhuW

TY @NylonMag https://t.co/w5B5lsOAlB

This is the gaming room in our new apartment, rate my setup https://t.co/CDwVUeTPwl

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As you may have seen in the tweets, there's a brand new track from Sleep Good off of his upcoming album, Bohemian Grove (available via yk records, naturally). The track debuted via Atwood Magazine and they had a lot of nice things to say about it:

Patterson's voice is warm and inviting, and a soft bed of strings helps it to float through the washy soundscape. The melody is woozy and a little dizzying, reflecting the speaker's disquietude. The strings build, and the chorus explodes joyfully - a little like the feeling of exiting a viaduct on the Pacific Coast Highway and coming face to face with the ocean...

The track is streaming everywhere now, so give it a listen. This won't be the last you hear of "Somewhere."

Claire Hentschker has taken up the task of compiling YouTube videos of abandoned malls and stitching them into a 360 Journey. You are swept through the empty spaces made all the more bizarre and rotten by the missing digital information. Scrub ahead at least to the 3 minute mark for a prime example of the glitched out environment. It's very weird but there's something hauntingly engaging about it all.

There's more if you find yourself craving further journeys.

Netflix Leaving Battle for Net Neutrality Shows Why We Need It. \"We're big enough to get the deals we want.\"

Work in progress. Dew on the grass in the evening. https://t.co/HQPpBRwn3S