wonderful. https://t.co/TgXxEZuJqX

What will the de-skeuomorphized voice interface feel (and sound) like? https://t.co/aAlo4KaWfb

Great piece on the different cultural empowerment of women. Spoiler alert; Sweden is doing it better.

If you're paying attention, you know June is PRIDE Month, in honor of the Stonewall Riots that took place on June 28th, 1969. So why not take a moment to revisit Little Bandit's video for Bed of Bad Luck?!

Okay, it's definitely a bit opportunistic of me to tie "hey, watch this video" promotion to PRIDE, as LGBTQ groups are fighting the good fight this month. But maybe you can use it as a launching pad to become more aware of the intense struggle those groups are undergoing in the current administration. Awareness goes a long way.*

* Speaking of awareness, go see Little Bandit play The Basement East this Tuesday, June 13th! ;).

In conjunction with the MOMA exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, the NY Times put together this great piece on the architect's complexity. Turns out, he hated NY and called it "a great monument to the power of money and greed." Possibly related: he also had plans to paint the Guggenheim pink and launch a mile high skyscraper in Chicago that was never built.

These factoids are undoubtedly interesting but just seeing his drawings is unreal. I've always had a fascination with the detail and vision involved with any architects planning but Wright was certainly in his own class. The plans for downtown Pittsburgh alone should flip your lid.

Also, I just wanted an excuse to post that GIF of "World Famous Architect."

Adam West passed away from leukemia over the weekend at the age of 88. Most of us know him for playing Batman in the 1960's television series. It was campy and absurd but it knew it was campy and absurd, so that made it enjoyable. As Rob Sheridan put it, he's the only Batman to punch a shark.

In the early 90's he did a TV pilot written by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel entitled Lookwell, wherein he played a TV detective that was so into the role he also stuck his nose in real detective work. The show wasn't picked up but you can watch the entire episode on Youtube. It is, unsurprisingly, campy and absurd and fun. I remember seeing this during a screening of a host of "lost" pilots and laughed uncontrollably at West's hobo character near the end. Absolutely brilliant.

West will always be the original Batman to me (even if that's not precisely accurate) and his ridiculous deliveries will certainly be missed.

Please, retweet this good Toad. https://t.co/lRb1bBuPbR

#archivepix https://t.co/I7Np07I7Kn

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.