Daily Archives: November 14, 2018

Blog Notes: WordPress Pushes A New Post Editing System

Posted on November 14, 2018 by mikecane

WordPress Editor Frankly, they can go fuck their blocks. They’ve already tried to move everyone over to a new post editing system several years ago. There was an uproar in the support forum. Thankfully, someone posted a link to the … Continue reading →

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Doctor Who: 2005 Series 11, Episode 6

Posted on November 14, 2018 by mikecane

People are going out of their minds over this series.

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Sherlock Gakuen: Japanese Puppet Sherlock Holmes

Posted on November 14, 2018 by mikecane

How did I not know about this until now? I’m four years late! All I can get are some links and a Content ID-avoiding video. All other videos have been DMCAed at YouTube and episodes available At Viki are geoblocked! … Continue reading →

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The Little Mermaid

Posted on November 14, 2018 by mikecane

This begins deceptively. It starts out looking like UPA’s style of animation. And then becomes the trippiest animation I’ve ever seen. All I could think while watching it is what would have been the reactions of Walt Disney and his … Continue reading →

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The Girl With The Clockwork Heart

Posted on November 14, 2018 by mikecane

No, that’s not its actual title, but that’s what I saw and about all I could understand. The story is otherwise very abstract and spans years. The production looks like David Lynch doing a Tim Burton stop-motion animation! And that … Continue reading →

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Density, Distance, But What About Most Kind Of Trip Taken?

Posted on November 14, 2018 by mikecane

Housing and transportation are the same, these graphs show The most interesting thing is this chart: Distances for walking and biking can also be done via Alt-Wheels. Unfortunately, the chart still doesn’t tell the whole story. That would be which … Continue reading →

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Digital Cash Is Analog Doom

Posted on November 14, 2018 by mikecane

Why Sweden’s cashless society is no longer a utopia The Swedish retail payment market is rapidly moving away from using cash. The outstanding value of cash in circulation has dropped to 1% of Swedish GDP. This development raises some crucial … Continue reading →

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The Kind Of Software Rabbit Hole We All Suffer From

Posted on November 14, 2018 by mikecane

Existence is Pain: Technology’s frustrations are slowly driving us crazy So while I’m all for the “let’s teach everybody to code!” movement, I do sometimes wish we’d stop writing yet another Learn Machine Learning With Python Tutorial, or whatever, and … Continue reading →

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R.I.P. Computing Pioneer Bill Godbout

Posted on November 14, 2018 by mikecane

R.I.P. Bill Godbout, 79 Bill Godbout, a legend in the S-100 community for his 1970s-1980s work at Godbout Electronics and CompuPro, perished November 8 due to the Camp wildfire in Concow, California. He was 79. And: Godbout was an important … Continue reading →

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