Category: culture
-
All Is Lost (2013)
One of my favorite things to watch is other people dealing with problems. They can be out of this world science-fiction problems or they can be terrestrial problems and All is Lost is more of the latter. Robert Redford plays an unnamed (“Our Man” in the credits) sailor on a solo sailing voyage. Unfortunately everything…
-
Musish is Better Than iTunes for Apple Music on Windows, Linux, and macOS
If you use Apple Music, the streaming music service from Apple that gives artists pennies instead of dollars, and want to listen on your computer, Musish is open source, runs in your web browser, and a much better alternative to running the full desktop iTunes instance if you don’t need to listen to a locally-stored…
-
YouTube’s Advertising Hellhole Urges People to Waste Money on Mystery Boxes
Will Sommer for The Daily Beast: Untold riches are promised on Mystery Brand, a website that sells prize-filled “mystery boxes.” If you buy one of the digital boxes, some of which cost hundreds of dollars, you might only get a fidget spinner—or you might get a luxury sports car. For just $100, users can win…
-
Sailor Moon’s Long-Lost Americanized Bizarro-World Counterpart
Cecilia D’Anastasio has the fascinating story behind the version of Sailor Moon created for a western audience that never aired. I don’t give a shit about Sailor Moon, except that it was valuable in broadening the audience for different kinds of animation outside of the typical Ninja Scroll-tier of garbage that was popular at the…
-
Tim Angus’ Unique Electric Guitar
The first time I ever saw a 3D printer in-person was at a robotics conference for software developers in Florida. That thing printed out a tiny little model of an intricate water jug and I was in awe. Imagine the look on my face when I woke up this morning and saw that ioquake3 developer…