What I saw on the web on 2022.8.6

1. Octave Basitar (Slamitar) demo
   by Irate Mike
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wjFZGC24TE
   (a double-strung two-course instrument)
   via reddit
   
   
2. True Facts: The Self-Sacrificing Amoeba
   by Ze Frank
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlANF-v9lb0
   just when you thought biology couldn't get weirder
   via rss
   
   
3. Life is Like a Box of Chocolates
   by the Cigarette-Smoking Man
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vGmkB5TIso
   take that, Forrest Gump!
   via memory
   
   
4. Robert At Home - Episode 1
   by Robert Fripp
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4X7sEK5zKM
   in case you'd like to watch Robert rock out in E
   via rss
   
   
5. The Zen Minister’s New Working Definition for the word Religion
   by James Ishmael Ford
   https://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2022/08/the-zen-ministers-new-working-definition-for-the-word-religion.html
   a less-broken definition than many
   via rss
   
   
6. Modernity: The Renaissance was an Age of Reason!
   by Ada Palmer
   https://twitter.com/Ada_Palmer/status/1555979626937307137
   the Middle-Ages seem unconvinced
   via checking her twitter feed
   
   
7. I made the portraits of the main characters from sci-fi novel 'Blindsight' by Peter Watts.
   by /u/YamiEA
   https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/whxusg/i_made_the_portraits_of_the_main_characters_from/
   perhaps making it easier to imagine that you're Siri Keeton?
   via reddit