What I saw on the web on 2024.8.9

[reblogarythm]

1. Gorillas
   by Zach Weinersmith
   https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gorillas
   mostly for the votey
   via rss
   
   
2. Can We Build A UKELELE from SCRATCH in 24 Hours??
   by Daisy Tempest, Xyla Foxlin, and Ruth Amos
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPvJPddz14I
   the answer may surprise you!
   via checking Xyla's channel
   
   
3. Come on up to the house
   by Tom Waits
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GugzLSbOQE
   i'd not seen the video before. it works. still a good song.
   via remembering it
   
   
4. Alice’s Number
   by Futility Closet
   https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/07/11/alices-number/
   a pleasant little logic/math puzzle. took me a few minutes
   via boing
   
   
5. Alberta's Icefields Parkway, Highway 16 to partially re-open following wildfire closure
   by Wallis Snowdon
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-s-icefields-parkway-highway-16-to-partially-re-open-following-wildfire-closure-1.7288618
   that would be sufficiently reöpened for my purposes
   via going looking, after hearing a news report
   
   
6. Highway through Jasper reopened to the public
   by Travis McEwan
   https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6477463
   and this is what it looks like
   via rss
   
   
7. There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
   by Georgia Ray
   https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-tree/
   cuz cladistics! just like fish don't exist!
   via wanting to read something on the topic