reblogarythm | Entries tagged with geography

owls in towels
by Stone Willows
https://owlsintowels.org/
owels! towls!
via discord, twice
Get Your Library Card
by the Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/use-the-library/research-at-the-library/get-your-library-card/
in case you'd like to read something in their collexion
via observing a discussion in which someone wanted precisely this
Canada renamed the Great Lakes
by possibly erijewi?
https://imgur.com/gallery/canada-renamed-great-lakes-Z0qARY5
it's a fair cop
via word of mouth, email
Will There Ever Be Flying Cars?
by Akilah Hughes asking Hank Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUnR0szT4mg
this and several other question as well, many of which are not about weed
via youtube recommends

UR-Values Of The Right, Center and Left
by Ian Welsh
https://www.ianwelsh.net/ur-values-of-the-right-center-and-left/
as is so often the case with Ian's stuff, read if your will to live is too strong
via rss
A Dancing Robot
by Stephen Notley
https://www.angryflower.com/dancingrobot.gif
in case you need a dancing robot
via BTAF
What Should We Be Doing Right Now?
by Alexis Shotwell speaking with Zoë Yunker
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/05/02/Alexis-Shotwell-Interview/
several good reminders here
via discord
How volunteering to become a lab rat paid off
by Felicity Nelson
https://thesicktimes.org/2025/05/02/how-volunteering-to-become-a-lab-rat-paid-off/
both news on a treatment modality that looks like it works for some long covid cases, and good reminders about what being in a clinical trial involves
via discord
I Found the Dumbest Time Zone
by Hank Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz3jAEdzbbA
i mean, any place that uses DST (note to Hank: it's Saving, not Savings) has a dumb time zone at least part of the year
via rss
The Ethics of Fake Guitar
by Adam Neely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1QEV9euGAg
a fascinating discussion, including the idea of delineating genres of music based on their ethical codes
via rss

Election Night 2025 hot take: There was something to disappoint almost everyone!
by David Climenhaga
https://albertapolitics.ca/2025/04/election-night-2025-hot-take-there-was-something-to-disappoint-almost-everyone/
yeah, i feel that on all points. although the current numbers suggest that Lib+NDP > 172?
via rss
Smallest possible circles containing 0.1% to 100.0% of the world's population (0.14 second/frame)
by alexmijo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kja7upA9MvQ
poor NZ
via discord
Trump is the Godfather in Reverse
by Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-the-godfather-in-reverse
yup. and we've all of us got several years yet of dealing with the direct consequences. (and how long after that dealing with the aftermath?)
via rss
Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
by New London Consort, directed by Philip Pickett
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k4l0LIV_5noHKxsj98cucNBzDApYaSHCk
if you need some pilgrim songs and dances from the 14th century
via remembering it
Poilievre vows to stay on as party leader for reasons of being otherwise unemployable
by Ian Macintyre
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/04/poilievre-vows-to-stay-on-as-party-leader-for-reasons-of-being-otherwise-unemployable/
i mean, yes, it's satire. but the value of satire, as HST pointed out, is that it makes it easier to say true things than it is in ordinary journamalism
via disord
Performance Review: ‘Stag and Doe’
by Leah Hennig
https://thegatewayonline.ca/2025/04/performance-review-stag-and-doe/
yup, a fun play
via FB
Parti Rhinocéros Party
by Parti Rhinocéros Party
https://www.partyrhino.ca/en/
Why agree with an imitation? In the next election, vote for the real jesters !
via wondering what they're up to these days
2,000 Years of AI Doom
by Jon Evans
https://aiascendant.com/p/2000-years-of-ai-doom
what, you thought Eliezar Yudkowsky came up with something new?
via both rss and discord

24 hopping baby goats! Oh My!
by Sunflower Farm Creamery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3uYgYq1uWQ
in case you need four and a half minutes of baby goats
via discord
Why Gauss wanted to sow three fields of wheat
by Lateral with Tom Scott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_9ghQ3MCsc
a quiz/guessing show, where it's positively painful to see how little the guessers know about Gauß
via youtube recommends? i think?

raga Bhairav, composition in chautal
by Remco Helbers and Nathanael van Zuilen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhiFJiqlr8k
in case you need a little something to listen to in the morning
via rss
Community Libraries Are Spreading Across Rural India
by Geetanjali Krishna
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/rural-india-community-libraries/
i will never complain about people having greater access to books
via rss
Pope Francis, committed to service, humility and healing, dead at 88
by Chris Iorfida, Jackie Ruryk and Megan Williams
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-francis-dead-1.7514706
that is news. while of course not a perfect person, i'll not complain about the ways in which he moved his church
via rss
"For a devoted Jesus fan..."
by Sridhar Ramesh
https://bsky.app/profile/radishharmers.bsky.social/post/3lndatjqnhs2v
it is said: "technically correct. the best kind of correct"
via discord
Pope Francis, sensing he is close to death, moves to protect his legacy
by Ben Munster
https://www.politico.eu/article/pope-francis-legacy-death-complex-italy-rome-health/
from a couple of months ago, but seeing as someone edited this link out of the wikipedia article on the 2025 papal conclave, i'm putting it up here
via the first version of the wikipedia page on the papal conclave
It's time again for the Untied Way
by Jon Carroll
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/carroll/article/it-s-time-again-for-the-untied-way-4094688.php
some thoughts on charity. and no, that's not a tyope
via discord
Is 1 Prime, and Does It Matter?
by James Propp
https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/is-1-prime-and-does-it-matter/
eventually also getting around to the question of whether 2 is prime
via rss
it’s the most wonderful time of the year
by wil wheaton
https://wilwheaton.net/2025/04/its-the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year/
in case you were wondering about wil's hockey predictions
via rss
The Amazing 4 Corners Project
by Michael Borys
https://boingboing.net/2016/03/29/the-amazing-4-corners-project.html
what a fun idea!
via elseDW

The World's LONGEST Klein Bottle
by Cliff Stoll and Lucas Clarke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7yKZzbyF74
Cliff is such a goofball!
via rss
Philip K. Dickens
by Ward Q. Normal
https://bsky.app/profile/wardqnormal.bsky.social/post/3lmfg4dbkkc2w
seems accurate at this point ayup
via FB
The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien’s fantasy world
by Rob Ferrett and Beatrice Lawrence
https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-cartographer-karen-wynn-fonstad-mapped-tolkien-fantasy-world-oshkosh
Fonstad's maps are getting scanned! excellent news!
via discord
Anachronym Challenge
by Randall Munroe
https://xkcd.com/3075/
clever
via rss
Reimagining Democracy
by Bruce Schneier
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/reimagining-democracy-2.html
a bunch of good hard questions
via rss

EXCLUSIVE Fripp & Eno - 21st Century Schizoid Man (Re-recording 2025)
by Fripp & Eno, with some assistants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrB24ojAg4o
that's a pretty bold reimagining
via rss
Does Baby Have Hat
by Jeremy Kun
https://www.jeremykun.com/2025/04/01/does-baby-have-hat/
because reducing unplanned descents to the floor is a good thing
via rss
What if the Earth rotated 90 degrees?
by Randall Munroe replying to Socke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH4g1ptJ-70
a fun ponder
via rss
Expect extra questions, take a burner phone: Immigration lawyers weigh in on travel to the U.S.
by Muriel Draasima
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadians-travel-to-united-states-advice-1.7498326
or, one could just not go there
via rss
Hyphens as Sub-Lexical Morphemes in The Hobbit
by Sparrow Alden
https://www.jstor.org/stable/48650605
i've heard reference to this paper before, but never actually seen it. if i can just remember how i have JSTOR access, i'll have to read the thing
via discord
Nyckelharpa (16 strings, 39 keys)
by Amy Hakanson demonstrating to Rob Scallon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0uinr8IyhY
more instruments need sympathetic strings
via youtube recommends?

The True Size
by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
https://www.thetruesize.com/
in case you're wondering how bit a country is, and are tired of the Mercator projection
via wanting to compare Israel and Manitoba
a female common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) emerging from brumation in a dry lake mudhole with 18 lbs of dirt & grass on her back
by Timothy C. Roth
https://bsky.app/profile/c0nc0rdance.bsky.social/post/3lguzcusdqs2u
it is, of course, turtles all the way down
via discord
How Hollywood Ruined The Funniest Thing Ever Written
by Giant Freakin Robot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFTvqWFDSJs
it makes a strong case. (i don't think i've seen this since it was in theatres?)
via youtube recommends
Sabbatical
by Susan on the Soapbox
https://susanonthesoapbox.com/2025/03/09/sabbatical-2/
feeling all of this. rest well, Soapboxji
via rss
Actual footage of me travelling back in time to punch the inventor of Daylight Savings:
by [citation needed], possibly depsidase
https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/777577162816536576
precisely. except that it's saving, not savings. and it's not saving anything
via rss

Music My Rock
by Bedouin Soundclash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-wwvmjGbco
just a solid bit of canadian reggae
via remembering it
Atom
by Randall Munroe
https://xkcd.com/3050/
well of course muons are cute!
via rss
Land at head of Lake Whakatipu becomes official International Dark Sky Sanctuary
by Delphine Herbert
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/top/540816/land-at-head-of-lake-whakatipu-becomes-official-international-dark-sky-sanctuary
pretty sure i won't get out there for the 2028 eclipse, but still looks like a nifty place to visit
via RTBC
About that Giant Asteroid...
by Hank Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHbJ9beQc08
in case you were worried about it
via youtube recommends

Dirac's belt trick, Topology, and Spin ½ particles
by Noah Explains Physics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACZC_XEyg9U
in case you're wondering how something can only be symmetric under a double rotation. warning: uses algebraic topology.
via going looking
Hardest thing I've ever done': Man runs 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents
by Darla Ponace
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/great-world-race-reg-willick-1.7408917
the istanbul thing feels like a bit of a cheat, but in this context i'll allow it
via rss
Age
by Zach Weinersmith
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/age
indeed, think of the possibilities!
via rss
Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain dies at 73 in US hospital, his family confirms
by Ashutosh Acharya
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/zakir-hussain-dies-at-73-tabla-maestro-icu-suffering-heart-problems-san-francisco-icu-2650234-2024-12-15
Zakirji was monumental as a musician. rest in peace, ustadji!
via FB and then going looking

Hello (again), world
by Jonathan Crowe
https://buttondown.com/jonathancrowe/archive/hello-again-world/
including a parable about the nature of communication media
via rss
The thing about the Kobayashi Maru
by Greg Pogorzelski
https://medium.com/@GregPogorzelski/the-thing-about-the-kobayashi-maru-4d5e1e49993e
some good philosophical points about the Kobayashi Maru
via previous link
Review: Mapmatics
by Jonathan Crowe
https://www.maproomblog.com/2024/11/review-mapmatics/
could be a good read! has been placed in hold queue
via also first link
These musicians bought a seat for cello worth $4.5M. Air Canada wouldn't let it on board
by Alexandra Mae Jones
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/cello-air-canada-1.7410443
part of why i never fly with a musical instrument
via rss
I Made MASSIVE Leatherbound Books... and gave them to the author
by Nerdforge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13coGQUp3ck
i've not read that series (yet) but the work involved in this is stunning
via discord, although i think i saw it turning up in youtube recommends too?

Laser Kiwi flag
by wikipedia after Lucy Gray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Kiwi_flag
i approve of this
via discord
I put the glamour back into grammar
by Christian Uffmann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSOlRUr5yCY
this checks out
via all things linguistic
Quebec premier says he wants to stop people from praying in public
by Matthew Lapierre and Verity Stevenson
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/religion-in-schools-new-law-quebec-1.7403485
i don't understand what problem this would fix
via rss
Battery rationality
by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/06/shoenabombers/#paging-dick-cheney
because when it comes to defeating terrorism, some prices are indeed too high
via rss

book review: What are Universities For?
by Susan Stepney
http://susan-stepney.blogspot.com/2024/11/book-review-what-are-universities-for.html
many good points here about the nature of higher education. in particular: students' main task is to study, not to be taught
via rss
Revealed: New Zealand's furthest inland point
by Marjorie Cook
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown-lakes/revealed-new-zealands-furthest-inland-point
how to confuse someone from the Canadian prairies: mention that in NZ it's impossible to get more than 120km from the ocean
via going looking
Middle-Earth Transportation Authority
by donolinio
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fn2fmpuz1cava1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D2000%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D711f79c832e0264e9217ae2164adfbc8d79edc09
"one does not simply walk"
via discord
Penn & Teller: Fool Us - Juggling - Season 3 Episode 7 (2016)
by Penn Jillette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOsPtF9h7Jg
this is pretty much as difficult as it looks.
via youtube recommends

The older I get, the more I realize the Cold War never really ended, and that’s why I want to talk about Timothy McVeigh on this post.
by prismatic-bell replying to Cory Doctorow
https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/768186532470439936
a perspective i'd not previously had on (what i think of as) recent history
via rss
Why is this a nice puzzle?
by Flying Colours Maths
https://www.flyingcoloursmaths.co.uk/why-is-this-a-nice-puzzle/
this is a nice little snack
via rss
On Maths and AI
by Flying Colours Maths
https://www.flyingcoloursmaths.co.uk/on-maths-and-ai/
yup. stated alternately: maths sans performance is not maths
via rss
Australian Central Western Standard Time – ACWST Time Zone (Standard Time)
by timeanddate
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/acwst
if you're looking for a time zone that's 45 minutes off, here you go!
via discord

Cap'n Crunch comes from Cedar Rapids
by Neal Stephenson
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/capn-crunch-comes-from-cedar-rapids
in case you were wondering
via Cory Doctorow
We are Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull, Tolkien scholars. Ask Us Anything!
by Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull, in conversation with redditors
https://www.reddit.com/r/tolkienfans/comments/1ge8bmj/we_are_wayne_hammond_and_christina_scull_tolkien/
two great scholars of JRRT's work discussing their recent Collected Poems etc
via a reminder in discord, and then going looking
The Similarities Between God & Your D&D Group
by Ben Riggs
https://readingdndaloud.libsyn.com/the-similarities-between-god-your-dd-group-episode-30
a pleasant little comparison with the sefirot
via rss

You should be using an RSS reader
by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise
in some sense all of reblogarythm is a sustained argument for the glory that is .RSS
i regularly see people talking about good things were back when .RSS was a thing (i see folk say the same thing about DW). it's still here, and still going strong!
via rss, of course!
Bad Map Projection: The United Stralia
by Randall Munroe
https://xkcd.com/2999/
so horrible that it just might work!
via rss
Today Rideshare Drivers, Tomorrow Therapists
by siderea
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1858562.html
excellent thoughts on nuänces of what murricans insist on calling "antitrust"
via rss
The Best Defense of Orc as Other We’ve Heard
by Ben Riggs and Scott Bruner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_oomHnGOQE
"best" may still not amount to "good"....
via rss

Morello in R’lyeh
by Erol Otus
https://chronivore.tumblr.com/post/753376800460144640/erol-otus-dan-b-weiss-co-creator-of-the-game-of
an excellent pairing of artist and subject
via wil
Ive seen people be like in modern fantasy like "oh the pritagonists can just look up spells on their phone how do you solve that"
by assorted tumblristas
https://www.tumblr.com/azurelunatic/763392416010190848/type-in-the-search-terms-for-that-spell-you-were?source=share
and you thought recipe websites were bad....
via discord
Dragon swap: Bhutan - Qing - Wales
by persew
https://i.redd.it/oa5okd7ubgg31.png
nine excellent options!
via discord
No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead
by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nPa4ukFevbsgcnWY5osJbUEtb9tMWR5rc
new album new album new album!
via FB
On the Drums
by Tony Levin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHEU4oUjWTE
in case you wonder who Tony has played with
via rss

apparently i totally forgot to post yesterday morning?!?!? so i'm not sure how much of this is actually from oct 5, and how much from oct 4. deepest apologies!

Let's talk about telling your dad you're getting back with your ex....
by Belle of the Fifth Column
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HvshG_FF-0
a well-assembled extended metaphor
via rss
Australia et al
by a Blue Raven
https://i.redd.it/ly5ic2273eg51.jpg
the first version i saw also had "custralia"
via discord
Victoria Goddard
by Victoria Goddard
https://www.victoriagoddard.ca/
for all of her fiction. she's just revamped the site, and it's swanky-looking!
via going looking
Dome show Trust the Universe: The Philosophy of Alan Watts sells out in Edmonton
by CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6514911
now i'm curious as to how the design process for a thing like this works
via rss

Weird 90s Commercials: Prawn God
by obvious plant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm92JNgPbqk
tempting, but i think i gotta stick with tarvu
via boing
Goldbach Conjecture (but with TWIN PRIMES)
by James Grime speaking to Brady Haran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gojd8mTl3Do
two conjectures for the price of one!
via rss
D36 Dice
by the Dice Lab, i think?
https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/d36-dice
cute, and the max(2d6) result is nifty. but it ain't isohedral, is it?
via Matt Parker
Map
by Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/map.html
cuz what i need in my life is more logic puzzles...?
via discord

Your Name In Landsat
by NASA, presumably?
https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html
(not just your name — you can spell anything in satellite photos. one of the L photos seems to lack a referent, though?)
via discord
Sky Alarm
by Randall Munroe
https://xkcd.com/2979/
hard agree, Randall
via rss
Irregular Webcomic! #2623 Rerun
by David Morgan-Mar
https://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2623.html
in case you want to know how DMM really feels about Monopoly
via rss
True Facts: How Snakes Move
by Ze Frank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFNnx4UgkNI
in case you were wondering. yes, some of them can sort of fly
via rss

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