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Interactive map of the locations of horror movies by afloweroutofstone.Red is killer/slasher/psychological Blue is monster/creature Yellow is ghost/spirit/demon Green is alien Black is zombies Purple is vampires

South Australian app helps people find conversation-friendly restaurants. Have you ever struggled to hear a conversation over the din of a lively restaurant? For people with auditory processing issues or hearing loss, socialising in loud restaurants creates significant challenges — but an Adelaide audiologist hopes her app will help match people with acoustically-friendly venues.

2024's Hugo Award winners have been announced. Complete voting statistics and a report from the Hugo administrators are available as PDFs. The video of the award ceremony is currently online without a live feed, so the ceremony begins at around -01:52:00 and a short presentation by John Scalzi begins at -01:48:00. Also this weekend, Los Angeles was selected to be the site of Worldcon...

Bhutan's Kinzang Lhamo, who was her nation's flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony, filled her promise to finish an Olympic marathon. She was the final finisher, in 80th place, with a time of 3 hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds. Hundreds of fans walked, biked and ran beside her in the final few kilometers in support of her effort. Thousands of fans also remained...

Everyone's favorite mystery text, the Voynich Manuscript, is finally getting careful attention from leading medievalists The Voynich Manuscript (previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, and previously) is a mysterious 15th century text held at Yale's Beineke Library. Despite the efforts of generations of scholars, nobody has yet been able to to deceipher its alphabet and figure out just what it's about. The manuscript has become...

Military attack on drug dealers, close the border, deport millions of people. What could possibly go wrong? Some details about what could go wrong as result of interlocking bad policy. Mexico is a major trading partner these days.

NINA mortgage and a decade of work turn into an actual place and business. There's an accordion. It's in Arkansas. It also sounds like what I would like Hallmark romcom movies to be.

"And it wasn't until we had a meeting with representatives from the Comics Buyer's Guide that we had to decide whether we were going to do a free comic book day at all. Maggie Thompson was there, John Jackson Miller – the editor – was there, executives from Marvel, DC, Image, Dark Horse were all there. The team from Diamond Comics was there. And...

"Welcome! To the MS-DOS 5.0 upgrade training!" (5 minutes; warning: old software ad, white guy rap, severe cringe)Notice, the disks depicted in the video are 5 1/4" floppies.

Marset's odyssey reads like a transnational caper, bordering on the absurd. But it is a startling window into the level of impunity at the nexus of Latin American public life and the lower rungs of professional soccer, enabling drug traffickers to wield enormous influence in both worlds. Years after a global manhunt for him began, Marset remains at large. from A double life: The...

The Naming of America - "To question the origin of America's name is to question the nature of not only our history lessons but our very identity as Americans." [Naming of the Americas, Origin of the name America (via 47:55 ;)]

Answers found in prehistoric cold case at 8-million-year-old fossil bed. Palaeontologists working near Alice Springs uncover for the first time a set of articulated bones and partial skeleton of Ilbandornis woodburnei, a massive bird that once roamed an evolving continent 8 million years ago.

'My slogan is very simple: no education, just liberation!' – Béla Tarr on how film can fight the political right in Hungary.' Two Films by Béla Tarr. 'Werckmeister Harmonies' (2000) and 'The Turin Horse' (2011).CW (violence)

Manizha Talash (previously) of the Refugee Olympic Team was disqualified in the first round of the Breaking competition for displaying a cape emblazoned with "FREE AFGHAN WOMEN" in the middle of her head-to-head with B-girl India.

Canada's $100-billion food-service industry, struggling with labour shortages, is leaning on a vulnerable workforce in record numbers. (slStar, but is an archive.ph link; OG link if you want it)Certain kinds of white Canadians are on a tear right now against immigrants due to unaffordable housing and unemployment, but honestly these two snippets from the article told me all I need to know about those...

Rival monkey gangs terrorise Thai city, mugging and assaulting schoolkids and tourists. Thousands of long-tail macaques are following increasingly aggressive ringleaders into attacks on tourists and schoolkids, and now they're wising up to the "Anti-Monkey Unit's" tactics, leaving the town no choice but to try and round them up before they storm another police station.

Massive wind turbine blade hits bridge, gets knocked off truck on Route 1 in Maine. Workers in orange and yellow safety vests admire the behemoth while making plans to get this over-over-over-sized load moving again.

This is the closing weekend of the Olympics, and Sally Jenkins is celebrating some of Team USA's athletic geeks in The Washington Post: So many of us, normal people, stroll through the world hoping to project nonchalance because we suppose it means effortlessness — when, really, it's a kind of abdication. That way, we never really have to lose at anything.Of course, this observation...

Saturday Night Live: The Game has received little attention on BoardGameGeek, and but little attention on its 2010 release. If games aren't your thing, you can collect the SNL action figures. Perhaps fine art is more your thing? Last but not least, for a view of the panoply of SNL-iana, you can visit a famed online purveyor of resold corporate schlock.Previously, Live from New...

From the beginning, intarsia has served as a projection of imperial singularity and superiority. According to Maurice Sven Dimand, the first specialized curator of Near Eastern art at the Metropolitan Museum, the technique arrived in the cathedrals of Europe via Andalusia and Sicily from the mosques and minarets of North Africa, where, due to the prohibition on graven images, it was useful in effecting...

Workers carry in 350 tonnes of material by hand for manual glow-worm tunnel upgrade. Tradies upgrading a glow-worm tunnel in New South Wales had to get creative to ensure the worms remained safe, but were treated to a daily light show as they worked.

The only thing as fascinating as opulent wealth is its sudden disintegration Candice and Brandon Miller showed the public a world of glittering parties and vacations. The money to sustain it did not exist.In the modern Gilded Age of New York, where Instagram is awash in unrestrained displays of wealth, Brandon and Candice Miller were royalty. At their 10th wedding anniversary "Midsummer Night's Dream"...

Emily Wilson has translated the Iliad and Odyssey, and teaches classics at the University of Pennsylvania. Recently, she was interviewed ...by the journal Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.A friend of mine served as the go-between to try to facilitate an introduction with this month's guest. I did not do a good enough job explaining my reasons for wanting to interview her, so I can...