Ok, my “Fuck you, Instagram!” bookmarklet stopped working again. Bloody annoying. At least permalinks still work on their own and right-clicking hasn’t been disabled (yet?). So “Open Link in New Tab” still works.
‘Ronin’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan never walk into a place they don’t know how to walk out of after they rewatch the 1998 action thriller ‘Ronin,’ starring Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, and Natascha McElhone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#90 – Dmitry Korkin: Computational Biology of Coronavirus
Song Exploder
• Hrishikesh Hirway
Tame Impala - It Might Be Time
Tame Impala is the project of Kevin Parker, a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer from Perth, Australia. Since putting his first EP in 2008, Tame Impala has been nominated for two Grammys and won eight of Australia’s ARIA Awards. Multiple albums of his have been named best of the year. As a producer, he has collaborated with Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, The Weeknd, and more. The most recent Tame Impala album is The Slow Rush, which came out in February 2020. For this episode, Kevin chose to take apart the song, "It Might Be Time."
The URL for subscribing to a YouTube channel via RSS:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=ADD_CHANNEL_ID_HEREYou get the channel_id from the URL of the channel.
‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan aren’t feeling too well, so their parents let them stay home to rewatch the 1986 classic ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, and Mia Sara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#89 – Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
The Cataclysm Sentence
📄 Düsseldorf Webcams
The city of Düsseldorf offers some surprisingly high-quality webcams. Embedded here for my own convenience, so I can watch them all at once.
374: Screwdriver Testing Harness
‘Love and Basketball’ With Bill Simmons and Jemele Hill
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Jemele Hill are just a couple of childhood friends striving to be professional basketball players rewatching the 2000 sports drama ‘Love and Basketball’ starring Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan, and Dennis Haysbert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
📄 My fluid website layout
I'm using a viewport-based CSS layout for this site. What this means and why I do this is all explained in this post.
I’m currently watching the documentary about Dieter Rams by Gary Hustwit and it’s absolutely wonderful. Still free to watch today.
📄 Thoughts on lazy loading images
My current thoughts on this feature, its advantages and disadvantages, and why I have currently enabled this on my personal sites.
‘Basic Instinct’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Mallory Rubin
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Mallory Rubin grab their ice picks and record the pod of the century on the 1992 erotic thriller ‘Basic Instinct’ starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
#88 – Eric Weinstein: Geometric Unity and the Call for New Ideas, Leaders & Institutions
📄 Photo Journal Design Update
In the last week, I updated my photo journal’s design. There are no more borders around the images, the photos are more aligned to a grid and have varying sizes. It’s all more well-aligned and therefor looks cleaner.
🔗 July 2019 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal
📷 “July 2019” is now up in the Photo Journal (48 photos). 📷
Funfair, Nord Open Air and life in between.
Radiolab
• WNYC Studios
Dispatch 4: Six Feet
Since the onset of the pandemic, we exist in a constant state of calculation, trying to define our own personal bubble. We’ve all been given a simple rule: maintain six feet of distance between yourself and others. But why six? Producer Sarah Qari uncovers the answer, and talks to some scientists who now say six might not be the right number after all.
This episode was reported and produced by Sarah Qari and Pat Walters.
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