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Voyager 1 Just Fired Up Thrusters It Hasn’t Used in Decades

cnn.com/2024/09/16/science/voyager-1-thruster-issue/index.html

Ashley Strickland, reporting for CNN: Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from billions of miles away. [...] As a resu...

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Tectonic Surfing

The worst is when you wipe out in the barrel and you're trapped for several million years until erosion frees you.

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John Gruber

Israel Planted Explosives in Pagers Sold to Hezbollah, Officials Say

nytimes.com/2024/09/17/world/middleeast/israel-hezbollah-pagers-explosives.html

Sheera Frenkel and Ronen Bergman, reporting for The New York Times: Israel carried out its operation against Hezbollah on Tuesday by hiding explosive material within a new batch of Taiwanese-made pagers imported into Lebanon, according to American and other officials bri...

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Jason Kottke

A man named Alan Adler invented both the Aerobie Flying Ring and...

A man named Alan Adler invented both the Aerobie Flying Ring and the AeroPress Coffee Maker.

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🎬 Mac and Me

Movie poster for “Mac and Me”.

Another Mondo Bizarr flick. Reading the summary, I was actually expecting something way worse than this. This was actually high quality and looked a lot like more famous American movies from that time. But rightly so, it's not as highly regarded: it's just all a bit off and wacky at times. But that doesn't mean it's less entertaining! Just more bizarre. The chase scene is fantastic, the musical part at McD is just great and the ending is just the whimsical cherry on top.

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🎬 Xaver und sein außerirdischer Freund

Movie poster for “Xaver und sein außerirdischer Freund”.
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Uff. Ein Außerirdischer hat mit seinem Ufo ein Panne und strandet im Wald unweit eines bayrischen Dorfes. Xaver entdeckt und kümmert sich um ihn. Die Einheimischen sind skeptisch und die Böse-Buben-Gang ist auch noch hinter Xaver her. Aber dann stellt raus, der Mann vom anderen Stern ist eine regelrechte Biervernichtungsmaschine. Damit gewinnt er nicht nur die Herzen der Dorfbewohner sondern auch den Biertrinkwettbewerb im Festzelt. Es gibt Verfolgungsjagden zu Fuß und mit Gefährten und am Ende gibt es ein Heidendurcheinander, aber alles geht nochmal gut aus.

Tja, was soll ich sagen. Hat irgendwie Spaß gemacht das mit der Truppe im Mondo Bizarr zu schauen. Prost!

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Jason Kottke

Ayrton Senna’s Heel-and-Toe Braking Technique

There’s a driving technique called heel-and-toe where the driver uses all three pedals (brake, clutch, throttle) at once to make deceleration smoother, especially in the turns. Heel-toe or heel-and-toe double-declutching is used before entry into a turn while a vehicle is u...

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The Power Broker at Fifty, a conversation with Robert Caro at the...

The Power Broker at Fifty, a conversation with Robert Caro at the New-York Historical Society moderated by Elliott Kalan & Roman Mars. Oct 7. In-person tickets are sold out but livestream tickets are still available.

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Jason Kottke

To Understand Mississippi, I Went to Spain. “Enslavement, sharecropping, the rise of...

To Understand Mississippi, I Went to Spain. “Enslavement, sharecropping, the rise of cotton, and the physical and economic coercion that fueled the whole global system — this [480-year-old] map made that future possible.”

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Congrats to Jason Snell & Dan Moren for ten years of Six...

Congrats to Jason Snell & Dan Moren for ten years of Six Colors. “These days, direct support from readers and listeners makes up a very large proportion of my salary. Thank you all for helping me continue to do this.”

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Accidental Tech Podcast

605: Manage the Moisture Situation

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Pre-show: It’s early 🥱 ATP live announcement post Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Donate in ATP’s name! Calculate your Marco Offset Podcastathon: Casey will be live from noon → midnight on Friday, 20 September 🗣️ New ATP Member’s s...

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‘John Wick’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Shea Serrano

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Shea Serrano are thinking they’re back after rewatching the 2014 action-thriller hit ‘John Wick,’ starring Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, and Alfie Allen. Watch this episode on our Ringer Movies YouTube channel! Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Every Scientific Field

Conveniently for everyone, it turns out that dark energy is produced by subterranean parasitoid wasps.

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John Gruber

Ten Years of Six Colors

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Jason Snell: Ten years sure seems like a long time. Ten years ago the iPhone got physically big for the first time. (In the ensuing decade, iPhone revenue has doubled.) Ten years ago Apple announced the Apple Watch. Ten years ago I found myself without a job for the fi...

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John Gruber

Apple Watch’s Sleep Apnea Detection Feature Now Available in More Than 150 Countries

macrumors.com/2024/09/16/apple-watch-sleep-apnea-feature-150-countries/

Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors: Apple released watchOS 11 today following months of beta testing. A key new health-related feature included in the software update is sleep apnea detection, which is available starting today on the Apple Watch Series 10, Apple Watc...

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Jason Kottke

Holy moly, William Peterson set a new Fastest Known Time on Vermont’s...

Holy moly, William Peterson set a new Fastest Known Time on Vermont’s Long Trail: 272 miles with 67,000 feet of elevation gain in 3 days, 21 hours, and 10 minutes.

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John Gruber

★ The Things They Carried

Thoughts and Observations in the Wake of Apple’s ‘It’s Glowtime’ Keynote Back in July 2007, I contributed this photo to a Flickr group called, self-describingly, “The Items We Carry”: 17 years later, I’ve consolidated. 2007 was so long ago that Field Notes hadn’t yet bee...

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John Gruber

★ Thoughts and Observations in the Wake of Apple’s ‘It’s Glowtime’ Keynote

Back in July 2007, I contributed this photo to a Flickr group called, self-describingly, “The Items We Carry”: 17 years later, I’ve consolidated. 2007 was so long ago that Field Notes hadn’t yet been created; my back-pocket notebooks are much slimmer now than that hardcov...

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Jason Kottke

Gamebaby is an iPhone Pro Max case that doubles as a gaming...

Gamebaby is an iPhone Pro Max case that doubles as a gaming controller for the Delta video game emulator (which lets you play play GB, NES, SNES, N64 games on iOS). Clever.

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