In a wide-ranging address that included the annexation of the regions of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donestsk and Luhansk (newly-appointed governors pictured) in addition to Crimea as well as the concession that his partial mobilisation was an unpopular imposition for many, Vladimir Putin delivered one of his most combative speeches yet, threatening to use all forces at his disposal to ensure the protection of his ill-begotten new territory. In response, the West, which Putin characterises as ‘satanic’ and determined to undermine Russia with Kleinstaaterei, responded with condemnation and more targeted sanctions and Zelenskiy announced his formal application for NATO membership.
Friday 30 September 2022
please confirm that your surname is indeed St&252;vel (10. 181)
7x7 (10. 180)
ron’s house: a bid to save an immersive, eccentrically decorated apartment—via Strange Company’s Weekend Link Dump
hermetic students of the golden dawn: an honest-to-goodness magic duel between William Butler Yeats and Aleister Crowley—via Boing Boingthere’s a hole in my head where the rain gets in: medieval wound man, a medical diagram meant to assist surgeons of yore—see also
it’s been zero days since the last catastrophic hurricane: more stats from Neal Agarwal (previously)
self-paced: an AI powered language learning tool—via Web Curios
photosculpture: a century before 3D printers, there was the rotoscoping technique M Franรงois Willรจme
mid-management mezzanine: a tour of the S.C. Johnson Wax Headquarters building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
catagories: ⚕️, ๐, ๐ช, ๐จ, ๐ฌ, ๐, ๐งฟ, architecture, Middle Ages
qualifying life event (10. 179)
Via Waxy, videographer Brian David Gilbert, American with lapsed health coverage commissioned Louie Zong to compile a retro treasury of corporate music (see also) as accompaniment to his expert, genuinely helpful explainer (and insightful indictment) of the dread and kafkaesque jargon and fraught terminology of the US insurance industry as an aid for the next hapless soul to find themselves in this situation.
<…> (10. 178)
Initial specifications first published on this day in 1980 by Xerox in association with Intel and the Digital Equipment Corporation (standardised by the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, in 1983), Ethernet technologies are based on a shared medium of communications, similar to the common platform of radio systems and takes its name from the disproven proposal of a luminiferous aether as an omnipresent, subtle and rarefied propagator (see also) of electromagnetic waves and enabled the first collaborative networks of computers.
catagories: ๐ก, 1980, networking and blogging
Thursday 29 September 2022
the mayak disaster (10. 177)
Referred to as the Kyshtym incident in contemporary sources since the above site as part of Chelyabinsk-40 did not appear on maps until 1994 and the closest known village was chosen as the namesake, the catastrophic explosion of a plutonium production facility and nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, occurring on this day in 1957, released twice the amount of radiation than Chernobyl but due to the subsequent coverup (the full scale of the disaster was not disclosed until 1982) and isolation of the site—around ten thousand workers and residents of twenty-two surrounding villages had to be evacuated.
Wednesday 28 September 2022
7x7 (10. 176)
moonage daydream: an interview with Brett Morgen on the subject of his latest documentary—see previously
rupture: Nordstream pipelines have sprung a leak, sabotage suspectedafforestation: a volcanic eruption is helping to rewild island
eyewall: Hurricane Ian’s path of destruction as it reaches Florida
omnishambles: the budget plan of PM Truss and Chancellor Kwarteng garners rebuke from Germany, the US and the IMF as the Pound Sterling approaches parity with the dollar
mahsa: the death of a young woman in the custody of Iran’s morality police has touched off protests against the government
let all the children boogie: an Australian museum brought the original hand-written draft of David Bowie’s Starman at auction
medieval woman (10. 175)
Fรชted on this day on the occasion of her death in retirement on an estate in Schornsheim near Mainz in 782 (*710), Saint Leoba was a Anglo-Saxon nun (originally from Dorset), missionary and companion of Boniface in his quest to proselytise to the German people. Credited with multiple miracles and intercession through prayer, Leoba founded nunneries in Ochsenfurt and Kitzingen and was entrusted with a leading role in evangelizing in Franconia by Boniface and his apostles, first as abbess in Tauberbischofsheim and putting Leoba in charge in his absence whilst sojourning in Frisia (see above) and was the sole woman allowed to enter the monasteries in Fulda, where she was eventually entombed near Boniface. St Peter on the Petersberg contains her crypt, known as the Liobakirche, is a landmark rising above a relatively flat plain I pass on my weekly commute and will make a priority to visit soon.
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ✝️, ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ, Bavaria, Hessen, Middle Ages, Rheinland-Pfalz