Friday, 13 September 2024

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the hemicycle: an exhibition on the European Union parliament’s plenary sessions from 1952 to the present—see also here and here 

i’m feeling lucky: to google as a verb losing traction, younger users preferring search—I have to watch my stories 

matrix: a split-screen tool that converts video to ASCII characters—via Web Curios  

buzz-bar: a global roller coaster database—via ibฤซdem  

we have no idea the ripple effects we will have in this world: the revolutionary Waite-Colman Smith tarot deck—see previously  

palimpsest: multispectral imaging the Voynich Manuscript (previously) might reveal clues about its origins

holiday creep: US government facing another shutdown showdown ahead of the coming fiscal year, reporting earlier than usual

synchronoptica

one year ago:  a Russian-North Korean summit (with synchronoptica)

seven years ago: the new town square

eight years ago: microbeads and microplastics, the extinction illusion plus the thematic apperception test

eleven years ago: bees still under threat plus a US imposed clearing house for all international bank transfers

twelve years ago: corporate hegemony, banking secrecy plus a consortium of European museum collections digitised