Own your Throne
HandCrafted Thrones will build the epic chair of your choice – whether you want to sit in one with wings, make your own music video, or to re-create the scene from Scarface.
Oregon has highest rate of homeless families
Despite record spending of up to $500 million per year ($531 million in 2023 alone), Oregon’s homelessness is becoming even worse. In fact, it’s the worst in the nation. Oregon is now #1 in rate of homeless families.
Axios reports that Oregon’s rate of unsheltered homelessness among children is 19.9 for every 10,000 kids, according to the report, which relied on point-in-time survey data, a census count conducted on one night.
The second-ranked state, Hawaii, had a rate less than half that of Oregon, with 7.2 of every 10,000 kids experiencing unsheltered homelessness. The national average was just 1.4.
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Zooming in
Jesse Martin does an extreme zoomin on his art (I’m betting there’s some splicing, but it’s a great zoom-in). He also has a ‘making of’ video how he used ProCreate to do it.
Reminds me of the ‘Powers of 10’ video from 1977
What the heck was THAT THING???
The dog’s face is the best.
The song that plays at the end of your life
An ethereally beautiful and melancholy song by Emile Mosseri – Jacob and the Stone | Minari
Ranks right up there with ‘All the Beauty in the World’ from the Molly’s game soundtrack.
Making a game in Assembly
When teaching myself to program as a kid, my first language was type-in BASIC programs. After that, I made the very un-orthodox choice to learn assembly. I wrote a small database, a TSR (Terminate and stay resident program), and a couple other small creations.
Looks like GreatCorn did one better by writing his own game in x86 assembly.
Philosophy Security System
Proof that an existential crisis is more powerful than a gun
How the internet dies?
I have written previously about the Dead Internet Theory, but this is a decent walkthrough of how the theory works. It’s up to you to decide if it’s true, but as of 2024, we do know at least half of all internet traffic is bots.
Jonathan Frakes Fact or Fiction fun clips
Jonathan Frakes hosted a cheesy little show called Fact or Fiction in which the viewer tries to guess if a short story is real or made up. People have had a lot of fun re-cutting the intro/outro portions to make some funny clips. Here’s some good ones.
Interesting martial arts counters
There’s a reason each of these moves is banned for regular competitions, but possibly very useful in a self defense situation where your life is at stake and you need to disable an attacker enough to get away.