Jonkenator's Linkblog
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People have different names for the colors they see. Language can affect how we memorize and name colors. This is a color naming test designed to measure your personal blue-green boundary.
- news.sky.com Spanish supermarket shoppers using pineapples to search for love in surprising new craze
As part of the TikTok craze, singletons have been drawn to branches of the chain Mercadona where it is claimed they can find romance if they visit between 7pm and 8pm and put a pineapple upside down in their trolley.
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In 1807, a ship was seized by the British navy, the crew jailed and the cargo taken. Archivists just opened the packages. - CBS News
www.cbsnews.com In 1807, a ship was seized by the British navy, the crew jailed and the cargo taken. Archivists just opened the packages.Archivists opened parcels at the National Archives from the Anne-Marie cargo ship which was seized by the British Navy during the Second Battle of Copenhagen.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: "Falcon Heavy Boostback Burn Image Credit & Copyr…" - botsin.space
botsin.space Astronomy Picture of the Day (@[email protected])Attached: 1 image Falcon Heavy Boostback Burn Image Credit & Copyright: Dennis Huff https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240120.html #APOD
- www.techradar.com A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years
A glowing horizon for phones
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Historic San Francisco Photos Show Changes Over 85 Years
sfstandard.com Historic Aerial Photos Show San Francisco’s TransformationHow San Francisco went from dunes to neighborhoods over the years.
- insideevs.com New PelicanTrain E-Bike Can Haul Upwards Of 1,000 Pounds Of Cargo
The PelicanTrain e-bike has been introduced as a solution to last-mile delivery in today’s decarbonizing urban environment.
- www.zmescience.com A door at a Swedish library was accidentally left open — 446 people came in, borrowed 245 books. Every single one was returned
They say a reader does not steal and a thief does not read. In the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, that's definitely true.
- lemmy.world Firefox starting to remove tracking parameters from shared URLs - Lemmy.World
Currently still in Nightly and only on ‘Copy Link’. Still nice progress though.
- jalopnik.com Study Finds Cyclists Are Better People Than Drivers
The results show drivers are less interested in the common good than cyclists.
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Lockheed Martin: The Complete History and Strategy
www.acquired.fm Lockheed Martin | Acquired PodcastThe complete podcast (and transcript!) of Lockheed Martin’s history and business strategy.
- www.theguardian.com Spain’s high-speed trains aren’t just efficient, they have transformed people’s lives | María Ramírez
A fiasco like HS2 could never happen here – our fast train network is so popular that no Spanish government would dare give up on it, says journalist María Ramírez
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- www.creativebloq.com You can now create weirdly majestic optical illusions with AI
Thanks to this new text-to-image generator.
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My hometown has some nice rentable cargo bikes
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1527416
> I would love to see it in more cities/countries, because I use it very often. > I don't have the money to buy one for myself so the best that happend was that the city decided a few years ago to make stations where you can rent these bikes for a short shopping trip or to some nice place. They aren't even really expensive too. > > Source of Picture (Article in German)
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Album Covers In LEGO By Adnan Lotia
More on the artist's official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uvupv/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=12120826-509f-4282-861f-a20b955c35e6
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Why cities want to ban new drive-thrus | CNN Business
www.cnn.com Drive-thrus are creating problems for cities and towns | CNN BusinessAmerica is a land of drive-thrus.
- www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com This Website Will Self Destruct
A place to write what you're feeling. If no new messages are received for 24 hours, the site will go away.
> cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/590061 > > > ironically, as of writing it has not self-destructed for... 37 months, 7 days, 9 hours, and 32 minutes, but this is a cool project. like most of the people who have heard of this, i heard about it at the peak of COVID. it seems it found quite a niche.
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I love these heirloom carrot cross sections
> cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/572661 > > > Pulled some overgrown heirloom carrots from a neglected corner of my yard, love these cross sections > > > > From left to right: > > > > Uzbek Golden > > > > Purple Dragon > > > > Kyoto Red > > > > Gniff___
- phys.org Linguists have identified a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida
"We got down from the car and went inside."
