Rare Encounter

Foamer dust, hyperspectral bruising, and the loudspeakers of God.

Show Notes

Saskatoon beaver takes down Canadian flag, makes off with flagpole | CBC News

Standing on guard for thee... Or is it?

Baltimore City recommends against building proposed $10 billion high-speed Maglev train to Washington - Capital Gazette

B-W SCMaglev Project Home Page

Scarborough Subway Extension

RIP John McAfee

Good night sweet prince.

Larger-than-life software mogul John McAfee dies in Spain by suicide, lawyer says | Reuters

"Suicide".

John McAfee Tweet From 2020 Surfaces Saying If He Dies in Jail, It's Not Suicide

John McAfee on Twitter

I am content in here. I have friends.

The food is good. All is well.

Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine.

Archive link just in case.

Anime

86: Eighty Six

Remember what Shin called the cat early on?

Summer 2021

Kanojo mo Kanojo

English title: Girlfriend, Girlfriend

Bokutachi no Remake

Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu

Kobayashi-san Chi no Maidragon S

Yes, a second season of tiddy dragons!

English title: Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid S

Megami-ryou no Ryoubo-kun.

Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai!

coldacid's pick of the season. The manga is hilarious.

Yami Shibai 9

Archaeologists recreated three common kinds of Paleolithic cave lighting | Ars Technica

Upper Paleolithic cave paintings in Altamira Cave, Spain.

The conquest of the dark spaces: An experimental approach to lighting systems in Paleolithic caves

The paper itself.

Belgian retail Chain Colruyt evaluates hyperspectral imaging to detect bruising in unpeeled potatoes | PotatoPro

Only a matter of time before your cell phone comes with a camera that can do this too.

Wannes Voorend: "The Colruyt Group and KU Leuven developed a test. They wanted to see if hyperspectral image processing can solve the problem."

A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers

Used by 7-Eleven, Shell, Dairy Queen, and even Holiday Inn!

Open-Source Method Makes Possible Two-Layer PCBs With Through-Plating At Home | Hackaday

Another step forward for the DIY computer crowd.

Silence of the Cicadas

It's finally over.