Current Entries --------------- 03/30/2023 Piezoelectric Liquid: https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/29/piezoelectric_liquid_discovery/ 03/20/2023 Glass Core Substrates: https://www.anandtech.com/show/18783/dnp-unveils-glass-core-substrate-chip-packing-technology 03/20/2023 Angled, water-draining bench: https://www.core77.com/posts/121325/Daniel-Rybakkens-Water-Draining-Ypsilon-Bench 03/20/2023 Unexpected rise in classical music interest: https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/six-recent-studies-show-an-unexpected Maybe it is because of 2Set? https://www.youtube.com/user/twosetviolin 03/18/2023 Previsualization versus Presets in photography: https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/previsualization-vs-presets.htm 03/17/2023 FDIC FAQs: https://edie.fdic.gov/fdic_info.html 03/16/2023 Liquid Mirror Telescopes: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/liquid-mirror-telescopes 03/13/2023 Two more videos about the Cobalt RaQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ6AvtV3Ya4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc293H9hFlc I wonder why there is so much renewed interested in Cobalt kit? 03/13/2023 Big Starry Sur wallpaper: https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/bigstarrysur 03/13/2023 ScummVM now supports Syberia and Syberia II: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20230312/ 03/13/2023 Shell programming tips: https://www.netmeister.org/blog/writing-shell-scripts.html https://j3s.sh/thought/write-posix-shell.html 03/10/2023 Exploring the In Our Time Archive: https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/downloads 03/10/2023 Things I've forgotten - make '.' the first entry in CDPATH so that cd searches for matches in the current directory before looking in other places: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=167844952913150&w=2 03/10/2023 Disambiguating ARM: https://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2023/03/10/disambiguating-arm/ 03/10/2023 Cmd+Shift+V will now paste plain text in Word: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/03/10/microsoft-words-long-awaited-shortcut-is-finally-here/ Cmd+Option+C and Cmd+Option+V will copy and paste formatting, respectively. 03/08/2023 The RaQ2 is vintage computing now: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/03/refurb-weekend-cobalt-raq-2.html I remember the RaQ2 was still new-ish when I started at Cobalt and the Qube3, XTR, etc. were still in being worked on. Good times. 03/08/2023 Aromatic Nitrogen (K9-N56): https://phys.org/news/2023-03-synthesis-compound-aromatic-nitrogen.html 03/02/2023 The Trouble With Path Integrals, Parts I and II: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13319 https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13367 Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible by Zee sounds like a good read: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174297/quantum-field-theory-as-simply-as-possible 03/01/2023 Anitgone on "Kenneth Clark's Civilisation: A Personal View": https://antigonejournal.com/2023/02/kenneth-clark-civilisation/ Mostly correct review of Civilisation, except perhaps for the statement, "[t]here is no more enlightening program in the history of broadcasting", because James Burke's Connections and The Day the Universe Changed are equally (if not more) enlightening. Earlier Entries --------------- 02/##/2023 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/02/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/02/index.html 01/##/2023 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/01/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2023/01/index.html ##/##/2022 https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/motd.txt https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/index.html