Stephen Cass

Clearly the aliens are monitoring the ArXiv and when Loeb's paper went up, they went "Oh shit, forgot to fire up the coma machine!" and it took a bit to warm up, and their response to the paper proves that they are superintelligent aliens with advanced tech.

A black and white composite photograph of a full-sized Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft joined by a tubular module, hanging from the ceiling of a museum atrium.

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#209 "Rendezvous"

You’re welcome! You might like to check out some of Dave’s other backyard science projects too :)

This $100 Muon Detector Lets You Harness the Cosmos Uncover hidden mine shafts and more

The Discovery Dish is really neat: might I also suggest a low-cost muon detector per my colleague and citizen scientist Dave Schneider? :) spectrum.ieee.org/diy-muon-tom...

A black and white photograph of low-rise industrial buildings, one of which has a tall metal framework its roof, atop which are letters spelling out "Kentile Floors"

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#208 "Floors"

Just more grist for alt.angst...

Fidonet is like the Neanderthals: once assumed to be a separate species and completely extinct, analysis reveals still living traces deep in the cyberome.

A black and white photograph of a pedestrian path paved with bricks running straight between two hedgerows bracketed by low-rise residential buildings.

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#207 "Pedestrian"

A black and white solarized photograph of a two-story brick building with an attached four-story air traffic control tower topped by a radio mast. In the background an aircraft hanger can be seen with the words "Bennet Field" visible above the doors.

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#206 "Bennet Field"

A black and photograph of the trunk of a leafless tree in winter. Several handmade fairy doors have been nailed to the trunk at different heights.

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#205 "Sidhe Shacks"

A black and white photograph of a long building corridor lit by fluorescent lights with a tile floor. The corridor is so long the end almost vanishes into the distance. Doors line both walls and the corridor is empty save for a tiny figure that can just be made out near the far end.

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#204 "Gallery'

I remember this on the C64: I adored the little flight envelope charts the dashboard displayed for each stage of the mission.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

But we do have chatbots to write my application to Mr Lee’s Greater Hong Kong for me!

No indeed. Snowcrash had decent pizza deliverators.

A black and white photograph of two six-wheeled delivery robots at night. One robot's headlights can be seen as it sits tilted on the edge of the top step of a flight of stairs. The second robot illuminates the stuck robot with its headlights as it faces away from the camera.

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#203 "Investigation"

Doug Englebart's ghost: "Told ya!"

I do miss the Hamlet ads, they were reliably the funniest ones on TV

A photograph of a city intersection at night: towering bright screens on the surrounding buildings illuminate crowds filling the streets below. Some members of the crowd are motion blurred while others are sharply distince.

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#202 "Square"

Thank you!

The cycle will not be complete until an hydraulic press gets involved.

Oh no, now I have imposter syndrome about now-me!

Pre-orders are my self-love language, because I invariably completely forget I made the order, and then one day, pop, a lovely surprise present from past me! Thanks past me, you're really so thoughtful and kind!

"Perfect holiday read" - ª NewYorker. ——seems perfectly FTC compliant to me :)

A black and white photograph of a high-rise building. The front of the buildings is soaked in sunlight and finished with elegant details framing the windows, while the shadowed side of the building is a utilitarian brick facade with stark rectangular windows.

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#201 "Sideshow"

Into Great Silence; a mood more than exposition, following a year in the life of a Carthusian monastery where the monks spend most of their time in isolated cells.

Even pre-web there was also Usenet and FTP, boosting the functionality of what people already liked from popular BBSs.

There's a neat book called "The Saucer Fleet" that looks at the spacecraft in classic movies like Forbidden Planet and This Island Earth, and heroically tries to match up the interior sets with the exteriors and its pretty clear the different design departments didn't feel much need to coordinate :)

A photograph of a set of high voltage powerlines running from the top left and right corners with a tower jutting into the bottom middle of the frame. Blue sky at the top gives way to increasingly red-tinted clouds towards the bottom.

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#200 "Tension"

A black and white photograph of a cement silo in front of a wooded area. A sloped conveyor belt leads towards the ground, and a cement mixing truck waits near the foot of the belt.

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#199 "Concrete"