Victor Loux — bookmarks

How to live without your phone - by Sam Kriss

samkriss.substack.com/p/how-to-live-without-your-phone

Cow Magnets

stanfordmagnets.com/cow-magnets.html

Cow magnets are very popular with farmers, ranchers, and veterinarians since they are a well-known method of preventing hardware disease in cattle.

It's time to look back at SimCopter's digital himbo prank

avclub.com/simcopter-programmer-once-deployed-armies-of-digital-hi-1844132990

With social media discussing "himbos" this week, it's a good opportunity to revisit future The Yes Men activist Jacques Servin's SimCopter prank, which secretly placed armies of kissing bodybuilders into the 1996 game.

Why Jesus Never Ate a Banana

atlasobscura.com/articles/food-origins-map

Scrabble: Mattel launches new version of game which is 'less competitive'

bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68769981

Mattel says the new board is designed to be accessible for those who find word games intimidating.

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The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/

The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.

Fanta cake

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta_cake

List of non-water floods

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-water_floods

Tuesday Thread: How Do You Find Good Stuff to Read on the Internet?

annehelen.substack.com/p/tuesday-thread-how-do-you-find-good/comments

Order of Brothelyngham - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Brothelyngham

Order of Brothelyngham

Trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida

arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/trash-from-the-international-space-station-may-have-hit-a-house-in-florida/

NASA collected the item to confirm whether it came from the International Space Station.

BOOX Palma

euroshop.boox.com/products/boox-palma

The (not so) subtle reason you hate chatbots

builtformars.com/case-studies/chatbots

Virtual agents, decision trees and ChatGPT-powered conversations aren't exactly the future of customer service that we were promised.

The unusual manner in which cicadas pee — and why the information is useful

npr.org/2024/03/19/1239528212/the-unusual-manner-in-which-cicadas-pee-and-why-the-information-is-useful

Little insects pee in droplets. But it turns out that cicadas pee in jets â and why and how they do it could help scientists better understand microfluidics and advance all kinds of technologies.

The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/19/end-of-landlords-surprisingly-simple-solution-to-uk-housing-crisis

Pursuits That Can’t Scale

workingtheorys.com/p/pursuits-that-cant-scale

“Society tends to paint a picture that the final act of every big dreamer’s journey is in scaling up to unimaginable heights, but I think it’s the opposite – it’s actually in scaling back down after trying to reach the proverbial top. Make time to pursue things that can’t scale. I’d bet it does you as much good as ‘real’ therapy ever could”