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James Burke's book version of 'Connections' https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55024.Connections

Also Douglas Coupland's 'Microserfs', described as "Here's a guy who seems to have spent a week with engineers and effortlessly absorbed everything that is important about engineering culture, everything that matters about working at a big company, and everything that matters about working at a startup." https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2748.Microserfs

It was mentioned in http://www.terrydunkle.com/glass.php and in a Sky & Telescope magazine article from 1989 which explained why Perkin-Elmer began using very meticulous step by step procedure checklists after that. To prevent any major mistakes. Oh the irony.

In 1968, a team of Perkin-Elmer technicians were carrying the million dollar Copernicus space telescope mirror to the other side of the lab. They tripped over a piece of scrap lumber. Shaka, when the walls fell.

"Like so many good ideas, nuclear pulse propulsion started with a Polish guy living in New Mexico." (Stanisław Ulam)

Victor Borge pronounced his punctuation marks. O:-) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=victor+borge+punctuation&ia=videos...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Anthony+Hopkins+Bracken+Road&ia=vi...

Among other things, turbulent currents of liquid iron in the Earth's core can make the core drift eastward or westward, which causes the crust and mantle to turn slower or faster. Same thing with the strength of the jet stream.

A 20 year search leads to the discovery of the nitroplast, a nitrogen-fixing organelle hiding inside algae.

Bookmarklet: javascript:void(location.href='http://megalodon.jp/'+location.href)

The vote for independence was on July 2. Then it took them two days to hash out the wording. They printed the first batch of broadsheets in Philadelphia and sent them to the state capitals. This batch was reprinted in NH a few weeks later.

Medieval Help Desk - how to use this new 'book' thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdkucf6wxU4#help

No, the Baudot / Western Union mechanical teletype code assignments were worked out in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This was later developed into ASCII. Computer keyboards came much later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code

In the original performance, he had a page turner.

“You mean we all came from Earth?” said Nikolai, unbelieving. “Yes,” the holo said kindly. “The first true settlers in space were born on Earth—produced by sexual means. Of course, hundreds of years have passed since then. You are a Shaper. Shapers are never born.” “Who lives on Earth now?” “Human beings.” “Ohhhh,” said Nikolai, his falling tones betraying a rapid loss of interest. --- Twenty Evocations (1984) Bruce Sterling

The other commenters are referring to bare metal interpreted Forth with no OS, or bare metal ROM Basic with no OS, as opposed to machine code with no OS.

No magic. You just melt the rock, split it, polish it, write on it with fire and acid, put lightning inside it, teach it many things, and make it speak from afar. See? No magic at all. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:There%27s_no_cabal.png No such thing.

"The third turtle lied" seems to be from a collection of logic puzzles called "Mathematical Circles". (although that was not in a 'turtles all the way down' context)

There was a security incident in 2002: Trooper Fears the Wurst, Stops Wienermobile in DC -- Hot doggers grilled near Pentagon

related: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=backup+guide

Byte Magazine had an April ad for a Noise Emitting Diode. The symbol was a diode wearing a pair of earmuffs.

There are egyptian paintings showing colossal statues being dragged on sledges by crews of men with ropes. -- https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceshot-ancient-...

The Freefall webcomic can sympathize. http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1500/fc01415.htm

[wasn’t aware of this] That's odd. Anyone familiar with the history of anonymous email services and remailers would know about the penet, cotse, and cypherpunk communities in the 1990s. It was a fertile field. Odd that you haven't bumped into anyone from that space.

https://codamail.com/aboutus.html -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixminion -- https://www.spamgourmet.com/index.pl?printpage=faq.html

Japan incinerates its plastic.

It supposedly has something to do with de-aligning water molecules via microwave RF and affecting surface tension and gas exchange. Sounds like fringe woo. They partnered with Themo Fisher at one point, but TF has taken that page down.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264640617_Influence...

Our neighbors put a tv in their little girl's room, but it was rigged to only show the local PBS station. Worked out well.

SSSS is not the official canonical file format for SSS. Shamir did not specify an official file format when he described his technique. Each implementation knows how to recombine its own shares. The web apps can be saved and used on any device.

In a group of 12 people, the expected high-low range is about 15×3.26 = 49 points. (75 to 125)

There's a related 2-man sudo login system here, not sure how finegrained it is.

https://github.com/Argonne-National-Laboratory/Pam-2man-Auth