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• https://www.manton.org/2023/11/17/amazing-that-were.html

  Manton Reese, Nov 17, 2023

  Amazing that we’re only a month and a half away from Steamboat Willie being in the public domain. Hoping animators experiment with remixing it, within the limits of copyright trademark. I think there’s a lot you could do. Probably won’t have time myself but maybe one day.

• The Hunger Games Forgets Its Own Nightmarish Message

  Vulture, Nov 17, 2023

  The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has star power and action, but the prequel film lacks its predecessor’s sense of moral lucidity.

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• Nearly 60 new House members say they will vote to expel Santos

  Politico, Nov 17, 2023

• The Hubble Telescope Just Sized Up an Earth-Sized Exoplanet

  Gizmodo, Nov 17, 2023

  The Hubble Space Telescope just ogled an exoplanet passing in front of a star in a triple system, revealing the nearby world’s mass. Read more...

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• Blink and you lose: try the intense stare-off challenge of staring at strangers online

  Boing Boing, Nov 17, 2023

  How long can you stare at a stranger without blinking? That's the object of Stranger Video. When you visit the site and give it access to your webcam, you get paired with a stranger that you must stare at. The first person to blink loses. — Read the rest

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• Robert Pattinson used to sleep on an inflatable boat because that’s show business, baby

  AV Club, Nov 17, 2023

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• RetroTINK recreates the beauty of CRT displays for serious and seriously deep-pocketed retrogamers

  Boing Boing, Nov 17, 2023

  Pixel-peeping retrogamers know the joy of thrifting that exact 2007-era Dell LCD with both the right shape and a high-enough resolution to not look skanky when upscaling ancient arcade and console games to fill it. Some of us even go as far as to buy, hack or DIY upscalers to connect them to the original outputs of real arcade games and consoles—emulation be damned. — Read the rest

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• Freaky photo of San Francisco Bay Area sky showing the aircraft surveillance during APEC

  Boing Boing, Nov 17, 2023

  Seen below is photographer Ian Servin's wild image of the sky above the San Francisco Bay Area during this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APAC) summit. World leaders descended on the area, resulting in numerous surveillance aircraft monitoring the scene from above. — Read the rest

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