paddystacks's feed
-
2 days ago
Current Event paddystacksButch Cassidy and Princess Bride scriptwriter William Goldman dies aged 87
Key member of 1970s New Hollywood generation won two Oscars for his screenplays
-
4 days ago
To be fair, they can also easily be made into mass killing machines.
-
4 days ago
Analysis paddystacks
New Study Details Toxic Particles Spewed by 3D Printers
Researchers have that found that 3D printers spew tiny particles into the air as they operate, though the quantity and nature of these potentially toxic aerosols are poorly understood. A new study identifies a startling variety of these emissions, and the conditions under which they’re produced.
-
9 days ago
Level Up paddystacks
Level 23
paddystacks is now level 23 with 795,415 XP.
View Unlocks- Tribe creation The maximum amount of tribes you can create has been raised by 2 to a total of 13.
- Save credits The maximum amount of save credits you can store has been raised by 2 to a total of 30.
- Following bonus The maximum amount of users you can follow has been raised by 30 to a total of 330.
-
10 days ago
Expression paddystacks
What Do Our Oldest Books Say About Us?
On the ineffable magic of four little manuscripts of Old English poetry
-
13 days ago
Expression paddystacks
How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds
A new book collects fantastic literary geographies.
-
3 weeks ago
Florida does breed a lot of crazy
-
3 weeks ago
Current Event paddystacks
Florida man, Cesar Sayoc Jr., arrested in probe of mail bombs targeting Obama, Clinton and others
A person was taken into custody in connection with the ongoing investigation of 12 suspected mail bombs sent to former president Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other leading critics of President Donald Trump.
-
3 weeks ago
Current Event paddystacks
Nasa photographs rectangular iceberg
Nasa has released a striking photo of a rectangular iceberg floating in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.
-
1 month ago
Image paddystacks
2018 on the web
This stuff doesn't work, it just makes visitors want to leave and never come back.
-
1 month ago
Expression paddystacks
Shane Dawson’s Jake Paul series is really about YouTube’s broken heart
YouTube’s creators do some soul-searching.
-
1 month ago
Analysis paddystacks
Ultimate Writer: an Open Digital Typewriter
I love my typewriter. You can write stories without having to wait for your computer to boot, you cannot be distracted by some kind of notification or the urge to check your favorite online place every half an hour.
-
1 month ago
Comment paddystacks
His best stunt yet, kudos.
-
1 month ago
Video/Audio paddystacks
Inside The Most Precise Atomic Clock in the World
From his basement lab in Boulder, Colorado, physicist Jun Ye and his team have built the world’s most precise atomic clock. The clock is so powerful it can measure otherwise imperceptible changes in the physical world.
-
1 month ago
Analysis paddystacks
It took 8 years but Mozilla finally embraced Google's WebP image format for a faster web
Now Apple's Safari is the only major holdout.
-
1 month ago
Expression paddystacks
Why the novel matters in the age of anger
In the 2018 New Statesman / Goldsmiths Prize lecture, Elif Shafak explains why – in a world ruled by fear and division – novelists no longer have the luxury of being apolitical.
-
1 month ago
Current Event paddystacks
Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
Amazon and CEO Jeff Bezos have been facing criticism for its pay disparity.
-
1 month ago
Expression paddystacks
Tiny Device Is a ‘Huge Advance’ for Treatment of Severe Heart Failure
A clip used to repair damaged heart valves sharply reduced deaths among patients with a grim prognosis.
-
1 month ago
Expression paddystacks
Why I’m done with Chrome
This blog is mainly reserved for cryptography, and I try to avoid filling it with random 512px-Google_Chrome_icon_(September_2014).svg“someone is wrong on the Internet” posts. After all, that’s what Twitter is for! But from time to time something bothers me enough that I have to make an exception. Today I wanted to write specifically about Google Chrome, how much I’ve loved it in the past, and why — due to Chrome’s new user-unfriendly forced login policy — I won’t be using it going forward.