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I recall being 6 years old and singing the "Wonder Woman lost her bosoms" variant at primary school in New Zealand. This was 1982 so definitely sung internationally prior to The Simpsons.

“SA: Yes, I had a heart attack when I was twenty-five. I had a viral infection of the pericardium.”

https://www.furious.com/perfect/shellac.html

> Interesting that he died of a heart attack at a relatively young, healthy man(61).

He had an earlier heart attack at age 25, long before COVID-19.

I expected the article to be about The Trons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trons

Can you make the same case using a country sharing a similar lack of public sector corruption with New Zealand? New Zealand consistently ranks as one of the least corrupt countries, Brazil not so much: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

A cheeky response to Lucier's work: https://coryarcangel.com/things-i-made/2004-004-iron-maidens...

This reminds me of a recent documentary about a billionaire transporting trees, often purchased from families in financial distress, to his private fantasy garden: Taming The Garden https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taming_the_Garden

> Chicken have been seen as food for the majority of our existence on this planet

This may not be correct: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/06/chickens-wer...

> really improbable that anyone else would try to replicate the endeavor.

Not so, this week I bought one of the cameras mentioned in the article for the same purpose.

Legowelt and Ceephax Acid Crew have come to dominate my listening over the past decade. Favourite Legowelt release ever (in the guise of The Psychic Stewardess) is Spiritual Foundation: https://shop.hott.mx/album/strange-life-records-slr037-spiri.... I'll never forget how much I was already loving the album on first listen, then Shinobi Theme started playing: my absolute favorite game in the late 80s.

> from blobs-of-HTML-in-a-database

Gutenberg has doubled down on blobs of HTML in the database: everything within `<body>` is stored as one big blob if using "full site editing", including additional markup defined using HTML comments. There is far less separation between data and how it's presented than there ever was with the "classic" editor.

> Page performance from sites made with WP's block editor is pretty good compared to other editor plugins

Perhaps, but it's never been a great idea to use editor plugins at all.

> There's also a performance team (for general WP performance, but also covering the editor/JS) that meets regularly and posts minutes.

Gutenberg is about to enter its 6th year of development while the performance team has only just formed and is yet to contribute anything meaningful in this capacity.

This is certainly evidence that cats are killing birds but characterising the numbers in the studies you've cited as absolute decimation seems unfair. I'm genuinely surprised at how low some of these counts are. For example: 37 bell-free cats deemed "prolific killers" only managed to kill 82 birds between them over the course of a year-long study? Even allowing for a large number of unknown kills the impact here seems small.

The lighthouse story is tragic and maddening. While I opted not to adopt a new cat when my last one died, I don't support the predator-free approach to conservation.

There isn't overwhelming evidence, though. Native bird life in New Zealand has dramatically increased in recent years, despite cats continuing to enjoy relative freedom and huge numbers.

This particular page design can be read as an intentional response to Web2.0, something the authors of this article considered to be part of a broader campaign to remove "amateur" production from the web. They published a book, Digital Folklore, expanding on this idea a few years later: https://digitalfolklore.org/

https://www.figmacrashcourse.com/ helped me get started, though there's currently only content under the Auto Layout section.

I recall seeing a behind-the-scenes clip somewhere (perhaps on the Directors Label series that came out in the early 2000s) where Gondry talks about his brother piecing this together from video footage they'd captured. I can't find that clip but came across this very early exploration towards the final product: https://youtu.be/GF0-wGbRqEs

A great little front-end project for generating these numerals: https://adrianroselli.com/2021/02/cistercian-svg.html

A 2021 appeal to bring them back: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/modern-spacer-gif/

It does feel there's something of a line between the older folklore and the urban, technology-infused tales, but overall it is a great connection to make. Takashi Miike's The Great Yokai War is a nice little take on the old and new sensibilities: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Yokai_War

Your questions make me realise I've long held the presumption this is a cultural response to events like Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

And, more recently: https://v6.robweychert.com/blog/2018/09/revisiting-incomplet...