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Cowboys' top 20 players heading into the 20th training camp in Oxnard https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-top-20-players-heading-into-the-20th-training-camp-in-oxnard

from my link log —
The figure of the earth: global geodesy in the mid-20th C.
https://computer.rip/2026-08-22-figure-of-the-earth.html
saved 2026-08-23

the figure of the earth

University of Leiden @… will soon have their #africa maps collection online
"(re)Mapping Africa: Colonial cartography collection soon ready for search"

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/feliciaday/watchtheguild
Looks like Felicia Day is starting on a new movie to continue The Guild; they're doing a kickstarter and are live streaming on Twitch all day for it.

"UK’s climate of the 20th century ‘has now gone’, says Met Office"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

UK’s climate of the 20th century ‘has now gone’, says Met Office
The UK experienced its warmest year on record in 2025, according to the latest State of the UK Climate report, which says the country's climate has warmed by about 0.25C per decade since the 1980s.

this week, we point the deadcast to 1985’s 20th anniversary shows & the new “summer magic” box, stopping 1st at the greek theatre. the band took to the stage to sgt. pepper’s, inspiring @…'s beautiful tour book entry.

Reading Arvind Narayanan made me think: one of the great (and most undersung) achievements of the 20th century was rural electrification. If "AI is the new electricity", what is "rural AIification"? "Rural" here is obviously a metaphor, though it has some literal elements too.

Vanishing Japan
https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/17402/five-vanished-architectural-marvels-from-20th-century-japan

Sources: Apple remains on track for a glass-centric design overhaul of iPhone Pro's line for 2027, countering rumors that led Jefferies to downgrade AAPL (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

The June issue of the Canadian Historical Review is out (and not a day too soon!). It features articles on the HBC and the Northwest Passage in the 18th century, Chinese Canadian Imaginaries of China in the 19th and 20th centuries, gossip in the mid-20th-century Canadian state, and government-backed medical experimentation on Inuit in the 1960s and 70s. It also includes a roundtable on one of the most important books in Canadian history of the past 50 years, Joy Parr's The Gender of Brea…

Der Notizblock auf der Abreißrolle. Ich mag elegantes, mitgedachtes, schlankes Produktdesign: #design

Another South Korean Roll Note Pad - Core77
In "Throwback Object: Telephone Memo Pad Holders," we looked at examples of the obsolete 20th-century object. And we were surprised to find that one company still makes them today, South Korean manufacturer JoplinWorks: I have no idea why tech-heavy South Korea would have an appetite for

from my link log —
The demise of the once mighty Cambridge and District Co-operative Society.
https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/03/12/the-demise-of-the-once-mighty-cambridge-and-district-co-operative-socie…

The demise of the once mighty Cambridge and District Co-operative Society
Battered from pillar to post in the late 20th Century, this hugely influential civic society with 83,000 members in 1990 merged itself out of existence as it folded into the national CRS Co-op afte…

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
—Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Lucky Strike Entertainment,
formerly known as Bowlero Corporation,
the private equity–backed behemoth that in the past 10 years has bought more than 350 of the nation’s bowling alleys
and transformed them into a
(to quote the Bowlero website)
“quirky, edgy, retro-inspired bowling phenomenon”
that has deprioritized league bowling,
escalated the cost of bowling with algorithm-driven dynamic pricing,
and accelerated the demise of one of the 20th …

How private equity destroyed an American pastime
A class-action suit against Lucky Strike Entertainment is a sad coda to the end of bowling.

Apparently I missed the exact 20th (!) anniversary of my Open Objects blog https://www.openobjects.org.uk/2006/
OTOH I found a post from 2014 (!!) about 'the removal of human agency from the process of enhancing, and even creating, text and images. Where do we go from here? How will we deal with…

Human activity has driven retreat of Antarctica's fastest melting glacier #Antarctica

Human activity has driven retreat of Antarctica's fastest melting glacier
Human-driven climate change significantly intensified the retreat of one of the most important glaciers in Antarctica during the 20th century. The Pine Island Glacier, which drains a large part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Amundsen Sea, is one of the biggest contributors to global sea level rise.

This new installation centers early-20th-century artists’ relationships to their environments and highlights the role of agriculture and urbanization in shifting cultural perceptions of time. In one corner of the gallery, three objects visualize this period in American history. Constructed from recycled materials, a clock made locally by Athens doctor William B. Conway in 1897 shares space with a cast-iron weathervane created around the same time.
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RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUK/117043050379894260
We so often think in the 20th/21st century that we are the smartest humans that have ever existed. Most Europeans would not know how to achieve a challenge like this!

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

A 639-year-long John Cage organ piece just changed chord, for the first time in... - Classic FM
https://www.classicfm.com/composers/cage/as-slow-a-possible-aslsp-germany-organ-chord-change/

A 639-year-long John Cage organ piece just changed chord, for the first time in two years
Watch a moment of music history – on Monday a single chord changed in an iconic piece of 20th-century music which ends in the year 2640.

Alan Wake 2 would have been more fun if every encounter didn't drain your bullets and they told you how to use some of the other bullshit in your inventory.
Bullet sponge grandma zombies get tiring after the 20th time.

Whither Liberalism? -- What I saw and heard at LibCon 2026. -- Back in the 20th century ... (Daniel W. Drezner/Drezner's World)
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/whither-liberalism
http://www.memeorandum.com/260719/p5#a260719p5

Twenty-five years ago, I visited Lithuania for the first time. It was still illegally occupied by the USSR. Within weeks, we saw the second fall of a Russian empire in the 20th century and the world rejoiced. Nobody thought it would happen, but it did. Perhaps it can happen again this month?

Here it is, next year's International Degrowth Conference!
Pleased to be associated with it.
Cork City to host 12th International Degrowth Conference
https://www.goleordegrowth.com/cork-to-host-12th-international-degrowth-conference/

Cork City to host 12th International Degrowth Conference
From August 16th-20th 2027, Cork City will host “Go Leor!”,  the 12th International Conference and Festival for Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity - a transdisciplinary gathering of practitioners, activists, policymakers, scholars, educators, and artists focused on platforming and debating the degrowth movement.  Over five days, landmark venues across

"Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding"
#Africa #Whales #Animals

Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding
Sightings of blue whales and fin whales off Southern Africa’s Atlantic coast have increased in recent years, according to a newly published study. This could signal recovery of the marine mammals after being virtually eliminated from the area by commercial whaling in the 20th century, the study authors say. Scientists estimate around 350,000 Antarctic blue […]

Back with the Taiwanese colleagues to explore the #semiconductor industry, now in #Dresden. We started with vanished #chip histories, moved to promised silicon futures and will now venture out – a…

I have some vague recollection of an anecdote from the 20th century where some American dude told a French one the « If it weren’t for us you’d be speaking German » cliché, to which the French answered « Well, if it weren’t for us you’d be speaking English ». I can’t remember who was involved. A quick search only brings up the orange moron paraphrasing the former sentence one year ago. He really ruins everything doesn’t he

Whether you consider them cool or dangerous, radical or inept, socialist mayors are not a new phenomenon.
During the early 20th century, the Socialist Party of America was a viable third party,
especially in the West,
part of a broader workers’ movement that ranged from traditional unions to the more radical “Wobblies,” or Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Stridently red western states were once fertile ground for a brand of socialism centered around worker soli…

How socialism built the reddest states in the West
Dozens of cities in the Mountain West region elected socialists in the early 1900s. The economic conditions that led to their ascendance, their legacy of municipal improvement, and their ultimate dissolution as a movement provide lessons of hope and a warning.

I never imagined being chair would involve so much time on the phone. I feel like a salesman or a secretary or a bureaucrat in a late-20th-century TV show.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Brian Jackson:
🎵 It's Your World (6 Music Session, 20th July 2025)
#BrianJackson
https://erickbastide.bandcamp.com/track/gil-scott-heron-brian-jackson-its-your-world-erick-b-x-tended-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0iRopWFR87lMESKFtcs3Md

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

Last night I dreamt of a semi-racist version of Afternoon Delight and woke up convinced that it was actually an early 20th century minstrel song. I also woke up with some kind of conjunctivitis in my left eye. I think I might be dealing with some type of demon situation.

The effect of 20th century industrialization: Power station, acid rains, over-pumping, on an erstwhile uniform freshwater dune aquifer in Haifa Bay, Israel
Vasily Rogojin, Joel Kronfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00893 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.00893 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.00893
arXiv:2607.00893v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A small phreatic sand dune aquifer lies along the shore of Haifa Bay. It has been exploited for its freshwater resources since the 1930s. During this time the salinity has increased continuously, partly by seawater intrusion due to overpumping. The chemistry of the young aquifer water is laterally variable and is characterized by excess SO$_4^{2-}$, high $Sr^{2 }$ concentrations above that of modern seawater, high alkalinity, and markedly enriched $\delta^{13}C_{DIC}$ values. Acidic winter rains, formed from $SO_x$ and $NO_x$ gaseous emissions from a nearby power station, leach the dry deposition that accumulated across the dune surface during the dry summers. The acidity also partially dissolves the aragonite sea shells in the dune sands, remnants of a previous marine transgression. As a consequence, this adds $Sr^{2 }$, $Ca^{2 }$ excess, and alkalinity, while leading to enriched $\delta^{13}C_{DIC}$ values, particularly during the winter, at which time the radiocarbon activity in the DIC is observed to decrease.
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Nearby is Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Red Barn, Lake George, New York” (1921), now joined by Guy Carleton Wiggins’ “Wall Street Winter” (ca. 1920). In combining these modernist works with more traditional vernacular pieces, this installation attempts to broaden understandings of early-20th-century American art.
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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
—Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration

"Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding"
#Africa #Fish #Animals

Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding
Sightings of blue whales and fin whales off Southern Africa’s Atlantic coast have increased in recent years, according to a newly published study. This could signal recovery of the marine mammals after being virtually eliminated from the area by commercial whaling in the 20th century, the study authors say. Scientists estimate around 350,000 Antarctic blue […]

Wild that the guy who got a Nobel Prize for inventing the lobotomy previously represented Portugal at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and only returned to medicine after a political quarrel led to a duel. The 20th century was quite something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant�%B3n…

Mexican man dies in ICE custody in Laredo, at least the 20th fatality this year (Lomi Kriel/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/24/ice-detention-webb-county-laredo/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p92#a260625p92

hack.lu 2026 agenda is live! (the 20th Edition) including more details about the keynote.
🔗 #conference #hacklu #cybersecurity

Recycling Churches and Tin Tabernacles #nonconformists

When Keith Jarrett turned up at the Opera House in Cologne at the end of January 1975 to perform a concert of solo piano improvisations on the promise of a Bösendorfer grand piano,
he despaired at the actual instrument he’d been given to play on
—a baby grand that would clearly require multiple attempts to stabilise its tuning,
with pedals that didn’t even move up and down properly.
He had arrived already burned out,
suffering from a chronic back condition that …

Reassessing Keith Jarrett’s famous Köln Concert
It produced one of the most significant recordings of the 20th century, celebrated in two films this year. But our fussy veneration of that evening go...

In conversation with the existing installation, these works expand our understanding of the shifting cultural economy of the 19th century, and the U.S. as an emerging center for this artistic exchange.
In the adjoining Marilyn Overstreet Nalley South Gallery, additions from the museum’s collection of decorative and fine arts help reimagine the story of 20th-century American art history.
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chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
20th Century‐Fox Orchestra & Alfred Newman:
🎵 The King and I: "Overture"
#20thCenturyFoxOrchestra #AlfredNewman
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZfxXAibBWyKZO29f7BASu

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Roadhouse
T. Rex:
🎵 20th Century Boy
#TRex
https://djlocimarmar.bandcamp.com/track/t-rex-20th-century-boy-ext-intro-outro-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1y5LL9dpLXbCXNKKqw5wCJ

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
Bernard Herrmann & The 20th Century Fox Studio Orchestra:
🎵 The Day The Earth Stood Still
#BernardHerrmann #The20thCenturyFoxStudioOrchestra
https://open.spotify.com/track/4DahkJ7hymcpaC2a1G5KNU

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
T. Rex:
🎵 20th Century Boy
#NowPlaying #TRex
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Starting to construct our 24 hour 20th Anniversary Celebration of @… radio
To air December 2nd on #Vancouver's #CoopRadio
Reconstructed and fixed typos we made on this playlist from the 2007-06-01 #PaulineOliveros episode ❤️‍🔥🪗
Not sure I'll touch up every playlist as I go along, but here's one to see what was going on during our late-night shifts back in the early years of our show
#accordion #ExperimentalMusic