2026-03-14 17:04:12
Irsay collection nets more than $93M at auction https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48205033/jim-irsay-memorabilia-collection-nets-93m-auction
Irsay collection nets more than $93M at auction https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48205033/jim-irsay-memorabilia-collection-nets-93m-auction
Лучшая имплементация "Сапёра" — это Mines из Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection.
Её особенность в том, что головоломка всегда получается решаемая, и никогда не приходится угадывать. Благодаря этому можно спокойно играть с полем 9x9 на 35 мин.
https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/1147
OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -
Friday Links 26-02
This week I enjoyed the podcast about Godbolt’s Rule and the one with Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
You might notice more podcasts this week. Something went wrong with my link collection system recently.
I am also moving the blog … more things will go wrong.
https://christof.damian…
A look at the Aadam Jacobs Collection, which is adding its 10,000 concert recordings to the Internet Archive; only one or two artists have requested takedowns (Christopher Weber/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/aadam-jacob
This is an absolute gold mine for music fans, especially us #genx folks. After listening to pre-Grohl Nirvana, I'm now listening to Tracey Chapman from 1988. Thank you Aadam Jacobs and the @… !!
Aadam Jacobs ging 1989 mit einem Rekorder zu einem Konzert von #Nirvana. Seitdem hat er sich seinen Spitznamen "Taper Guy"" redlich verdient. Mittlerweile nahm er mehr als 10.000 Konzerte auf Band auf. Jetzt werden die Aufnahmen digitalisiert und bei
faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…
from my link log —
A tour of safe tracing GC designs in Rust.
http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2021/04/05/a-tour-of-safe-tracing-gc-designs-in-rust/
saved 2021-06-19
Before and after pictures of the rocket test 100 years ago today, from the fantastic #Goddard collection at https://commons.clarku.edu/goddardlaunch/ - articles about the historical event and its context also at https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-031626a-robert-goddard-liquid-fuel-rocket-centennial-where-nell.html (small parts of the hardware may have survived after all), https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/goddardcentennial-origins/ -> https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/goddardcentennial-space-craze/ -> https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/goddardcentennial-legacy/ and https://www.space.com/space-exploration/2-seconds-that-changed-the-world-the-1st-liquid-fueled-rocket-launched-100-years-ago-today
In einer kleinen Studie wurden #Mikroplastik-Partikel in den Plazenten von drei trächtigen #Katzen und in Föten von zwei Tieren nachgewiesen.
Insgesamt fanden Forschende 19 verschiedene #Kunststoffarten
"Where Science Meets Storytelling: Twelve Years of the Science Blogs Web Archive" an der Library of Congress:
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/12/where-science-meets-storytelling-twelve-years-of-the-scienc…
The Sky: A Film Lesson in “Nature Study” (1928) — The Public Domain Review
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-sky-a-film-lesson-in-nature-study-1928/
Over the past few days and weeks, I’ve decided to downsize my digital and tech collection. I own so many computers, laptops, smartphones, smartwatches, accessories, and so on—I can never really use it all. I bought a lot of it just to own the latest “hot stuff.”
That’s why I’ve gotten rid of most of it—either giving it away or selling it for very little. And I’ve kept only the bare essentials. Often not even the newest or best.
For example: I now only use my Peladn Mini-PC with …
Den of Angels is a forum dedicated to the appreciation of resin ball-jointed dolls and the artisans who make them, started in May 2002 as a Yahoo! Group
https://denofangels.com/
I would love to have seen a 15kg echidna
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-14/ice-age-giant-echidna-fossil-found-in-east-gippsland/106561526?utm_source=…
Giving https://orionbrowser.com (WebKit-based privacy-first/no data collection, supports extensions from Chrome, Firefox and Safari, from Kagi) a spin on my Mac, let's see how it goes!
How two lost Doctor Who episodes, not viewed since their airing in 1965, were found and restored; they are the first lost episodes discovered since 2013 (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g7kwq1k11o
Since the university library got rid of late fees and began automatically renewing loans instead, my house has become something of a minor branch. I figure my colleagues and I are providing storage, in the process helping to maintain the collection from which books would otherwise have to be purged.
eat a potato for peace. https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116211789947450037
This weekend I worked on my custom /blogroll page
it has 3 input types :
1. you construct the collection by adding blogs manually
2. you import an OPML with your collection
3. you connect your /microsub existing collection to feed the blogroll on the frontend.
https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/02/08/3
Aadam Jacobs has secretly recorded over 10,000 local concerts since 1989.
Now, they are cleaned up and ready to listen to for free online:
https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection
If you didn't know about this collection of shows, check it out. Aadam Jacobs collection at the Internet Archive. Seeing he was Chicago based I took the chance to search and sure enough, he has a few Troubled Hubble shows. Amazing. https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jac
Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter supporting the Archive (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-to…
Added, updated & simplified the growing collection of darkroom-related calculators and super happy how elegant and concise the code has turned out, making it super easy to add more of them in the future.
I think it's also another great, if minimal, example to illustrate how otherwise completely separate https://thi.ng/umbrella
my favorite stones record ... by far!
#rollingstones #vinyl #nowplaying
12 Stunning Owl Photos Entice Visitors to Their Scottish Facility–And Any New Owners Who May Want to Buy it https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/12-stunning-owl-portraits-entice-visitors-to-their-scottish-fa…
Internet Archive: Aadams Jacob Collection
No tapes left behind
#bootlegme
https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Brand new from Lakecia Benjamin
Tonight on ‘Round Midnight, Mark Lockheart picks another 4/4 selection from his collection and Soweto has more of the best in jazz.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tmh3
TIL: Open Agent Management Protocol
#OpenTelemetry
Professional networking platform LinkedIn has been quietly collecting detailed information about users' devices and installed browser extensions, a new security report has alleged.
https://www.
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
Why Raiders' Collection of Resources Makes It Spytek's Time to Shine https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-collection-resources-makes-john-spytek-time-shine
The powerful but controversial surveillance program known as
Section 702 is about to expire
and its reauthorization faces political obstacles in the Republican-controlled Congress, despite the White House’s backing.
Administration officials have credited Section 702 with helping to rescue American hostages overseas, enabling the seizure of fentanyl precursor chemicals from China and even preventing a terrorist attack at a Taylor Swift concert in Austria.
“When used pr…
Wieder was neues.
#WetShaving #ShavingCream
Allez hop control fiscal !
Cannes : 600 000 euros de montres de collection et de bijoux dérobés chez un couple - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/cannes-6…
Critical Federal Data Collection Is Disappearing - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/02/critical-federal-data-collection-is-disappearing/
I have 4 Box Boosters from Magic the Gathering ending their ebay bids in the next hour or 2.
I'm clearing out a bit of my collection from sets I've done art for. And some of these prices are pretty good at the moment.
Check them out here: https://www.
These books are currently on sale at the Readino Independent eBook shop for £0.99 each. Which is nice, right?
[The store caught my attention because I noticed that the FBReader guy(s) are running it, and that they've recently implemented Readium LCP DRM support in the FBReader app.]
Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
To mark this Holy Day, we share an etching by Rembrandt, "The Crucifixion," part of the vast collection in the Yale University Art Gallery.
Wishing you a blessed and peaceful Good Friday.
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collection
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
It’s here! We just launched the new website of the #DiGA Collection, a collection of Buddhist sculptures from the Dir Museum in Chakdara, Pakistan. This site was built using an experimental static site framework for #CulturalHeritage collections that I developed over the last months. It’s a first beta…
Home from our lovely trip. Here's a collection of my postcard posts in a nice web viewer.
I'm thinking of turning this Mastodon − web page script I use into a product others can use too. I really like the result.
Astute observation: “the World-Wide Web has made text retrieval an end-user application used to retrieve short-lived multimedia documents in many languages out of a document collection of nearly infinite size.”
Astute observation: “the World-Wide Web has made text retrieval an end-user application used to retrieve short-lived multimedia documents in many languages out of a document collection of nearly infinite size.”
I'm looking for 12 testers using Play Store for an Android app I built with Claude AI:
Widekey Keyboard. Each key holds two characters. Tap once for the left, tap twice quickly for the right. (No autocorrect, no word prediction, no swipe typing.)
Intended for people who find standard touch keyboards on small screens imprecise.
Free, no ads, no data collection, Apache 2.0 open source.
Please send me a DM with your Android account email if you're interested.
«Mastodon is getting its own version of Bluesky's Starter Packs, called Collections:
@…'s Collections share the same core idea as Starter Packs, but with notable differences, such as a maximum of 25 accounts per collection.»
I personally do not understand why many people are not openly looking for something new, but on the other hand, this is…
Bernstein: 42% of China's 20K humanoid robot shipments in 2025 were education and R&D; data collection and human-robot interaction services each made up 19% (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/rede…
Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit currently block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter backing the IA (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-…
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116064770547880143
today, 25 years later, you can put a thing in your pocket that needs Wi-Fi or 5G to access your entire music collection that's stored in a datacenter the size of several city blocks and you must pay rent to your cell phone provider and to your music datacenter landlord to access it!
now that's called progress!
Just finished "Macunado: Welcome to Elsewhere" by Liniers, which is apparently a collection of newspaper comics. It's excellent and reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes, Minus, and Azumanga Daioh or Nichijou.
I'll always love a bit of meta in comics and Liniers sprinkles it in wonderfully here and there.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
YouTube has a collection of Yale Courses lectures by medieval historian Paul Freedman, and I have become quite addicted. But the lectern in his classroom has remnants of a sticker not properly removed, and it's driving me absolutely nuts.
services.radicale.git.enable=true now makes nicer commit messages, for events and contacts it will list the name and even describe renames. Proof of concept, written in bash/awk. It'll be hard to write a diff-parser that covers all kinds of changes, I guess having a local LLM could do it, but it'd slow down radicale significantly.
Bielefeld exists, a 7 unit strong fleet of hydrogen refuse collection trucks (for 7 million €), even a H2 refuelling station exists across the road.
But the trucks need to drive 40 km one way to refuel. And soon, maybe even 90.
What if even a much easier, efficient and cheaper option existed to use green electricity?
https://youtu.be/ze…
Theme Collection: Sovereign AI and Digital Sovereignty https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/25/theme-collection-sovereign-ai-and-digital-sovereignty
Allez hop control fiscal !!!!
Cannes : 600 000 euros de montres de collection et de bijoux dérobés chez un couple - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/canne…
The Karpeles Museum,
a true hidden gem of downtown Santa Barbara
and an important free museum for all to visit,
is set to close because the building is being sold.
Perhaps some local collective or organization could buy the building and continue to lease the collection of documents and artifacts from the Karpeles family?
The building has an upstairs and courtyard that would be a perfect venue for all sorts of live events
— in the not-so-distant past the …
Alright, the last of my Magic the Gathering draft & play boosters boxes are now up on ebay.
These are all boxes I did art for and have been in my collection, but I need to clear out space in the studio.
I've got 9 up for buy-it-now or auction here 👉 https://www.
RE: https://masto.ink/@knotfeed/116019987313473168
So could that be the kompromat that Putin uses to manage Trump: a collection of 'Epstein files' on Trump's abuse of young girls?
I was just watching an old QI collection of segments about death. #til The Ouija Board™️ was patented as a parlor game, unrelated to the occult, in 1891. An American spiritualist started using it as a divining tool during WWI. There are apparently people doing actual research with them who are pissed about the occult connection. It’s a tool to help you figure out stuff, analogous to casting the I Ching…
I've finally finished VALIS, took months when it shoulda taken a week cuz of getting caught in the suicidal era. Free to read something else!! Now I'm tryna decide what to read next:
• Leonora Carrington's usually my all time fav painter, and I've already read some of her stories in my collection, but not all
• I've been intending to get into Umberto Eco for literal years, have had multiple friends recommend The Name of The Rose, liked the part I read of the I…
OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -
best sinatra album
#vinyl #jazz #franksinatra
#fredagsbog #antisemitism
En sandt gyser! Der er så bare det ved bogen, at den beskriver en realitet, der eksisterer den dag i dag.
Efter nyheden om Ingrid Strobls dŸd kom jeg til at læse om hende. Og endte faktisk med at bestille to af hendes bŸger. Dette er den ene af dem,…
Jim Irsay collection auctions total $94 million in sales, set 28 records https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7129744/2026/03/18/jim-irsay-collection-auctions-total-94-million-in-sales-set-28-records/
Today marks 19 years since the very first _public_ commit of my old #Toxiclibs code library collection, which for many years were one of the largest and most important side-projects related to Java & Processing.org.
Altogether, toxiclibs consisted of ~360 different "building blocks for computational design" and was used as teaching tool in related fields in many universitie…
Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages (The Economic Times)
https://economi…
"A Critical Collection History of Nineteenth-century Women’s Letters: Overcoming the Occluded Archive with Data-Driven Methods"
https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000791/000791.html
wild surprise in the @… collection: a well-mixed stereo soundboard of the triple(?)-drummer boredoms from summer '06. quality 👁️ screaming from the drop. https://heads.social/@livetapes/113959…
The timing of this exhibit feels resonant – and a bit ominous.
In January, news broke that Kerouac’s 37-metre-long first-draft scroll of
"On the Road" will be up for auction.
When it was last for sale in 2001, Carolyn Cassady
– Neal Cassady’s former wife
– denounced the auction as “blasphemy”, saying the scroll belonged in a library, not a private collection.
"Jack loved public libraries,” she said at the time, adding:
“If they auction…
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
Theme Collection: Sovereign AI and Digital Sovereignty https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/25/theme-collection-sovereign-ai-and-digital-sovereignty
A collection of Luke Kuechly's greatest hits as he waits for Hall of Fame call https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7011209/2026/02/02/luke-kuechly-hof-career-panthers/
OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -
Theme Collection: Sovereign AI and Digital Sovereignty https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/25/theme-collection-sovereign-ai-and-digital-sovereignty
trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…
Jack Kerouac’s original typescript scroll for "On the Road"
– the 37 metre (121 ft) long roll of paper on which he typed his defining Beat novel in a three-week burst
– will go under the hammer at Christie’s in March, with a sale estimate of £1.8m to £2.9m ($2.5m to $4m).
The scroll is one of the centrepieces of the Jim Irsay Collection,
one of the most extensive private collections of music, literary,
film and sports memorabilia ever assembled.
…
foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -
1959 was just such a great year for jazz
released in 1960; this is a 1962 mono repress
#nowplaying #wesmontgomery #vinyl #jazz
trec: TREC collection (2010)
A bipartite network of documents and the words they contain, extracted from NIST's Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) disks 4 and 5, from 2010. These archives contain material drawn from the Financial Times Ltd., the Congressional Record of the 103rd Congress, the Federal Register, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, and the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
This network has 1729302 nodes and 83629405 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Un…
We have no clear understanding of what leverage Putin may have gained over senior levels of the U.S. government,
whether to extract state secrets or to shape decision-making
and be used for leverage on the global stage
https://mstdn.social/@NTOY/116010660849818682
foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …
foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 607333 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …
foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …
foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 363704 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …