Andreas Matern

Henrietta Lacks’ hometown is replacing a Robert E Lee monument with a statue of her. That’s awesome

Now it’s Christmas

Following a Thread on Hacker News about the Atari 2600 Basic programming cartridge, I found this.. and it brought back a flood of memories writing D&D character generation programs in Basic and saving them to cassette tape.  How times have changed!

What an inspiring morning read. Now let’s get ready for some football. Will Argentina prevail? Or will France win back to back world cups?

Best science images of 2022 - photographs of a black hole? Amazing.

The best line I’ve read all day 

If you did go for a full ten minutes without one thought appearing in your mind, you are a freak of human nature.

From here, via here. 

BASF Ad

Found this old BASF Advertisement that was … sent to me in the 1980s?

Cool sky tonight

Well this sounds fun.