Damian’s notes

Douglas Adams's text adventure game of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is available to play on the BBC web site.

(Via Joe Shadow 👤 on Twitter)

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  BBC Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition The 30th anniversary edition of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game.

Read Naked (2002) is a type specimen of Sauna, and also a book about the world of saunas.

(Via Underware on Twitter)

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  https://underware.nl/publications/read_naked/

Vogue Italia has illustrated covers for January 2020 rather than photoshoots.

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  Vogue Italia drops photoshoots from January issue in green statement Move intended to highlight environmental impact of shoots, says magazine’s editor

Building a catenary-arch soda kiln. A catenary is the optimum shape for a self-supporting brick arch and hence the basis of a free-standing brick kiln.

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  buildacat

An elaborate hand-animated sequence using Disney’s multiplane camera technique.

(Via kottke.org on Twitter)

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  Cool Multiplane Animation in this Pinocchio Clip from 1940 This is a 45-second clip from Pinocchio, an animated film made by Disney in 1940. The scene itself isn't that exciting...until

A cute little oak table that has many uses.

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  Utility Table PREMIUM MATERIALS - We source the highest quality solid white oak to make our Utility Tables. The benefits of oak are plenty - visually beautiful it also possess immense strength due to it’s natural structural properties. MADE TO LAST A LIFETIME - Our master craftspeople expertly create dovetail joints to lock the sides in place and prevent any wobble. We hate the idea of “fast-furniture” so we

Excerpts from the Economist about diversity and immigration (both human and arboreal), featuring the most diverse district in Africa, the Cockneys of Thetford, and California’s eucalyptus trees.

• Editor’s Picks: 26th December 2019 — Editor's Picks from The Economist — Overcast

I am slightly baffled by people who say the 2020s don’t start until 2021, and I say this as a fan of saying the 21st century started on 1 January 2001.

• Decades, Centuries, Cardinals and Ordinals 28 December 2019

HQ9+, a minimalist tutorial-complete esoteric programming language.

• HQ9+ - Cliffle