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Tampopo (1985) is a Japanese film about a ramen shop that was something of a cult movie amongst my friends in our student days. Here‘s an early scene were a young Ken Watanabe gets taught the correct way to eat ramen.
(Via Roy Kenagy on Twitter)
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Kids on the Slope is a an anime series (adapting a manga by Yuki Kodama) about teenagers in a jazz quartet in 1960s Japan. A coming-of-age story in a more realistic style than we‘re used to from anime, with fantastic music by Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop).
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Really neat hand-wired Preonic keyboard, with link to build log.
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‘Green Ice’ by Adina: Bertie Wooster tells the story of the theft of the Attenborough Emeralds
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To find the minuscule but magnificent fungi and Myxomycetes that she shares on @marin_mushrooms, Pollack drops down to hands and knees with a magnifying glass.
(Via The fantastic fungi pictures of Alison Pollack)
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A tool for experimenting with the proposed CSS color-mod functions. I find it useful even without browser support: I enter a CSS colour, fiddle with knobs like alpha and lightness, and see the resulting colour in CSS format I can copy in to a stylesheet.
(Via The CSS color-mod Function)
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Samuel R. Delaney's on-point 1977 review of Star Wars. (Via Lee Brimmicombe-Wood on FaceBook.)
(Via Samuel Delany's 1977 Star Wars review: why is the future so damned white and male?)
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People browsing Twitter with a screen reader get emojis and ASCII art read out to them verbatim which means the latter is a frustrating experience at best and entirely fails at communication. Jacques Favreau was sufficiently annoyed to make a Twitter bot that reads out tweets to show you what you’re saying to blind readers.
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Elfreth is a “casual blackletter” that makes me wish I were art designing for a metal band so I could use it for all their posters.
