A journey to the heart of history’s largest nonterritorial empire

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Surprisingly heartwarming! Others have noted the anti-capitalist themes, which are certainly here, and made more relevant by the movie almost not seeing release so Warner could write it off on their taxes. It's also got some solid jokes and Will Forte is always great. I didn't love how the movie looked; the animation is all 3D made to look like hand drawn, and it ends up looking like a video game.

This is absolutely fascinating. Smell was the first of our senses, and it was so successful that in time the small lump of olfactory tissue atop the nerve cord grew into a brain. Our cerebral hemispheres were originally buds from the olfactory stalks. We think because we smelled. Posted by kottke.

I found a fun little quip from John Wright, the drummer of Nomeansno, about the history of music post Nirvana. Every major label tried to sign every band, and then it became no longer an alternative, it sort of became co-opted by the mainstream and people moved on to hip hop and dub step and then everyone got sick of rock and roll and went to raves. — Wrong (album) on Wikipedia

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Today I learned about the Trivial File Transfer Protocol, and the matching tftp command. It’s like FTP, but much more simple, less secure, uses less memory, and is sometimes used in initial bootloading on low memory devices. It isn’t used over the internet, given the security concerns. This trivia brought to you by me mistyping something in the terminal and seeing this command in the autocomplete suggestions. 💽