http://www.francetvinfo.fr/image/75e95srf5-8eb6/940/587/12714407.gif

Journey-based charts from the past can help us track the progression of transportation technology.

Traveling Back in Time With Colorful Isochrone Maps – Atlas Obscura

Good to know…

Will Robots Take My Job?

No More than a Litre of Wine a Day, recommends a 1950s French Sobriety Poster

This is how I feel every time I “fix” something!

Man fixes crossing light / Boing Boing

What do we want?
Evidence-based policies!
When do we want them?
After peer review!

I’m stunned.

At last, someone understands me…

Why being grumpy at work is good for you — Quartz

“A key plot point in Rogue One is that the file size is so large that they need to commandeer a giant antenna and knock out a planetary shield in order to upload the files. But for some reason they can send regular communications just fine without doing either of those things?

What on earth is being stored on that magnetic tape cassette? Is it 5000 .bmp images loaded into slides in Powerpoint with accompanying animations? Why is DEATH_STAR_final_final__FINAL.dwg.doc.gif.pdf so big?”

From Tape Drives to Memory Orbs, the Data Formats of Star Wars Suck (Spoilers)
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-disk-formats-of-star-wars-rogue-one-spoilers