Week 13, 2023
Week 13, 27th March - 2nd April 2023
Links
- Windows News keeps showing tabloid news (tomshardware.com) - the latest Windows has more annoying features than ever, at the bottom of the article there are a few ways to get rid of these and make the OS a bit more productive
- How John Glenn’s $40 Camera Forced NASA to Rethink Space Missions (petapixel.com) - the heavily modified camera used to take the first pictures from space (by a human)
- Bicycle (ciechanow.ski) - a detailed look at all the physics involved in riding a bicycle
- Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket (oliverburkman.com) - handling information overload
- List of Court orders (virginmedia.com) - a list of free movies sites maintained by Virgin media
- BingBang: Azure Active Directory misconfigurations (wiz.io) - misconfigurations allowing the Wiz.io to alter search results for all users on Bing.com
- List your life in .txt (lifehacker.com) - a classic article from LifeHacker on using a txt file for to-dos instead of complicated and short-lived apps. As an aside LifeHacker has recently been taken over and promises something of reset towards less clickbaitey content
Videos
The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young (2014) - IMDb
The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young: Directed by Annika Iltis, Timothy James Kane. With Lazarus Lake. A famous prison escape sparks the idea for a cult-like race that has seen only 10 finishers in its first 25 years. This award-winning, oddly inspiring, and wildly funny documentary r…
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) - IMDb
Tucker and Dale vs Evil: Directed by Eli Craig. With Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss. Affable hillbillies Tucker and Dale are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin when they are mistaken for murderers by a group of preppy college students.
