wk24/2021

Links from 14-20 June 2021

• Myths in Cycling (1): Wider Tires Are Slower (renehersecycles.com) - good comparision of different size road bike tyres, shame my road bike can't fit larger than 23
• The $149 Smartphone That Could Bring The Linux Mobile Ecosystem to Life (vice.com) - the Linux-based PinePhone launched recently
• Old Giants: The Last Days of Oakland’s Redwoods (baynature.org) - the massive trees of Oakland, California that were nearly all cut down when the area was settled
• Johnny Knoxville’s Last Rodeo (gq.com) - Jonny Knoxville on the history of Jackass in the run up to the release of the new film

• Operation Midnight Climax: How the CIA Dosed S.F. Citizens with LSD (sfweekly.com) - history the MK-ULTRA program where the CIA would test mind-altering drugs on their own citizens
• The mice that roared: how eight tiny countries took on foreign fishing fleets (theguardian.com) - several small Pacific nations banding together to protect their waters from exploitative fishing practices
• Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear (andysalerno.com) - playing around with emoji combinations & new unicode characters
• Remembering the Time it Rained 6,000 Pounds of Marijuana on Yosemite (activenorcal.com) - a drug smuggling plane that crashed in Yosemite during the 70s
• Blow up: how half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island (theguardian.com) - and on a related note the smugglers boat that ran into difficulties around the Azores, it's contents mostly being collected by the inhabitants
• State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10? (ntdotdev.wordpress.com) - finding UI elements from ~25+ years ago that still exist in Windows 10