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The Manual Library

The Internet Archive Manual Library is a collection of manuals, instructions, walkthroughs and datasheets for a massive spectrum of items. Manuals covering electronic and mechanical products, instructions on mixing or blending items, and instruction sets for software and computer items are all included.

https://archive.org/details/manuals

f.i.

https://archive.org/details/synthmanuals

P Diddy being a real one and giving the artists on his label their publishing rights back instead of selling the catalog for reported 9 figure sum. crazy that artists don't own that shit by default.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sean-diddy-combs-declines-9-173202475.html

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Sean “Diddy” Combs reportedly rejected a nine-figure deal for Bad Boy Records’ entire portfolio and instead is giving his label’s former artists their publishing rights back, according to TMZ. Those among the roster who have signed agreements to receive their publishing are The Notorious B.I.G. ‘s estate, Faith Evans, The LOX, and 112. In addition, songwriters who contributed to Bad Boy Records will also receive their own cut. 

The deal comes ahead of the 30th anniversary of Bad Boy Records and Diddy’s upcoming album, “The Love Album: Off the Grid,” which goes on sale Sept. 15.

The outlet details that the intent of Diddy’s move to turn down the nine-figure deal and give the artists their publishing back was a revolutionary act to empower artists and enrich his community. His hope is for other top music executives to follow in his footsteps.

 

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for tha map geeks

https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~200375~3001080:The-Histomap-#

https://electronicsclub.info/

interesting study on the psychology of video conferencing:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0291444

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For those regularly using videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom and Teams, the study implies a recommendation for a background with a bookcase or house plants. Novelty virtual backgrounds and showing your full living space should be avoided. Males in particular should be aware of their backgrounds. Individuals are also recommended to smile to elicit the best first impressions of trustworthiness and competence and negate the negative effects of background, particularly for those who have no choice but to have their home in view.

this reminded me that I once had to conduct a video interview with a female job candidate. she was lying in her bed, which I thought was a little unprofessional. I'm guessing she was early 20's and must have just thought it was another facetime call she could do. or she just didn't want the job by that point and didn't care (think I was the 3rd person she interviewed with). needless to say, she didn't get hired.

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This supports the work of Matavelli (2022, 2023), as there appears to be a face-context relationship established by the perceiver (i.e. if the target is in front of books they might have read them all and be a smart person)

A colleague mentioned my bookcases this week. I knew I bought all those books for a reason. 

  On 9/28/2023 at 10:00 PM, zero said:

Novelty virtual backgrounds and showing your full living space should be avoided.

Fuck that shit, man.  My Teams / Zoom background rotates between Jerry's / Kramer's / Newman's apartments from Seinfeld.  Some people love it, most people don't get it, some young people think it's from Friends (barf), but bottom line is that I wouldn't use it for a job interview obv. but I'm pretty secure in my position at work so idgaf.

https://kagi.com/ is a paid search engine which costs money after 100 results. according to hackernews its better than google. 

I gave it a try and its really precise and lacks much of the seo spam google often features. 

I might be willing to pay for better search results. currently still testing this out 

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Anna Uddenberg's “Continental Breakfast” is a subversive exploration of our consented submission to the virtual world.

“It’s not about the actual food, but more about the ideas we project onto it, You project a bunch of cultural fantasies onto a piece of trash. My work is about the idea of simulacra, all these surfaces that imitate other materials. Let’s call them ‘aspirational materials.’ It’s just spinning off a copy of a copy of a copy.” - Anna Uddenberg

https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/04/05/anna-uddenberg-sculpture-art-architecture

humans are the only species with a chin. it is an anatomical feature with no known function.

https://evolutionnews.org/2016/02/on_the_origin_o_8/

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Chimpanzees don’t have chins, neither do gorillas, orangutans, spider monkeys, dogs, horses, frogs, or fish.

  On 10/3/2023 at 10:14 PM, zero said:

humans are the only species with a chin. it is an anatomical feature with no known function.

https://evolutionnews.org/2016/02/on_the_origin_o_8/

 

Luckily for us, Super Furry Animals have solved this one:

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Enter the TV News Visual Explorer. Each broadcast in a selection of channels is converted into a grid of thumbnails, one every 4 seconds and displayed in a grid six frames wide and scrolling horizontally through the entire program, making it possible to skim an hour-long broadcast in a matter of seconds. The underlying thumbnails can be downloaded as a ZIP to enable non-consumptive computational analysis, from OCR to augmented search.

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This is a highly experimental research initiative focused on reimagining how memory institutions like the Archive can make their vast television news archives more accessible to scholars, journalists and informed citizens.

https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/tvv/tvv

  On 10/5/2023 at 4:35 AM, prdctvsm said:

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I was obsessed with this like 10 years ago and even did it myself but with a really shitty phone/camera...

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A showcase of unusual or interesting manuals.

https://archive.org/details/manuals_showcase?tab=collection

  On 10/6/2023 at 5:47 PM, iococoi said:

https://archive.org/details/manuals_showcase?tab=collection

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CIA spits out a "World Fact Book" every year. it's on their site if interested. not a sabotage manual but it's a thing. i suspect with digging there's more that's been leaked/declassified etc. 

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/

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The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

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https://www.westparkanimalhospital.com/blog/if-a-service-dog-approaches/

about video games but not really about video games, like many of his vids

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The Whole Earth Catalog was an American counterculture magazine and product catalog published by Stewart Brand several times a year between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998. The magazine featured essays and articles, but was primarily focused on product reviews. The editorial focus was on self-sufficiency, ecology, alternative education, “do it yourself,” and holism, featuring the slogan “access to tools.”

https://wholeearth.info/

If you brush your teeth at the right speed and angle while you're peeing in the shower, you can make a sine wave with the stream.

  On 10/17/2023 at 12:10 PM, chenGOD said:

If you brush your teeth at the right speed and angle while you're peeing in the shower, you can make a sine wave with the stream.

I'm a bit out-of-phase, so mine is a cosine wave 

  On 10/17/2023 at 12:10 PM, chenGOD said:

If you brush your teeth at the right speed and angle while you're peeing in the shower, you can make a sine wave with the stream.

Do you surf on the sine waves?

  On 10/18/2023 at 12:51 AM, Summon Dot E X E said:

Imagine not having sawtooth streams 

Actually, I just remembered that there are little sine waves inside your sine wave of piss. That's what causes liquid streams to break up. It's one of the first things I learned in grad school:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau–Rayleigh_instability