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seav, 17 hours ago to Malaysia

I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that Sabah also has a bamboo pole dance similar to the Philippines' Tinikling or Singkil. This one is called Magunatip.

#ESEAP #ESEAP2024 #ESEAPKK24 #TraditionalDances #Malaysia #Sabah #Magunatip #tootSEA #IntangibleHeritage #culture

seav, 22 hours ago to random

I think I'm starting to have way too many tote bags at this point.

#Wikimedia #ESEAP #ESEAP2024 #ESEAPKK24 #SwagBags

seav, 1 day ago to art

I bet that a lot of people in the Fediverse already know this very pretty pencil-based 3D art. But in case you haven’t, be prepared to marvel.

This sculpture is known as the hexastix and a variant series created by artist George Hart is titled 72 Pencils.

If you can get 72 unsharpened hexagonal pencils, and some flat rubber bands, you can attempt to create this. Search for a video by @standupmaths for a pseudo-tutorial.

http://www.georgehart.com/sculpture/pencils.html

#art #sculptures #math #maths #mathematics

seav, 1 day ago to apple

Yeah, the ad was really tone deaf. 😒

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152236/apple-ipad-pro-commercial-artists-ai

#Apple #ipad #ipadPro #ipadProM4

seav, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to Travel

Waiting to board my flight to visit my 14th foreign country/territory! 🛫🇲🇾

#travel #Malaysia #Sabah #Borneo #KotaKinabalu #BKI #tootSEA

seav, 4 days ago to random

I’ve been watching a few travel vlog videos on YouTube and because of my #OpenStreetMap compulsive behavior, I’ve been using these videos as street-level imagery sources to update POIs on the map. 😅

seav, 4 days ago to firefox

I thought I have too many browser tabs across my three devices, but 7000+? That's some extreme levels of digital hoarding. 😱

https://me.pcmag.com/en/browsers/23391/firefox-power-user-keeps-7400-browser-tabs-open-for-2-years

#Firefox #BrowserTabs

seav, 5 days ago to chemistry

#NileRed already does some really dangerous chemical experiments 😱 but this one is kinda more insane.

https://youtu.be/zMaTrgUKC1w

#chemistry

seav, 5 days ago to Watches

I'm far from being a #Montblanc customer, but this delightful ad makes me wish that #WesAnderson acted in his own feature-length films.

https://youtu.be/tUSRyAha37w

seav, 5 days ago to philosophy

It sounds obvious in hindsight but some #philosophy researchers did a study analyzing the hundreds of thousands of posts and millions of comments in the popular subreddit r/AmItheAsshole.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24145761/reddit-am-i-the-asshole-moral-philosophy

#Reddit #research #AcademicStudies #subreddits #AITA

seav, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to religion

Beautiful lyrics from #DavidArchuleta’s new single.

If I have to live without you
I don’t wanna live forever
In someone else's heaven
So let ’em close the gates
Oh, if they don’t like the way you’re made
Then they’re not any better
If paradise is pressure
Oh, we’ll go to hell together

https://youtu.be/QpIvz9RuFK4

#HellTogether #religion #LGBTQ #music #songs

seav, 8 days ago to random

Just seen #ColinJost’s monologue at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and while the SNL writer did a decent job while not being a stand-up comedian, I still think #TrevorNoah’s turn two years ago was the best.

https://youtu.be/OzhqFrtcTU4

#WHCA

seav, 10 days ago to music

I didn’t know what I was expecting but that was good!

https://youtu.be/1Hse-9Jv500

#music #songs

seav, 10 days ago to til

#TIL about the #Mandelmap, which combines two nerdy things that I love: #maps and #fractals! 😍

https://www.mandelmap.com

#MandelbrotSet #math #maths #mathematics #cartography #GraphicDesign

seav, 12 days ago to books

Not looking forward to a heavy read, but confronting this very recent history is important.

#SomePeopleNeedKilling #PatriciaEvangelista #books #bookstodon #nonfiction #Philippines #tootSEA @pinoy

seav, 13 days ago to random

I learned just now that the #EncyclopediaBritannica used a photo of mine to illustrate their article on “development bank”: https://www.britannica.com/money/development-bank

I’m a bit flattered and they do have the right to use the photo because I uploaded it to #WikimediaCommons, but they neglected to state that it is under a #CreativeCommons BY-SA license: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asian_Development_Bank_headquarters.jpg

zverik, 13 days ago to random

If you think I'm posting to that thread only old stuff and now I just do @everydoor for two years with no new ideas... I wish!

Just yesterday I got an idea (and documented the plan) for an OSM championship in mapping, based on a series of two-player duels. All from inside JOSM. I know how to build it and eager to start, but ED 5.0 and server migration first. Ten years ago I had much more free time.

This short video sums the idea up.

A segment from the Conan's show about a fake old German game show called "Stackenblochen". A woman is presented with a few rectangular things on a night stand, and she needs to put them perfectly square in five seconds. She fails, and gets violently beaten by german soldiers, while the crowd is cheering in the background.

seav, 14 days ago to microsoft

Breaking IT news: #Microsoft just open-sourced MS-DOS 4.0. Versions 1.25 and 2.0 had already been open-source (MIT License) since 2018. If you’ve ever used DOS in the 1990s, you most likely were using v5.0 or v6.x. Those later versions likely won’t be released as open-source due to third-party restrictions.

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

#MSDOS #OperatingSystems

seav, 14 days ago to poetry

This is the first Wikipedia haiku I’ve seen that actually reads like a real haiku. Then I searched for it and the line actually comes from an English translation of a Mongolian poem. 😅

https://botsin.space/@wikipediahaiku/112334739196603527

#haikus #poetry

luthien1126, 14 days ago to random

Rich countries are waging war and committing genocide.

Meanwhile, in this part of the globe, we're merely trying to survive this extreme heat.

zverik, 1 month ago to random

I've submitted another application for @NGIZero grant for @everydoor. I'm at a point when working a regular job feels like a loss to myself, OSM and OSS world. Looking for funding to focus on my multiple geo-related projects, but that's near impossible. As Guillaume told me at the last SotM, hiring me for what I do is impossible to justify. Mostly because it's not a single super-useful project. Like xz. So... you know, I keep writing good stuff on 4 hours a week I got.

seav, 2 months ago to johnoliver

If you see the following video (it’s restricted to certain regions presumably where HBO Max isn’t available), then you will get to eventually see the whole show on YouTube and not just the main story like before. 🤩

https://youtu.be/PbzW9qcVBJ0

#LastWeekTonight #JohnOliver