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After 14 years AppleVis is shutting down. A major online forum and news blog for the disabled community AppleVis featured a massive app directory that primarily provided reviews on how accessible or functional an app was for VoiceOver users. AppleVis was a critical resource, as approximately 70% of the disabled community primarily use iOS and Voiceover for their mobile assistive tech.AppleVis also regularly put...

Back when I was at Pokémon, some kid figured out how to extract the images from the card game. He found an icon from the developer and said 'Holy s----, I found a new Pokémon.' This kid included his email, and because of the way Pokémon did account creation, when we got the child's account, we got the parent information, which included a phone...

Did you know that slackliners/highliners have races and trick contests? Nor did I, until I happened upon the Laax Highline World Championship which ran in mid-July with some incredible feats of balance and agility! Click through for embedded videos of highlights, full contest videos, and lots of rules, stats and results.

However it's happening—and per Grose's larger argument, Niazi's complaint, and my own human eyes—many Millennials are in crisis, one way or another. And whether our stressors are "existential" or "material... economic, familial and political," they are evidently ripe for drama. But do things get too slippery when we let the world in? Is it still a "midlife crisis" if it's happening outside your head?...

Great coffee, a plum pudding, baked bread, petrichor, maple syrup, matches after the flame goes out and the smoke from a freshly lit..., cheese and fish, the many who love the smell of sharpie pens, sauces from the old country - what's a distinctive smell in your day, your life or your past ... Or write about whatever is on your mind, in your...

When Jenny Nguyen opened The Sports Bra in 2022, she started a movement: Bars that only show women's sports. Now, fandom and pay are rapidly growing — and it's time for the Olympics.

Raptors used as pest control from offshore rigs and orchards to the MCG and Melbourne Cup. Soaring above her worksites, the mere presence of Sabrina the wedge-tailed eagle is enough to move on the hundreds of seagulls, long-billed corellas, cockatoos and other gathering flocks to their natural habitats.

Roland's fabled sword of Durandal has been stolen from its spot in a cliff above the French town of Rocamadour.Durandal had been lodged high in the cliffs of Rocamadour. Scholars disagree on how and why it ended up there, though the obvious answer is simply that's where it landed after the dying Roland threw it hundreds of miles to keep it out of enemy...

Microbes living in bark remove methane from the atmosphere, making forests more effective against climate collapse than previously thought (via). The forest monitoring plaform Global Forest Watch looks of interest too.Although initially positive sounding since "methane has 28 times greater global warming potential than carbon dioxide and is 84 times more potent on a 20-year timescale", these results become darker once one considers high...

It's one of the most chilling things I've ever seen: the legacy media abandoning even their false neutrality to create a totally alternate reality, for the direct benefit of the worst person imaginable. It was an open capitulation to the fascist demand that media enter their misinformation stream and report on whatever it is they want said as if it were real. And it...

Simone Giertz: Was starting a product business a mistake? Shitty Robots may have paid for her house, but after her brain tumor, Simone Giertz (previously on MeFi) realized she needed to come up with a career that didn't involve looking for more fame and being camera-ready. How's that going?Financially not well, "I want to close up shop and hide under my couch." She wants...

F.D. Signifier tells (one of) the full story of the Kendrick Lamar v Drake beef - a sociological and musical history perspective, if you have three hour-plus to spare.(As it so happens, Todd in the Shadows also posted his 'review' of Not Like Us on yt this weekend as well, which offered a quick useful queer angle to the proceedings, but unfortunately overall proved...

Endangered frog species found living in a lost world for the first time since Black Summer fires. The Watson's tree frog only lives in south-east New South Wales and northern Victoria, so when those areas were scorched in the Black Summer bushfires ecologists feared for the future of the little frog with glittery sandstone-coloured skin.

Questions of right and wrong are central to daily life, yet scientific understanding of everyday moral dilemmas is limited. We conducted a data-driven analysis of these phenomena by combining state-of-the-art tools in machine learning with survey-based methods ... Overall, this paper shows that many moral experiences that are underexplored in psychological science are nevertheless common in everyday life. from A Large-Scale Investigation Reveals Unexplored...

The use of ground penetrating radar to help solve crimes is well known, but recently it's played a major role in helping Australian South Sea Islander communities find the missing bodies of long-lost ancestors.

On her blog Monstrumology, Louise writes about "How I Watch 100 Horror Movies in 92 Days": "This challenge was created by Spooky Sarah Says and you can find the full guidelines for the challenge on her blog, but the basic idea is this: watch 100 horror movies that you've never seen before in 92 days, starting on August 1 and ending on October 31....

The Cynic felt that way once, and he would like to feel that way again. Instead, all he hears is a dozen clocks ticking, ticking down against the survival of things long thought undying, against the golden dream of an orderly progress toward genuine human liberty. The Cynic cannot find much stubborn righteousness in himself anymore, so he warms himself like a hobo in...

Our site is a "real-time" visualization of the relative scale of different life events and natural phenomena (details on what real-time means below). You can select from various categories, time periods, and some unique units of measure that we created in the dropdowns to modify the counter lists. Each counter counts up in sync with the event listed unless the pause button is selected....

Loren Long has illustrated books by Barack Obama, Madonna and Amanda Gorman. His No. 1 best seller, "The Yellow Bus," took him in a different direction — one that required time, patience and toothpicks. " To ease this process — and to help himself visualize the bus's world — Long decided to build a three-dimensional model of the valley where the book takes place."...

NYTimes: As you watch the U.S. Artistic Swimming team practice for the Olympics — their bodies upside down, their legs scissoring in the air in perfect time, like frenzied offshore wind turbines — you will notice two things. First, the sport is much harder, and possibly even more insane, than you thought. Second, in a discipline whose enthusiasm for homogeneity is reflected in its...