Saw this and immediately thought of Jasper Fforde and Welsh cheeses, but (happily) beaten to the punch by @FGD135 and @aLynHall.
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I don’t know what is going on there, but I can’t ‘like’ naked footie, especially when the players look around the same age and fitness level of American minor league baseball players. Sorry.
In related news, Ars Technica is trying to redefine the word “word” to include “RPM”.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Adobe Illustrator’s open source rival Inkscape 1.0.1 arrives - with experimental Scribus PDF export
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“ According to several owners of the all-new Model Y, Tesla has allegedly assembled their cars using what appears to be faux wood trim from a home improvement store.
It all started with a forum post featuring a photo of a Model Y’s frunk plastics removed. The original poster of the thread had reportedly spent more than ten hours disassembling their Model Y to correct poor panel fitment when they came across a large chunk of metal secured with green tape and a small strap.”
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Northrop Grumman wins $13.3bn contract with US Air Force to kick off Minuteman III ICBM replacement
Northrop Grumman has won an eye-watering $13.3bn deal to update the US’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system.
The effort will span 8.5 years and the US Air Force expects “initial operational capability” by 2029. The contract value only covers the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program. There will be many more tens of billions shovelled into the trough in which contractors’ snouts will rummage.
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““Our nation is facing a rapidly evolving threat environment and protecting our citizens with a modern strategic deterrent capability has never been more critical,” claimed Kathy Warden, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Northrop Grumman, in a canned statement.”
But is shooting ICBMs at the White House not creating a bigger problem? Well, slightly bigger? Maybe not…
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Are there any good tutorials for Inkscape? I’ve toyed with it a bit, but I keep getting lost in the nimiety of menu items and options, and find myself going back to using Micrografx software from the 90s running on a virtual machine.
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Inkscape. Ugh. Everything I’ve learned to do with it has been through brute force. It’s definitely one of the more user unfriendly applications out there.
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I wouldn’t even be trying except it is supposed to play nicely with LaTeX.
I use it for drawing templates for laser cutting. Everything about it is painful. (I haven’t used it since before it went to 1.0 so maybe it’s better than the last time I used it though.)
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China’s UK embassy has lashed out after the Twitter account of its ambassador Liu Xiaoming was apparently hacked.
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The ambassador wrested back control of the account within hours and the embassy issued a statement that urged Twitter “to make thorough investigations and handle this matter seriously.”
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Ironically, the ambassador would not be able to easily send that tweet from inside China as Twitter is officially banned in the Middle Kingdom.
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There are quite a lot online, from the Inkscape webpage to YouTube.
Good, bad… that’s pretty subjective.
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I wonder if the curator will be shocked by the way his nuanced comparison about media manipulation gets twisted into a hellish farce.
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