An Xmas wallpaper for 2024

Neil Brown posted about what brought him joy in computers and the Internet this year. I agree that it could be a cathartic exercise among the gloom and doom, so I thought I’d give it a shot as well. As Neil qualifies, we are both lucky people, and these items should have “for us” appended. If you have different perspectives, that’s also fine. 1....

Hololive divas Hoshimachi Suisei and Houshou Marine had a collab with BE@RBRICK in October that I only just saw. The art is amazing! It looks like the BE@RBRICKs themselves are still available for sale if that’s your thing. And no, I wasn’t paid for this post. Maybe I was bribed by art though. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2024-12-28.

My post about the Minecraft Xmas Easter Egg made me want to try embedding one of my own. In the last post, I: Linked to the “wrong” article. I quoted the Wikipedia article about Nori, or Japanese seaweed/algae. Wrote the title of the post as phsycological instead of psychological. Phycology refers to the study of algae. Get it? GET IT!? I thought...

SciTechDaily reported on a new study published by researches at my Sydney alma mater about the impact surveillance, or the feeling of being watched, had on their sensory perceptions: Nori (Japanese: 海苔) is a dried edible seaweed used in Japanese cuisine, usually made from species of the red algae genus Pyropia, including P. yezoensis and P....

This has become a highlight of the season each year. I was going to say it’s an Easter Egg, but that’s another time of year. I almost don’t want to log out, because after Xmas they return to regular chests. Oh well :’). By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2024-12-26.