Flecktarn

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FLECKTARN (November 15, 2024)
a journal of the blindingly realistic

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The soft drink Fanta was invented by Coca-Cola, an American company, inside of Nazi Germany during World War II.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fanta-soda-origins-nazi-germany

Voyager 1 is now using a radio transmitter it hasn't relied on since 1981.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/01/science/voyager-1-transmitter-issue/index.html

O makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/rough-men-stand-ready/

Japan just launched a satellite made of wood.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/05/japan/japan-wooden-satellite/

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"Smart and SeXY" describes the differences in intelligence between the sexes. Progressivism prevents candid discussion of these truths and most academics avoid the topic because it would not help their careers.  Here you get the raw research in a free e-book.

https://atavisionary.com/free-book-smart-and-sexy-the-evolutionary-origins-and-biological-underpinnings-of-cognitive-differences-between-the-sexes/

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Basic HTML Competency Is the New Punk Folk Explosion!
https://coolguy.website/basic-html-competency-is-the-new-punk-folk-explosion/

Home remedies for abortion.
https://www.healthline.com/health/abortion-home-remedy

Database of computer file formats.
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/BasicSearch/proBasicSearch.aspx?status=new

Carl Jung's "Seven Sermons to the Dead."
http://gnosis.org/library/7Sermons.htm

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For ROM hackers

new patch submissions
* romhackplaza.org
* romhackheaven.com
* retrohackers.net

old database mirrors
* romhack.ing
* neoromhacking.net

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3D printed guns
https://defcad.com/
https://ctrlpew.com/
https://3dgunbuilder.com/
https://www.defdist.org/

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Divers retrieve 140-year-old seeds to restore heritage rye.
https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2024/how-msu-is-bringing-shipwrecked-seeds-back-to-life

Culling in the burbs is a little tricky, but can be done with minimal fuss.
https://www.o9a.org/2024/11/five-easy-methods-for-culling-on-a-suburban-budget/

Leftists are passive-aggressive bullies because of their need for illusory control.
https://www.amerika.org/politics/bluff/

You can listen to police scanners, etc at this website (click on your state and county etc)
https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/

Keep an eye on hurricanes in formation before they flood your area.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Alex Jones has moved on from Infowars to a new paranoid channel.
https://alexjones.network/

The roots of heavy metal in literature fascinated by the occult.
https://www.deathmetal.org/article/occult-roots-of-literature-in-metal/

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FLECKTARN (February 7, 2025)
a journal of the blindingly realistic

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Sheds: reinventing community through activity.
https://mensshed.org/about-mens-sheds/

Find European alternatives to internationalist products
https://european-alternatives.eu/

Captcha that requires you to kill three bad guys in Doom.
https://doom-captcha.vercel.app/

Apps from the 1960s onward
https://archiveapp.org/

The 1985 version of Mapquest.
https://maphappenings.com/2024/04/11/story-of-etak/

Open science publishing.
https://hal.science/

Making C code memory safe.
https://libcxx.llvm.org/Hardening.html
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/12/trapc_memory_safe_fork/
https://devclass.com/2024/11/12/iso-c-chair-herb-sutter-leaves-microsoft-declares-forthcoming-c-26-most-impactful-release-since-c11/

Virtual Lunix
https://webvm.io/

Portable "Red Alert 2."
https://archive.org/details/red-alert-2_202103

At least one seventh of published science is outright fake.
https://osf.io/5rf2m/

Open source Soulseek client.
https://nicotine-plus.org/

Planetary atlasses.
https://www.redmapper.com/

Hell is nothing new; it's a hole with a long history.
https://dantecomedy.com/welcome/inferno/introduction-to-the-inferno/

Find ley lines in your area.
https://maps.leylines.net/

Early internet forerunner.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-greatest-computer-network-youve-never-heard-of/

The location at 4000 Polk Street near East Downtown is somewhat less affectionately nicknamed "Combat Kroger."
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/kroger-whitmire-crime-houston-19628364.php

Houston renovated its 1899 fire station into a museum of fire-fighting.
https://www.houstonfiremuseum.org/

Designs on a new Orania in the Arkansas region
https://ozarkia.whiteunityproject.org/

All modern coding is this
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/papers/waldo-rmi.pdf

See the carnage in real time
https://www.usaspending.gov/

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FLECKTARN (March 2, 2025)
a journal of the blindingly realistic

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Thunderstorms rupture pollen and cause asthma events as a result.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39391232/

Watch people spam Wikipedia in real time.
http://listen.hatnote.com/

The university says this centuries-old lingerie is similar to a 1950s-era modern longline bra.
https://www.theregister.com/2012/07/20/german_discovery/

History of perfume.
https://fragranceconservatory.com/history-of-fragrance

Run and trace 64-bit assembly.
https://x64.halb.it/

Store, retrieve, and locate data based on the fingerprint of its actual content rather than its name or location.
https://ipfs.tech/

Produce music in your browser.
https://opendaw.studio/

Scented candle wax produces as many nanoparticles as gasoline engines.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c00986

For the first time in nearly 50 years, a brand new genus and species of plant has been discovered in a U.S. national park.
https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/new-flower-texas-20180155.php

"We don't think of ourselves as homeowners," Saint Arnold Brewery founder Brock Wagner told the magazine. "We consider ourselves stewards, taking care of the house for the next generation."
https://www.chron.com/homes/article/historic-estate-houston-texas-courtlandt-20168336.php

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Our world remains forever caught between symbolism (neoplatonism) and holism (Platonism).
https://www.amerika.org/politics/mind-body-dualism-and-metaphysical-dualism/

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"Each new update designed to fix the outstanding bugs ends up introducing other problems."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-11-update-breaks-file-explorer-among-other-glitches/

Entropy production is strongly observer dependent and deeply connects the arrow of time with the causal structure of the spacetime.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.050406

Genetically modified microorganisms (GMM) are frequently employed for the production of microbial fermentation products such as food enzymes.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666566224000431

Later, or "classic", Neanderthals had lower diversity in their inner ear bones than pre-Neanderthals and early Neanderthals.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/neanderthal-genetic-bottleneck-inner-ear/

"I have more Mastodon followers than on any other social media service. I don't feel any particular need to scold and/or ethically purify the weird polyglot polyethic mass of them."
https://mastodon.social/@bruces/114044027501424137

Shopping in bulk at Costco has this uncanny way of making us feel happy, often to the benefit of our future selves.
https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a63828842/what-is-costco-therapy/

Although intelligence was rated by both women and their parents as significantly more important than physical attractiveness for a long-term mate for daughters, both daughters (72.64%) and their parents (59.56%) chose the more attractive man as the best long-term partner for daughters, regardless of his purported intelligence level.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-024-00418-y

With just five years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss, research suggests.
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-years-world-vital-halt-biodiversity.html

"The swastika just symbolizes radicalness -- total surfing," explains Hugh Berenger, 19, a skilled EI Porto surfer who says that he and a group of about six friends secretly painted swastikas around the area last summer.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1979/03/18/surf-nazis-hoarding-the-perfect-waves/545917f5-4ee4-48ca-b766-4cc8097f8bff/

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John Michael Greer focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, and the future of industrial society.
https://www.ecosophia.net/

The types of people you encountered on USENET and still see on social media.
https://politicsforum.org/flame-warriors/

Paternalism & Corporatism: The non-democratic state: Platonism, Fascism, Theocracy, Monarchy etc.
https://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=22

Secret cat hidden in skyscraper
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/houston-williams-tower-secret-cat-architecture-16323910.php

Bibliographic database dedicated to economics
https://ideas.repec.org/

Europe has its own operating system
https://eu-os.gitlab.io/