This is some pretty cool news – the Rijiksmuseum in Amsterdam will be livestreaming their restoration of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch.
If you don’t know much about this painting then you can do a lot worst than checking out Peter Greenaway’s film Night Watching, which is a weirdly mesmerizing primer on the history behind the painting, told as if it was a Rembrandt painting itself.
The Google Pixel 3 Is A Very Good Phone. But Maybe Phones Have Gone Too Far.
My neck hurts. I am never not looking down. When I am not looking at my phone, I become slightly anxious. And then, when I do actually look at it, I become even more so. It reminds me of how I once felt about cigarettes. I experience the world with a meticulously crafted, tiny computer slab between me and it. I am an asshole. But so, maybe, are you?
Instead of the usual gushing over the new shiny, I wish more people wrote phone reviews like this.
I spent way too long on this dumb joke.
Apple Watch Series 4 Fall Detection Tested By a Hollywood Stunt Double
The new Apple Watch OS has improved “exercise detection”. Except when I’m sitting on the couch, rocking the baby to sleep, it will buzz and say “It looks like you’re doing an elliptical workout, track it?”. At least the fall detection looks like it actually works.
Net Split or, the Fathomless Heartbreak of Online Itself | MC Frontalot
I have a really low tolerance for nerdcore, but this is actually pretty good. And it speaks volumes that even MC Frontalot is sorta renouncing nerd culture. From “Internet Sucks”:
I don’t love you any more internet
You used to be a safe home for my nerd hard and my intellect
Now you got so much hate but you just gotta interject
Now you got too many chefs up in your kitchenette