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In the same vein as 33RPM Jolene, ever wonder what the original Alvin and The Chipmunks songs sounded like before being sped up? Clickbait: the result will surprise you.
Evidence of both a great song and a great performer.
Harriet Tubman is more a hero than anything Marvel can brainstorm.
And now for something a little more chill.
On a narrative level The Shawshank Redemption is a movie about the power of hope in the face of extraordinary hardship. But underpinning Andy Dufresne’s story we also find a blistering critique of the prison system and criminal justice policy in the United States.
It’s possible to build a Turing machine within Magic: The Gathering
It may be a highly unlikely scenario, but a recent paper posted on the physics arXiv proves that it’s possible in principle to build a simple computer within this massively popular tabletop game using just the right combination of Magic cards. While the inputs must be pre-programmed, “Literally any function that can be computed by any computer can be computed within a game of Magic,” said co-author Alex Churchill, a longtime Magic fan who has been working on the problem for several years.
Anti-apartheid prog rock from 1980s South Africa, via Bandcamp.
How E‑Commerce Sites Manipulate You Into Buying Things You May Not Want
But “Alexandra from Anaheim” did not buy the dress. She does not exist. Instead, the website’s code pulled combinations from a preprogrammed list of names, locations and items and presented them as actual recent purchases.