Who’s afraid of Wolfram Alpha?

Here’s the recording of last night’s (2019-03-01) KNYO and KMEC Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show ready to enjoy. (Left-click for instant-play. Right-click to download.) And thanks to Hank Sims of Lost Coast Outpost here’s a page with the latest show and also other ones going back about a couple of years. And you can go to Links To Recorded Audio, see above, and goggle at the denizens and eldritch shapes of what passes for deep history now that we all have the attention span of a gnat.

Guests this time: Stewart Dickson of Wolfram Research; Robin Bliss-Wagner, naturalist, music teacher, rainy-day fiddle busker, seeker, at present, of a treadle-operated sewing machine suitable for leather and sailcloth; and Alex Bosworth, stand-up guy. And featuring the music of the enigmatic Hakaoo, whose throaty, sultry Who By Fire leads the pack of Who By Fires. And music of Corwin Zekley, from his band’s (Snaps for Sinners) new album, How the Apple Falls.

Besides all that, here are links to further worthwhile educational and evocative items that I set aside for you while gathering last night’s show together, found mostly thanks to the fine websites listed to your right:

Nice planet yez got, here. Shame if something wuz to /happen/ to it. Page through the gallery.
https://newatlas.com/international-landscape-photographer-2018-awards-gallery/58495/

Black.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMHb_jZozt8

Force.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-force.html

Retrospective/review of the best science-fiction/western teevee show ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Wm4eKfy_0

“Say it again, ya damn no-boots vapin’ weasel!”
http://marriedtothesea.com/022419/say-it-again.gif

Invisible threshold.
https://twitter.com/mofnekoclub/status/1099136654210609152

Pagan Island.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/pagan_island

“And when you’re working on a thing like this, the wonderful thing is you don’t lose any parts, because there’s no parts smaller than your head.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3BJF7O5ikY

How we get brand-new real retro neon nixie tubes. Not LED-cord fakes.
https://theawesomer.com/millclock-zin18-nixie-tube-clock/514598/

If you ever start feeling all full of yourself because of how very clever you are, glance at something like this:
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2019/03/01/a-thorough-anagram/

Giant ruins of unfinished atomic plant.
https://theawesomer.com/atomic-ruin/465267/

Play a random Eurotrash video. And then another. And another.
https://www.monkeon.co.uk/eurotrashroulette/

Art.
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/remarkable_story_sofonisba_anguissola

Art.
http://kathrinlonghurst.com/gallery/

Portmanteau and rhyme generator.
https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator

Latest best marble reaction project.
https://boingboing.net/2019/02/27/the-latest-marble-chain-reacti.html

And more, with dominoes. The young lady who made this talks a little about it at the end.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2019/02/another-video-of-falling-dominoes.html

Psychics, are their powers real? No, they are not.
http://www.cynical-c.com/2019/02/26/psychics-last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver/

The chicken is cute. I know how it’s done (tiny peckable lights in the keys that the chicken thinks might be yummy bugs), though it’s still a cool trick. But the daredevil pole-climbing clown immediately afterward is majestic. You will involuntarily reach out to save him from falling, and in the process knock over your Pepsi, and then go, /That’s weird. How did he know that would happen?/ Then your phone will ring, and it will be me, to explain, and to invite you to support KNYO-LP with a generous spiritual seed of money, say, three or four grand, which will support the station through the end of the school year and please all your dead loved ones who ever had a radio. I’m getting a letter E, or maybe R, or M.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayMDqPIVG2Y

Eagle came out of the night.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2019/02/eagle-tracked-for-20-years.html

United City-States.
https://medium.com/s/story/the-united-citystates-of-america-mapped-8372be222d28

Snake trick.
https://laughingsquid.com/yellow-ball-python-rotates-cardboard-box/

Something I learned today: the Plain of Jars is an actual plain of thousands of actual giant stone jars. Also, no-one knows what the giant stone jars were for, and figuring that out is complicated by even more thousands of unexploded bombs left over from the U.S. war on Southeast Asia. What a world, hey?
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/05/the-plain-of-jars.html

Don’t worry.
https://lithub.com/science-youre-definitely-worrying-about-the-wrong-things/

Star Wars? Do we /have/ to, mom? No. Now you can get it all over with in five minutes.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2019/02/star-wars-always.html

The Denver Airport puppet gargoyle.
https://laughingsquid.com/talking-gargoyle-at-denver-international-airport/

Reggie Watts sings an impromptu song about apples. “Empathy’s a bitch.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO1CCXXMzBI

Dog empathy.
http://misscellania.blogspot.com/2019/02/tweet-of-day_27.html

Clever balls that never crash. Timing.
https://laughingsquid.com/movement-act-star-shaped-juggling-machine/

Complete history of the Soviet Union to the tune of Tetris.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-complete-history-of-soviet-union.html

Judge the attractiveness of imaginary computer-generated people. Feel oddly guilty about it.
https://thecleverest.com/judgefakepeople/main.php

Computer-generated golf clubs. I like the one with the laser on it, but not the one with the little graphing screen.
https://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/1100477070314954752

Victoria’s Secret releases new sexy black lace sleep apnea mask.
https://www.theonion.com/victoria-s-secret-releases-sexy-black-lace-sleep-apnea-1832955599

Just to live.
http://www.amyoops.com/2019/02/this-is-wrong.html

This reminds me of when I took Juanita to the so-called /urgent care center/ because of how sick and miserable she was. We got there and signed in at 11:30 and the doctor didn’t see her till like four in the afternoon.
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/823983724656214016

The CIA’s /Phoenix Checklist/ for thinking about problems.
https://boingboing.net/2019/02/28/heres-the-cias-phoenix-c.html

It’s the wrong kind of bread, but if it has to be that kind, I say it’s a toss-up between 7 and 14.
http://bitsandpieces.us/2019/02/perfect-toast/

You marveled, and everyone saw it.
http://bitsandpieces.us/2019/02/caption-contest-915/

The Spoon Planet index of spoons. Scroll down. Try the filigree spoons, they’re filigricious.
http://spoonplanet.com/exhibits.html

Down.
https://laughingsquid.com/journey-down-900-meter-deep-borehole/

What the coastlines of Earth would look like if all the ice on land melted.
https://imgur.com/a/uRY4y

“One-two, one-two.” And through and through, the hockey stick went snicker-snack.
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2019/02/four-year-old-micd-up-at-hockey.html

The Forrest Gump beatboxing scene that they left out of the theater release.
https://theawesomer.com/forrest-gump-beatboxing-scene/328043/

And an impressive distance catch.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orlando-apollos/os-sp-hs-frisbee-dog-apollos-0225-story.html