I didn't know about Arne goes to space but now I desperately want to see it... That trailer is just wonderfully goofy

Aniara is amazing! Like really, it might not be quite a typical sci-fi story but it is really good. Also so confusing, Harry Martinsson makes up soo many words.

Absolutely worth reading!

Also, it does not rhyme. He uses a verity different meter throughout the book, few of which rhyme. A lot is free verse. Also the first 29 songs were apparently written under trance. It is truly a very, very strange book.

For a hint at what it's like, I'd like to quote the second song (so no spoilers here, this is the beginning of the book)

Goldonder Aniara shuts, the siren gives the wail for field-egression by the known routine
and then the gyrospinner sets in towing
the goldonder upward to the zenith light, where
magnetrinos blocking field-intensity
soon signal level-zero and field-release occurs.
[...]

Read the rest of the masterpiece at the internet archives!

What a hell's up with the kami-computer-kaze dude in the middle of the road?

Isn't WhatsApp end to end encrypted?

It's the difference between a square knot and a calf knot. Here they are (without the extra loops, they just allow for easy untying)

Squar knot, good

Granny knot, bad

Next time I'm at the gym I'm going to be very weird looking at everyone putting their pants on.

This is your fault. I will not thank you for your service

I feel like assuming you already know at least one programming language it's a lot easier to pick up another one then it is to learn another language. But for the first one, I agree with others that it's like comparing appels to oranges.

Learning to code is way different than learning a language

What is this? Do I want to know?

What does American football have to do with living bushes?

S for sorted

"landhöjning", land raising, we call this in Sweden. Here it's a well known phenomenon here. But it was really cool to see a map, I didn't know it was so much faster in Canada. Also, I didn't know that other parts are moving down due to this

No, as far as I know the convention is to measure by melted height. Although this may be more useful for actually understand how much snow fell. Measured by molten height, the actual snow is about ten times as deep

Edit: I could be wrong, but this is the way that Yr and SMHI measure things

Do you make this comic? And the one on analognowhere? I've only really read techno mage (which is amazing) and now I see this one?