Evergiven, the prequel.
Eight years stuck on the Suez Canal.
The crew on the Melampus faced a dilemma. War between Israel and Egypt appeared imminent, and passing through the Suez Canal could place them right in the danger zone. But the alternative was an 8,200km detour around southern Africa. A nine-day journey home, after many months at sea, would be extended by weeks. The captain of the British cargo ship put it to a vote, and the crew chose to take a chance on the artificial waterway.
Where Does Micro$oft Want To Go Today?
As the adage says, if you cannot beat them, join them. Or maybe is this just a new chapter of their traditional embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy? Only time will tell.
Addictions all the way down.
cinephobe.tv – New York’s first and only TV channel.
Relevant: museumofhomevideo.com is 90 minutes of found footage for stoners, seekers, archivists and drinkers.
A visual overview of useful skills to learn as a web developer.
Weekly Obsession: Disco.
Everything you need to know about disco in five minutes or less, including its subversive history and why it's so danceable.
How we're silencing women in tech, one tweet at a time.
She's in the honeymoon phase of Twitter. She's learning and everyone wants to help, to prove how smart they are, but once she's confident and has hard opinions, then the same people who were so eager to help, to teach her, will be the same ones to tear her down.
I learned something thanks to the FB outage!
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol for the Internet. Much like the post office processing mail, BGP picks the most efficient routes for delivering Internet traffic.
Chelsea Pope: Power Moves with Powlah!
As heard at the end of Brand New Cherry Flavor.
Concrete Blonde: Tomorrow, Wendy.
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