This pay phone is free, but you can’t make a call. It only plays birdsongs. (Gift Link)
In all, 10 birds native to the Takoma Park area are featured, including a rooster in honor of Roscoe, a beloved community mascot that once roamed around town in the 1990s in defiance of animal control officers who tried to catch him.
When I proudly showed my journal to my wife one morning, she couldn’t help but observe that my day’s to-dos included the essential task of sewing a button back onto my Hawaiian shirt, but somehow didn’t mention that I was taking my kid in for a doctor visit that afternoon. “Maybe,” she suggested, “you should write a ‘BuJo’ entry about how you’re finally going to learn how to use our Google Calendar.”
Life is a never-ending succession of NFL teams adding ping pong tables w/stories about how they’re finally coming together as a family and enjoying each other’s company, and NFL teams removing ping pong tables w/stories about how they’re finally taking football seriously.
Room Tone 2023 features about 3 minutes of movie people trying to be quite for the 30 seconds it takes to capture “room tone - the ambient sound that (the Criterion Collection) crew records at the end of all our on-camera interviews.” Make sure you read the inspiration before you click the play button. Very fun!
From Dan Coe Carto’s 4K Rivers. “An ongoing series of vibrant river and delta images from North America and other parts of the world. The images are constructed using high-resolution elevation data.”
Scientists Destroy Illusion That Coin Toss Flips Are 50–50
The researchers determined that airborne coins don’t turn around their symmetrical axis; instead they tend to wobble off-center, which causes them to spend a little more time aloft with their initial “up” side on top.
This results in a “same-side bias of 51 percent.”