Links: Moon facts and other useful things

[sonia]

Common Moon Mistakes by MinutePhysics. I knew about the full moon rising opposite the sun, and the crescent moon rising near the sun, but there was a lot here i didn't know presented clearly with quick line drawings. 5 minute video, very worth it!

Jump the Paywalls and Help Others Over the Top by Alan Levine. I keep forgetting to try this, so let me know if it works!

right in your browser, where the address reads https://www.wired.com/2004/03/honey-i-shrunk-the-url/ stick right in front of it archive.ph/ making the full link http://archive.ph/https://www.wired.com/2004/03/honey-i-shrunk-the-url/

symbol.wtf. A page of useful Unicode symbols like superscript TM, paragraph, accented letters, musical symbols, etc. Labeled with names so you can search. It doesn't have the accented consonants I need for Balkan languages, but on a Mac I can just hold down the letter to get a list of accented versions to choose from.

Comments

[sanguinity]

Thanks for the moon video! Several these I knew, but not always why. It’s cool to have an explanation for why the horns point up in so much Classical art. (And as with most things about the moon’s appearance in the sky, it’s pretty straightforward!)

[liv]

Love the moon video, I've been sharing it with all my people. Thanks so much for posting it!

[redbird]

I've been using the archive.is address for Archive Today. archive.is has a search box where you can enter a URL which produces either one or more snapshots of the page, ordered from oldest to newest, or a "my URL is live, archive it" box. Using that adds the URL to a queue, and in a bit (10 minutes? half an hour?) produces a link to the site, which will be served to other people who ask for the article/site.

The "archive this URL" box works even if there's already a snapshot of the page, so there can easily be five or ten similar if not identical snapshots of the same article.

[amethyst73]

but on a Mac I can just hold down the letter to get a list of accented versions to choose from.

TIL this! Thank you!

[runpunkrun]

Thanks for sharing the moon video. It was fun and I learned things!

[sonia]

Glad you liked it! I've wondered about those upturned crescents, too.

[sonia]

I'm glad it could bring joy!

[sonia]

Thanks for the info!

[sonia]

It works on iPhone too! And it depends on the language keyboards loaded on your device in Keyboard Settings. I loaded Turkish and Romanian to get those diacriticals too.

[sonia]

Yay!

Mixed emotions

[jesse_the_k]

Moon video is AAA+++

I've used archive.today and archive.is and the Wayback Machine at archive.org extensively.

And yet, writers/artists/journalists need to get paid! The LLM proponents are trying to systematically bypass all advertising.

Where are my micropayments (and my jetpack?)

[silveradept]

The moon video was interesting, and seemed geared for artists to provide them with better references for making more astronomically correct moon placement and shape in their work. Kind of neat.

Archive.today has been very helpful when it comes to paywalled material that's not making a good argument that it deserves subscription monies.

symbol.wtf seems like it will be very useful for those times when I don't have an HTML escape code handy or there isn't one except for the numerical ones.

Re: Mixed emotions

[sonia]

Good reminder that writers and artists and journalists need to be paid. When I subscribe to things, I find that I don't really want them in my inbox, between ads and violence and fear-mongering. But that's me having what's probably a too-high bar on what I support.

[sonia]

Glad they feel useful!