This.is.amazing!

This.is.amazing!

They even show details for many of the costumes.

Originally shared by Jörg Walossek

Totoro Meetup at Comic-Con =))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0tCXX-XFQ&feature=share

So, cats like each other, yes?

So, cats like each other, yes?

Hahaha, never saw it from that angle...

Hahaha, never saw it from that angle...

Originally shared by Dan J. Wilcox

🐱🐱🐱🐱

It is funny because it is true!

Oh sweet memories.

Oh sweet memories... We did this in the early 90s, because sound cards were rather expensive while often not providing satisfying sound. Also, some notebooks didn't have any soundcard built in.

A R2R network fed by a mod player (Does anyone still know MOD files? Yes, I am that old.) was a pretty good solution back then.

Originally shared by Arduino

Generate audio using an Arduino Uno and a resistor ladder DAC.
https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/boris-leonov/generating-audio-with-an-arduino-and-a-resistor-ladder-dac-d5a6b1?ref=user&ref_id=523409&offset=0

Quick bucks

Quick bucks

Considering that the organizations housing those children would charge USD 775 per night for a bed in a tent city, this looks like a really big money-making scheme.

You can't do tax cuts all the time, once in a while you need to come up with something new to give your friends money...

Via Dan Thompson

Originally shared by Hadrian Micciche

There is no zero-tolerance policy. There is only a family separation policy.
"The official story of the Trump administration's family separation policy is that it came about as a result of "zero tolerance" in which every person who could be charged with a crime would be, and that meant that parents were arrested too, and since the parents were going to jail, their kids had to be held somewhere.

"But as Congress has delved into the process, grilling the Trump officials who enforced the policy, an even crueler, more awful picture has emerged.

"It turns out that border guards charged "less than a third" of the adults who crossed the border since the policy began -- but that they preferentially brought charges against parents so they could take their kids away.

In other words, child separation wasn't the inadvertent side-effect of a zero-tolerance policy." It was the policy.
https://boingboing.net/2018/08/03/deliberate-cruelty.html

The floor feels a little cooler than the surrounding air, so some of my housemates hug as much area as possible.

The floor feels a little cooler than the surrounding air, so some of my housemates hug as much area as possible.

That's a pretty good summary of what's been going on recently. Imagine this happening to your country...

That's a pretty good summary of what's been going on recently. Imagine this happening to your country...
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/china-is-trying-to-wipe-taiwan-off-the-map.html

So sad.

So sad.

Via Víktor Bautista i Roca

Originally shared by Linda Lawrey

From coast to coast, food-seeking scofflaws were turned away from supermarkets, convenience stores, and fruit markets as they tried to circumvent the nation’s long-standing grocery I.D. laws.
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/millions-of-americans-denied-groceries-after-failing-to-provide-id

Gigi of Arabia

Gigi of Arabia

Via Kristian Köhntopp

Via Kristian Köhntopp

Originally shared by Ariel Pena

On July 31, 1968, a young, black man was reading the newspaper when he saw something that he had never seen before. With tears in his eyes, he started running and screaming throughout the house, calling for his mom. He would show his mom, and, she would gasp, seeing something she thought she would never see in her lifetime. Throughout the nation, there were similar reactions.

What they saw was Franklin Armstrong's first appearance on the iconic comic strip "Peanuts." Franklin would be 50 years old this year.

Franklin was "born" after a school teacher, Harriet Glickman, had written a letter to creator Charles M. Schulz after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death outside his Memphis hotel room.

Glickman, who had kids of her own and having worked with kids, was especially aware of the power of comics among the young. “And my feeling at the time was that I realized that black kids and white kids never saw themselves [depicted] together in the classroom,” she would say.

She would write, “Since the death of Martin Luther King, 'I’ve been asking myself what I can do to help change those conditions in our society which led to the assassination and which contribute to the vast sea of misunderstanding, hate, fear and violence.'”

Glickman asked Schulz if he could consider adding a black character to his popular comic strip, which she hoped would bring the country together and show people of color that they are not excluded from American society.

She had written to others as well, but the others feared it was too soon, that it may be costly to their careers, that the syndicate would drop them if they dared do something like that.

Charles Schulz did not have to respond to her letter, he could have just completely ignored it, and everyone would have forgotten about it. But, Schulz did take the time to respond, saying he was intrigued with the idea, but wasn't sure whether it would be right, coming from him, he didn't want to make matters worse, he felt that it may sound condescending to people of color.

Glickman did not give up, and continued communicating with Schulz, with Schulz surprisingly responding each time. She would even have black friends write to Schulz and explain to him what it would mean to them and gave him some suggestions on how to introduce such a character without offending anyone. This conversation would continue until one day, Schulz would tell Glickman to check her newspaper on July 31, 1968.

On that date, the cartoon, as created by Schulz, shows Charlie Brown meeting a new character, named Franklin. Other than his color, Franklin was just an ordinary kid who befriends and helps Charlie Brown. Franklin also mentions that his father was "over at Vietnam." At the end of the series, which lasted three strips, Charlie invites Franklin to spend the night one day so they can continue their friendship. [The original comic strip of Charlie Brown meeting Franklin is attached in the initial comments below, the picture attached here is Franklin meeting the rest of the Peanuts, including Linus. I just thought this was a good re-introduction of Franklin to the rest of the world - "I'm very glad to know you."

There was no big announcement, there was no big deal, it was just a natural conversation between two kids, whose obvious differences did not matter to them. And, the fact that Franklin's father was fighting for this country was also a very strong statement by Schulz.

Although Schulz never made a big deal over the inclusion of Franklin, there were many fans, especially in the South, who were very upset by it and that made national news. One Southern editor even said, “I don’t mind you having a black character, but please don’t show them in school together.”

It would eventually lead to a conversation between Schulz and the president of the comic's distribution company, who was concerned about the introduction of Franklin and how it might affect Schulz' popularity. Many newspapers during that time had threatened to cut the strip.

Schulz' response: "I remember telling Larry at the time about Franklin -- he wanted me to change it, and we talked about it for a long while on the phone, and I finally sighed and said, "Well, Larry, let's put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How's that?"

Eventually, Franklin became a regular character in the comic strips, and, despite complaints, Franklin would be shown sitting in front of Peppermint Patty at school and playing center field on her baseball team.

More recently, Franklin is brought up on social media around Thanksgiving time, when the animated 1973 special "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" appears. Some people have blamed Schulz for showing Franklin sitting alone on the Thanksgiving table, while the other characters sit across him. But, Schulz did not have the same control over the animated cartoon on a television network that he did on his own comic strip in the newspapers.

But, he did have control over his own comic strip, and, he courageously decided to make a statement because of one brave school teacher who decided to ask a simple question.

Glickman would explain later that her parents were "concerned about others, and the values that they instilled in us about caring for and appreciating everyone of all colors and backgrounds — this is what we knew when we were growing up, that you cared about other people . . . And so, during the years, we were very aware of the issues of racism and civil rights in this country [when] black people had to sit at the back of the bus, black people couldn’t sit in the same seats in the restaurants that you could sit . . . Every day I would see, or read, about black children trying to get into school and seeing crowds of white people standing around spitting at them or yelling at them . . . and the beatings and the dogs and the hosings and the courage of so many people in that time."

Because of Glickman, because of Schulz, people around the world were introduced to a little boy named Franklin.