# apod (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover apod. Page: Feed: --- ## [An official map of Argentina with south oriented up showing its Antarctic claims.](https://tumble.justinpoliey.com/post/795133311255216128) _2025-09-19 · TXXGUH_ An official map of Argentina with south oriented up showing its Antarctic claims. ## [From Roadside Lights VI by Eiji Ohashi](https://tumble.justinpoliey.com/post/792999402486808576) _2025-08-27 · TXXGUH_ From Roadside Lights VI by Eiji Ohashi ## [Alan Kay builds an animation frame editor in a few seconds using the built-in capabilities of a…](https://tumble.justinpoliey.com/post/786255580588392448) _2025-06-13 · TXXGUH_ Alan Kay builds an animation frame editor in a few seconds using the built-in capabilities of a Smalltalk system. It exemplifies his vision for personal computing, where people can make tools for themselves on the fly based on what they need in the moment. ## [As brilliant as they are, we can only see half of their color. Cardinals are as bright in…](https://tumble.justinpoliey.com/post/777011928301207552) _2025-03-03 · TXXGUH_ As brilliant as they are, we can only see half of their color. Cardinals are as bright in ultraviolet as they are in red, a color human eyes can’t see. Their true color is one for which we have no name, one that mixes UV and red the way fuchsia mixes red and blue. Birds however can see it as clearly as any other color. What fuchsia is to our eyes, “cardinal” is to birds. Ryan Moulton, A Few of the… ## [Then I’m going down the steps, and my wife calls up, ‘Where are you going?’ I say, ‘Well, I’m going…](https://tumble.justinpoliey.com/post/766915872343343104) _2024-11-12 · TXXGUH_ Then I’m going down the steps, and my wife calls up, ‘Where are you going?’ I say, ‘Well, I’m going to go buy an envelope.’ And she says, ‘You’re not a poor man. Why don’t you buy a thousand envelopes? They’ll deliver them, and you can put them in a closet.’ And I say, ‘Hush.’ — Kurt Vonnegut in a 1996 interview with Inc. magazine on finding any small reason to get outside and interact with the… ## [A Moon Dressed Like Saturn. Nice belt.](https://tumble.justinpoliey.com/post/766313974909288448) _2024-11-05 · TXXGUH_ ALT A Moon Dressed Like Saturn . Nice belt. ## [Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. In the ten years that we have worked together, I can…](https://tumble.justinpoliey.com/post/762741005842890752) _2024-09-27 · TXXGUH_ Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty. In the ten years that we have worked together, I can recall only one case of miscoordination of work. On that occasion, I discovered that we both had written the same 20-line assembly language program. I compared the sources and was astounded to find that they matched character-for-character. The result of our work together has been far greater than… ## [Shutterbug is a photography game by vividfax where you use your browser window as the viewfinder to…](https://tumble.justinpoliey.com/post/760929021918887936) _2024-09-07 · TXXGUH_ Shutterbug is a photography game by vividfax where you use your browser window as the viewfinder to snap pics of bugs. Resize to shoot in portrait or landscape, move to pan, and the smaller the window the tighter the zoom.