One of the world's foremost currencies has a stickman on the back - but why?

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One night I got really into the early 2000s emoticons, the "kaomojis" and went into a deep, deep hole researching them, this video is the culmination of that night.

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When Austin Powers was released in 1997, it was seen as instantly recognized as a brilliant parody of everyone's favorite secret agent... 007, James Bond. Lampooning and deconstructing all the nuances and plot points of the iconic spy, the film became an instant classic. However, no one saw the immense popularity of the film's villain Dr. Evil coming. A perfect parody of villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Dr Evil took the world by storm. In fact, he's just a popular today as he was upon his first release. So much so, in fact, that he's eclipsed the original character he was spoofing...

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In this video we'll take a look at the story behind the creation of the Sony Playstation 1 startup sound. We discuss the instrumentation and the harmony of the sound as well as how it is produced in real-time by the PS1, which leads to various error state variations (like "Fearful Harmony" and "Personified Fear") .

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In 2022, a clip of the anime Serial Exeriments Lain that aired after 9/11 went viral online and was described as "bizarre" and "surreal." This is the full story of how that clip came about, from the PBS station KTEH to its upload last year.

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Adam encounters one of the actual ghost trap props used on screen for Ghostbusters I and II, and this is a special one. Connected to the original transmitter controller used on set, this ghost trap is packed full of practical effects that not only let it open and close, but activate all the flashing and blinking lights that we saw in the films. Adam takes a look inside this iconic prop to see how the effects technicians made it work over 40 years ago!

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Over the course of the last 40 years, the Italians have spent 1.2 billion euros on a bridge to Sicily, and yet they still have nothing to show for it.

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Some extra footnotes for the above video that I didn't think were worth including:

1/ To get the music working with the "don't preload" mode, a small sub-heap is allocated inside the main one for... reasons. It works fine if the songs are just allocated to the main heap, so... eh? 2/ If you insist on keeping the DMA channel the same, there were many other, simpler ways to get this working. Like... why not just make the bosses load their own music? 3/ This whole "do stuff based on the background" seems to have been a dev favourite way of determining things, as a number of other things is tied to it. For example, whether the moving stair graphics should be loaded into Ghost House levels is ALSO tied to the background.

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Today, the world has approximately eleventy-six billion bus routes. But what was the first ever bus route? Where did it all start? And what has 17th-century mathematician Blaise Pascal got to do with it? I decided to try and answer these questions about the first ever bus route... while walking along it.

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🚉 What Japan’s Dangerous Type 4 Railroad Crossing Looks Like 🚉

Did you know Japan has four types of railroad crossings, and Type 4 crossings are considered the most dangerous? Unlike regular crossings with automatic barriers, Type 4 railroad crossings have no gates, no alarms, and no signals to warn pedestrians and drivers of oncoming trains. 🚦🚆

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A valley of righteous combat, a desolate jungle cave, a seaside mineshaft, and more... all linked by mysterious caves of translocation...

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This is a video on the Rijkshuisstijl, which is the Dutch Government's Visual Identity. It also compares with Sweden's government identity, the Swiss government identity, and the German government identity.

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Shinjuku Station is the busiest train station in the world, with nearly 3 million daily passengers. But just a short distance away, there’s a station that feels almost abandoned—Minami-Shinjuku Station. With only 3,875 daily users, it’s the least used train stations in Tokyo.

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cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/26884614

this can't keep happening

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