TIL 5: Iambic pentameter

[Valka D'Ur]

If you try to download images directly from an image search result (like on Google or Bing) usually it downloads as a WEBP and you have to upload it again to some site to convert it into PNG.

But if you're on Edge, and you're on edge, you can simply right-click the image, choose 'Edit Image', then save it and the image is downloaded as a PNG.

I'll have to try that. There are lots of pictures I'd love to snag from my news site and they come up as WEBP.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

TIL that Sable Island ponies need to travel to Halifax in order to vote in provincial elections.

Spoiler :

(Elections Nova Scotia map)

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The riding is partly named for an area where nobody but horses live? No humans at all there?

That makes as much sense as in 2015, when some people's VICs informed them that the advance poll was on a privately-owned island that's only accessible by private boat - no ferry service at all (this was in BC).

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The riding is partly named for an area where nobody but horses live? No humans at all there?

According to Wikipedia, the population is "0 (6−25 personnel from Meteorological Service of Canada are stationed on Sable Island on rotation at Sable Island Station only)"

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Ah, so temporary residency while at work. They don't live there permanently, so they vote on the mainland.

The humans, not the horses. Though the horses might have more common sense when it comes to voting.

There's just one tree on the whole island, and they risk it just for tree decorating at Christmas?

 

[Kyriakos]

I certainly did not expect the origin of the phrase "basket case" to be so dark:

Apparently it was a rumor (that such incidents occurred) which then spread and gave us the phrase.

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

That the Smithsonian Institute offers free 3D scans of their collection that you can use to 3D print replicas

Lidded ritual ewer (guang) - Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art

asia-archive.si.edu

 

[Gori the Grey]

That's amazing. Do you have any sense how many are available for printing this way? Is there a way of searching that brings up all that have been made available in this way? (The link you give just seems like the general museum record for that item and it just happens to have the 3-D option, but I would like to see the whole range of things that have that option. That's not on you to figure out for me, but if you do happen to know, I'd appreciate learning). For certain cultural artifacts, I would search out a 3-D printer and do this!

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

As a matter of fact I've been trying to find exactly that. Upon further research it seems that they're only 3D models for the Freer and Sackler Gallery, (and the link to that has some issues?).

I did find this, a collection of cultural heritage artifacts in the public domain

CC0 - A 3D model collection by Thomas Flynn (@nebulousflynn)

A collection of public domain cultural heritage 3D models. See our blog post for more information: https://sketchfab.com/blogs/community/sketchfab-launches-public-domain-dedication-for-3d-cultural-heritage/ - CC0 - A 3D model collection by Thomas Flynn (@nebulousflynn)

sketchfab.com

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Found it!

Open Access | 3D Digitization

3d.si.edu

 

[Gori the Grey]

Thanks, Bonyduck. This is so amazing! Over 3000 items.

A ton of them anthropological and biological, but still some other cool things in there.

I saw one cowbell, for instance. (Because I haven't gone through the whole collection, I don't know if there are more cowbell)

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

saw one cowbell, for instance.

lucky you. I've seen more mandibles and femurs (left) scrolling down the inventory than I could care to count

 

[Gori the Grey]

Yeah, that took a little of the gloss off of the 3000 count. But still.

 

[Takhisis]

If you try to download images directly from an image search result (like on Google or Bing) usually it downloads as a WEBP and you have to upload it again to some site to convert it into PNG.

But if you're on Edge, and you're on edge, you can simply right-click the image, choose 'Edit Image', then save it and the image is downloaded as a PNG.

Why do you need .png files instead of .webp?

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

That the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem is named 'Pierbattista Pizzaballa'

Pierbattista Pizzaballa - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Why do you need .png files instead of .webp?

For one thing, you can't upload WEBP to CFC

 

[Birdjaguar]

TIL

Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025
Popeye the Sailor and the Belgian boy reporter Tintin lead the class of characters and works of art becoming public domain in 2025. On Jan. 1, 2025 the U.S. copyright expires on creations from 1929. That means the early versions of the comic characters can be used without permission or payment. They’ll be joined by the novels “A Farewell to Arms” from Ernest Hemingway and “The Sound and the Fury” by William Faulkner. Other titles include songs from Cole Porter, early films from Alfred Hitchcock and the Marx Brothers, and several more films starring Mickey Mouse, whose earliest incarnation became public domain last year.

 

[Takhisis]

For one thing, you can't upload WEBP to CFC

Woah. Whyyyyy?

Also, why do you need to upload pics to some site instead of converting it yourself?

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

Also, why do you need to upload pics to some site instead of converting it yourself?

I don't

 

[Bonyduck Campersang]

... that the English "much" and Spanish "mucho" are not etymologically related

https://twitter.com/x/status/1870539261700604081