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@lefebvre solution is probably isopropanol - I use cotton wool / cotton tips with isopropanol for cleaning the very old drives and disks quite often.

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30 years ago today, we started putting images on the web. Marc Andreessen proposed adding the IMG tag to HTML.

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God bless our screenshots of text, the only way our online systems can peer with each other.

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One from a few weeks ago that I have only just come across. It was taken shortly after sunrise in Glastonbury. That sky!
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #sunrise #sunrisephotography

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-0.7664406825390145 + -0.08955212320841272i at zoom 5.2412037864e+04.

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"incumbent writer of a newspaper funny pages comic" is one of the most lucrative and hard-to-fumble bags in the world and yet The Dilbert Guy has found the one way you can actually fumble it. cleveland.com/news/2023/02/we-

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Firefall
Firefall is a relative newly discovered phenomenon discovered in Yosemite National Park not to be confused with the old firefall that was manmade.
This is a tough shot to get and some years it doesn't happen.
This is Horsetail Falls. In February, for roughly 10 days, the sun comes into alignment and reflects off of the rocks to create this phenom. See the full image here: fineartamerica.com/featured/fi #Firefall #AYearForArt #BillGallagherPhotography #HorsetailFalls #YosemiteNationalPark
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@checkervest
Q: Why don't seagulls fly over the bay?

A: If they flew over the bay, they'd be bagels!

(My dad collects these, I can keep going for a while)

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I’ve been debugging the horizontal line across the bottom of the screen for a while now and just realised it is the YouTube progress bar.

@DroidEngineer wow that’s pretty toxic, volatile and carcinogenic stuff to sell as a drink…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalde
But excellent whiteboard lesson, I love it, thanks!

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An organic chemist did not have a hand in naming this. I describe in a handwritten scrawl why.
:blobcatscience: :science:

#Science #humor

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As most of you know, our library is being sued by 4 corporate publishers who want to stop the Internet Archive from lending books. The date for oral argument has just been set for March 20.

What's at stake? Lia Holland from @team elaborates: fightforthefuture.org/news/202

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