Flash is dead. Long live Flash. Kongregate has decided to shut their doors to new releases. This is truly the end of an error. Let's move on to something more secure now. After decades of trying to get around the web filter at school to play weird indie games, kids will have to find something else to do.
The Atari VCS is due to come out soon, and it's a horribly overpriced set top box. The hardware sounds hackable, but if you're buying it to play VCS games you're wasting your money. Seriously, you can get original Ataris much cheaper.
My Friend Pedro is coming back to haunt the nightmares of evil gangsters everywhere in a TV series from the creator of John Wick. This series will only be worth watching if they manage to pull off the wild stunts and action of the game, but they've got a pedigree.
The first video footage of a dying neuron shows the way your brain breaks down. The footage clearly shows a hit being carried out by the Glial Cell gang, famous for killing any brain cell that gets in their way. Check it out, this could lead to some cool medicine.
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- https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement
Atari VCS console set to release
John Wick...I mean My Friend Pedro the TV series
- https://evostrix.com/my-friend-pedro-tv-series-from-john-wick-creator-confirmed/
Dead neurons the video
- https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/26/eaba3239
Games Played
Professor
– Outer Wilds - https://store.steampowered.com/app/753640/Outer_Wilds/
Rating: 3.75/5
Deviboy
– DNP (Did Not Play)
Rating: TBA
DJ
– Minion Masters - https://store.steampowered.com/app/489520/Minion_Masters/
Rating: 3/5
Other topics discussed
Dr Zhivago (1965 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt. It is set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922, and is based on the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel Doctor Zhivago.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago_(film)
Prometheus (2012 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof and starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Charlize Theron. It is set in the late 21st century and centers on the crew of the spaceship Prometheus as it follows a star map discovered among the artifacts of several ancient Earth cultures. Seeking the origins of humanity, the crew arrives on a distant world and discovers a threat that could cause the extinction of the human species.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(2012_film)
Alien: Covenant (2017 science fiction horror film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by John Logan and Dante Harper, from a story by Michael Green and Jack Paglen. The film features returning star Michael Fassbender and Katherine Waterston, with Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, and Demián Bichir in supporting roles. It follows the crew of a colony ship that lands on an uncharted planet and makes a terrifying discovery.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Covenant
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019 American science fiction action film directed by Tim Miller. The film stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Sarah Connor and the T-800 Terminator, respectively, reuniting the actors after 23 years, and introduces Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, and Gabriel Luna as new characters. Set 25 years after the events ofTerminator 2, the film sees the machines sending an advanced Terminator (Luna), designated Rev-9, back in time to 2020 to kill Dani Ramos (Reyes), whose fate is connected to the future. The Resistance also sends Grace (Davis), an augmented soldier, back in time to defend Dani, while they are joined by Sarah Connor and Skynet's T-800 Terminator.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator:_Dark_Fate
Microsoft: Flash will die on Windows 10's new Edge in line with Google Chrome
BlueMaxima Flashpoint (This project is dedicated to preserving as many games and animations from these platforms as possible, so that they aren't lost to time.)
- https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
Demo Disk (Demo Disk is an ongoing Funhaus gameplay series where Adam Kovic, James Willems, Bruce Greene and occasionally other Funhaus members will play a random old selection of Demo Disks of games sent by a PC Gamer fan (which was submitted by reddit user Kage_Oni. ).)
- https://roosterteeth.fandom.com/wiki/Demo_Disk
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbIc1971kgPBJNmKcUBivnqFTtk8F6IDY
YTMND (An initialism for "You're the Man Now, Dog", is an online community centered on the creation of hosted memetic (or memes) web pages (known within the community as fads, YTMNDs or sites) featuring a juxtaposition of an image (still or short animation) centered or tiled along with optional large zooming text and a looping sound file.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YTMND
HTML5 (A markup language used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. It is the fifth and latest major version of HTML that is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5
Mozilla Labs (The future is here. This is the space for our latest creations, innovations, and cutting-edge technologies for the greater good.)
Newgrounds (An American online entertainment website and company. It hosts user-generated content such as gaming, filming, audio and artwork composition in four respective website categories. Newgrounds provides visitor-driven voting and ranking of user-generated submissions.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrounds
Miniclip (A Swiss free browser game website. It was launched in 2001 and is known for having a large and varied collection of games. It is the world's largest privately owned online gaming website.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniclip
- https://www.miniclip.com/games/en/
NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog – Slate Star Codex
Floppy Disk (A floppy disk, also known as a floppy, diskette, or simply disk, is a type of disk storage composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic enclosure lined with fabric that removes dust particles.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk
Copyright Term Extension Act (The Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) of 1998 extended copyright terms in the United States. It is one of several acts extending the terms of copyrights. This law, also known as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Sonny Bono Act, or (derisively) the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, effectively "froze" the advancement date of the public domain in the United States for works covered by the older fixed term copyright rules.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
Project Gutenberg (a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks". It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg
Public Domain Day (an observance of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain. This legal transition of copyright works into the public domain usually happens every year on 1 January based on the individual copyright laws of each country.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain_Day
Atari VCS (2020 Console) (An upcoming home video game console produced by Atari SA. While its physical design is intended to pay homage to theAtari 2600, the new Atari VCS is expected to play modern games and streaming entertainment via a Linux-based operating system that will allow users to download and install other compatible games onto it.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_VCS_(2020_console)
Raspberry Pi (A series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to promote teaching of basic computer science in schools and in developing countries.The original model became far more popular than anticipated, selling outside its target market for uses such as robotics.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600
- http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/
Atari Flashback Series (The Atari Flashback X was released in 2019 and attempts to capitalize on the mini console trend, started by releases like the NES Classic Edition and Sega Genesis Mini, by being a near perfect physical replica of an Atari 2600 in miniature form.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Flashback_series#Atari_Flashback_X
Ouya (The Ouya , stylized as OUYA, is an Android-based microconsole developed by Ouya Inc. Julie Uhrman founded the project in 2012, bringing in designer Yves Béhar to collaborate on its design and Muffi Ghadiali as VP of Product Management to put together the engineering team. Development was funded via Kickstarter, raising US$8.5 million, becoming one of the website's highest earning projects in its history.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouya
Atari 8-bit family (After announcing intent to enter the home computer market in December 1978, the Atari 400 and Atari 800 were presented at the Winter CES in January 1979 and shipped in November of the same year. The names originally referred to the amount of memory: 4 KB RAM in the 400 and 8 KB in the 800.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family#400/800_release
Atari 400 (The Atari 400, also known as "Candy" was Atari's second computer released in 1979 along with her big sister, the Atari 800 which was known as "Colleen". The Atari 400 was also referred to as "The Basic Computer." It was meant to be an entry level computer but it was a computer in search of its real purpose.)
- http://atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/400800/400/400.html
Atari VCS architect Rob Wyatt leaves project, calls out Atari for missed pay
Game over: Atari VCS architect quits project, claims he hasn’t been paid for six months
- https://www.theregister.com/2019/10/08/atari_architect_quits/
The Witcher (Polish-American fantasy dramaseries produced by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich. It is based on the book series of the same name by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski. Set on a fictional, medieval-inspired landmass known as "the Continent", The Witcher explores the legend of Geralt of Rivia and princess Ciri, who are linked to each other by destiny. It stars Henry Cavill, Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witcher_(TV_series)
Cops (An American documentary reality crime/legal television program that ran for 32 seasons, premiering on the Fox network on March 11, 1989. The series followed city police officers and county sheriff's deputies, sometimes backed up by state troopers or other state agencies, during patrols,calls for service, and other police activities including prostitution and narcotics stings.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cops_(TV_program)
Kingsman: The Secret Service (Kingsman: The Secret Service is a 2014 action spy comedy film directed and produced by Matthew Vaughn. The screenplay, written by Vaughn and Jane Goldman, is based on Dave Gibbons's and Mark Millar's comic book series of the same name.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsman:_The_Secret_Service
Ryan Reynolds (Canadian actor, film producer and entrepreneur. He began his career starring in the Canadian teen soap opera Hillside and had minor roles before landing the lead role on the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl between 1998 and 2001. Reynolds then starred in a range of films, including comedies such as National Lampoon's Van Wilder, Waiting..., and The Proposal. He also performed in dramatic roles in Buried,Woman in Gold, and Life, starred in action films such as Blade: Trinity, Deadpool, and 6 Underground and provided voice acting in the animated features The Croods and Turbo and Pokemon: Detective Pikachu.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Reynolds
Glia (Also called glial cells or neuroglia, are non-neuronalcells in the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system that do not produce electrical impulses. They maintain homeostasis, form myelin, and provide support and protection for neurons. They have four main functions: (1) to surround neurons and hold them in place; (2) to supply nutrients and oxygen to neurons; (3) to insulate one neuron from another; (4) to destroy pathogens and remove dead neurons.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glia
Embryonic Stem Cells (Embryonic stem cells (ES cells or ESCs) are pluripotent stem cells derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, an early-stage pre-implantation embryo. Researchers are currently focusing heavily on the therapeutic potential of embryonic stem cells, with clinical use being the goal for many laboratories. Potential uses include the treatment of diabetes and heart disease.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryonic_stem_cell
Artifact (A digital collectible card game developed and published by Valve. It focuses on onlineplayer versus player battles across three boards called lanes, and is based upon the universe of Dota 2, a multiplayer online battle arena game also from Valve.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artifact_(video_game)
- https://store.steampowered.com/app/583950/Artifact/
Airplane Mode (A 2019 American parody film directed by David Dinetz and Dylan Trussell, and written by Dinetz, Trussell, Logan Paul and Jake Paul. Logan Paul portrays the main character, a fictionalized version of himself, who is put in a situation where he has to overcome his fear of flying in order to land a plane containing a group of famous social media influencers.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_Mode_(2019_film)
Replacement of Claudia Wells (Claudia Wells, who had played Marty McFly's girlfriend Jennifer Parker in the first film, was to reprise her role, but turned it down due to personal issues. The producers cast Elisabeth Shue instead, which involved re-shooting the closing scenes of the first film for the beginning of Part II.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II#Replacement_of_Claudia_Wells
Back to the Future Casting (Michael J. Fox replaces Eric Stoltz to play as Marty McFly.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future#Casting
Back to the Future Part II: Replacement of Crispin Glover (Crispin Glover was asked to reprise the role of George McFly. He expressed interest, but could not come to an agreement with the producers regarding his salary. Rather than write George McFly out of the film, Zemeckis used previously filmed footage of Glover from the first film as well as new footage of actor Jeffrey Weissman, who wore prosthetics including a false chin, nose, and cheekbones to resemble Glover.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II#Replacement_of_Crispin_Glover
The Island Of Dr. Moreau (a 1996 American science fiction horror film, the third major film adaptation of the 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells. The film was directed by John Frankenheimer (who was brought in half a week after shooting started) and stars Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis and Fairuza Balk. The screenplay is credited to the original director Richard Stanley and Ron Hutchinson.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_Dr._Moreau_(1996_film)
The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti : Rick and Morty origin
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF8faYSW_7A
GURPS Cyberpunk (A genre toolkit for cyberpunk-themed role-playing games set in a near-future dystopia, such as that envisioned by William Gibson in his influential novel Neuromancer.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS_Cyberpunk
DankPods
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Jwj9fkrf1adN4fMmTkpug
Warm Red Earth (TNC Podcast)
- https://thatsnotcanon.com/warmredearth
Shout Outs
2 July 2020 – Airplane is 40 years old - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/02/airplane-film-40th-anniversary-spoof-comedy
The tirelessly joke-packed 1980 film might have dated in some ways but its relentless desire to amuse still makes it an undeniable winner. There are puns, pratfalls, provocations, foreground/background dynamics, double entendres, references to film and TV and popular commercials, random acts of silliness and absurdity, and every possible strain of what would later be categorized as a “dad joke”. Even at 40, when a handful of the references and bits have grown whiskers, Airplane! still absolutely kills. Rarely has a film so eager to please been so successful in doing so. And yet, as easy as it might be to tally up 87 minutes of laughs or marvel at the high batting average of its creative team – David and Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, better known as Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker (ZAZ) – the non-jokes are a key part of what makes it work. There’s no better example of the ZAZ approach to the spoof than the casting of Leslie Nielsen as Dr Rumack, the onboard physician who tends to the sick passengers while giving Stryker the occasional pep talk. It’s impossible to say definitively that any comedy is funny, butAirplane!’s canonization in both cult and institutional precincts suggests that the case is tougher for the persecution than for the defense. Few American comedies cast a longer shadow, and the irony of a movie that’s stitched together almost entirely out of other movies holding up as something singular and even foundational is precisely the sort of paradox you want in a work of art.
3 July 2020 – Back to the Future is 35 years old - https://movieweb.com/back-to-the-future-35th-anniversary/
35 years ago, Back to The Future hit theaters. The movie proved to be a tremendous hit in its day. It grossed a staggering $381 million at the global box office. The time-traveling tale of Doc Brown, played by Christopher Lloyd, and Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, resonated in a way few movies ever have before or since. Back to the Future II and Back to the Future III were released in 1989 and 1990 respectively. The sequels have earned plenty of love over the years, but they simply can't match the magic of the original.
3 July 2020 – Kyoto Animation to Stream Memorial Video on Fire's Anniversary on July 18 - https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2020-07-03/kyoto-animation-to-stream-memorial-video-on-fire-anniversary-on-july-18/.161390
Kyoto Animation posted a notice on its website on Friday that it will stream a memorial video on its YouTube channel on July 18 to mark the one-year anniversary of the devastating fire that burned down the company's Studio 1 building, killing 36 people and injuring 33 others. The video will be streamed in Japanese only at 10:30am JST and will be available throughout the day after the streaming. The notice further states that plans for a memorial visit have been cancelled due to the spread of COVID-19. The company therefore asks that the public refrain from visiting the site of the fallen Studio 1, stressing that "Regardless of the date, we respectfully request your kind prohibition of visiting." Condolence gifts will also be declined.
4 July 2020 – Earl Cameron passes away at 102 - https://deadline.com/2020/07/earl-cameron-obituary-black-pioneer-british-film-1202977517/
Earl Cameron, who was among the first Black actors to break into significant roles in British film. Cameron first appeared on screen in the 1951 film Pool of London, in a rare starring role for a black actor. Cameron was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. His other screen credits include 1965 Bond movie Thunderball as James Bond’s assistant and Doctor Who as a a regular on the BBC series The Dark Man. He also appeared on season 4 of Doctor Who, reportedly becoming the first Black actor to play an astronaut on screen. He died at a home in Kenilworth. His children said in a statement: "Our family have been overwhelmed by the outpourings of love and respect we have received at the news of our father’s passing … As an artist and as an actor he refused to take roles that demeaned or stereotyped the character of people of colour. He was truly a man who stood by his moral principles and was inspirational."
6 July 2020 – Ennio Morricone passes away at 91 - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ennio-morricone-dead-prolific-italian-composer-was-91-858358
Ennio Morricone, the Oscar winner whose haunting, inventive scores expertly accentuated the simmering, dialogue-free tension of the spaghetti Westerns directed by Sergio Leone. Morricone composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works. His score to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is considered one of the most influential soundtracks in history and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. His filmography includes over 70 award-winning films, all Sergio Leone's films since A Fistful of Dollars, all Giuseppe Tornatore's films since Cinema Paradiso, The Battle of Algiers, Dario Argento's Animal Trilogy, Exorcist II, several major films in French cinema, in particular the comedy trilogy La Cage aux Folles I, II,III and Le Professionnel, as well as The Thing, The Mission, The Untouchables, Mission to Mars, In the Line of Fire and The Hateful Eight. In 2007, he received the Academy Honorary Award "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music." He was nominated for a further six Oscars, and in 2016, received his only competitive Academy Award for his score to Quentin Tarantino's film The Hateful Eight, at the time becoming the oldest person ever to win a competitive Oscar.Morricone influenced many artists from film scoring to other styles and genres, including Hans Zimmer, Dire Straits, Muse,Metallica, and Radiohead. He died from complications following a fall, in which he broke a leg in Rome Italy.
Remembrances
6 July 1476 – Regiomontanus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regiomontanus
Johannes Müller von Königsberg, better known as Regiomontanus, mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna,Buda and Nuremberg. His contributions were instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death. Regiomontanus wrote under the Latinized name of Ioannes de Monteregio (or Monte Regio;Regio Monte); the adjectival Regiomontanus was first used by Philipp Melanchthon in 1534. De Triangulis (On Triangles) was one of the first textbooks presenting the current state of trigonometry and included lists of questions for review of individual chapters. In it he wrote: You who wish to study great and wonderful things, who wonder about the movement of the stars, must read these theorems about triangles. Knowing these ideas will open the door to all of astronomy and to certain geometric problems. His work on arithmetic and algebra,Algorithmus Demonstratus, was among the first containing symbolic algebra. In 1465, he built a portable sundial for Pope Paul II. A prolific author, Regiomontanus was internationally famous in his lifetime. Despite having completed only a quarter of what he had intended to write, he left a substantial body of work. Nicolaus Copernicus' teacher, Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, referred to Regiomontanus as having been his own teacher. The crater Regiomontanus on the Moon is named after him. He died from unknown causes at the age of 40 in Rome.
6 July 1535 – Sir Thomas More - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More
Sir Thomas more venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More. English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary island state. More opposed the Protestant Reformation, directing polemics against the theology of Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin and William Tyndale. More also opposed Henry VIII's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as supreme head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason.Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr.Pope John Paul II in 2000 declared him the patron saint of statesmen and politicians. The Soviet Union in the early twentieth century honoured him for the purportedly communist attitude toward property rights in Utopia. The 20th-century agnostic playwright Robert Bolt portrayed Thomas More as the tragic hero of his 1960 play A Man for All Seasons. The title is drawn from what Robert Whittington in 1520 wrote of More: More is a man of an angel's wit and singular learning. I know not his fellow. For where is the man of that gentleness, lowliness and affability? And, as time requireth, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes, and sometime of as sad gravity. A man for all seasons. The steadfastness and courage with which More maintained his religious convictions, and his dignity during his imprisonment, trial, and execution, contributed much to More's posthumous reputation, particularly among Roman Catholics. He was executed at the age of 57 in London. On his execution, he was reported to have said: "I die the King's good servant, and God's first"
6 July 2002 – John Frankenheimer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frankenheimer
American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Ronin (1998), and Reindeer Games (2000). Frankenheimer's 30 feature films and over 50 plays for television were notable for their influence on contemporary thought. He became a pioneer of the "modern-day political thriller", having begun his career at the peak of the Cold War. He was technically highly accomplished from his days in live television; many of his films were noted for creating "psychological dilemmas" for his male protagonists along with having a strong "sense of environment," similar in style to films by director Sidney Lumet, for whom he had earlier worked as assistant director. He developed a "tremendous propensity for exploring political situations" which would ensnare his characters. He died from a stroke due to complications following spinal surgery at the age of 72 in Los Angeles, California.
Famous Birthdays
6 July 1887 – Annette Kellermann - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Kellermann
Annette Marie Sarah Kellermann, Australian professional swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress, and writer. Kellermann was one of the first women to wear a one-piece bathing costume, instead of the then-accepted pantaloons, and inspired others to follow her example. Kellerman's swimming costumes became so popular that she started her own fashion line of one-piece bathing suits. Kellermann helped popularize the sport of synchronised swimming, and authored a swimming manual. She appeared in several movies, usually with aquatic themes, and as the star of A Daughter of the Gods was the first major actress to appear nude in a Hollywood production. Kellermann was an advocate of health, fitness, and natural beauty throughout her life. Kellermann advocated for the right of women to wear a one-piece bathing suit, which was controversial at the time. According to an Australian magazine, "In the early 1900s, women were expected to wear cumbersome dress and pantaloon combinations when swimming. In 1907, at the height of her popularity, Kellermann was arrested on Revere Beach, Massachusetts, for indecency – she was wearing one of her fitted one-piece costumes." The popularity of her one-piece suits resulted in her own line of women's swimwear. The "Annette Kellermans", as they were known, were the first step towards modern women's swimwear. The majority of Kellermann's films had themes of aquatic adventure. She performed her own stunts including diving from 92 feet into the sea and 60 feet into a pool of crocodiles. Many times she would play mermaids named Annette or variations of her own name. Her "fairy tale films", as she called them, started with The Mermaid (1911), in which she was the first actress to wear a swimmable mermaid costume on film, paving the way for future screen sirens such as Glynis Johns , Esther Williams and Daryl Hannah. Kellermann designed her own mermaid swimming costumes and sometimes made them herself. She was born in Marrickville, New South Wales.
6 July 1817 – Albert von Kölliker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_von_K%C3%B6lliker
Born Rudolf Albert Kölliker, was a Swiss anatomist,physiologist, and histologist. Kölliker made contributions to the study of zoology. His earlier efforts were directed to the invertebrates, and his memoir on the development of cephalopods is considered a classical work. He soon passed on to the vertebrates, and studied the amphibians and mammalian embryos. He was among the first, if not the very first, to introduce into this branch of biological inquiry the newer microscopic technique – the methods of hardening, sectioning and staining. By doing so, not only was he enabled to make rapid progress himself, but he also placed in the hands of others the means of a similar advancement. The remarkable strides forward which embryology made during the middle and latter half of the 19th century will always be associated with his name. Kölliker's contributions to histology were widespread; smooth muscle, striated muscle, skin,bone, teeth,blood vessels and viscera were all investigated by Kölliker, and he touched none of them without discovering new truths. In the case of almost every tissue, our present knowledge contains information first discovered by Kölliker – it is for his work on the nervous system that his name is most remembered. As early as 1845, while still at Zurich, he supplied the clear proof that nerve fibers are continuous with nerve cells, and so furnished the absolutely necessary basis for all sound speculations as to the actions of the central nervous system. A species of lizard, Hyalosaurus koellikeri, is named in his honor. He was born in Zurich.
6 July 1785 – William James Hooker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jackson_Hooker
Sir William Jackson Hooker, English botanist and botanical illustrator. The standard author abbreviation Hook. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. He studied mosses, liverworts, and ferns, and published a monograph on a group of liverworts, British Jungermanniae, in 1816. During his return voyage, the Margaret and Anne, in a dead calm, was discovered to be on fire, the result of sabotage which was afterwards found to have been planned by Danish prisoners. Hooker and the ship's company were all rescued, but the fire destroyed most of his drawings and notes. Banks later offered Hooker the use of his own papers, and with these materials, along with the surviving parts of his own journal, his good memory aided him to publish an account of the island, its inhabitants and flora: his A Journal of a Tour in Iceland (1809) was privately circulated in 1811 and published two years later. Settling at Halesworth, he devoted himself to the formation of his herbarium, which became of worldwide renown among botanists. He worked with the lithographer and botanist Thomas Hopkirk to establish the Royal Botanic Institution of Glasgow and to lay out and develop the Botanic Gardens. Under Hooker, the Botanic Gardens enjoyed remarkable success and became prominent in the botanic world. The garden was his responsibility and he set to work developing it with the help of his extensive network of friends and acquaintances. Principal among these was Sir Joseph Banks, who promised Kew's help. The botanic gardens steadily acquired new plants, often from visiting naturalists, or from students who had travelled. His work on the botanic garden resulted in experts expressing the view that "Glasgow would not suffer by comparison with any other establishment in Europe". He was born in Norwich.
Events of Interest
6 July 1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. - https://www.wired.com/2007/07/dayintech-0706/
Pasteur, a French chemist and biologist, began closely studying bacteria while investigating the cause of souring in milk and other beverages. This led him to develop the process of pasteurization, where a liquid is boiled and then cooled to kill the bacteria that cause the souring. As the director of scientific studies at the Ecole Normale in Paris, Pasteur pursued his germ theory, which posited that germs attack the body from the outside. Proved right again, his work led to vaccinations being developed for many germ-borne diseases, including anthrax, tuberculosis, cholera and smallpox. It also led to further work on rabies, which was much more prevalent in Pasteur's time than it is today.
He developed his rabies vaccine by growing the virus in rabbits, then drying the affected nerve tissue to weaken the virus. On July 6, 1885, the vaccine was administered to Joseph Meister, a 9-year-old boy who had been attacked by a rabid dog. The boy survived and avoided contracting rabies, which would have almost certainly proved fatal. Good thing it worked: Pasteur was not a licensed physician and could have been prosecuted had the vaccine failed. The legalities were forgotten and Pasteur instead became a national hero.
6 July 1940 – Story Bridge, a major landmark in Brisbane, as well as Australia's longest cantilever bridge is formally opened. - https://blog.qm.qld.gov.au/2020/07/06/80-years-strong-a-story-bridge-anniversary/
Until it was completed, the bridge was known as the Jubilee Bridge in honour of King George V. It was opened on 6 July 1940 by Sir Leslie Orme Wilson, Governor of Queensland and named after John Douglas Story, a senior and influential public servant who had advocated strongly the bridge’s construction. The opening of the bridge was a formal affair, with the unveiling of not one but two plaques – one for the Governor, opening the bridge, the other for the Premier to mark the turning of the first sod five years earlier – followed by speeches and ribbon cutting. However controversy abounded with church heads, including the Catholic Archbishop Dr Duhig and Anglican Archbishop Dr Wand, feeling that the religious institutions had been slighted in the ceremony. Nonetheless, the speech of the governor was well-received, and provides a glimpse of what constituted a “successful” project in the years of the Second World War: “The quality of the workmanship could be gauged from the fact that 1,250,000 rivets had been driven and 7000 gallons of zinc paint put on; 450 men had been employed, and only three fatal accidents had occurred.”
6 July 1990 – The Electronic Frontier Foundation is founded. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation#Foundation
In 1990 Mitchell Kapor, John Gilmore, and John Perry Barlow founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, to defend individual rights in the digital world. The three had met on The Well. The Electronic Frontier Foundation was formed in response to a series of actions by law enforcement agencies that led them to conclude that the authorities were gravely uninformed about emerging forms of online communication, and that there was a need for increased protection for Internet civil liberties. The creation of the organization was motivated by the massive search and seizure on Steve Jackson Games executed by the United States Secret Service early in 1990. Similar but officially unconnected law-enforcement raids were being conducted across the United States at about that time as part of a state–federal task force called Operation Sundevil. The first successful achievement was to lay “the groundwork for the successful representation of Steven Jackson Games (SJG) in a Federal court case to prosecute the United States Secret Service for unlawfully raiding their offices and seizing computers.
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