She was scared of him but soon loosened the Shakespearean up – then watched him give Star Trek depth, even insisting scenes be rewritten for her. Captain Picard’s right-hand woman salutes her fabulous friend

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"A month before Covid hit, my husband died. I was on my own in my house in Los Angeles for a year with just my dogs for company. Patrick was one of the very few people who invited me over for lunch, socially distanced in his garden. It had occurred to him that I was grieving and on my own – and he did something about that. It’s a mark of who he is."

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- kctipton (@kctipton) Oct 31, 2026

"There was a scene written for Picard and Data, where Picard tells the story of how his family were burned in a fire. Patrick went to the writers and producers and asked if they could rewrite the scene to have me be in it instead of Brent Spiner."

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Palm OS, an operating system for a range mobile devices that predated mobile phones, is largely forgotten today. Or at least, that’s what [Aaron Ardiri] thought. That all changed when he was …

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A massive study of nearly 486,000 adults found that regularly drinking tea was associated with an 11% lower risk of heart and blood vessel diseases. The lowest risk was linked to drinking roughly six to eight cups per day, with black tea showing more consistent benefits than green tea.

A simple concept from Kansas City is sweeping the country. Planting fruit trees on vacant lots and making the produce free to anyone has cascading positive effects for the community. Now, more than a million people live within walking distance of a Giving Grove orchard.

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There's a website you enjoy visiting, but it contains some elements that for whatever reason you don't like. Maybe they're distracting or you just find them ugly. What do you do? You could put up with it, but you can also take matters in your own hands and remove the annoying stuff yourself. I don't know that browsers can do this out of the gate, but there are extensions which can. Here are two I'm familiar with, and one of them you might already have installed anyway.

uBlock Origin

With uBlock Origin, which I can highly recommend anyway unless you love seeing ads, it's actually really easy. I'm doing this in Firefox, I assume it works the same in other browsers which support uBlock Origin.

Let's assume you'd want to remove the Links gif at the top of my weekly linkdumps. In uBlock Origin it's really simple, you go to the site which has the element on it you want to remove and click the extension icon in the browser toolbar.

Then you select the pipette symbol which allows you to pick the element you want to remove, and click the element on the site. A window pops up that tells you what will be removed and you can click preview to see if the effect is the one you want, and if it is, click Create and a filter will be created which removes this element from the website.

That's it, done. The element is gone.

To get rid of the filter, open uBlock Origin again, select the gears symbol and then click the My filters tab. There you can see the filter rule which was just created and you can modify and remove it.

Stylus

Another extension which is more powerful but also more complicated to use is Stylus. This extension allows you to modify any CSS element of a website, giving you total control over the appearance of a site, but also requiring some knowledge about CSS of course.

In order to use Stylus, first you need to identify the CSS class or ID of the element you want to remove. You can either look it up in the site's source code or use the inspect tool of your browser. In the case of the gif on my site, it has the ID linkdumps_gif:

<img class="image" id="linkdumps_gif" alt="an animated 90s style GIF that has the word Links in green font on black background" src="/images/gifs/links.gif">

Knowing this, you can open the Stylus extension from the browser toolbar and click the plus symbol next to the URL, or the URL itself.

This takes you to the extension's page where you can add new CSS rules for the selected website.

Here, some CSS knowledge is needed, but in order to hide an element, it's usually enough to select the element and make it invisible with display:none. In the case of my site, this code snippet will do the trick:

#linkdumps_gif {
  display: none;
}

This will hide the element in question. Save, and you're done.

So that's it, two ways to hide unwanted objects on a website. I'm sure there are many more, but these are the ones I know. Hope this is helpful.

BBS-era "door" games are preserved by the site Break Into Chat, along with their history. Now the site's actually traced the origins of several ANSI art screens in the 1980s and "how different people later transformed the original images," starting from one of the most popular bulletin board systems in St. Louis, Missouri. Slashdot reader Kirkman14 writes: "Fire Escape" was curator of the authoritative list of bulletin board systems in St. Louis's area code and sysop of the area's most…

This is great: Annie Rauwerda (of Depths of Wikipedia fame) sifted through the archive at newspapers.com to find the goings on of long-ago celebrity name doppelgängers (follow-up post). A few of my favorites:

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Somehow I’d never heard of this before: NPR produced and aired¹ radio dramatizations of the films in the original Star Wars trilogy. The first program was particularly popular, garnering NPR hundreds of thousands of new listeners. The original versions are available in full on The Internet Archive:

• Star Wars: A New Hope (1981)
• Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1983)
• Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi (1996)

Or get all three parts ripped from the CD.

All three programs contain elements of John Williams’ original soundtrack. Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels reprised their movie roles for the first two radio programs² and some other bold-faced names made appearances throughout: Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian, John Lithgow as Yoda (??), Ed Begley Jr. as Boba Fett (???), David Alan Grier as a nameless X-wing fighter pilot, and Nia Vardalos.

The radio programs were based on the original film scripts with some added scenes; from Open Culture:

With science-fiction novelist Brian Daley brought on to add or restore scenes to the script of the original dialogue-light feature film, the story stretches out to thirteen episodes for a total runtime of six hours. The series thus stands as an early example of the expansion of the Star Wars universe that, in all kinds of media, has continued apace ever since.

And from Wikipedia:

Daley adapted the script partly using material from earlier drafts of Lucas’s scripts, and restored several scenes cut from the final edit of the film, as well as adding original new scenes created specially for the audio version. The narrative of the first two episodes takes place entirely before the opening scene of the 1977 film, and expands the background to events leading up to the capture of the Tantive IV spacecraft above the planet Tatooine. Episode 1, largely based on cut scenes from…

Although no ghouls, goblins, or trick-or-treaters come knocking at the International Space Station’s front hatch, crew members aboard the orbiting laboratory still like to get in the Halloween spirit. Whether individually or as an entire crew, they dress up in sometimes spooky, sometimes scary, but always creative costumes, often designed from materials available aboard the space station.  

Take a look at how the station crews have celebrated in years past.

Follow the astronauts aboard the space station to see how they celebrate holidays in space.

The space station remains a vital scientific platform, providing the foundation needed to survive and thrive as humanity ventures into the unexplored territories of our universe. 

Explore stories, images, and research from more than 25 years of continuous human presence aboard the space station.  

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They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A program called Peace Orlando hired neighborhood residents closest to the violence…who could see a shooting coming and talk people down.” It worked…and then the program was shut down.

If we care to cast an eye over the history of ubiquitous personal computing as we know it today, we might immediately point at the original IBM PC. After all, for most of us our machines share backward compatibility in some form through multiple generations back to that original box from 1981.

But if we look at the things we use today and take for granted, from laser printers to graphics cards to the routers which power most of the Internet, they’re not from IBM at all. At the recent Vintage Computing Festival Berlin, [Michael Engel] delivered a talk naming a surprising progenitor for much of that technology, none other than Sun Microsystems.

It all starts with [Andy Bechtolsheim], famously Sun’s co-founder, when at the end of the 1970s he was a postgraduate at Stanford University. Working on the Stanford University Network — SUN — project he designed a computer to be used as a workstation on the network. The processor of choice then was Motorola’s 68000, but it lacked the MMU that would be required to run UNIX. His design had an MMU implemented externally to the 68000, with a bank of SRAM serving as the page table. This design…

Have you seen this? If you haven't, you should. I think everyone needs to. Wealth inequality on a scale this extreme is almost impossible to explain. You have to experience it to understand. Go ahead. Try it out. Where is the top of this graph? Good question. Keep scrolling

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Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for certain iPods. “Sprout only replaces the motherboard and uses your iPod’s original parts. No soldering required, and fully reversible.” Bluetooth, WiFi, 500K songs, USB-C, even streaming.

Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window using real video footage. Choose from trains from around the world or add some weather to the mix. Sound on for the best ride.

For more than a year, marshalled by animator Andy Bailey, more than 1000 artists collaborated to create a hand-drawn, shot-for-shot, animated, flipbook version of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The entire three hours. 120,000 individually drawn pages. A couple of months ago, they released the first 11 minutes:

It’s pretty amazing. It doesn’t include the audio or music from the movie, but I bet you could mute the sound on this and simultaneously play the actual movie for the sound. Here’s an earlier sneak peek at some of the scenes:

This artist wrote about their participation in the project; they contributed 108 drawings that amounted to roughly 10 seconds of animation (and took 30-40 hours to do):

The first clip I claimed was a pretty iconic scene from the beginning of the movie. I chose to render it in pencil as it’s night time and I felt black and white would be more dramatic. As I worked through the frames, I did worry that the subtle variances in shading would make the clip look disjointed, but I think it adds a cool movement to the scene. There is that rough, quirky imperfection to hand drawing. You can see the final result with comparison below (digitized and compiled by Andy).

Here’s a clip of that scene:

I can’t wait to see the finished product — I hope they’re able to release it online.

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I’d never heard of this before: in 1990, the BBC aired a program created by and starring Douglas Adams called Hyperland. It begins with a frustrated Adams throwing his TV out (too linear, too non-interactive) and Tom Baker (from Doctor Who) popping up as an intelligent interactive agent that promises to “do your every slightest bidding, to fetch and carry for you, to work tirelessly and selflessly on your behalf, always ready, always willing, no job too small or too menial”.

The Free Software Foundation "has never supported Raspberry Pi," writes their deputy directory Sean O'Brien, "as it depends on nonfree software for the boot process, leaving an important part of the computer outside the user's control." But they're now decrying "an even more intrusive restriction on user freedom" — the binary-blob bootloader changes that limit your ability to upgrade RAM: The restriction is not new: the relevant checks were introduced in the device firmware around 2024.…