Someone had a granite headstone made for Internet Explorer and placed it beside a tiny church on the rooftop of a cafe in Gyeongju, South Korea: https://m.clien.net/service/board/park/17331335

The Reese's Pieces With Chocolate Cookie are hard to stop snacking on: Two types of crunch, and just the right amount of salty peanut butter.

@ckeen That's hilarious – the pun and the implementation!

Using the radioactive decay present in a banana to generate random numbers. Even if you don't appreciate the math/code/hardware behind it, you can appreciate the aesthetic of this Arduino-based generator and banana holder.

Quick explanation: https://www.hackster.io/news/the-just-bananas-method-for-generating-true-random-numbers-0e67c763dc1a

More complex (including code and math/probability), from the developer: https://www.valerionappi.it/brng-en/

@mdhughes @clacke @eldang Nah, Guinan has one of these and there's always someone astonished with it:

@mdhughes @clacke @eldang The Rube Goldberg tea maker is definitely Riker, Wesley Crusher, a pretty ensign trying to explain beverages and human emotions to Data, and Lwaxana Troi. A Klein Bottle held over a flame by an elegant twisted metal stand is Picard, Deanna Troi, and Worf. (Worf hates the pouring mechanism, orders it solely for the flame.)

@clacke @eldang Not going to get into the politics of post scarcity and a class that still engages in trade and capital to get premium items, but presumably the replicator could make a tea bag and he could pop up to Ten Forward on his break to use something like a spirit lamp and brew it to his liking?

The question shouldn't be "Why would Picard order Earl Grey when other, better teas exist?" We should ask, why order replicator tea at all when it likely tastes like it was made with microwaved water? Jean-Luc, honey, just order a 24th century Monster energy drink and a bergamot aromatherapy patch and go on with your day.

@Canageek There's caffeine in Earl Grey, though. Energy drink, quarter-stimulant, cold?

@Canageek That's a good point, too. I'm just more concerned about all tea tasting weird, but it could also be that people like what they're used to.

@Canageek For some reason, lots of people find that microwaving water changes the taste and feeling of it. And with a replicator, you aren't getting the variables from brewing real tea, just a uniform flavour experience. So the flavour itself isn't what bothers me, it's that any hot beverage is probably going to have the flat, scorchy undertaste of being microwaved.

@Canageek Also, I'm thinking about the scene in Picard where Rios goes wild for the peanut butter cookies because the real ones have something intangible the replicator can't capture.

@checkervest That's pretty and looks so satisfying to hold!

Here's mine, thanks for the reminder to go get a drink