Archive for May 30th, 2025

A Documentary About the Plight of Artificially-Generated Actors

We've heard so much talk about artificial intelligence taking over our jobs. It's happening in all sectors, but is most visible in movies, video, and television. That's bad for real actors, who not only make a living pla...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/30/A-Documentary-About-the-Plight-of-Artificially-Generated-Actors/

A Delightful Gallery of Owls in Towels

Owls are awesome, and a vital part of the ecosystem. They tend to avoid humans as best as they can, but occasionally, an owl is orphaned, sick, or injured, and there are dedicated rehabilitators who rise to occasion and...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/30/A-Delightful-Gallery-of-Owls-in-Towels/

Semicolons Are at Risk of Dying Out

Punctuation marks, like all other aspects of language, change over time. A personal example: I routinely teach college students what a colon (:) is; they rarely, if ever, have used one before and are unfamiliar with it.T...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/30/Semicolons-Are-at-Risk-of-Dying-Out/

How to Risk Life and Limb to Fill a Klein Bottle

A Klein bottle is one that has no separate inside and outside because they are both the same surface. It's not an imaginary shape, and you can buy a Klein bottle easily. Can you fill such a bottle with liquid? That's a p...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/30/How-to-Risk-Life-and-Limb-to-Fill-a-Klein-Bottle/

Japan Bans Weird Baby Names

The subreddit /r/Tragedeigh is devoted to highlighting the most bizarre and outlandish names that people create for their children. Some are normal names that are deliberately misspelled (e.g. Jaxshuyn), some place unrea...

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/05/30/Japan-Bans-Weird-Baby-Names/
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