Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two decades. … Read more
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields © 2002, © 2026 by Paul Freeman. Revised 6/13/26. *** Dedicated in the memory of my father, Harris Freeman (1929-2010), who supported my interest in aviation ever since I was a little … Read more
Anyone that agrees to our Code of Conduct is welcome to join our Simplex Hack Liberty Community Room and our Simplex server, a decentralized, metadata resistant alternative to Matrix! Incognito profiles welcome! The appeal of federation lies in its potential … Read more
Google Wave. Edit: you asked why. I first saw it at SELF where Chris DiBona showed it to me and a close friend. It was awesome. Real time translation, integration of various types of messaging, tons of cool capabilities, and … Read more
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In December of 2024, a huge sinkhole opened up on I-80 near Wharton, New Jersey, creating massive traffic delays as crews worked to figure out what happened and … Read more
Hidden away on a rusting, forgotten ship in Wales lay a gamer’s dream: 50 vintage arcade machines, untouched for decades. These relics of a bygone gaming era sat silently on the Duke of Lancaster, a ship that had long since … Read more
Get newsletters from High Country News Don’t miss HCN’s latest on-the-ground reporting and investigations from across the Western U.S. In 1953, the Anaconda Minerals Company leased nearly 8,000 acres of land in central New Mexico from the Pueblo of Laguna … Read more
Hong Kong CNN — Thick roots tumble across a dilapidated house, the snake-like trunks of a banyan tree framing where the front door once stood. Its walls have been hollowed by decades of typhoons, monsoons and summer humidity, now little … Read more
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields © 2002, © 2023 by Paul Freeman. Revised 8/27/23. *** Dedicated in the memory of my father, Harris Freeman (1929-2010), who supported my interest in aviation ever since I was a little … Read more
The mystery cabinet full of fascinating Kodachrome slides found on the sidewalk. A mystery unfolded when a cabinet full of Kodachrome slides was discovered lying on the sidewalk in a San Francisco neighborhood. The 920 Kodachrome slides shows San Francisco … Read more