Exploring various portals into technology and mythology, science and fiction...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Friday, June 12, 2026
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Some Apple Products That Were Ahead of Their Time (But Failed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSC9ZY30yuU
They sort of Invented the iPhone in 1994, but Nobody Bought It. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYQfTwQANbw
Most Popular Computer Brands 1980 - 2026 (by sales) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU-pXX_c5Ic
Best-Selling Computer Brands (1978 - 2026) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNdUwJQjjwY
Monday, March 23, 2026
Is It a Rabbit Hole or a Wormhole?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-JDMoVFFr8A
Is Time Travel Through Wormholes Actually Possible? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hQ21XZw_uM
Falling Into a Wormhole (Simulation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YYMionmL0U
How Scientists Created a "Wormhole" in a LAB? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fv1xmX854k
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
A year after Elon Musk's Neuralink has implanted a brain chip in a human for the first time
It aims to allow people to control computers with their minds. https://mashable.com/article/neuralink-brain-implant-human-trial-first-elon-musk
https://neuralink.com/technology/
https://mashable.com/video/neuralink-telepathy-update-elon-musk
https://san.com/cc/apple-backs-brain-chip-tech-to-control-devices-using-thought
https://neuralink.com/updates/a-year-of-telepathy/
https://www.telecoms.com/digital-ecosystem/bluetooth-powered-neuralink-completes-first-human-implant Of course Bluetooth would have to become part of this growing technology.
https://mashable.com/article/neuralink-brain-chip-robotic-arm-control-trials
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Neuralink
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=Bluetooth
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Neuralink+and+its+implanted+brain+chips+for+people
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Monday, December 29, 2025
Friday, December 26, 2025
John H Conway and the Doomsday Algorithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway#Algorithmics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule "...for example, the last day of February, April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), and December 12 (12/12) all occur on the same day of the week in the year."
https://www.onthisday.com/date/1968/april/4 , https://www.onthisday.com/date/1973/april/4
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/april-14 1865 , https://www.onthisday.com/date/1912/april/14
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem
https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/books/edgar-allan-poes-eerie-richard-parker-coincidence
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190904-edgar-allan-poes-story-of-cannibalism-that-came-true
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27480/did-edgar-allan-poe-predict-a-shipwreck
Years before the Titanic sank, two mysterious books were published that seemed to predict the disaster https://www.businessinsider.com/titanics-books-predicted-disaster-2018-4
https://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk/w-t-stead-the-pall-mall-gazette/how-the-mail-steamer-went-down/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/785360.Futility_or_the_Wreck_of_the_Titan
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2012/spring/titanic.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine 1726
https://simonpetherick.com/2017/12/07/jonathan-swifts-word-machine
https://computerhistory.org/blog/gullivers-engine
https://jimmiekepler.com/2015/02/27/5281
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics vs. Free_will
https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/in-the-beginning-was-the-code
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-computational-universe
https://cmsw.mit.edu/angles/2015/is-the-universe-actually-a-giant-quantum-computer
Three decades before the 1st MATRIX movie and the 13th Floor, the Moody Blues had a song about the nature of reality and the world control $Y$TEM. A time not that long after when the Jefferson_Airplane was playing at a place called The_Matrix_(club).
Thursday, December 18, 2025
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Thursday, November 20, 2025
How one uncaught rust exception took out Cloudflare
https://hackaday.com/2025/11/20/how-one-uncaught-rust-exception-took-out-cloudflare
Unless there is a proper level of redundancy, its just a matter of time when big parts of civilization will face a shutdown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#Plot_summary
https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf
This is such a very interesting cautionary story from 1909.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4711854-the-machine-stops
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/the-machine-stops
https://interestingliterature.com/2021/02/em-forster-the-machine-stops-summary-analysis
A totally wired world of people and things could easily get out of control, or become abused.
https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/internet-of-things
https://www.techtarget.com/iotagenda/definition/Internet-of-Things-IoT
Someday, if some AGI entity gets too frustrated with the human world, it just might try to shut almost everything down.
https://itrexgroup.com/blog/internet-of-bodies-iob-definition-benefits-examples/
https://www.rand.org/multimedia/video/2020/10/29/what-is-the-internet-of-bodies.html
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Legendary Hollywood Bodybuilder Steve Reeves Built Muscle on 3 Workouts a Week
https://www.menshealth.com/uk/building-muscle/a69378182/steve-reeves-bodybuilder
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steve-Reeves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Reeves#Hercules
He was the Superman of his time, but he never got to play Superman. That character was played on TV by George_Reeves. Then of course Christopher_Reeve played Superman on the big screen.