It will remain a mystery

I love this, but is anyone else having trouble with the css/text? Chrome seems to dim the images, but the white text is unreadable on all the images for firefox. Doesn’t work on Safari at all.

I remember learning about this as a kid from, of all places, a 1976 detective show called City of Angels (starring Wayne Rogers). Ten-year-old me thought it was so cool they would even broach such a topic on TV. As ways to become radicalised go …

This Video (French) says it’s a thousand years old, but that seems not to be the case, more like like 4-500 years.

I think the NYT is mistaken, as here’s an engraving of «jeu de paume» from the 16th C

According to the very long and exhaustive wiki

“The term real was first used by journalists in the early 20th century as a retronym to distinguish the ancient game from modern lawn tennis”, and, is it happens, 'It is also known as court tennis in the United States, royal tennis in England and Australia, and courte-paume in France."

I think the kings were pissed when they started playing tennis outside. “That’s not real tennis”, they probably said.

TIL that Nile Rodgers, one of my favourite artists, is now a corporate shil/POS. Re: ‘Hipgnosis’, a firm that purchases song rights for use in ads, etc.

Company partner and funk legend Nile Rodgers has presented it to investors as an opportunity “to establish songs as an uncorrelated asset class with attractive risk[-adjusted] returns”

https://archive.is/rEQMr