Five Quick Links for Friday Afternoon

This webapp called One More Try automatically plays back a delayed recording of whatever you're doing (skateboarding, tennis), "shrinking the feedback loop so you can practice faster and better". [onemoretry.app]

On the "gentrification font" (Neutraface and similar typefaces). "Sleek sans serif numbers are now the official look of neighborhood change." [vice.com]

The Sturgis Biker Rally Did Not Cause 266,796 Cases of COVID-19. "While some underlying factors do predict spread, there is a high degree of randomness, and small disturbances (like winds) can cause huge variation across time and space." [slate.com]

Your gentle reminder that @kottke has an official daily podcast now. "In just 15 minutes, the coolest stuff that happened in the world today." Check it out here. [link.chtbl.com]

Your Phone Wasn't Built for the Apocalypse. "Images and videos have never captured the world as it really is — they simply create a new understanding of that world from the light that emits from and reflects off of objects." [theatlantic.com]

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