Three Quick Links for Wednesday Afternoon

According to this analysis of excess deaths by The Economist, roughly 3 million people globally per year are still dying because of Covid-19. "At current rates, it would kill more people in the next eight years than in the past three."

From journalist & author Melissa Gira Grant, a list of recommended media about American fascism.

The Santa Clara Principles outlines standards regarding transparency and accountability in content moderation for social media platforms.

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Five Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish

"A beluga whale long believed to be a Russian spy..." Excuse me, what?!

Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer. Teju Cole visits the unprecedented Rijksmuseum exhibition and finds the trouble in Vermeer's paintings. What a great read.

What Happened When I Stopped Drinking. "I put down the bottle and picked up everything else."

How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers. "In 1910, a failed House bill sought to increase the availability of low-cost meat by importing hippopotamuses that would be killed to make 'lake cow bacon.'"

You can buy a 4-inch cube of tungsten online for only $4000. Tungsten is one of the densest metals so this small cube (about the size of a pint of ice cream) weighs a whopping 41.6 pounds.

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Wonderful Animated Soccer Vignettes

Richard Swarbrick makes these great impressionist animations of sports events, mostly soccer but also cricket and basketball. Here's one to get you started...the 5-0 drubbing FC Barcelona handed to Real Madrid during a 2010 Clasico:

It's amazing how much Swarbrick's illustrations communicate with so few strokes...Mourinho's face is my favorite. Here's the actual match for comparison purposes. And here's Maradona's sublime goal against England in the 1986 World Cup (original video):

You can find many other examples of Swarbrick's work on his web site and on his YouTube channel. (via @dunstan)

[This was originally posted on September 12, 2013.]

Tags:Diego Maradona    illustration    Richard Swarbrick    soccer    sports    video   

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Fighting Fascism in America

In a Memorial Day reflection, historian Heather Cox Richardson highlights a pamphlet distributed by the US War Department to Army soldiers during World War II on the topic of fascism: what it is and how to combat it.

The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power "under the guise of 'super-patriotism' and 'super-Americanism.'" And they would use three techniques:

First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a "well-planned 'hate campaign' against minority races, religions, and other groups."

Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else. "In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations."

Third, fascists would insist that "the world has but two choices — either fascism or communism, and they label as 'communists' everyone who refuses to support them."

It is "vitally important" to learn to spot native fascists, the government said, "even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy."

See also The 14 Features of Eternal Fascism, How Fascism Works, Toni Morrison's Ten Steps Towards Fascism, and Fighting Authoritarianism: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century.

Tags: Heather Cox Richardson · politics · USA

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The Sun, as Seen by the World's Largest Solar Telescope

The Inouye Solar Telescope is the largest and most powerful solar telescope in the world. The telescope is still in a "learning and transitioning period" and not up to full operational speed, but scientists at the National Solar Observatory recently released a batch of images that hint at what it's capable of. Several of the photos feature sunspots, cooler regions of the Sun with strong magnetic fields.

The sunspots pictured are dark and cool regions on the Sun's "surface", known as the photosphere, where strong magnetic fields persist. Sunspots vary in size, but many are often the size of Earth, if not larger. Complex sunspots or groups of sunspots can be the source of explosive events like flares and coronal mass ejections that generate solar storms. These energetic and eruptive phenomena influence the outermost atmospheric layer of the Sun, the heliosphere, with the potential to impact Earth and our critical infrastructure.

In the quiet regions of the Sun, the images show convection cells in the photosphere displaying a bright pattern of hot, upward-flowing plasma (granules) surrounded by darker lanes of cooler, down-flowing solar plasma. In the atmospheric layer above the photosphere, called the chromosphere, we see dark, elongated fibrils originating from locations of small-scale magnetic field accumulations.

(via petapixel)

Tags: astronomy · Inouye Solar Telescope · science · space · Sun

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Two Quick Links for Sunday Afternoon

I like the Tom Wambsgans triple play theory of how Succession is going to end. (And remember, the first episode of the series featured....a softball game.)

Finally, they've ported Tetris to a Chicken McNugget. The plastic nugget handheld is available at Chinese McDonald's restaurants for around $4.25.

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Four Quick Links for Friday Noonish

The Tesla Model Y is now the best-selling car in the world, beating out the Toyota Corolla. The over-reliance on cars is still a big issue, but an EV topping the best-seller list right now is a small bit of good news re: the climate crisis.

A Day in the Life of a Woke Third-Grade Teacher, as Imagined by a Far-Right Politician. "I pull into the parking lot and say hello to the drag queen we recently hired as the school librarian."

From Slashfilm, a list of the Top 100 Movies Of All Time. More accurate to call this a list of favorite movies rather than the best ones...lots of crowd-pleasing comedies on here.

Target Removes All Towels From Stores After Soaking-Wet Lunatic Objects To Dryness. "The towels were never meant to force a bone-dry lifestyle on any sopping maniac..."

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Building a Scale Model of Time

The length of a human life is around 80 years. You might get 100 if you're lucky. The universe is about 13.7 billion years old. The vast difference between a human lifespan and the age of the universe can be difficult to grasp — even the words we use in attempting to describe it (like "vast") are comically insufficient.

To help us visualize what a difference of eight orders of magnitude might look like, Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh have created a scale model of time in the Mojave Desert, from the Big Bang to the present day. This is really worth watching and likely to make you think some big think thoughts about your place in the universe and in your life.

This is a followup of the scale model of the solar system they built and a video they made about people seeing the Moon through a telescope for the first time.

See also a behind-the-scenes: How We Built a Scale Model of Time. (via colossal)

Tags: Alex Gorosh · infoviz · science · time · Universe · video · Wylie Overstreet

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Three Quick Links for Thursday Noonish

"American cheese is not a quality product. In fact, its lack of quality is often the point, a grand embrace of the lowbrow and cheap that is the cornerstone of so much comfort food." (I love American cheese.)

Cool Pac-Man arcade cabinet set coming soon from Lego. There's a crank on the side that simulates Pac-Man chasing the ghosts.

A Paralyzed Man Can Walk Naturally Again With Brain and Spine Implants. "The brain-spine interface...took advantage of an AI thought decoder to read Mr. Oskam's intentions...and match them to muscle movements."

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It's Just Business

Whenever I hear someone say "it's just business" in order to magically justify some decision to ignore the humanity of individual people, I remember that it's adapted from a line in The Godfather spoken by Michael Corleone at the precise moment when he decides to become a murderous sociopath. We should maybe stop running businesses like fictional mafia families.

Tags: business · movies · The Godfather · video

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Hand Talk

Hand Talk sign language has been used by indigenous communities for thousands of years as a lingua franca between groups and tribes that didn't share a common spoken language. Hand Talk is an endangered endangered — the US government tried to eradicate indigenous languages starting the late 1800s — but it's still in use today.

This was fascinating. For example, as with all languages, Hand Talk vocabulary reveals how they thought about everyday concepts like time:

For example, let's take the simple question: "How old are you?" First, there's a single sign for "question." So for a question about someone's age, you'd use the motion for question with the motion for "winter". How many winters are you? That's what I ask. In PISL you measure months by moons, days by the sun. And to refer to different times of day, you would show hand placement according to the position of the sun in the sky. So this sign for morning, afternoon, or night.

Hand Talk was also one of the influences on ASL and the borrowing of vocabulary between the two language groups continues.

Tags: language · Native Americans · video

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Three Quick Links for Wednesday Afternoon

Tina Turner has died at the age of 83. "With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model." Simply the best.

Wendy's is testing a scheme to deliver takeout food to people's cars using what sounds like a robotic dumbwaiter or pneumatic tube system. (via polymath.net)

How Should We Feel about Barnes and Noble Now? "They are putting on the costume and language of a pretty neighborhood independent bookstore, but their inner mechanics are still all big-box chain corporation."

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Six Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish

A subway-style map of the routes of European sleeper train routes. Someday... (via @marcprecipice)

Quantifying the human cost of global warming: because of climate change, over 600 million people currently live outside the "human climate niche". That could rise to more than 1/3 of the total global population by the end of the century.

France has banned short-haul flights to destinations where the same journey can be made by train in under 2.5 hours.

This has been apparent for months now: Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network. "Twitter has evolved into a platform that is indistinguishable from the wastelands of alternative social-media sites such as Truth Social and Parler."

I had no idea this existed: Informed Delivery is a free service from the USPS that lets you see photos of your mail & packages before they arrive. There's even a daily email digest option. (via @ironicsans)

You Cannot Hear These 13 Women's Stories and Believe the Anti-Abortion Narrative. "It's increasingly clear that it's not safe to be pregnant in states with total abortion bans."

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The 100 Greatest Children's Books of All Time

Relying on the choices of 177 book experts from 56 different countries, BBC Culture recently chose the 100 greatest children's books of all time. The top five are:

1. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
2. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
3. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
4. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
5. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

In terms of Sendak, I always preferred In the Night Kitchen to Where the Wild Things Are. Here are a few of my personal favorites from the list:

14. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
20. Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
31. The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
45. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
92. Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl

Is the Lord of the Rings a children's book? Young adult? And I would have liked to have seen Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go on the list. And perhaps some Frog and Toad?

Tags: best of · books · lists

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Russian Family Isolated From Other People for 40 Years

Crazy article from the Smithsonian about a Russian family that disappeared into the Siberian wilderness in 1936 and had no contact with other people for more than 40 years. In the process, they missed World War II, the Moon landing, and the start of the Cold War.

...beside a stream there was a dwelling. Blackened by time and rain, the hut was piled up on all sides with taiga rubbish-bark, poles, planks. If it hadn't been for a window the size of my backpack pocket, it would have been hard to believe that people lived there. But they did, no doubt about it.... Our arrival had been noticed, as we could see.

The low door creaked, and the figure of a very old man emerged into the light of day, straight out of a fairy tale. Barefoot. Wearing a patched and repatched shirt made of sacking. He wore trousers of the same material, also in patches, and had an uncombed beard. His hair was disheveled. He looked frightened and was very attentive.... We had to say something, so I began: 'Greetings, grandfather! We've come to visit!'

The old man did not reply immediately.... Finally, we heard a soft, uncertain voice: 'Well, since you have traveled this far, you might as well come in.'

Super fascinating. This short documentary (in Russian) shows something of how the Lykov's lived. (via @davidchang)

[This was originally posted on January 29, 2013.]

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Six Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish

An important opinion piece written by an SUV: Outdoor Dining Must Not Interfere With NYC's Historic Parking Spots. "Who are they to deny me the pleasure of idling underneath a tall willow in the West Village?"

A rave review of Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon by Shannon Shaw Duty of the Osage News. "The film Scorsese has made is definitely not a simple adaptation of Grann's book, but an adaptation that's magnified."

What It's Like to Have an Abortion Denied by Dobbs. An infuriating & important profile of a Mississippi woman who was forced to give birth and raise a child she wasn't ready for. "I feel like I'm in a prison."

From 1999 to 2020, there were 1.63 million excess deaths among Black Americans (when compared to the death rates of white Americans). Total cumulative potential years lost: 82 million.

The 20 best TV series finales of all time. Several of my favorites are on here, including Six Feet Under, Fleabag, and The Americans. I would have liked to see ST:TNG on here maybe?

Sex Ed Books Don't 'Groom' Kids and Teens. They Protect Them. The author of It’s Perfectly Normal says that a 10-year-old girl read the book and "showed her mom the chapter on sexual abuse and said, 'This is me.'"

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Going to High School in an Old Department Store

A high school here in Vermont is located (temporarily) in an abandoned Macy's department store. A crew from the BBC recently made a short video tour, where you can see books on shelves designed to display fine china, an absence of windows, escalators, a lack of floor-to-ceiling walls, and fashion branding that remains on the walls.

Alexandra Lange wrote about the school last year for Curbed.

The genre may be nearly dead, yet the building remains. And for economic, ecological, and social reasons, those buildings should be reused. "It's amazing to think that we are standing in what used to be a department store; that we're greeting people where we used to buy winter coats; reading books where they once sold fine china; taking phone calls in converted changing rooms; and learning science in the old suit racks," Burlington's school superintendent, Tom Flanagan, said at the ceremony. A school in a department store doesn't have to be a sad story. In fact, this should just be the beginning, both for the students and for a country once addicted to big boxes.

Vermont indie newspaper Seven Days published a writeup, video tour, and photo slideshow of the school when it opened two years ago.

Tags: Alexandra Lange · education · Vermont · video

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Six Quick Links for Monday Noonish

This is totally silly and I can't look away: a treadmill race between Mario Kart cars and Pixar's Cars cars. See also Solar System Battle Royale and Sports Battle Royale.

A Ukrainian refugee flees Columbus, Ohio and returns to Kyiv (in a literal war zone!) because of shitty public infrastructure and a non-existent social safety net. (via @waldoj)

Civil rights organizations like the NAACP and advocacy groups for Latino and LGBTQ+ people are issuing travel advisories for Florida, saying the state is "openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals".

Office Workers Don't Hate the Office. They Hate the Commute. "We have to do something about the daily commute, a ritual of American life that’s time-consuming, emotionally taxing, environmentally toxic and expensive."

How 'Succession' Busts One of America's Most Cherished Myths (that we like strivers when what we really respect is money & power). "Power and money are fine if you have them already. It's wanting to acquire them that's the problem."

Ancient Romans Dropped Their Bling Down the Drain, Too. "The colorful intaglios — gems with incised carvings — likely fell out of signet rings worn by wealthy third-century bathers, and ended up trapped in the stone drains."

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A Brief History of the Concept Album

Polyphonic's videos on music are always worth a watch and in this latest one, they explore the history of the concept album, from its proto-origins in the Romantic era to the 70s rock opera heyday to the modern era, where a large percentage of all album releases are conceptual in nature. Along the way, they namecheck a variety of artists from many genres, including Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, The Who, Pink Floyd, Stevie Wonder, Kraftwerk, Iron Maiden, De La Soul, Arcade Fire, Daft Punk, Janelle Monáe, Kendrick Lamar, and Taylor Swift. (via open culture)

Tags: music · video

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Is Ozempic an Anti-Addiction Drug?

Writing for The Atlantic, Sarah Zhang details how some people taking Ozempic for weight loss are reporting that the drug has also curbed their addictive impulses (to drink, to shop, to smoke).

Earlier this year, she began taking semaglutide, also known as Wegovy, after being prescribed the drug for weight loss. (Colloquially, it is often referred to as Ozempic, though that is technically just the brand name for semaglutide that is marketed for diabetes treatment.) Her food thoughts quieted down. She lost weight. But most surprisingly, she walked out of Target one day and realized her cart contained only the four things she came to buy. "I've never done that before," she said. The desire to shop had slipped away. The desire to drink, extinguished once, did not rush in as a replacement either. For the first time — perhaps the first time in her whole life — all of her cravings and impulses were gone. It was like a switch had flipped in her brain.

Not everyone experiences these effects, but there's enough anecdotal evidence at this point that scientists are interested and investigating.

Tags: addiction · drugs · medicine · Sarah Zhang · science

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The Four Republican "Freedoms"

For the NY Times, Jamelle Bouie takes a look at the legislation that Republicans around the country are pushing and, in the style of FDR's Four Freedoms speech, outlines what goals they are attempting to achieve.

There is the freedom to control — to restrict the bodily autonomy of women and repress the existence of anyone who does not conform to traditional gender roles.

There is the freedom to exploit — to allow the owners of business and capital to weaken labor and take advantage of workers as they see fit.

There is the freedom to censor — to suppress ideas that challenge and threaten the ideologies of the ruling class.

And there is the freedom to menace — to carry weapons wherever you please, to brandish them in public, to turn the right of self-defense into a right to threaten other people.

That sounds about right, and it reminds me, as Republican "governance" often does these days, of Frank Wilhoit's definition of conservatism:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Tags: Jamelle Bouie · USA · lists · politics

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Ice Merchants

This is just beautiful. This short animated film by João Gonzalez starts off slow but really pays off in the end. Ice Merchants was nominated for a 2023 Academy Award. Here's an interview with Gonzalez at Director's Notes.

Tags: death · Joao Gonzalez · video

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Three Quick Links for Friday Noonish

The Movement to Stop Dollar Stores From Suffocating Black Communities. "They're like an invasive species. They overpower all the resources and make the businesses in those neighborhoods vulnerable."

What can we learn about art from The Simpsons? "The long-running sitcom has such wise lessons on the art world, it ought to be on art school curricula."

In the 70s, the Chicago Sun-Times bought a bar and staffed it with journalists to investigate extortion by city employees. "[Various inspectors] all took envelopes with money in them and they all passed us. And we should never have passed."

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Abstract Wood Block Sculptures of Notable Paintings

Using colorful wooden blocks cut at different angles, Timur Zagirov makes pixel-log ¹ representations of famous artworks by Vermeer, van Gogh, and Leonardo. You can check out his work on Instagram or at Stowe Gallery. (via moss & fog)

1. Pixelized + analog + wood = pixel-log! Ok fine that's terrible but I'm leaving it in. 😜↩

Tags: art · remix · Timur Zagirov

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Three Quick Links for Thursday Noonish

Birder Peter Kaestner has recorded seeing 9,856 different species of birds on his life list in the eBird app, a world record. He's trying for 10,000, travelling to remote (and sometimes unstable) locales to do so.

Extremely hot days are warming twice as fast as average summer days in North-West Europe. "Last year's heatwave was not a fluke."

There's a 98% chance that global temperatures will soar to record highs in the next five years, due to human-caused warming and El Niño, including a possible spike above the 1.5°C threshold.

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Unboxing a 400-Year-Old Copy of Shakespeare's First Folio

The First Folio is a collection of 36 plays by William Shakespeare that was published in 1623. One of the most influential books ever published, only about 230 copies are known to have survived. The Victoria and Albert Museum has three copies, and in this video, they lead the viewer on a tour through one of them.

There are 36 plays by Shakespeare in this book and half of them had not been previously printed. So this book preserves really half of Shakespeare's complete works — plays that would probably have been completely lost to us include the Tempest, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, many others that are among people's favorites today.

(via aeon)

Tags: William Shakespeare · books · video

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Watch the Trailer for Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon

I've been waiting patiently on this one: the teaser trailer for Killers of the Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It's based on the fantastic book by David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.

The movie will be out in theaters on October 6. Oh, and Scorsese & DiCaprio have already signed on to adapt Grann's latest book, The Wager, which I recently read and loved.

Tags: David Grann · Killers of the Flower Moon · Leonardo DiCaprio · Martin Scorsese · books · movies · trailers · video

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Why Did Kids Stop Walking to School?

Right now in the US, the majority of children are driven to school, even though many of them live within walking or cycling distance.

In 1969, about 48% of students walked or cycled to school in the United States. Today that figure is about 11%. And this decline wasn't just in the US — you can find the same trend in Australia, England, and Canada: today the majority of students are driven to school in a car. One of the larger studies we have on this issue in [British Columbia] found that 58% of 4th graders and 50% of 7th graders were driven to school by their parents.

There are various reasons for this shift, including that roads are unsafe for cyclists and pedestrians because of cars, a cultural shift towards greatly increased parental supervision of children, and inflexible parental work schedules.

Tags: cars · video

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Tiny Electronic Desktop Sculptures

Hardware engineer Mohit Bhoite designs functional little desktop bots like this thermometer and this internet-connected weather display:

These are adorable...there's no other way to describe them. You can check out more of Bhoite's sculptures on his website or on Instagram. (via core77)

Tags: art · Mohit Bhoite

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How to Design an (Unofficial) Transit Map

In this short video, Norwegian creative director Torger Jansen explains how he designed an unofficial transit map that combines all three of Oslo's public transportation networks (tram, metro, train) into a single diagram. His four main goals:

1. Showing all the lines on every network, thus making it easier to understand the service patterns.
2. Making it recognisable with the official line colours.
3. Compressing unnaturally long distances between stations.
4. Balancing aesthetics and accessibility. The diagram is clear and easy to read with minimal fuss.

As Jansen notes, this is not how a design process would work in the real world — there's no user testing or competing stakeholders to please — but from a purely aesthetic and functional standpoint, it's still an interesting challenge and puzzle to attempt to solve. (thx, david)

Tags: design · maps · Norway · remix · Torger Jansen · video

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How Precise Metal Machining Is Done

I've always wondered about the process for making pieces of metal that appear to fit together perfectly, so perfectly that you can't see any sort of cut or seam. In this video, Steve Mould explains how wire EDM works, in part using cheese.

Tags: how to · Steve Mould · video

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Japan's Evaporated People

In Japan, people who disappear from their lives are called "evaporated people". People choose to drop out of their lives for different reasons, ranging from debt or abuse to mental health struggles or a lack of second chances in Japanese society. Some Japanese who want to go into hiding or relocate from domestic abuse or stalkers hire "night movers" to help them disappear.

For more info, here's a long piece from Time magazine from 2017.

Sometimes a whole team works on a client's disappearance, swiftly sweeping through an apartment in the dead of night. At TS, it costs between ¥50,000 ($450) and ¥300,000 ($2,600) depending on the amount of possessions somebody wants to flee with, how far they're going, and whether the move needs to happen under the cover of darkness. Taking along children, or evading debt collectors, can push prices higher. Every day, TS receives between five and 10 inquiries like the one Saita described. Most people simply require counseling or legal advice but the company claims to help between 100 and 150 people to vanish annually.

Tags: Japan · video

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Early Computer Art in the 50s and 60s

Artist Amy Goodchild recently published an engaging article about the earliest computer art from the 50s and 60s.

My original vision for this article was to cover the development of computer art from the 50's to the 90's, but it turns out there's an abundance of things without even getting half way through that era. So in this article we'll look at how Lovelace's ideas for creativity with a computer first came to life in the 50's and 60's, and I'll cover later decades in future articles.

I stray from computer art into electronic, kinetic and mechanical art because the lines are blurred, it contributes to the historical context, and also because there is some cool stuff to look at.

Cool stuff indeed — I've included some of my favorite pieces that Goodchild highlighted above. (via waxy)

Tags: Amy Goodchild · art · computing

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Curve-Fitting Methods and the Messages They Send

From XKCD, Curve-Fitting Methods and the Messages They Send. Ahhhh, this takes me back to my research days in college, tinkering with best fits and R-squared values...

Tags: infoviz · mathematics · Randall Munroe · science · XKCD

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How A24 Took Over Hollywood

If you're like me, sometime in the past 4-5 years you noticed that a lot of the films you liked (or, even if you didn't, you appreciated that they were getting made) were coming from the same place, A24. Moonlight, Uncut Gems, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Aftersun, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Eighth Grade, Lady Bird, The Lobster, Amy, Ex Machina. More recently, TV shows like Euphoria, Beef, and Erma Vep.

This video from Vox charts the rise of A24 from a small distributor to an Oscar-winning powerhouse that pumps out more movies each year than much bigger studios. See also The Cult of A24 (a good companion piece to the video above) and Every A24 Movie, Ranked.

Tags: A24 · movies · video

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A Trove of Video Profiles of Artists

On their YouTube channel, Art21 hosts a treasure trove of video profiles of artists like Amy Sherald, Olafur Eliasson, Chris Ware, Christian Marclay, Anish Kapoor, Kara Walker, Barbara Kruger, Julie Mehretu, and Sally Mann.

This is excellent — what a resource. (via colossal)

Tags: art · art school · video

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The Future Pandemic Playbook: What the US Got Right

From The Atlantic, 23 Pandemic Decisions That Actually Went Right, the result of interviews with more than a dozen pandemic experts.

17. Basic research spending matters. The COVID vaccines wouldn't have been ready for the public nearly as quickly without a number of existing advances in immunology, Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told us. Scientists had known for years that mRNA had immense potential as a delivery platform for vaccines, but before SARS-CoV-2 appeared, they hadn't had quite the means or urgency to move the shots to market. And research into vaccines against other viruses, such as RSV and MERS, had already offered hints about the sorts of genetic modifications that might be needed to stabilize the coronavirus's spike protein into a form that would marshal a strong, lasting immune response.

Tags: Covid-19 · lists · medicine · science · USA

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How Big Are the Biggest Black Holes?

This short animation from NASA shows the sizes of some of the supermassive black holes that feature at the center of galaxies. Some are relatively small:

First up is 1601+3113, a dwarf galaxy hosting a black hole packed with the mass of 100,000 Suns. The matter is so compressed that even the black hole's shadow is smaller than our Sun.

While others are much larger than the solar system...and this isn't even the biggest one:

At the animation's larger scale lies M87's black hole, now with a updated mass of 5.4 billion Suns. Its shadow is so big that even a beam of light — traveling at 670 million mph (1 billion kph) — would take about two and a half days to cross it.

Tags: astronomy · black holes · NASA · physics · science · video

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Three Quick Links for Thursday Noonish

How to Survive a Car Crash in 10 Easy Steps. "Your brain can't regenerate the neurons it's lost. Use 'em or lose 'em. You had no idea your brain operated like annual dental benefits."

A reminder that CNN is not bumbling into platforming fascists like Trump because of some unlearned lessons from 2016 — the network's move to the right is on purpose. It's entertainment, not news — like Fox.

A book from 2019 called This Is How You Lose the Time War has rocketed to #3 on Amazon's bestseller list because of a viral tweet by someone named Bigolas Dickolas. (via @kathrynyu)

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The Whimsical Fellowship, Wes Anderson's Lord of the Rings

I know, I know. Too much Wes Anderson. Too much AI. But there is something in my brain, a chemical imbalance perhaps, and I can't help but find this reimagining of the Lord of the Rings in Anderson's signature style funny and charming. Sorry but not sorry.

See also The Galactic Menagerie, Wes Anderson's Star Wars.

Tags: artificial intelligence · movies · remix · The Lord of the Rings · video · Wes Anderson

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Great Wave Off Kanagawa, In All Its 1-Bit Pixelized Glory

As part of a project to reproduce all 36 of Hokusai's views of Mount Fuji as 1-bit black & white pixel art, James Weiner drew Great Wave Off Kanagawa:

And he used an old Mac running System 7 to do it:

I usually use either my Quadra 700 or PowerBook 100, mostly because those are my reliable and easy to access computers (that run System 7, my favourite and most familiar OS of that era).

Software-wise I use Aldus SuperPaint 3.0, which is what my family had when I was a kid. Yes, I'd say that all of this is 99% nostalgia-driven...

This is just a lovely rendering — spare and elegant with just the right amount of detail.

Tags: art · James Weiner · Katsushika Hokusai · remix

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Rest in Peace, Heather

Hey folks, I have some sad news to share. Heather Hamilton (aka Heather Armstrong), who wrote the popular and influential Dooce weblog, died yesterday. She was 47 years old. My thoughts are with her children, her family, and those closest to her.

I'll see you back here tomorrow. In the meantime, hug your loved ones tight. ❤️

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Four Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish

J. R. Moehringer on his experiences ghostwriting memoirs with Andre Agassi, Phil Knight, and Prince Harry. "For the thousandth time in my ghostwriting career, I reminded myself: It's not your effing book."

"From the copaganda marketing term 'officer-involved shooting' to the politician fave 'mistakes were made,' exonerative language deflects whose fault it is, absolving anyone of accountability and employing the passive voice to misleading ends."

Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat designed a map in Counter-Strike with a secret room that delivers factual information on the war in Ukraine to Russian players who only hear propaganda on the news.

The list of the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in the US for 2023 includes two Chinatowns, a gas station in Arizona, and Miami's Little Santo Domingo neighborhood.

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Tour the Bridges of All of Star Trek's Starships Enterprise

Drawing from the materials of The Roddenberry Archive, this video takes us on a virtual tour of the 3D rendered bridges of every iteration of the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, from the original 1964 sketches to the final scenes of Star Trek: Picard. I've watched a bunch of Star Trek recently and it was neat to see the evolution of the design and presumed technology. Designing for the future is difficult and it's even tougher when, for instance, you need to design something that for the future that looks contemporary to now but also, somehow, predates a design that looked contemporary 30 years ago. (If that makes any sense...)

You can also head over to The Roddenberry Archive to check out all of the Enterprise designs in more detail, inside and out. (via open culture)

Tags: design · movies · Star Trek · TV · video

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SineRider: A Game About Love & Graphing

Remember Line Rider? It's a simple video game / physics toy where you draw slopes and curves for a person on a sled to navigate, pulled along by gravity. SineRider, a project started by Chris Walker and finished by a group of teen hackers at Hack Club, is a version of Line Rider where you use math equations to draw curves to maneuver the sledder through a series of points, sometimes in a certain order. Here's a trailer with some gameplay examples:

Let me tell you, I haven't had this much fun mucking around with an online game/toy since I don't know when. My math is super rusty, but SineRider eases you into the action with some simple slopes (no cosines or tangents necessary) and before you know it, it's 20 minutes later and you're googling equations for parabolas.

Right now, there are two ways to play. You can start on the front page and go through a progression of puzzles that get more challenging as more concepts are introduced (such as the curve changing over time). Or you can do the challenges, which are posted daily to Twitter or Reddit. My son and I spent 10-15 minutes solving these two challenges and we were laughing and cheering when we finally got them. (The educational opportunity here is obvious...)

SineRider is currently in beta so some of the UI stuff is a little rough around the edges, but I was really charmed by the music, the animations...everything really. The project is open source — the code is available on GitHub and the Hack Club folks are looking for contributors and collaborators:

There's a reason it's open-source and written in 100% vanilla JavaScript. We need volunteer artists, writers, programmers, and puzzle designers. And, if you're a smart teenager who wants to change education for the better, you should come join Hack Club!

Tags: mathematics · SineRider · video · video games

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Oh, the Places You'll Go (to Read This)

Hey, I just wanted to pop in with some reminders and a couple of new things. As I outlined in a post last month, 2023 has been busy around here:

The site celebrated its 25th anniversary last month. I built and launched a micro-site for the Kottke Ask Me Anything & spent a couple of sessions answering reader questions. I went on The Talk Show to discuss the early days of blogging with John Gruber and put some cool t-shirts out into the world. It's been fun to continue to build up a presence for kottke.org over on Mastodon. I rejiggered the Quick Links infrastructure (which has made it easier/faster for me to post them) and have been working on a couple of behind-the-scenes projects that will hopefully streamline & shore up things around here. Oh, and I also kept up the regular stream of posts and links you know and love. *phew*

And the hits keep on coming. In the last two weeks, I've added two additional ways to keep up with kottke.org: on Tumblr and Bluesky (web). My Tumblr posting bot stopped working a couple of years ago, so it was good to get that going again. So as of now, there are seven ways to read/follow the activity at kottke.org: on the website, full-text RSS, Mastodon, Facebook, Twitter (until they kick me off), Bluesky, and Tumblr. And I'm adding one more (big one) to the mix, hopefully sometime in the next week, so look for that. (Also up next: focusing on some UI/UX stuff...) Oh, and regarding the social accounts, I'm only active on Mastodon and, for now, Bluesky...if you reply to stuff on Twitter or FB, I probably won't even see it and won't respond.

Last thing. I'm going to bug you one more time and then shut up about it for awhile: If you're not already a member (or are a former member) and you've been liking what's been going on here in recent months after my return from sabbatical and can manage it, please consider supporting the site by purchasing a membership. Everything I do here, including making it easy for readers to find the site wherever they choose to read web content, is only possible because of the financial support of members. Thank you so much for the support! ✌️

Tags: kottke.org

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Four Quick Links for Monday Noonish

Last week, a small sailboat in distress was rescued by a massive 18th-century sailing ship. "This moment was very strange, and we wondered if we were dreaming. Where were we? What time period was it?" (via @andybaio)

The Ultimate Oral History Of BuzzFeed News. I co-worked in the NYC BuzzFeed office for the first few years of this and didn't realize half of these amazing folks even worked there.

An extremely upsetting but must-see 3D visualization of what AR-15 bullets did to the bodies of two children killed in Newtown and Parkland, based on autopsy reports & done with their families' consent. No fucking way these things should be allowed.

How The Legend of Zelda Changed the Game. Great little interactive feature on almost 40 years of Zelda games. "Zelda is the standard unit of measurement in the gaming industry."

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Oppenheimer

Finally: a full-length trailer for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, easily the movie I am most looking forward to seeing this summer. Dunkirk was one of my favorite films of the past few years, I've done quite a bit of reading about the Manhattan Project over the years, and I studied modern physics in college, so I am all the way in for this. Fingers crossed!

P.S. The movie is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin. Might have to read this one before the movie comes out.

Tags: American Prometheus · Christopher Nolan · Oppenheimer · atomic bomb · books · movies · trailers · video

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The Accidental Tetris World Champion

Last month I posted a link to a story about a woman who discovered she was one of the world's top Candy Crush players.

Since progress was tied to game score rather than PvP results, Rhoden kept getting pop-ups for milestones such as passing the quarterfinals, and then entering the semifinals as she was just casually taking part in her regular Candy Crush routine.

She was overwhelmed, so she texted the other esports athlete in the family: Her son. Xane was the best Meta Knight player in the midwest during the height of his Super Smash Bros. career. She asked him what a $250,000 prize pool was. After he explained that first place got half of the total pool, he asked why. "I'm in the semifinals accidentally," she wrote.

In that vein, a reader sent me a link to this 2007 Boston Globe piece about a woman who discovers that she's actually the world's best Tetris player.

"It's funny," I told Flewin. "We have an old Nintendo Game Boy floating around the house, and Tetris is the only game we own. My wife will sometimes dig it out to play on airplanes and long car rides. She's weirdly good at it. She can get 500 or 600 lines, no problem."

What Flewin said next I will never forget.

"Oh, my!"

After I hung up the phone, I went to the bedroom and woke my wife, Lori.

"Honey," I said. "You're not going to believe this, but I just got off the phone with a guy who's in charge of video game world records, and he said the world record for Game Boy Tetris is 327 lines, and he wants us to go to New Hampshire this spring so you can try to break the world record live in front of the judges at the world's largest classic video game tournament.

Spoiler alert: she broke the record. Baker is still 5th on the all-time scoring list but her score was bested just three months later by Harry Hong, the original record holder, who achieved a score six times higher than Baker's. (thx, euse42)

Tags: Candy Crush · Lori Baker · Tetris · video games

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Two Quick Links for Saturday Noonish

Clarence Thomas Promises To Adopt Code Of Ethics For The Right Price. "I admit to seeing the wisdom in developing some kind of ethical framework for the Supreme Court, so long as Papa gets some sugar."

When filmmakers best each other at the box office, it's tradition for the vanquished to publicly congratulate the victor. Spielberg started the practice in 1977 when Star Wars bested Jaws and it continues today.

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Four Quick Links for Friday Noonish

Your joyful dancing for the day: a group of kids from Kampala, Uganda dancing to Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal.

Inside the Delirious Rise of 'Superfake' Handbags. "Can you tell the difference between a $10,000 Chanel bag and a $200 knockoff? Almost nobody can, and it's turning luxury fashion upside down."

A new book from Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier. Sample advice: "If winning becomes too important in a game, change the rules to make it more fun. Changing rules can become the new game."

After more than three years, the WHO has declared "COVID-19 over as a global health emergency".

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Beautiful Timelapse of Singapore's Changing Cityscape

For eight years, Keith Loutit captured hundreds of thousands of images of Singapore, combining the pulsing energy, the new buildings reaching for the sky, and the busy shipyard of one of Asia's most iconic and futuristic cities into this 5-minute timelapse video.

When we pass by landscapes they appear fixed in time but they change around us constantly. Singapore has gone through an incredible change over the past 8 years, and I have tried to capture as much of this change as possible. There were no permanent cameras used in this film, it required regular site visits over 988 shoot days and over 3300 matched shots.

The video is also available on Vimeo and you can watch two previous Singapore timelapses by Loutit here and here. (via moss and fog)

Tags: Keith Loutit · Singapore · time lapse · video

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Eternal Spring, a Timelapse of Ice Melting

Eternal Spring is a short timelapse film by Christopher Dormoy featuring beautiful shots of melting snow and ice. Watching this, it is difficult not to think of the climate crisis, which is of course the whole point.

Ice is a beautiful element I love to work with in my video projects. I wanted to feature the ice melting aspect in timelapse process to illustrate the phenomenon of global warming. Melting ice is beautiful and symbolizes spring, but it can also symbolize a problematic aspect of our climate.

And wow, that shot of the Moon at the halfway point... (via colossal)

Tags: Christopher Dormoy · climate crisis · time lapse · video

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Four Quick Links for Thursday Noonish

Lauren Groff's new book, The Vaster Wilds, is now available for preorder. I loved her previous novel Matrix.

On the difference between growth and scalability. One is a natural process that takes time and values diversity & interconnection and the other optimizes for efficiency & profit. "Growth occurs. It is not made."

This company sells Star Wars scented candles — The Death Star candle has notes of smoked amber, cement, tobacco, forged steel, and black myrrh. What, no Hoth candle that smells like tauntaun innards?

America Makes It Too Hard and Dangerous to Get Divorced. "Divorce in the U.S. is governed by an arbitrary constellation of policies that impede the freedom to end a marriage and have a disproportionately harmful impact on women."

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Microsoft Excel Esports?

Microsoft Excel is an extremely powerful, complex, and useful software program that millions of people know how to use, at least a little bit. For those who are experts, there are now esports competitions in Microsoft Excel that pit the best spreadsheet jockeys against each other. Here's what that looks like:

It's....a little confusing to watch if you aren't that good at Excel yourself. From a piece in the Atlantic late last year:

Yes, we are talking about people competing in Microsoft Excel, the famous (and famously boring) spreadsheet software that you may have used in school or at work or to track your finances. In competitive Excel, players square off in test-taking showdowns, earning points each time they answer a question correctly. Players' screens are a whirlwind of columns and keystrokes and formulae; if the terms XLOOKUP, RANDBETWEEN, and dynamic array don't mean anything to you, you are unlikely to understand what's going on. The commentators help, but only to a point. Even so, you can always follow the scoreboard, which tends to change suddenly and drastically. With just over three minutes to play, Ngai nailed a set of questions and jumped out to a 416-390 lead. GolferMike1 began to rethink his earlier assessment: "Uh oh. We got a game."

There's a pretty good explanation of what some of the challenges are like starting at the 6-minute mark in this video:

If you'd like more information, check out the Microsoft Excel World Championship for 2023 — the finals are in Las Vegas this year, they're gonna show it on one of ESPN's channels, and there's more than $15,000 in prize money at stake.

Tags: Excel · sports · video

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Three Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish

Wealthy Couple Taking Real Vacation For First Time In Weeks. "She and her husband would have gone sooner, but they could barely find the time between the hours of work and the dozens of other vacations they had taken this year."

The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small. "The internet was supposed to be a place of opportunity, not just for profit but for surprise and connection and delight."

Wii Sports Birdwatching. "Here we imagine what it would be like if Wii Sports had birdwatching as a game." (via @tim)

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Otherworldly Landscapes, Light Painted With Drones

The three images above were created by long-exposure photography of the flight paths of drones with onboard bright lights.

The first image is from Jadikan's new series, Phénomènes (Instagram), in which he uses fireworks to create brightly-lit cylindrical forms.

The second one is by Will Ferguson of Broadway Tower in the Cotswolds — you can see more of his aerial work here or on Instagram.

The third is from Reuben Wu (Instagram), whose work I've featured here for many years. IMO, Wu's work is slightly more polished than Jadikan's or Ferguson's, but I enjoy experiencing all of it. (via petapixel)

Tags: art · Jadikan · photography · Reuben Wu · Will Ferguson

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Four Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish

What All My Best Meals Have Had in Common. A pro food writer: "The most memorable meals of my life have unquestionably been in other people's homes." This has not been my experience...my top 10 are all restaurants.

A man claiming to own a David Hockney painting brings it to Antiques Roadshow to be evaluated. The appraiser: "I now know what an early Hockney looks like." (via mymodernmet.com)

Thousands of film and television writers belonging to The Writers Guild of America go on strike today. Sticking points include pay levels, staffing & revenue sharing around streaming, and use of AI in the writing process.

Man Going Through Phase Where Life Implodes And Everything That Follows Is On The Decline. "Someday I will look back at this difficult period in my life and wonder how I ever had it so good." 👋

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