January 23, 2018
Slice & Reveal and Pluck & Reveal
Interesting ways of presenting something that then reveals something else. After dessert, there's a memo pad that is a sort of archeological dig, showing a bit more with each page plucked Architecture Landmark. There's this nascent website showing many other options using the same technique Triad Website
Sing Us A Song, You're Cthulhu, Man
The H.P. Lovecraft poem Nemesis has the same poetic meter as Billy Joel's Piano Man. So naturally, somebody had to take the poem and properly set it to music. Multiple someones. The most merciful thing in the Internet, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
No Breakfast for Hip-Hoppers
MC Hotdog 熱狗 is a Chinese rapper. His slightly absurd, very catchy music video features people in animal masks. It features the group Soft Lipa 蛋堡 , who ups the ante with more absurd costumes. Whether you speak Chinese or not, you'll be nodding your head and clicking replay.
The problem of female speechlessness — my own, my friends’, my mother’s,
The secret female empowerment school known as The Academy "Urbaniak teaches what she calls “verbal martial arts,” practical techniques designed to interrupt that telltale moment of frozenness described with bafflement and shame by nearly everyone who experiences sexual assault, including the president’s alleged victims."
The Senate Needs a Nursery
There have been ten women who have given birth while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives; one of them was Tammy Duckworth in 2014. While she was on maternity leave, she decided to run for Senator. Now she slated to be the first member of the U.S. Senate to give birth while in office. Duckworth (D-Illinois), who turns 50 in March, is due in April. [more inside]
Shadows from the Walls of Death
Shadows from the Walls of Death is a macabre book of arsenic laden wallpaper samples that was produced in 1874 by a civil war surgeon and sent to 100 libraries around Michigan to raise awareness of the dangers of arsenic. Only 4 copies remain today (96 copies were destroyed by libraries out of concern for the wellbeing of customers) and the National Library of Medicine has digitized their copy in full.
RIP Ursula K. LeGuin, October 1929 - January 2018
Ursula K. LeGuin has died at age 88. The immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like “The Left Hand of Darkness” and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at her home in Portland, Ore.
The big swingin’ tool-belted, love-handled love machines
The Spike Manifesto. [Vice; very mildly NSFW] Spike TV--once The Nashville Network, now Paramount Network--aspired to be "The First Network for Men". But what was it really all about? Apparently, "loyal, reliable, confident, funny, action-oriented, unapologetic, testosterone-driven, non-preaching, celebratory, unpretentious, no bullshit." And, in the end, not completely without a sense of humor.
Those poor, poor skis
Sand dunes, volcanoes, waves, tropical forests, the Great frigging Wall of China - Candide Thovex skis it all (in this Audi ad). Another one.
Visualizing NES RAM with sparklines
5 Seconds of Donkey Kong exhibits plotter printouts of the contents of an NES emulator's memory with a sparkline plot for every location in memory whose value changes. [more inside]
Weird One Character Domain Superstore
Weird One Character Domain Superstore... a dumb weekend project for Unicode / IDN domains which got out of control... [more inside]
you’re the one who paid to see sweaty men in underwear grope each other
East, West, Then Backward
When Georgia Invited 10,000 English Teachers Over and Carnage Ensued
When Mikheil Saakashvili – Georgia’s pro-Europe, anti-Russia president, who viewed Andy Garcia as the ideal figure to play him in a movie (Previously before his ...current escapades) – announced in August of 2010 that every schoolchild in Georgia would become “an English speaker” in the next four years, as part of an “educational revolution”, quite a few eyebrows were raised. Having brought in a series of widespread reforms in the wake of the 2003 Rose Revolution, which contributed to his approval rating of 67% at the time, ‘Misha Magaria‘ would not be deterred from his next big venture.
"Some of the Most Moving, Touching Lyrics Ever Put To Paper", John Lydon
The Bee Gees; they’re more than a flourish of falsettos. They’re not just teeth, tans, & tight trousers. There’s so much more to The Bee Gees than Saturday Night Fever & office parties. Look beyond the white suits & satin, The Bee Gees are pop royalty. Back in the ‘60s, The Bee Gees were pop balladeers, they were heartbreakers. From Pop to Soul to Disco, we walk the line between the nafness, the genius, and yes, The Joy of The Bee Gees.
How well do you know the world?
Rachel Morrison makes history!
"After 90 long years, another glass ceiling has finally been broken at the Motion Picture Academy. “Mudbound” cinematographer Rachel Morrison made history Tuesday by becoming the first female director of photography to receive an Oscar nomination."
Her previous credits include Fruitvale Station, Cake, Dope and Sound of My Voice. She also lensed Marvel’s Black Panther, which opens next month.
Freedom is coming tomorrow!
Rampolo Hugh Masekela, the anti-apartheid activist, trumpet player, and father of South African Jazz, has died in Johannesburg. [more inside]
How to undermine monopoly capitalism's control of our identities
Can blockchain protocols fix the internet? - "Why did the internet follow the path from open to closed? ... A closed architecture like Facebook's or Twitter's puts all the information about its users — their handles, their likes and photos, the map of connections they have to other individuals on the network — into a private database that is maintained by the company." (via) [more inside]
"Your family will be able to understand you"
How technology is changing the lives of people who can't speak - Guardian long read.
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