May 2, 2017
"For me, drawing is sort of synonymous with thinking."
Fun Fountains
Miniature Bottle Library - [frames!!] You can view alphabetically, by country, etc. but I will only link to one set - the alcohol fuelled nightmare theme that is (no, not sex or zombie but, clown)
First of all—again—this is not canon
Yet this, also, turned out to be a failure, because Large Son insisted on making Batman fight Steve from Minecraft. This is not canon. Worse, Large Son insisted that Batman would lose the fight because Batman was not—and here I quote directly—“immune to lava,” namely because Batman was incapable of carrying cobblestone.
Top dog.
Bella is a small mutt. Hank is a large Golden Retriever. Bella figured out the best way to get to the treats is to stand on Hank. (Includes bonus blep.)
Draping dynamic contours with a drooping material = wtf SO MUCH MATH.
Every year, I’m blown away by the intricate gowns at the Met Gala. I’m impressed not just by the creativity, but by how much math, physics, and engineering is lurking beneath the layers of silk and lace. [more inside]
i like the part where he steps over the obstacle
Phase-Functioned Neural Networks for Character Control, aka holy shit look at this character animation. If you want some more details, check out the research paper by Daniel Holden, Taku Komura, and Jun Saito.
This Is Not Your Grandma's Knitting
"It’s coming around again, as it has probably for time immemorial — the thing where someone who doesn’t knit discovers that there are people who do knit, and some of them are apparently under the age of 90, and then the next thing we know, someone is writing articles or spouting this line on TV or social media or something: 'This is not your grandmother’s knitting.'" [more inside]
Take A Walk On The Wild Side
In the 1970s the Big Apple was rotten to the core. But amidst the ruins and squalor, a golden era of music was born. In downtown Manhattan, Punk was created. In the midtown, Disco was king. Whilst on the streets of the Bronx, Hip Hop sprung up. In 1970s New York, you cold be whoever you wanted to be.-Once Upon a Time in New York. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4.
Toddlers Idled Therefore Leopards Excelled
Mnemonic Generator - generate mnemonics.
You’re not going to believe what I’m about to tell you
You’re not going to believe what I’m about to tell you. A short comic from The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman on belief, the brain, and the Backfire Effect, aka the response of confirmation bias.
Sniggering Title
Die Another Day
A Runner in Exile
After winning the silver medal in the Rio marathon, Feyisa Lilesa engaged in a dramatic protest against the Ethiopian government's treatment of his Oromo ethnic group (previously). Today, he lives in Arizona, but he still feels like he has to watch his back because of his continued protests.
The Reactionary Temptation
"Among many liberals, there is an understandable impulse to raise the drawbridge, to deny certain ideas access to respectable conversation, to prevent certain concepts from being “normalized.” But the normalization has already occurred — thanks, largely, to voters across the West — and willfully blinding ourselves to the most potent political movement of the moment will not make it go away. ." [more inside]
Fruits just want have fun
Vigilante Justice
Why I don't trust Batman. A reflection on the impact of Batman on Gotham from the people he thinks he is protecting.
Col. Bruce Hampton, 1947-2017
In what will certainly go down as one of the most memorable exits in show business, Col. Bruce Hampton collapsed at the end of a tribute show honoring his 70th birthday. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead a few hours later. [more inside]
Sixty minutes is the platonic ideal.
From The Atlantic, a plea for shorter yoga classes.
Surprisingly interesting even if you aren't super into sports.
Vuelo Nocturno: Meet the Milky Way
"Just as the bright city lights are vanishing behind us, the Milky way starts to become clearly visible up ahead. Its now us, pacing at almost the speed of sound along the invisible highway and the pitch-black night sky above this surreal landscape. Ahead of us are another eight hours flight time, but we already stopped counting the shooting stars. And we got already to a few hundred." -Beyond Clouds
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