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Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce: the power of choices, of market segmentation.
- Two on folded paper: pictures by Simon Schubert (via @KathySierra) and a TED talk by Robert Lang on the origami that modern math and computers allow us to produce.
- An abandoned island city. (Via @japanesepod101.) Or, if you want a whole blog about “abandoned man-made creations”, try Artificial Owl.
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Whereas if you’re in the mood for artificial cities, I recommend Shamus Young’s Procedural City:
- In Defense of Eye Candy. (via @TheOtherAlistai.)
- Raganwald on optimism.
- AR⊗TA: Artisanal Retro-Futurism crossed with Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism. (I’ve posted my sticker on the wall next to my office!)
- A nice outline of how to use Kanban in software development.
- Optical illusions: a whole gaggle and a single particularly-stunning (and possibly baseball-related) example.
- Planetary Astronomer Mike explains gaps in asteroid belts.
- A nice set of pictures of deep-sea creatures.
- Meditations on the Garbage Bin.
- Brian Marick and I aren’t the only people in my blog/twitter stream thinking about Actor-Network Theory.
- The current short art game making the rounds: Today I Die, by Daniel Benmergui. (If you, like I, have trouble getting anywhere at the start, try keeping one of the jellyfish alive for a while.)
- A beautiful bit of interactive aleatory music. (Via Dan Bruno.)
- Charles Jacobs on management and brain science. I thought the bit on the ineffectiveness of traditional feedback mechanisms was particularly interesting.
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I’ve actually never played Starcraft, but this video made it seem about as interesting to watch as most sports I see on TV. (Via Lungfishopolis.)
- Tokyo stereographic projections.
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A Wolf Loves Pork. (Via Pink Tentacle.)
- Four Short Films.; I couldn’t pick one to highlight, so you’ll have to click through to watch them.
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StarCraft is a blast to watch. You need to head over to gomtv.net or watch some real pro games from the original though. That SC2 match you linked to was the equivalent of a high school basketball team – they may be Blizzard employees but they’re certainly not professional players. It takes a little while to fully understand most of the intricacies of the game but is totally worth it.
5/26/2009 @ 12:09 pm
Wow, sounds interesting, I’ll definitely give that a look. Thanks!
5/26/2009 @ 3:57 pm
Thanks for a wonderful collection of links. I’ll be sharing the Battleship Island and origami Ted talks with Madoka.
6/9/2009 @ 10:54 pm