Joel Peter Witkin: Cupid and centaur, 1992.
Heavy metal and natural language processing / The best strawberry you’ve never had / Brian Eno on AI / Finding solitude in an era of perpetual contact / Game of Thrones family connections infographic / “Inside”, short video by Mattis Dovier / Twisted Ranch, a restaurant where everything is made with ranch dressing
The key to understanding the appeal of soap to thieves is realizing that they care less about an item’s price tag and more about the ease of finding a buyer. In other words, thieves want a liquid asset.
Why Thieves Steal Soap: an interesting read about the economics of stealing and fencing cheap items (Priceonomics).
Over time I learned that if you chat with a stranger, in the course of any kind of interaction (like buying a hot dog, or groceries) they’ll chat back with a powerful beam of pleasure. Slowly, like a creeping addiction to coffee, this became my drug of choice.
Pieter Hintjens, a terminally ill author/programmer writes a brilliant final blog post on life, dying, euthanasia and how to interact with the terminally ill.
The official Lisa Frank Facebook page is an internet safe space for aggressively positive memes [The Verge]. If that is too much positivity for you, head over to Nihilisa Frank for a more nihilist experience.
Chronas, an interactive history map with wikipedia content, lets you move a slider to explore 2000 years of history and see how empires and countries developed. Clicking on the map shows you the wikipedia article about the selected country. Fascinating.
