January 2012
2 posts
"To My Old Master", a letter from a former slave.... →
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
3 posts
May 2011
3 posts
reddit.com/r/AskScience answers questions from a... →
April 2011
6 posts
The Atlantic: How Genius Works →
Otomata →
By Batuhan Bozkurt. Think of it as ToneMatrix + cellular automata.
NYTimes: The Sweet Sounds of Science →
These are all sounds taken from my favorite radio program, WNYC’s Radiolab. Jad Abumrad does most of the sound design for the show, and some of these are absolutely astounding.
During the show, these are used to explain ideas and typically have a voice over them. The sounds are not the media the listener is supposed to analyze — they are a tool used to illustrate other ideas to the...
March 2011
4 posts
weather.ericson.net →
This is a weather site made by Matt Ericson, who works at the NYTimes doing graphics and visualisations.
February 2011
9 posts
Zalgo Text Generator →
Stacks diacritical marks on top of one another to throw garbage onto your text.
Like ţ̛͔̜̩̟̤̀̈ͫͪ́h̵̠̗͖̮ͩͣ̍į͚̻̝̓̌̐̓̈́ͮͣ͆ͩs̭͕̣͆̈ͪͪͤ͞.
Unicode is required, so all of you ruffians without will need to stay at the door.
PBS NOVA's episode about IBM's Watson →
“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the...”
– Edsger Dijkstra
January 2011
2 posts
Paul Lansky and Idioteque
I was browsing around the internet last night and I found out that Radiohead’s “Idioteque” uses a sample from Paul Lansky’s “mild und leise”.
Lansky wrote mild und leise in 1974, entered it in an electronic music competition, was chosen as one of the winners, and was included on an album featuring the winners of the competition called “Electronic Music...
longform.org →
This page lists interesting articles that take a little bit more time to read. Beautiful Instapaper integration, which means beautiful Kindle support.
Le swoon.
December 2010
5 posts
Krulwich Wonders... →
This is Robert Krulwich’s blog on NPR.org. He is also a co-host on WNYC’s Radiolab.
“Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind...”
– Sri Chinmoy
trip the light fantastic / sing the body electric
November 2010
4 posts
Color Scheme Designer →
The judgment of beauty is not the result of a mysterious inference on the basis of features of a work which we already know. It is a guess, a suspicion, a dim awareness that there is more in the work that it would be valuable to learn. To find something beautiful is to believe that making it a larger part of our life is worthwhile, that our life will be better if we spend part of it with that...
“π, truncated to only 39 decimal places, is sufficient to estimate the...”
– Robert M. Young, summarized via Wikipedia
October 2010
4 posts
On Typography, by Nate Volker →
“Stallions”, by Harmony Trowbridge....
America's Next Top Programming Language just got... →
September 2010
11 posts
Creating Shazam in Java →
Roy van Rijn wrote this program. He is a great thinker, and is very good at explaining difficult concepts in understandable terms.
