This Future Looks Familiar: Watching Blade Runner in 2017
via jwz
Andy Goldsworthy - Installation in San Francisco's de Young fine arts museum
From 2005.
Big Ideas: Henry Reynolds - Acknowledging Australia's 'forgotten war'
Genuine reconciliation is not possible until we acknowledge Australia's frontier wars, says historian Henry Reynolds.
Big Ideas: Henry Reynolds - Australia’s unnecessary wars
Australia has been at war for 60 of the 78 years since WW2 started.
Bringing BACK The iPhone Headphone Jack - in China
Another interesting project!
This Paint-By-Numbers Drawing Was The Very First Image From Mars
On July 14, 1965, Mariner 4 sent home the very first television pictures of Mars during its historic flyby. But instead of waiting for time-consuming image processing, impatient scientists created this awesome colour-by-numbers wall chart from the raw data.
How I Made My Own iPhone - in China
Building a like-new (but really refurbished) iPhone 6S entirely from parts - an interesting project.
Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts: The reverse of a framed painting
This was painted in 1670! A surprisingly post-modern century!
Netflix: The Bomb
This is an incredible film.
Mosh: the mobile shell
Mobile shell that supports roaming and intelligent local echo. Like SSH secure shell, but allows mobility and more responsive and robust.
The iPad Pro as main computer for programming
Developing using an iPad Pro as a terminal to a remote server - looks like it might work pretty well.
Science Friday: Walter Isaacson on Leonardo da Vinci
Author Walter Isaacson investigates how Leonardo da Vinci combined the arts and sciences to create masterpieces.
CNET Book Club: Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
Another good Walkaway interview.
Keyboard latency - huh, how about that?
Things you don't know until someone measures them. "keyboards are often more powerful than entire computers from the 70s and 80s! [20x the transistors running at 16x the clock speed] And yet, the median keyboard today adds as much latency as the entire end-to-end pipeline as a fast machine from the 70s."
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy: Billy Bookcase
Low cost, functional and brilliantly efficient, one is produced every three seconds
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy: Concrete
It's improved health, school attendance, agricultural productivity and farm worker wages
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy: Elevators
The safety elevator is a mass transit system that has changed the shape of our cities
National Print Museum: Linotype
This series of videos is pretty fascinating - there's so much craft in setting type.
From boiling lead and black art: An essay on the history of mathematical typography
Typesetting be hard work: "the word "present" as a noun hyphenates differently than the same word as a verb"
Knuth on possible future changes to TeX and METAFONT: "Let us regard these systems as fixed points, which should give the same results 100 years from now that they produce today."
Following 3.0, Knuth wanted point release updates to follow the progression of π (the current version is 3.14159265). Knuth also declared that on his death, the version number should be permanently set to π. “From that moment on,” he ordained “all ‘bugs’ will be permanent ‘features.’”
Triangulation ep 317: Daniel Abraham - The Expanse
Daniel Abraham, author and television producer of The Expanse.
The Tim Ferriss Show: Walter Isaacson
A good interview covering Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs and more.
The Tim Ferriss Show: Richard Branson
A good interview with Richard Branson.
After On Podcast ep 10: Tim O'Reilly
Rob Reid discussing the future of work (and how technology augments workers) among many other things with Tim O'Reilly.
JSFuck
JSFuck uses only six different characters to execute any code - []()+!
via boingboing