weekly reel October 30, 2016
Hola. Not sure how to describe it (rhythmic easy-jazz?) but Mammal Hands is good stuff.
Floa by Mammal Hands (bandcamp.com)
Meanwhile, around the web:
- jwz: They Live and the secret history of the Mozilla logo. Great, colorful story :)
- Hitchens, Dawkins, Dennet, Harris talk about atheism and religion (2007).
- Buster Benson: Cognitive bias cheat sheet (HN) and its poster version.
- The Economist: Post-truth politics - Art of the lie.
- [fr] L'étonnante histoire de la douleur, d'hier à aujourd'hui, via [fr] Nouveau Projet.
- Kottke / The Atlantic: We’ve reached the end of white christian America.
- The Atlantic: The lost iPhone that ended up in Yemen.
- Facebook lets advertisers exclude users by race, 💩 😷. Via DF, who also points out how tastefully "their filter lets you screen out Asian-Americans, African-Americans, and Hispanics, but doesn’t let you screen out white people? How did anyone at Facebook think this was a good idea?"
- The Eve programming language and IDE, neat; basically LightTable v2. HN.
- Steven Wittens: The cargo cult of video game mechanics (2014).
- SMBC: The grasshopper and the ants.
- I'm not an asshole. I'm an introvert and Sorry I murdered everyone, but I'm an introvert, both via kottke.
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