weekly reel August 13, 2017
Bonjour, et musique: my weekly whoaaa needs several adjectives: bright, spacious, considerate, whole. Ladies and gents: Grails, mercimerci Sam 🙂. Also, a soothing Four Tet, aaand the weekly Radiohead live.
Grails [2003] The Burden Of Hope (bandcamp.com)
Grails [2004] Redlight (bandcamp.com)
Grails [2005] Interpretations of Three Psychedelic Rock Songs From Around The World (bandcamp.com)
Grails [2007] Black Tar Prophecies Vols. 1, 2, & 3 (bandcamp.com)
Grails [2007] Burning Off Impurities (bandcamp.com)
Grails [2011] Deep Politics (bandcamp.com)
Grails [2013] Black Tar Prophecies Vols. 4, 5, & 6 (bandcamp.com)
Grails [2017] Chalice Hymnal (bandcamp.com)
Two Thousand And Seventeen by Four Tet (bandcamp.com)
Radiohead @ Werchter, Belgium - 30 Jun 2017 (youtube-nocookie.com)
News? Neeeeeeews:
- Kottke: A graph of global temperature anomalies from 1900-2016.
- David Foster Wallace: This is water. Read this.
- Le backpacker cherche moins à changer le monde qu'à transformer le sien, "entretien avec Jocelyn Lachance, socio-anthropologue, sur la quête de soi qui anime les voyageurs en sac à dos". Via Nouveau Projet.
- Eugene Richards' photography depicts a rarely visible America. Via [fr] Nouveau Projet.
- Around that Googler's trainwreck memo (link to original "Diversity memo"): Google fires employee behind controversial diversity memo, Why women leave engineering.
- Economist: The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore.
- Intolerable, via waxy.
- Yonathan Zunger: So, about this Googlers manifesto.
- Faruk Ateş: A brief history of women in computing is my new canonical summary for the graph below. TL;DR: a decades-long combination of men pushing women out, marketing, stereotypes, and workplace sexism.
- Ask a female engineer: thoughts on the Google memo, HN.
- NYT: Google’s war over the sexes; HN.
- Jordan Peterson - Women in high paying jobs.
- The Kolmogorov option.
- McSweeney’s: I’m a Google manufacturing robot and I believe humans are biologically unfit to have jobs in tech.
- NYT: Our broken economy, in one simple chart, via HN.
- Is the stock market going to crash? (HN) taught me a few metrics.
- Why Github can't host the linux kernel community, 👍 analysis and food for thought on monorepos.
- Firefox VR supreme geek-ness: Link traversal and portals in A-Frame.
- Knolling, via HN.
- SMBC: Edible underwear, xkcd#1875: Computers vs. Humans.
- 💩😷⚠ Donaldese: