- Algorithmic Rape Jokes in the Library of Babel – Tim Maly’s ruminations on the intersections between ethics, art, and algorithms in the aftermath of company selling algorithmically generated t-shirts on Amazon that said “Keep Calm and Rape A Lot.”
- Eight writing manuals that are not a waste of time – the ones of these I’ve already read I liked, so I plan to check out the rest.
- Visceral Apps and You – this is largely a love letter to iOS UX design that the author likes, but I think it’s pointing at some ways that the metaphor of physically manipulating software artifacts with one’s hands is experientially different in ways worth thinking about.
- Saturn’s Rings are Raining Water
- New images of the center of the hexagonal storm over Saturn’s north pole.
- OMNI Magazine – The entire run of OMNI is now free on the internet archive. Some day I am going to take some time out and gorge on this.
- How to Build an Artificial Womb – Lots here I’d never considered before.
- Predictions from 1911 of what 2011 would be like.
- Bizarre NSFW pictures of naked women with fish. (Russian site.)
- Bargain (Ten Thousand Dollars) – Nina Paley made a quilt that is also a thought experiment about art collection and speculation.
- 12 Resolutions for Grad Students – Matt Might’s summer advice to grad students, of interest to me in the summer I’ve stopped being one.