July 6, 2025

Weekly Distractions for July 6, 2025

🧠 Links

• Random

  • The Internet is no fun!

  Cool

  • The Wind Knitting Factory uses wind to knit scarves.

  Algorithms

  • Computer scientists have greatly improved the Algorithm for shelving books.

  Life

  • U of Minn scientists have found a mysterious, seemingly unknown, organism: ShipGoo001!

📖 Currently Reading

• Dawn by Octavia Butler

• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

• The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon

• The Fraud by Zadie Smith

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

• Sentimental Education by Gustav Flaubert