Linkfest #22: Dragon Biology, Soviet Food Kiosks, and Duran Duran's "Rio" Model Finally Discovered
Heyo! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — your latest “Linkfest”, in which I comb the endless glitching stacks of the cyberspace to find the...
Linkfest #21: Wooden satellites, "Post-Binary" Fonts, and A New Way To Dice An Onion
Well hello there. It’s time! Once again! For the best part of the week: "The opposite of doomscrolling”. Here’s your next “Linkfest”, jammed full of the...
Linkfest #20: Pointillist Bubble-Wrap, the Poetry Camera, and Pythons As A Low-Emissions Food
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Linkfest #19: "Flop Rock", Contranyms, and The Weirdly Violent History of the Michelin Man
What time is it? Why, it's time for "the opposite of doomscrolling"! 🌞 Here's your next Linkfest -- the finest thought-stuff I could find during my...
Linkfest #18: Infinite Crafting, the "Reverse Sprinkler" problem, and A Gearbox That Will Outlive The Universe
It's time for "the opposite of doomscrolling", people! 🌞 Here's your next Linkfest -- the best reading material I could find while scavenging the vasty...
Linkfest #17: Medieval Fighting Snails, "Loud Budgeting", and How To Power A Car With Plastic Garbage
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Linkfest #16: Visible Birdsong, Braille Ambigrams, and the "Extended Groth Strip"
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Linkfest #15: Altruistic pigs, the "Truetown Discharge", and the CIA's guide to wrecking meetings
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Linkfest #14: Indoor Clouds, a Ferrofluid Synthesizer, and Why Left-Handed Badminton Players Have an Edge
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Linkfest #13: 17th-century ChatGPT, the "Merovingian" knot, and CT scans of knockoff Airpods
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Linkfest #12: Tyromancy, "Point Nemo", and Why Movie Villains Never Use Iphones
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Linkfest #11: Oyster Insomnia, the "Mel Spectogram", and Why Antarctic Researchers Are Developing Their Own Accent
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Linkfest #10: The "marshmallow" shot, Reverse Tetris, and why high-fantasy heroes don't use gunpowder
Welcome back to the Linkfest! I had to take a break for a few months -- for my next book (on micromobility) I bicycled across the United States: 4,150 miles....
Linkfest #9: "Kaktovik Numerals", the McDonalds Fries Theorum, and Why Global Warming Means More Home Runs
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Linkfest #8: Orthopraxic robots, "floatovoltaics", and why ancient painters drew impossible shadows
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Linkfest #7: The IKEA guitar, 1.6 Billion Year Old Water, and the "Inverse Jim Cramer Fund"
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Linkfest #6: GPS On The Moon, 8-bit Jane Austen, and "The Museum of Mortal Computation"
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Linkfest #5: "Involution", a 340-Pound Penguin, and the Shifting Language Of Candy Hearts
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Linkfest #4: Infinite AI Seinfeld, "Highway Gothic", and Coding With Joey Ramone
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Linkfest #3: "Cistercian Numbers", Robots That Hug, and Dice That Roll Negative Numbers
1) 🧮 Cistercian numbers I'd never heard of Cistercian numbers before, until I stumbled upon this brief post describing them ... Cistercian numbers are an...