From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #15: Writers, The Matrix and a Piano
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** The Curious Corner #15
Happy Perihelion (http://earthsky.org/tonight/earth-comes-closest-to-sun-every-year-in-early-january) and a New Year! I wish you a year stocked with interesting things, projects and work. I’ll be exploring ways to grow the Curious Corner to reach more people. Help me out by sharing: http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT| Share (http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|) http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=|URL:MC_SUBJECT|: |URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT| Tweet (http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=|URL:MC_SUBJECT|: |URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|) http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|&mini=true&title=|URL:MC_SUBJECT| Share (http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|&mini=true&title=|URL:MC_SUBJECT|) https://plus.google.com/share?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT| +1 (https://plus.google.com/share?url=|URL:ARCHIVE_LINK_SHORT|) |FORWARD| Forward to Friend (|FORWARD|) I shoot a picture everyday at 8:36pm. And I’ve made a video (https://vimeo.com/115863678) from all the pictures of last year! Check it out on Vimeo! Now on to this editions list: * I’m not sure if I’d like to garnish my burger with this (http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2014/12/cobalt-60-sauce.php) sauce. * A worm in a lego body (http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-scientists-have-put-a-worm-s-brain-into-a-lego-robot-s-body-and-it-works) . * I once had waffles, pickles and fried chicken at the same time, but never in the same burger (http://pornburger.me/2014/12/05/i-woke-up-like-this/) . Now I’m hungry, this is perfect hangover food! * If you read Dune by Frank Herbert, you’ll love this cover (http://www.foliosociety.com/media/tag/dune/) . * Algorithms are becoming black boxes, or houses (http://delacian.tumblr.com/) . * Designing glassware that can only be off, but still being beautiful. Sempli (http://sempli.com/) makes it. * Cory Doctorow, one of my heroes gave a great talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J_9EFGFR-Y) about redesigning the broken internet as we know it. * Another writer that I’d love to read. William Gibson (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/26/william-gibson-neuromancer-book-club) on how he wrote Neuromancer. (I didn’t know it was commissioned!) * Playing Quake on a oscilloscope (http://www.lofibucket.com/articles/oscilloscope_quake.html) . So much nerd-ness involved here. Read the entire story! * Mesh companies (http://singularityhub.com/2014/12/27/elon-musks-hyperloop-will-revolutionize-transportation-but-thats-only-the-beginning-of-the-change-itll-bring/) , based on cognitive surplus, quasi-moonlighting is one way the Hyperloop could be build.
http://conceptartworld.com/?p=5530&replytocom=110141 * The New Yorker makes a great profile about a Weather Man (http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/weather-man) somewhere in the northern sea’s. * Algorithms (http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/12/24/inadvertent-algorithmic-cruelty/) are merciless. (Maybe inadvertently so?) * A great visual (http://web.mit.edu/civicdatadesign/projects/jiepang-beijing/) of check in’s in Bejing! * Another science fiction writer that I like, Neal Stephenson (http://www.masrgate.com/technews/1609-sci-fi-legend-neal-stephenson-joins-virtual-reality-startup-magic-leap.html) is joining a startup that works on future interfaces. (I think this is great, we need more visionaries for future technologies) * The last few months, I’ve seen it arise more often, but it seems that basic minimal income has been explored (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12/23/mincome-in-dauphin-manitoba_n_6335682.html) . * If you’ve seen the Matrix trilogy, you might have wondered how the ending (http://www.quora.com/What-happens-to-Neo-at-the-end-of-The-Matrix-Revolutions/answer/Chris-Peters-2) might have been. Of course this is purely an suggestion! * An amazing long read on the culture of the people that hunt honey (http://blog.longreads.com/2014/09/28/the-honey-hunters/) . * Read the entire story (https://medium.com/@hackmancoltaire/adventures-in-piano-building-c3fe5fa0b56b) , at the end you’ll see the end-product. Now that’s a great piano!
Thanks for reading! I’ll be back next month! In the meantime, feel free to email me ideas at: jsplattel@gmail.com (mailto:jsplattel@gmail.com?subject=Curious%20Corner%20Idea!) .
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