From the Curious Corner of the Internet.. #17: Donuts, waterballoons and sleep
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** The Curious Corner #17
Hi there! You’re on the receiving end of this newsletter! Number 17th yet! Awesome! I’m having more and more fun collecting links for this project of mine!
Help me get more subscribers by sharing it with the buttons below, thanks! 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|) Here’s this month full of inspiration! * Donuts people… Donuts (http://www.dilladimension.com) and WebGL, and Donuts, and Donuts, and J Dilla * Where’s my cursor (http://www.yuliyanilev.com/cursorcursors) ? * Economics (http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a-strange-email) at a Valve. What would you do in a game? And how would it affect it’s local economy? * High Frequency Dating (http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1005&ihavetorepostthistoday=true) . Ahhh modern romance. Turing would be proud. This is wrong on so many levels. * What a great way (http://www.boredpanda.com/honey-on-tap-flow-hive-stuart-cedar-anderson) to get honey from bees without disturbing them! * Australia is home to a museum called “Mona (http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/australias-temple-weird) “. Old and new. * What kind of fun (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/21/your-money/an-engineer-creates-for-fun-after-a-lifetime-of-workaday-rules.html) could an engineer have? Pretty much awesome fun! * A time machine (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/02/a-time-machine-in-the-mojave-desert/385652/?single_page=true) for basic research on rejuvenation, anti-gravity, and time travel in the Mojave Desert.
- Great photos (http://www.wired.com/2015/02/aurelien-chauvaud-shanghai-sidecar-riders/#slide-id-1741767) of the side-bike culture in Shanghai! I didn’t know there are only 250 riders.
- Kino (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/kino) , a short-story. Just take 30 minutes and read it!
- Pour the boiling sugar onto the egg yolks and listen (http://blog.longreads.com/2015/02/26/kitchen-rhythm-year-in-parisian-patisserie) as the hornet’s nest whir changes to a pata-pata-pat-a-pat.
- NASA is all over the web, but old sovjet images (http://mentallandscape.com/C_Catalog.htm) are hard to find.
- Without a doubt, a hit for the upcoming summer. Self-sealing waterballoons (http://zorbzwaterballoons.com) !
- It’s too much data. But the next time I play poker (http://chrisbeaumont.org/holdem_odds/#8H+QS) I should memorize these graphs.
- A vaulted willow (http://thefoxisblack.com/2015/02/23/vaulted-willow-a-colorful-pavilion-that-looks-like-it-could-walk) . Is it a bird? Is it a creature? Nah, architecture. Sadly…
- The Center (http://www.clui.org) for Land Use Interpretation. Why are we forgetting?
- What is it like to need little sleep (http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/02/what-its-like-to-need-hardly-any-sleep.html) ?
- An Embroidery of Voids (https://vimeo.com/119904435) .
On to next month. If you have any links you would like to share, email me at: jsplattel@gmail.com (mailto:jsplattel@gmail.com?subject=Curious%20Corner!) . See ya!
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