Japanske musikproducenten Toyomu bestämde sig - utan att ha hört originalet pga gick inte att streama i Japan - för att återskapa Kanye Wests "The Life of Pablo"-album helt utifrån samplingsinformation från WhoSampled och texter från Genius. Resultatet: "印象III : なんとなく、パブロ (Imagining "The Life of Pablo")".
Shipmap är en rätt imponerande visualisering av den globala trafiken för handelsfartyg under ett år, 2012.
En bok som jag tror många har väntat på: "The product of years of archival research and numerous interviews conducted by the author, Track Changes is the first literary history of word processing". Recension hos Bookforum bl.a.
"Blockchains could become merely a new technique to ensure the continuation of banking hegemony in its current form. That would be one of those final plot twists which leaves everybody thinking that although they enjoyed most of the show, the ending was so disappointing they now wish they hadn’t bothered. Or, along with peer-to-peer lending and mobile payments, they could have an impact as great as the new kind of banking introduced in Renaissance Italy. That would be more fun."
Flag Stories - massor om flaggor. Skapat av danske infoviz-byrån Ferdio.
Lite lagringsframtid, från University of Washington: "In a paper (PDF) presented in April ... the team of computer scientists and electrical engineers has detailed one of the first complete systems to encode, store and retrieve digital data using DNA molecules, which can store information millions of times more compactly than current archival technologies."
"Why Do Taxonomists Write the Meanest Obituaries?" - rätt så fascinerande om hur de liberala reglerna för att dela in naturen i arter, familjer, släkten, m.m. (taxonomi) har gjort att de ofta uppstår strider när mindre nogräknade insektsamlare t.ex. har identifierat en ny art som man vill registrera. Begreppet "taxonomisk vandalism" förekommer, liksom berättelser om några biologiamatörer som retat gallfeber på expertisen under århundradena.
"In How Not to Network a Nation, Benjamin Peters reverses the usual cold war dualities and argues that the American ARPANET took shape thanks to well-managed state subsidies and collaborative research environments and the Soviet network projects stumbled because of unregulated competition among self-interested institutions, bureaucrats, and others. The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists."