Should we rebrand REST?
Fielding's thesis was a kind of retrospective on the design decisions that led to the World Wide Web — a distributed hypermedia-driven information retrieval system — becoming the runaway success it was.
The stunning Super-Kamiokande is hidden beneath a mountain in Japan to detect neutrinos shot from supernovas.
To ensure that the cones of Cerenkov radiation successfully reach the Super K’s PMTs, the water inside the tank has to be super-pure. It’s continually re-purified and bombarded with UV light to kill off any bacteria floating around in it. The resulting liquid is so pure, it’s more like an acid and an alkaline than the H2O we know.
Moar stunning pictures of Super-Kamiokande.
Anybody who ever lighted a fire without matches has probably gained some proper respect for "low" or "primitive" or "simple" technologies; anybody who ever lighted a fire with matches should have the wits to respect that notable hi-tech invention.
Finally understanding PNG.
Both images look the same, have the same width and height, both are PNGs, but the file size is significantly different. Why?
Relevant: How software gets color wrong.
Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work.
That was depressing… What now?
Learn Ukrainian for FREE online. Vocabulary and grammar lessons with audio. From beginner to intermediate levels.
What happens when pacifist soldiers search for peace in a war video game.
Relevant: Total Refusal.
By invoking Karl Polanyi’s work on fictious commodities, I argue that the privatization, and commodification of trust may have a catastrophic impact on the most fundamental layers of the social fabric.
Relevant: The Great Transformation.
Beautiful PDFs from HTML.
This guide provides a basic tutorial to using paged.js, for my own future reference and yours, and I highly recommend you visiting their site and supporting their project
Bitch, better have my colorful money.
Currency Design – Designing The Most Desirable Product.
With its eighth series of franc notes, Switzerland has reintroduced a vertical format for banknote design, a format subsequently adopted by a number of nations (…)
Relevant: Totenkopf und Embryo: Die verschmähten Noten der Nationalbank.
