Actually, it’s about zebra mussels, but still: 😲
The U.S. Government Is Begging You to Destroy Moss Balls.
Zebra mussels are “pretty much bad news all around. (…) They filled this niche and they don’t have any predators. They’re taking something out of the food web, and not putting anything back in. (…) we never expected zebra mussels to travel through aquarium plants”
Dither Me This Image Dithering Tool.
Use this tool to reduce the file size of an image… but in a stylish old-school way. It reduces the colors in an image, and places dots to emulate the missing shades.
Relevant: Creating Patterns With SVG Filters.
Good, Better, Best: Untangling The Complex World Of Accessible Patterns.
How do we know which patterns are good, better, best when it comes to accessibility? Is it better to use an established pattern/library or create new ones? With the myriad of choices available, we can quickly become caught up in a web of confusion on this topic.
Relevant: CodePens by Carie Fisher.
LiebeHeide (via densediscovery.com).
This new digital font not only contains the latest font technology but also years of lettering experience of its designer Ulrike Rausch. LiebeHeide is a digital script font that authentically reproduces the writing of a ballpoint pen.
Non-fungible means 💩
The Environmental Cost of CryptoArt (via densediscovery.com).
(…) the average NFT has a footprint of around 211 kg of CO2 equivalent. That's the same as an EU resident's electric power consumption for more than a month, driving for 1000km, or a return flight from London to Rome. And that's just for keeping track of who owns it - it doesn't include the energy consumption used in the creation of the work, its storage, or the website it's hosted on.
Lockdown on Nias island in Indonesia served as a spiritual reset.
When the curfew sounded, at a drum’s command, young and old climbed the creaking staircases, ducking through narrow doorways into gleaming, echoey halls empty of furniture, a communal airy space with dingy, cabin-like cells at the rear. As roof hatches were lowered and doors bolted, the trim, receding dwellings became arks, the outside world dropping away. With the house sealed against contagion and curse, and constituent families – half a dozen per lineage – quarantined between earth and sky six feet above the ground, the isolation was total. Each lineage, with its 40-odd crew, was cut off from its neighbours, afloat on a hilltop, deep in the forest. Such was lockdown in Tanö Niha, the Land of People.
Mini Tokyo 3D (via densediscovery.com).
A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system.
How psychology fills the gap from the disenchantment of the world.
Mythological schemes – including psychology – provide stories about the origins of mortality, sexuality, society, rules and work. They offer a motivation for why things are the way they are. Our shared world is maintained by the practice of rites, of rituals. As the French philosopher Georges Bataille wrote, rites represent rules of conduct in the presence of the sacred, thus protecting and insulating it from the profane. In myths and the rituals that sustain them, we search for a lost sense of intimacy with transcendent sources. By providing explanatory tenets, psychology is thus a means of enabling humans to sustain their practices of personhood and materialism such that we can face the world with greater confidence and increased energy.
Relevant: Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex & Death.
Demography 101
— Ilya Kashnitsky (@ikashnitsky) March 5, 2021
🔥 WHAT IS LIFE EXPECTANCY ? 🔥
and (even more important)
❌ what it isn't ❌
Join in for the most topical demography primer
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Reverse Engineering the COVID Vaccine Source Code (via berthub.eu).
Curious how the BioNTech/Pfizer COVID vaccine works under the hood? The answer is, it almost doesn’t – if not for several very cool bio-hacks in the code...