The Invention of “Sesame Street”.
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
How tools are shaping our society, pt. 123.
Scientists had to rename genes because they confused Microsoft Excel.
The genes "MARCH1" and "SEPT1," for instance, kept getting auto-formatted by Excel.
100 Jahre Frauen an Kunstakademien: Eine Hommage an Künstlerinnen.
Das Bauhaus war zwar mit der Zulassung von Frauen etwas früher dran als die meisten anderen Kunsthochschulen, allerdings doch nur halbherzig und für die Fächer, die sie für Frauen als sinnvoll erachteten, wie eben die Weberei.
Relevant: 100womenartists.com.
May I suggest they should remain anchored for good.
The ritualised excess of life aboard a cruise ship is tragic and parodic by turns.
A deadpan glimpse of life aboard a cruise ship, where rituals of excess and organised fun have built a $45 billion industry.
Rediscovering the Small Web.
Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simpRediscovering the Small Web - Neustadt.frly to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also fun, creative and interesting.
TIL about Milü.
This post is a random grab bag of things relating to irrational numbers.
Heir of LaTeX.
Markdeep is a technology for writing plain text documents that will look good in any web browser, whether local or remote. It supports diagrams, calendars, equations, and other features as extensions of Markdown syntax.
Walt Whitman’s poetry frames scenes from 1920s New York in this film classic.
European countries should follow.
“We’re Publishing Thousands of Police Discipline Records That New York Kept Secret for Decades.”
The New York City police officer whose use of a prohibited chokehold led to the death of Eric Garner in 2014 had a record of misconduct. Garner’s last words — “I can’t breathe” — became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement. The city investigator who revealed the existence of the officer’s record was forced to resign in 2017; the officer himself wasn’t fired until 2019.
If you want to help save the planet, reduce digital weight. Clean up your website. Before you add an image, make sure that it does something useful and it’s the most optimized image possible. Every time you add code, make sure it does something useful and it’s the leanest code possible. Always be on the lookout for waste images, waste code, waste content. Get into the habit of removing something every time you add something.