Cancer is the voracious animal that early moderns imagined.
But there is a larger waiting, a cosmic waiting that precedes and cradles within itself all the other times and modes and tenses of being. It tells us that our puny power to do and to be in this world is the exception, not the rule.
The race to save Polesia, Europe's secret Amazon.
A proposed waterway linking the Black Sea and the Baltic has sparked fears of catastrophic biodiversity loss – and raised the spectre of Chernobyl.
Hate-Speech-Kontroverse im Deutschrap: Unterschiedliche Ekelgrade.
Auf 240 Zeichen aufgeblähte Männeregos, wohin man auch scrollt.
Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain.
To determine the finite nature of melodies, Riehl and Rubin developed an algorithm that recorded every possible 8-note, 12-beat melody combo. This used the same basic tactic some hackers use to guess passwords: Churning through every possible combination of notes until none remained. Riehl says this algorithm works at a rate of 300,000 melodies per second.
There are some cases where even using plain ol’ HTML causes accessibility problems.
Shake – The Typeface with Parkinson's.
Write with Parkinson's is a website that shares the Shake typeface and let's you donate to support research on the Parkinson's disease.
Finally, There's a Social Network Without Any People.
When you download the app, you enter a fantasy world where you're the most popular user—and only non-bot—on a social network.
paged.js (via cabbagetreelabs.org).
Paged.js is a free and open source JavaScript library that paginates content in the browser to create PDF output from any HTML content.
This Is How To Change Someone’s Mind.
Facts are the enemy.
plink-plonk.js – Listen to your web pages.
/*
Copy this into the console of any web page that is interactive and doesn't
do hard reloads. You will hear your DOM changes as different pitches of
audio.
I have found this interesting for debugging, but also fun to hear web pages
render like UIs do in movies.
*/