A cat is alive, a sofa is not: that much we know. But a sofa is also part of life. Information theory tells us why.
The “3.5% rule”: How a small minority can change the world.
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
5 Keys to Accessible Web Typography.
Tristan Harris @ The Senate Commerce Committee.
How technology companies use algorithms and machine learning to influence the public.
The race to the bottom of the brain stem (…) leads to the kind of algorithmic extremism (…)
OpenStreetMap's Blinking Beacons.
How Google eats a business whole.
Google’s Featured Snippets are not only often wrong, they’re also damaging to small businesses that depend on search traffic.
HTML Includes That Work Today.
Note: this post describes an experimental technique that we still need to test for performance implications. It may end up being a useful tool, and it may end up being a practice we won’t recommend. Either way, it’s fascinating to us that it works!
Made by Firefox.
Track This – A new kind of Incognito.
Feel like ads on the internet know you too well? It's because they do. Let us open 100 tabs of pure madness to fool trackers into thinking you're someone else.
intermezzOS is a teaching operating system, specifically focused on introducing systems programming concepts to experienced developers from other areas of programming.
The restaurant owner who asked for 1-star Yelp reviews.
How one small business owner flipped the online review ecosystem on its head.
Relevant: poopsenders.com.
