21 'Ugly' Buildings That Aren't Ugly at All.
Atlas Obscura readers share their love for structures they feel have been unfairly maligned.
#notmyinternet
Dear Mr Zuckerberg: the problem isn't the internet, it's Facebook.
The fact is that the structure and function of Facebook is antithetic to the ideology of the internet. The internet is open, configurable, distributed, and based on open code. Facebook is nothing of the sort.
English’s reign as the “global language” might end.
(…) it’s not Mandarin or any other language that is likely to become the undoing of English — it’s technology.
(…) while the new constitution of Estonia was being formed, civil servants simply forgot to count in the Torgu parish at all. Thanks to this human error, this 48.8-square-mile area was technically not governed by the constitution.
Wer wirklich Macht hat.
Viele Medien befassen sich gar nicht erst mit der Frage, wer real über welche Macht verfügt. Ein süffiges Zitat reicht für die Meldung des Tages. Wenn daraus nichts folgt, dann verstärkt das den Eindruck, Politik werde überwiegend in Hinterzimmern gemacht. Das ist schädlich für das Ansehen der parlamentarischen Demokratie.
A recent interview with Ted Nelson, the founding designer of Xanadu, one of the world's first hypertext projects.
Das (jüdische) Großbürgertum im Portrait.
No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime.
It expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second, it’s 100,000 times softer than Jell-O, and it fends off sharks and Priuses alike.
From the superposition-politics-and-data-visualization dept.
(…) our hesitance to jump into the fray isn’t evidence of a lack of principle or conviction, but respect for the empirical observation that our judgment will inevitably be clouded by the Zeitgeist.
PIPE is a voice / breath / mouth-controlled dynamic FX processor and synthesizer.
It turns your voice into a powerful FX / beat / lead / soundscape synthesizer and it offers unprecedented levels of vocal processing, truly expanding the traditional boundaries of singing.
