While classical melancholy was defined by isolation and introspection, today’s tristesse plays out amidst busy social media interactions. Geert Lovink on ‘technological sadness’ – the default mental state of the online billions.
Jumieka piipl dem taak wah Ingglish-bies kriyuol Languij we deh kaal Patwa, ar jos Jumiekan.
Wealth of the 1%.
How much is a trillion dollars? Exactly. Who knows? Nobody. Ok, but here are a load of $trillion dollar amounts VISUALIZED so you can at least see what $trillion looks like.
Introducing the Baroque Theorbo.
People complain a lot about the space that I take up.
With a preface by Edgar J. Hoover.
This Godless Communism (1961 comic, via hubski.com).
“What do we do now, dad?” “We should have done our thinking and praying before this happened, Bill, but it is never too late. Let’s go to the church and ask god’s help.”
Life Is Too Short to RTFM: How Users Relate to Documentation and Excess Features in Consumer Products (via improbable.com).
Gitpod – One-Click Online IDE for GitHub and other code hosting platforms.
In a blink of an eye from any GitHub project, pull request, or issue to a ready-configured, fully-featured online IDE and terminal.
Web Audio Modules Community Site.
Synthesizers and audio effects processors for web browsers.
Why languages and dialects really are different animals.
(…) it takes about a millennium for dialects to become languages. We know this because we can now distinguish the two.