If you had a human head transplant, would you still be you?

"Putting a new head in a body is a guarantee of madness at best."

The Science of Why Swearing Physically Reduces Pain.

Research has shown that cursing allows you to handle suffering and actually diminishes the sensation of pain.

Street whack.

Wie oft gibt es Ihre Straße?

Der Blick ins Straßenverzeichnis zeigt: In Deutschland gibt es 4.616 Bahnhofstraßen und 7.066 Hauptstraßen. Alle deutschen Straßennamen in einer Suche.

Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted Attacks on Speech-to-Text (via twitter.com).

Given any audio waveform, we can produce another that is over 99.9% similar, but transcribes as any phrase we choose (…).

unDraw | Colorful illustrations.

MIT licensed illustrations for every project you can imagine and create.

The Power of Serverless for Front-End-Developers.

True freedom of speech or simply monetization of social interaction? (Or both?)

AKASHA, the social network dApp.

With AKASHA your thoughts and ideas will echo throughout humanity's existence, thanks to a new kind of planetary-scale information network immune to censorship by design.

Boss key 2018.

genact – a nonsense activity generator (via github.com).

Pretend to be busy or waiting for your computer when you should actually be doing real work! Impress people with your insane multitasking skills. Just open a few instances of genact and watch the show. genact has multiple scenes that pretend to be doing something exciting or useful when in reality nothing is happening at all.

How a Library Handles a Rare and Deadly Book of Wallpaper Samples.

(…) “those wanting to look at the book had to wear special gloves. There were restrictions on how long you could have it out, and you had to be very careful—don’t lick your fingers and turn the page.”

Blubbergarten vermittelt Grundlagen und Praxis wilder Fermentation.