The Uninhabitable Earth, Annotated Edition.
The facts, research, and science behind the climate-change article that explored our planet’s worst-case scenarios.
17776 – What football will look like in the future.
this IS capitalism you donk
this is what its supposed to be, this is how it ends. if it isn't there its only because it isnt there yet. its like youre staring at a cake in the oven and wondering if its gonna be a cake.
things went the other direction in america and thank god for that. but capitalism deserves a zoo like this one. it's a beast of the wild, as wild as any grizzly bear with fawn's blood in its mouth. i think you see deeds and contracts and bureaucratic bloat and see that something went wrong. something was ALWAYS wrong y'all.
i love it. i love to watch it. in a zoo, where it can't hurt me.
Browsers know best.
The mobile web is awful, and everyone's to blame.
Git subtree: the alternative to Git submodule.
The Disaster Factory.
Hug a coder, folks. They could use it. Because what the software industry calls ‘best practice’, psychologists call ‘catastrophic thinking’, and it’s awfully hard to spend ten hours a day worrying about disaster and not have the aptitude you develop for it follow you home, like sentient toxic sludge from a grade-B monster movie.
Joe Nocera’s Two-Part Plan to Fix Air-Travel Hell.
Part 1: A common-sense rule. Part 2: Secondary ticket markets. (And shouldn't airlines think of travelers as customers, not cargo?)
The 100 Greatest Props in Movie History, and the Stories Behind Them.
“The coconut gag was the original gag that sparked the whole thing (Monty Python and the Holy Grail, ed.) off. We did talk about having horses at one point and then we quickly dismissed it because we thought it be funnier not to and because we couldn't afford horses anyway.”
How to Think Like an Economist (If, That Is, You Wish to...).
If you are coming to economics from a background in the humanities, you probably see it as a combination of two centuries out-of-date psychology and moral philosophy, coupled with obscure and often wrong—yet somehow authoritative in some way—mathematical manipulations.
Relevant: How bosses are (literally) like dictators.
Die Slums von Wien.
Max Winter (1870 – 1937) gilt als Vater der deutschsprachigen Sozialreportage. „Die Höhlenbewohner von Wien“ erschien 1901 in der „Arbeiter Zeitung“, für die er die längste Zeit seines Lebens tätig war, während des Ersten Weltkriegs als Chefredakteur. Winter war Sozialdemokrat. Er schrieb, um seine Gesellschaft zu verändern, und nicht selten direkt im Imperativ: „Bauet Obdachlosenasyle! Schaffet Kinderspielplätze!“
We’re building on a web littered with too-heavy sites, on an internet that’s unevenly, unequally distributed. That’s why designing a lightweight, inexpensive digital experience is a form of kindness.