Interact With a Hologram Made from Super-Thin Water Particles.

Interview with Håkon Wium Lie.

If you could have one print-related wish come true, what would it be?

Can I have three wishes? We need solid support for sidenotes, baseline alignment, and top/bottom-floating figures with snapping to nearest edge.

It's Official: Time Crystals Are a New State of Matter, and Now We Can Create Them (via reddit.com).

(…) Wilczek proposed that it might be possible to create an object that achieves an asymmetrical ground state not across space, like ordinary crystals or magnets, but across time.

That’s not news to me.

The Biggest Trend in Sneakers Is Ugly.

Not just a footnote of history: EUMEL.

The Extendable multi user microprocessor ELAN system (EUMEL) is a microkernel operating system. Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD) and Hochschulrechenzentrum (HRZ) of Bielefeld University created and developed it between 1978 and 1990. L3, EUMEL’s successor, is still in use by a few legacy systems as of 2016.

The personal cowardice of Jack Dorsey*.

Donald Trump is bad for Twitter, both as a platform and as a company. As CNN reports, thanks to Trump’s terrifying and racist new immigration policies would-be visitors to the United States may soon be asked to hand over their social media passwords for “extreme vetting.” This vetting would reportedly include monitoring public and private messages and tracing friendship graphs.

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Exakt.

taz-Bot Judith Botler zum Frauentag: { track: „#genderwahnsinn“ }.

Zum Weltfrauentag haben wir einen Bot programmiert. Warum? Weil das Programmieren eine Form der Selbstermächtigung ist.

World Wide Web, Not Wealthy Western Web (Part 1).

Ignighter got 50,000 registrations, but it wasn’t enough to reach critical mass, and the founders considered abandoning their business. Then, they noticed they were getting as many sign-ups a week from India as they did in a year in the USA. Perhaps the group-dating model that they anticipated for Jewish families really resonated with conservative Muslim, Hindu and Sikh families in India, Singapore and Malaysia, so they rebranded as Stepout, relocated to Mumbai and became India’s biggest dating website.

Update: Here is part 2.

Writing Systems And Calligraphy Of The World.

The beauty of typography has no borders. While most of us work with the familiar Latin alphabet, international projects usually require quite extensive knowledge about less familiar writing systems from around the world. The aesthetics and structure of such designs can be strongly related to the shape and legibility of the letterforms, so learning about international writing systems will certainly help you create more attractive and engaging Web designs.