Sunday, 18. May 12014
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Media Criticism in Chart Form.

All of Bach.

“Every Friday, you will find a new recording here of one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s 1080 works, performed by the Netherlands Bach Society and many guest musicians.”

The Trick That Makes Google's Self-Driving Cars Work.

“Today, you could not take a Google car, set it down in Akron or Orlando or Oakland and expect it to perform as well as it does in Silicon Valley.”

How Football* Sounds To People That Don't Care.

* or soccer.

Thursday, 15. May 12014
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Parks and Recreation.

The Murals of Pioneer Hall.

Tuesday, 13. May 12014
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Please go away. Τhere is nothing tο see here. Certaіnly no steganographic message.

Thinking out loudly.

Interesting to see what is going on in terms of data visualization in ye olde world of TeX and PostScript, printing and such: TikZ examples.

So they created some layers of abstraction on top of Donald Knuth’s beautiful program and now we can implement similar imagery as some might know from D3 and the like – minus the interactivity of course. For now.

Because since the advent of asm.js, emscripten and wassername there is hardly a thing and your mother not being compiled to JavaScript.

So it might only be a matter of time to see the first incarnations of something like TeXjs or Ghojstscript…

And then there will be direct TeX output to the canvas and/or as scalable vector graphics to the DOM in the browser instead of the cumbersome detour via PDF. And interactivity. Why not.

Monday, 12. May 12014
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Glass — Obsessed with the future of TV.

DUMB.domains.

An Australian man named Bill Morgan was declared dead for 14 minutes and lived unscathed. To celebrate his survival, he bought a scratch card and won a $27k car. The media/news asked him to re-enact the scratch card moment so he bought another card & won a $250k jackpot. (Via nowiknow.com.)