Civil war
Yeah
It’s a motherfucker
Don’t you know.
Development notes from xkcd's "Machine".
How we designed xkcd's massive rube goldberg machine game in 3 weeks.
When one looks in the box, one sees it’s not the cat being groomed.
How Erwin Schrödinger indulged his ‘Lolita complex’ in Ireland.
Schrödinger was a serial abuser whose behaviour fitted the profile of a paedophile in the widely understood sense of that term.
Heat Death of the Internet
You buy a microwave and receive ads for microwaves. You buy a mattress and receive ads for mattresses.
Isabel J. Kim: Why Don’t We Just Kill The Kid In The Omelas Hole.
They will talk about the history of Omelas in the same way that people talk about the Uyghurs situation in China, the concentration camps of the Third Reich, the comfort women imported from Korea by Japan, the Belgium Congo, the Atlantic Slave Trade in relation to the American South, and the refugees who sink in ships off the coast of Western Europe.
We set a new goal. Literally. We have started a competition in which we will question the interactive potential of our illustrations. See if we can score in another way.
Resting dead wife face
Unity Of Oppression und Speziesismus (vor 13 bzw. 33 Jahren; Anm.)
Das Unity Of Oppression-Konzept ist eine Erweiterung der Dreifachunterdrückungsthese des Black Feminism durch die Tierrechts-/Tierbefreiungsbewegung. Die Diskussion um das Konzept begann und endete in den 90ern und ist heute fast nur noch von bewegungshistorischem Interesse. Die aktuelle wissenschaftliche Diskussion um Intersektionalität (forciert von der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung) bietet jedoch Anschlussmöglichkeiten an die Diskurse der 90er. In diesem Beitrag – ein ausgekoppeltes Kapitel aus meiner im Erscheinen befindlichen Einführung in die Tierrechts-/Tierbefreiungsbewegung „In sozialer Bewegung für die Befreiung der Tiere: Theorie, Praxis, Diskurse“ – zeichne ich die Entwicklung und die Kerngedanken beider Ansätze nach.
Pencils down, people.
The Google Labs Aptitude Test (20 years ago, ed.)
But what if there were a standardized test that led, like, immediately to the really cool job? What if, for instance, there was a Google Labs Aptitude Test?
There is. We enjoyed writing it, and if you're our kind of uber-geek, you'll enjoy taking it, and maybe you'd enjoy life as a Googler. Give it a try.
10 > 64, in QR codes.
Encoding data in decimal requires many more characters than the same data encoded in base64—
06513249vsYWJj—but using decimal is better when stored in a QR code. The magic of QR modes means all those extra digits are stored efficiently, almost as though there was no encoding at all. Decimal encoding makes for QR codes that store more data, or are easier to scan.