
Science
- The tallest natural arch in the world (taller than the Empire State Building), see the pic above.
- Mathematica for Data Science
Watchables
- I like watching all the “Beauty of …” videos, this is one on BladeRunner 49
The world
- Chris Hedges is always hard-hitting
- This old SNL bit on the 2020 Dem candidates is … on the money :-|
- NFT, AI, and the concept of history
Readables
- Something Pynchon wrote for the NYT Book Review in 1984
- There was an actual trailer for Anathem (remember reading the book a bit over a decade ago)
- When Douglas Adams made an interactive text game for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- On the rise and decline of Slashdot (checking it was a daily routine for a decade!)
Computing
- A view of Nvidia and Arm and … the coming era of specialized software-and-hardware
- a Dvorak e-zine: https://www.dvzine.org/zine/22-23.html
- “The last cool prank”
- “Why not gpl, for scientific software?"
- Ordering salads (from Sweetgreen) within Emacs (why am I not surprised)
- A reality check on programming being both hard and easy