log-2021-12-27

Biology

• Haloquadratum
• Telescoping generations

History

• Defenestrations of Prague
• Thousand-year Rose

Language

• Turkish bird language
• Conway script
• fbiic.gov: A Guide to Names and Naming Practices

Art and Fiction

• Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
• The Truth, by Stanisław Lem
• Tour of the Sacred Library

log-2021-12-26

Fun Speculation

• Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior From Sequential Images
• Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar
• Shasu of Yhw
• Ancient Egyptian doctors and the nature of the biblical plagues
• A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea

Artifacts

• Narco Subs 101
• Maintenance hole covers
• Sinister Sounds of the Solar System and Beyond
• List of unexplained sounds
• Ah yes! The Cube!

log-2021-07-20

Science is more broken than you think

• What Is the Readiness Potential? surprisingly little of this no-free-will argument remains standing
• Survey Chicken
• The Generalizability Crisis

Computers

• Kaboom: an unusual Minesweeper (play)
• Specification gaming examples in AI
• Kraken Drive
• Homemaker WaveFunctionCollapse meets A Pattern Language

*

• Pissing contest don't miss the Irish legend!
• The Flat Earth Wiki
• Obliterating Animal Carcasses with Explosives

log-2021-07-19

Physics

• Coherent perfect absorber
• Continent of stability
• Kapitza's pendulum

Art

• Ambigrammatic Figures
• Monument to the laboratory mouse
• Hyperart Thomasson
• Wood That Works
• A Book of Creatures
• Milky Way, 12 years, 1250 hours of exposures and 125 x 22 degrees of sky
• [oove] Heartbeats

log-2021-07-18

History

• Interactive World History Atlas since 3000 BC
• Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum

Biology

• There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
• Boquila
• Mautam
• Fig Wasp: Life Cycle
• The Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish

Fiction

• List Of Fictional Cryptocurrencies Banned By The SEC
• Basilisk collection
• Avaunt enjoyable

log-2020-11-12

History

• Forgotten Winchester
• Polish Haitians
• Erfurt latrine disaster (siehe auch Erfurter Latrinensturz, br.de)

Mad Science

• regex2fat
• Slower Than Light starships (and realistic designs)
• Am I still lactose tolerant? - Lactose Gene Therapy Update (previously)

*

• Russell’s Decalogue
• Survey of Alternative Displays
• Pickled Walnuts
• Quick, Hide the Body!

log-2020-10-18

Geography

• List of tautological place names
• Parting of the Waters
• Hamza River
• List of unusual drainage systems

Architecture

• Bibliothek im Eis
• Cathedral-Licking Diary
• ARCHITECTURE IN HENTAI

Fiction/Mythology

• Motif-index of folk-literature
• She Unnames Them
• Sibyl’s blending

Special Bonus Link

• Neil Cicierega: Mouth Dreams

log-2020-06-18

Wikipedia

• Holden's Lightning flight
• George Washington's teeth
• Small penis rule
• Death by coconut
• List of individual pigs

Computers and People

• Bush hid the facts
• Video Encoded Invisible Light
• When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery, SimRefinery recovered
• The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (pdf with references)
• you know who i blame? the lurkers

log-2020-05-04

Science

• VISTA gigapixel mosaic of the central parts of the Milky Way (full, zoomable)
• Schiehallion experiment
• Perceptual convergence of multi-component mixtures in olfaction implies an olfactory white
• Leprechaun hunting and historical context

Philosophy

• Ignorance, a skilled practice
• Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity
• On Having No Head: Cognition throughout Biological Systems

History

• Zhang Zongchang
• Biafran airlift (via)
• WTF Happened In 1971? I know, right?

log-2020-01-23

Science

• Book Review: Design Principles of Biological Circuits, Evolution of Modularity
• LAGEOS (see also)

Fiction

• Tattúínárdǿla saga: If Star Wars Were an Icelandic Saga
• I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter
• …And I Show You How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes

Infohazards

• Puppy pregnancy syndrome
• Pig brains kept alive outside body for hours after death
• Pig-human Hybrids, Cow-human Hybrids, Dog-cow Hybrids very risky clicks, you have been warned

Computers

• Coffee++
• Scrambling T-R-U-T-H - Rotating Letters as a Material Form of Thought (abstract)

log-2019-12-08

Nature

• Hector (cloud) see also: Catatumbo lightning
• Elysia chlorotica
• Hibakujumoku
• Hoag's Object

Mad Science

• MySQL Raytracer
• Can rodents conceive hyperbolic spaces?
• List of inventors killed by their own inventions

*

• List of hoaxes on Wikipedia
• Raven Kwok: 189D3 / Pentium, Big Brothers Are Watching You
• The Natural Number Game a work in progress, but very fun a few weeks ago

log-2019-10-27

Biology

• A newly evolved W(olbachia) sex chromosome in pillbug nature finds a way
• Developing a Permanent Treatment for Lactose Intolerance Using Gene Therapy for science!

Art & Content

• Coast Path Game Poems
• a strange voyage
• lostTesla
• Self Aware ROOMBA
• Content Aware Scale - Five or Six Stores
• The Great Flamingo Uprising

*

• Nomogram not yet a lost art, but one we're in the process of losing
• Hakim Bey - Immediatism

log-2019-09-11

Art

• Instravel - A Photogenic Mass Tourism Experience
• AARON
• Globus Cassus
• Minus World: Generative Game Reviews from a Parallel Universe
• Windows 95 Tips

Science

• Using fluid dynamics to perfect crêpe cooking techniques
• A refutation of Metcalfe's Law and a better estimate for the value of networks and network interconnections
• An integrated brain-machine interface platform with thousands of channels
• Nanophotonic media for artificial neural inference
• Evolution as Backstop for Reinforcement Learning

log-2019-09-10

Humans

• Crime in Antarctica
• Democratic Republic of Congo: Lubumbashi to Kinshasa
• Ghosts of the Tsunami
• What is a “sense of foreshortened future?” A phenomenological study of trauma, trust, and time

Biology

• Scaly-foot snail
• Chicken hypnotism
• Parietal eye

Human Biology

• Haidinger's brush
• Humans perceive flicker artifacts at 500 Hz
• The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight

log-2019-05-01

Computers

• Scalable Muscle-actuated Human Simulation and Control
• Abadidea's Index of Weird Machines in Video Games

Questions

• Open Questions
• Wikenigma
• The Last Mortals (pdf)

Wikipedia

• Jack (baboon)
• Frankenstein veto
• USS Nimitz UFO incident
• Bat Cave Mine
• Toilet god

log-2019-04-26

Ideas

• Degrees of Freedom
• The Missing Moods
• Terrorism Is Not About Terror

History

• Solar storm of 1859
• Bal des Ardents
• The Real War 1939-1945

*

• Why books are the length they are
• Spacefaring Mythologies
• Cemetery Playground
• @CursedArchitect

log-2019-03-23

Computers

• The Single Rotation rule: remarkably simple and rich reversible cellular automaton comments and followups are worth reading as well
• Outperforming everything with anything
• The Curious Case of Convexity Confusion
• The resource leak bug of our civilization

Technology

• List of emerging technologies
• ArVid
• Enchroma
• Pondering the ‘Dyson Slingshot’, Investigating the ‘Halo Drive’, Black Hole Propulsion as Technosignature

Math

• Multi-Stage Bean Machine Visualization: Advantages of Repeated Optimization
• Perfectly Intelligent Mafia

log-2019-03-22

Society and the Web

• What Colour are your bits?
• Social Design Practices for Human-Scale Online Games
• How Filter Bubbles Will Save The World
• The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview

Art & (Soviet) Animation

• Aphex Twin - T69 Collapse
• Ух ты, говорящая рыба! (1983)
• Слева направо (1989)
• Контакт (1978)
• Forest of Resonating Lamps
• Complexity Graphics

log-2019-01-24

Computers

• SWAGGINZZZ via trivium
• rational rendering and floating bar
• An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus

Nature & Medicine

• Quinine’s Target
• Deadly deficiency at the heart of an environmental mystery maybe the bees just need vitamin pills? who knows
• Cast of the Right Bronchial Tree

History

• Cagot
• Sampler of Ancient Egyptian Supernatural Beings

???

• Unicode Character 'INCOMPLETE INFINITY' (U+29DC)
• General Numogrammatics, Part 1: CX Tabulation

log-2018-11-03

Science

• First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings
• Increased frequency of travel may act to decrease the chance of a global pandemic
• Fomenko A.T. MATHEMATICAL IMPRESSIONS (gallery)

History & Economy

• Nemi ships
• Economic Growth in Ancient Rome (via gwern)
• Japan's Hometown Tax

*

• Disfix
• X Marks The Spot: Identifying MIM-104 Patriot Batteries From Sentinel-1 SAR Multi-temporal Imagery
• Drawing Outside the Box: Precision Issues in Graphic Libraries novel
• End of Shift Report

log-2018-10-21

Philosophy

• Benevolent Artificial Anti-Natalism with Thomas Metzinger
• You Don't Understand Our Culture
• The History of Philosophy neat visualization

Biology

• Hallucinogenic fish
• Tyrannosaurus Redesign 2018

Art/Aesthetics

• Through the Cracks video-resistant audiovisual art (make sure to run it on a 4K)
• Multiscale Turing Patterns
• DVA - NIPOMO
• echolot, Dune
• Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion see also: Max Headroom and parodies

log-2018-09-18

Language

• Inferential mood useful
• Jespersen's Cycle
• How to Write a Dance (via)

Architecture

• Palace of Rituals, Tbilisi
• Evolving Floorplans

Science

• Unknown Knowns and a cool study
• Poor Human Olfaction is a Nineteenth Century Myth more on human sense of smell
• Evidence of directional and stabilizing selection in contemporary humans

Art

• Aïsha Devi "Mazdâ" - Official Music Video
• Kubussen (Printplaat Geometrie)

log-2018-07-22

Science

• Language Impairments in ASD Resulting from a Failed Domestication of the Human Brain links between autism and domestication syndrome
• The Slow-Motion Symbiotic Train Wreck of the 13-Year Cicada
• Vision of Octopi and the Persistence of Error opinionated but interesting
• Dissolving the Fermi Paradox in which we discover that everybody's been using the Drake equation all wrong

Fiction & Animation

• Untilted
• LORN - ANVIL
• Fever The Ghost - SOURCE I will not be held responsible for earworms (see also, see also)

Names

• Aptronym
• Strong Opinions weakly held it has a name
• Quintus Valerius Soranus and the secret name of Rome

log-2018-06-18

History

• Pasquino anonymous message boards are really old (see also: Talking statues of Rome)
• Dujiangyan (also: Li Bing)
• Great Wall of Gorgan
• Experiments in the Revival of Organisms
• A Rape in Cyberspace (plus: I Feel Pretty)

Fiction

• Bears Discover Fire
• PERFECT PLATONIC SUFFERING CRYSTAL

Animation

• Blockhead - The Music Scene
• Cat Soup
• Dimensions of Dialogue (1982, Jan Švankmajer)

log-2018-06-01

Software

• Context Free
• Code Golf: Add a language to a polyglot

Society

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (The Ethics of) Eugenics
• Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement
• The Nerd as the Norm
• Why everything might have taken so long

Wikipedia

• Icelandic Phallological Museum that was a funnier read than I expected it to be
• Poto and Cabengo
• Jerusalem syndrome
• Sprengung verendeter Rinder

Art & Fiction

• The Gig Economy
• Eight unusual science fiction plots
• NASALO - An alphabet for the nose

*

• The Ambien Walrus Collection I recommend reading the comments as well
• The Hairy Eyeball — Limbal Dermoid
• Carrot or a Pair of Shoes?

log-2018-04-13

Math & Art

• High-contrast Computational Caustic Design
• Abstract painting with Fourier transforms
• The Blaschka Marine Invertebrates
• Finding Alternative Musical Scales (pdf)
• Dance notation

Mind

• Spatial Frequency Analysis - II (via)
• Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?
• Synesthetic hallucinations induced by psychedelic drugs in a congenitally blind man

Fiction

• Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks
• A Daemon Haunted World – Tim Maly

log-2018-02-11

Biology

• Odor Classification: A Review of Factors Influencing Perception-Based Odor Arrangements
• Domesticated red fox
• Apis dorsata a really cool species of bee

Art & Fiction

• Peter Watts: ZeroS
• Ray Bradbury: Skeleton
• Escape to Trancyberia (1995)

*

• .aq antarctic domains
• SimRefinery
• George Orwell: Revenge is Sour
• List of cities claimed to be built on seven hills

log-2018-01-26

Culture

• Faceless Together one of the better posts I've seen about anonymity culture
• The Greek Aulos Modes
• The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp
• Analysis vs Algebra predicts eating corn?

Computers

• Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360
• Mechanical Computing Systems Using Only Links and Rotary Joints
• Mill architecture

Math & Science

• Purkinje effect discovered by someone who knew how to Look
• Self-Referential Aptitude Test it's solvable :)
• Analysis and Qualitative Effects of Large Breasts on Aerodynamic Performance and Wake of a “Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid” Character

log-2017-12-22

Science & Math

• Bad Packings
• Alternative periodic tables
• Rijke's tube
• Schmidt sting pain index
• The Theory of Interstellar Trade
• Two million stars on the move (Youtube) make sure you watch the high-res version

Society

• How to Hire Fake Friends and Family simulacrum families in Japan
• Happiness and Life Satisfaction the hard stats

Words

• THE JEWISH JOKES OF www.awordinyoureye.com
• Monochroms Typosammlung: de, en

log-2017-11-05

Science

• Why does drug resistance readily evolve but vaccine resistance does not?
• List of artificial radiation belts (see also: Starfish Prime, video)
• Timeline of the far future

Thought

• "In the cells of the eggplant" is out, and the sample chapters are quite great
• A Field Guide to Thoughtstoppers
• Abstractive power and the second derivative of semantics

*

• Liberating Iraq on solving problems through violence
• Arxiv Vanity Arxiv papers as HTML
• Seapole
• Plaid - Elevator (video)

log-2017-10-07

Computers

• ZM~~ # PRinty# C with ABC! (explanation)
• The Minsky Circle Algorithm (via trivium)
• A specimen of colored and animated svg in OpenType

Science

• Andart: Torus-Earth
• 5α-Reductase_deficiency
• Continuously variable transmission
• One-electron universe

Language

• Languages don’t all have the same number of terms for colors – scientists have a new theory why more research on color names comes in
• 2channel emoticons do not miss the multiline ones
• Comparison of butterflies and moths if you have trouble telling moths from butterflies in a principled way - you're not alone

log-2017-09-17

History

• March 1504 lunar eclipse
• Évian Conference

Language

• Odors expressible in language, as long as you speak right language about human vocabulary for smells
• Hyperhero Schimpfwortliste

Computers

• IRMP (en) a library for decoding various IR (think: remote control) protocols
• Code Golf Stack Exchange: Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life

*

• Halfbakery: Ignition Key for Computers
• Halfbakery: collaborative web fiction
• Forest ring

Fiction

• CORDYCEPS: Too clever for their own good

log-2017-07-24

Computers

• Zatocoding et al mechanical bloom filters once used in libraries
• Accidentally Quadratic

Anthropology

• Ted Kaczynski: The Truth About Primitive Life - A Critique of Anarchoprimitivism complements ISAIF well (via crypt)
• The Use and Abuse of Witchdoctors for Life magic that still works (I-III are interesting, you can stop reading after that)
• Reason as memetic immune disorder
• Seeing Around Corners

Fiction

• Daniel H. Wilson: Iterations

Things, ordered

• List of selected stars for navigation
• Alchemical Symbols (Unicode block)
• Classifications of fairies

log-2017-06-25

Fiction

• True History "the earliest known fiction about travelling to outer space, alien life-forms and interplanetary warfare" (translations: en, censored, de, uncensored)
• North of Reality: Twitter Fiction Uel Aramchek's archive

Architecture

• Living root bridges
• Cabinporn: living under a bridge

Security

• stack-clash.txt

Things I Found On Wikipedia

• Self-tiling tile set
• Immovable Ladder
• Holy Prepuce
• Masoud (slave)
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory Development Ephemeris

log-2017-05-28

Neat Things

• drogulus, useful word
• Fascinus, a Roman tradition
• P: A programming language designed for asynchrony, fault-tolerance and uncertainty, apparently still not abandoned. Good news!

Art & Fiction

• Unsong has concluded.
• Angelarium

*

• History is Written by the Losers
• MtG: Judge Destroyer wonderful deck idea
• Explosion Fest
• That Time the TSA Found a Scientist’s 3-D-Printed Mouse Penis
• That is not dead which can eternal lie: the aestivation hypothesis for resolving Fermi's paradox

log-2017-05-04

Computers & Science

• Analogue computing: fun with differential equations (and the Analogmuseum)
• The Datasaurus Dozen

Insight

• Quora: Is the United States on the brink of a political revolution? The age pyramid theory of war
• How we gave colors names

Fiction

• The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (1909) extremely prescient
• Covehithe by China Miéville

*

• Fragments of Euclid, an escherian puzzle game
• Texts From Your Existentialist
• Power Lines in Anime
• Qimmy Shimmy flesh candy!

log-2017-04-10

Science

• Why don't all whales have cancer? (via gwern)
• Aquatic Refuges for Surviving a Global Catastrophe submarines as underwater bunkers
• List of unconfirmed impact craters on Earth

Mind

• The monkey and the machine: a dual process theory
• Neural precursors of decisions that matter--an ERP study of deliberate and arbitrary choice free will is not dead yet
• Form Constant

*

• List of elm trees
• List of tire fires
• The open source wish project
• ꙮ

log-2017-04-02

Computers

• Remora: An Array-Oriented Language with Static Rank Polymorphism static typing for array languages (LtU)
• Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE) a clockwork rover for Venus
• Real Artifacts

Science

• Welcome to Pleistocene Park Resurrecting the Mammoth
• Extended spider cognition or: spiders think with their webs
• Globster
• Ventifact
• An application of graph theory to architecture

*

• Soul, butterfly, mythological nymph: psyche in philosophy and neuroscience
• Better Formats For Group Interaction – Beyond Lectures, Group Discussions, Panels and Mixers

log-2017-03-22

Science

• Diana's Tree "led pre-modern chemical philosophers to theorize the existence of life in the kingdom of minerals"
• Hot chocolate effect it has a name!
• List of unconfirmed impact craters on Earth
• Extraterrestrial skies

Minds

• Computational Psychiatry: towards a mathematically informed understanding of mental illness
• State-Space of Drug Effects: Results
• Derealization during utricular stimulation

*

• Halfbakery: reverse dance (co-dance?)
• Institute For Centrifugal Research: "Gravity is a mistake"
• Youtube: LLNL Atmospheric Nuclear Tests

log-2017-03-09

Space

• Orbits of Epimetheus and Janus best orbit
• List of hypothetical Solar System objects

Math & Science

• Pi and the Golden Ratio
• Surprisingly Turing-Complete great resource for weird machines
• Edge: Reynolds Number (but for systems)
• Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature includes high-res versions

*

• Antipope: The internet of decay one of those places where reading the comments is worth your time.
• Wikipedia: User talk: 127.0.0.1
• Diet of Worms (disambiguation)
• Brutalist Framework

log-2017-03-06

Science

• Human and Animal Olfactory Capabilities Compared - human smell is actually decent
• Druids' Knowledge in Chemical Engineering: Analysis of the Illustrated Literature by Goscinny and Uderzo science!
• No matter how much you need to pee
• r/atoptics

Tech

• Things Every Hacker Once Knew
• Annotation is now a web standard I want to see this standard succeed
• Wikipedia: Binary Golay Code

Art

• La Fábrica Converting an old cement factory into a mansion
• Slate Star Codex: A Modern Myth
• Wikipedia: Mise en abyme

log-2017-03-05

Politics & Tech

• XENOFEMINISM - A Politics for Alienation - The anti-unabombers. We want neither clean hands nor beautiful souls, neither virtue nor terror. We want superior forms of corruption.
• For good measure: Industrial Society and its Future (Primitivism 101)
• Dymaxion: Coercion-Resistant Design

Art

• Berndnaut - works little fluffy clouds
• HAMNET
• Cité Végétale - Luc Schuiten (one part of the duo Schuiten & Peeters who also made Les Cités obscures)
• egyptian hieroglyph d052

*

• Telnet access to Wikipedia (including onion)
• Wikipedia: The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War
• Etherkiller