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Me to. xkcd.com/2109

[we] are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. David Hume, in A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part 4, Section 6, ‘Of Personal Identity’ I’ve mentioned before that a friend once said something similar to this, in… Continue reading TL;DR Existentialism

Nukemap is an impressively scary tool. Heard about this via the Atomic Tattoos episode of 99PI, where War Games also gets a mention. Damn, I wanted to be Matthew Broderick.

For some reason, every now and then – like now – I remember the Dinopocalypse episode of Radiolab. It’s such an awesome account of the science involved on the day the dinosaurs died. Give it a listen and stick with it if you’re not familiar with the comedic delivery of the main presenters. So much… Continue reading The extinction of the dinosaurs, like you never heard before

Once again, Apple is inviting people to share their best photos in order to promote the abilities of the iPhone camera, and rightly so, it’s raised concern about giving credit where due. In my opinion, both full credit and payment should be given. No question. Because while the iPhone camera is great, good photography (especially consistently good), is… Continue reading Before it was famous: Celebrating smartphone photography

What a lovely animation. The sort I think I would have done in the parallel universe where I studied animation rather than graphic design.

99% Invisible, Mini Stories Vol 5 just reminded me of Chindogu. Irreverent objects that are designed to be all but useless, while also humerus and perhaps a little thought provoking. Like these classics: In turn, this reminded me of the RuckJack, which is a jacket, that turns into a bag. Or a bag, that turns… Continue reading Not always useful, but not altogether useless

Anyway, that’s a large part of what economics is—people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven’t just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so… Continue reading Economics is like astrology

I’d never heard of a rotary engine before today. Saw an interesting cross section of one somewhere and just through it was interesting. Searched, read a bit, and then found this: I love discovering things that I don’t know. And especially like this, when I wager there are millions of people that know this subject… Continue reading The differences between piston and rotary engines

Who is this sign for? Someone that’s likely to run up or down the stairs at a train station – a place where people tend to rush and run – but someone that’s also going to read and take heed of a coddling health and safety sign: Would love to know the story behind it.… Continue reading Signs without an audience