2014-06-27

Pathing.

• The principle of suboptimization.
• A criticism of "sharing economies" as tools for self-exploitation.
• "The dream isn't the wallet itself; it's the ability to successfully add a useful product to the world."
• Marco Arment on the declining relevancy of podcast networks.

Building.

• Eddy current testing is a non-destructive method of detecting flaws in conductive objects.
• The Flickr page for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
• The NYTimes details the features of Scoop, its custom-built CMS. Also, the NYTimes Code blog is good.
• Two good explainers on Wire EDM (the manufacturing process). One and two.
• The Wikipedia page for shot peening.
• Some interesting progress on Google's Tango & Ada projects.

Logistics.

• Wikipedia's internal guidelines & rules are *complex.*
• A shocking 40,000 Iraqis downloaded the Firechat mesh communication app in one weekend this month.
• A paralyzed man had a chip installed in his brain, and is now able to use it to control muscle movement in his hand.

Reflecting.

• FiveThirtyEight on FiveFingers and the health effects of toe-strike running.
• Apparently there's a huge subterranean ocean 400 miles below the earth's surface.
• Ben Thompson gives some (tempering) context on Xiaomi.
• Remember: Neither a theory nor a hypothesis can be proven true.
• A cool web tool makes it possible to peel through layers of NYC Google Maps history, specifically street art.
• How the invention of kitty litter affected our relationship with cats and the internet.

Stuff that doesn't fit into my dumb/arbitrary categories.

• Goat parkour.
• Ayn Rand's 1966 letter to the editor of Cat Fancy.

And.

The crazy naturally occurring patterns in an abandoned Russian salt mine.