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sevensheaven: If these were published as army figures in toy stores, maybe the next generations would think twice before starting a war.
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newyorker: Kelefa Sanneh’s Perfect Cup of Coffee In this week’s Food Issue, Kelefa Sanneh writes about Aida Batlle, “a fifth-generation coffee farmer and a first-generation coffee celebrity.” Sanneh maintains that “brewing a proper cup of coffee is a lot harder than uncorking a bottle of wine and a lot easier than cooking dinner.” Which leads…
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Oh, sure. Oh my God — knowing what I know now, just in terms of the publicity, and the goodwill … Even taking Parnassus and Nashville and that bookstore out of the picture. Just the fact that I have had the chance to be a spokesperson for books — to stand up for all my…
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On the few recent occasions that I have dragged myself to a friend’s house, or vice versa, we spend most of the time staring at our smart phones and tablets. What exactly is the benefit of physical proximity in that scenario? “Check out this funny tweet I just sent” doesn’t really count as conversation, does…
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matthen: This animation shows the evolution of a shape, as it grows to become more and more circular. I created generations of these shapes, and simulated each generation creating a new generation. Two shapes produced offspring which looked like themselves, with a chance of mutations, and shapes were more likely to be parents if they…
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interactivestuff: we just got this book at home and it is an amazing book about interaction. PRESS HERE by Herve Tullet — Book Trailer (by ChronicleBooks) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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interactivestuff: we just got this book at home and it is an amazing book about interaction. PRESS HERE by Herve Tullet — Book Trailer (by ChronicleBooks) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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In some cases, a large number of interactions can in fact work against the emergence of interesting behaviour, by creating a lot of “noise” to drown out any emerging “signal”; the emergent behaviour may need to be temporarily isolated from other interactions before it reaches enough critical mass to be self-supporting. unknown (via notgames)
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changed theme today.
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This paper describes a formalism for the justification of texts written in an Arabic alphabet‑based script, within some approved calligraphic rules, that would produce better typographical quality than current publishing systems. Specifically, we improve the optimum-fit algorithm by taking into account the existence of allographic variants and stretched forms with kashida (a feature in some…