Links for Later 9-9-17

1. A collection of reviews/recaps of the new season of Twin Peaks.
2. Bruce Chatwin profile.
3. Comparing algorithms for decision statistics and machine learning.
4. Narwhals beating the hell out of cod with their tusks.
5. Searching for silphium, the prized, probably extinct Roman herb.
6. The impending death of football, as parents stop signing their kids up to play due to brain injury fears. Could not come too soon.

Sense8 Gets a Birthday Present

Links for Later 6-10-17

1. "They were found entwined": The Twins Found at Dover's Cliffs.
2. Unusual movies.
3. Sense8 cancelled. A shame, it was one of the most uplifting, original series of the decade.
4. Frank Lloyd Wright at 150.

Links for Later 10-20-15

1. Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder list the Top 50 factual podcasts. We are not on this list. Yet.
2. A very good, foul mouthed rant about the status of brain simulation.
3. The frenzy over the puzzle book Masquerade.
4.  Mr. Robot gets introduced to the UK.

Links for Later 2-18-14

1. Nic Pizzolotto interview.
2. Another one.
3. 28 books you should read.
4. Visited Wikileaks? They're watching you. Well, they're watching you anyway, but you know.

Night of the Doctor

Well, well, well, Paul McGann back as the Eighth Doctor for a brief prelude to Day of the Doctor.

Matt Smith Sends Goodbye Message to Dr. Who Fans

Links for Later 12-12-12

1. Last triple date day for a while.
2. Seeing the emerald foliot
3. Post in which several fraught comments attempt to show us reasons why Misha Collins, who plays the angel Castiel on Supernatural should not "just die". I judge that "once arrested for reading a book atop a bank, because he was looking for better light" is sufficient reason for continued life
4. How to get real startup ideas vs. "sitcom" startup ideas

Links for Later

1. Dennis McKenna interview
2. House collapsing under 350,000 books
3. Children of Russian oligarchs
4. Umberto Eco on the novel
5. A man who wants to fight lions with his bare hands
6. Andy Murray cracks a tooth on a baguette
7. Newt Gingrich's campaign staff quits while he's on a Greek cruise
8. Ryan Avent feels uneasy about Obama's economic policy
9. AS Byatt on men's clubs
10. Architectural toys to teach thinking
11. Green Lanterns of Glee
12. Cpl. Aaron Mankin after 50 reconstructive surgeries
13. More of Aaron Mankin
14. Erez Lieberman Aiden, "How to Become a Scientist Over and Over Again"
15. Updates on the whole Wikileaks/Manning situation

ReConnections

Interview with James Burke on the 25th anniversary of his series Connections. A hugely influential series on most of the tech people I know. (2004)

Watching a German charity diving event, starring a lot of people who are famous here, but only here. Fascinating to watch the social dynamics. Also, several of them seem to be pretty good divers, but everyone's attractive like one's friends are attractive, rather than like Hollywood people are.

Images of the Week, Part II

Images of the human connectome.

House stencil.

Sion Gospel.

Images of the Week

Neutrino image of the Sun, taken through the Earth.

Biedermeier secretary from Colombo Mobili. The world's most awesome piece of furniture. Look at it. It's got colonnades and roundels and marquetry and decorations that were most likely modeled on narwhal tusks. I must possess it.

Rollout of the last space shuttle mission. Click to embiggen. (via cousin Steve)

Punk Frog

Links for Later

1. Images of Afghanistan

2. A List of Fantastic British Names

3. Those Ke$ha dancing Army guys

4. James Badge Dale talks about Rubicon, hair, emergence theory and eggs

Who.

Matt Smith and Orbital play the Doctor Who theme at Glastonbury.

The Prehistory of Digital Media

Bob Stein "talks about work­ing for Alan Kay, start­ing the Cri­te­rion Col­lec­tion and Voy­ager on laserdisc, Hyper­card e-books, and inter­ac­tive CD-ROMs — essen­tially, the whole pre­his­tory of where we are now with just about all dig­i­tal media."

Cool bits about the Criterion Collection and the idea of doing the commentary tracks on DVDs.

Links for Later

Science is like building a pier in the ocean. (via mr)

Lost Ansel Adams glass negatives, bought for $45 at a garage sale, worth $200M.

Why Elizabeth Warren will be confirmed.

Why is the administration waffling about Elizabeth Warren's confirmation? Don't they want Democrats to win in November?

Eric's big battlefield ramble.

James Franco, as "Franco" on General Hospital, displaying an installation of films of himself playing Franco in earlier episodes, while being filmed by his own film crew, filming for an installation about his role on General Hospital. Very meta.

Etched brain slices on Etsy. (via Street Anatomy)

Ignore Stephen Baldwin - Restore Joss Whedon

I'd donate.

(via Whedonesque)

Happy Festivus!

For the rest of us.

And now, the airing of the grievances.

John Stewart on Glenn Beck

The REAL story behind the appendectomy.

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