Mental Health Day
This week’s missive is a lot more concise than usual, and is oriented around curation instead essays and updates.
I’ve got some work that I’d like to get off my plate and this’ll allow me to do that, but it’s also been a fairly stressful week—so this is my version of taking a mental health day :)
Interesting & Useful
A somewhat longer-than-usual collection of neat things:
Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages(excellent explanation of both what we get wrong about the “Dark” and “Renaissance” ages, and why)
Talk the Talk(a glossary of tech-world jargon)
Window Swap(this is so wonderful: connect to a random feed looking out someone’s window, from somewhere around the world)
Inward(a gallery of futuristic cityscapes)
Penguin Relationships(a complex flowchart of a Japanese aquarium’s penguins’ relationships with each other)
Photographs of Roadside America(a gallery showing part of why I love roadtripping around the United States)
Zamburak(camel-guns)
How Digital Media Distorts Our Sense of Time(an exploration of memes, sub-cultures, and our perception of time)
Crossing the Country on Google Street View(this resonates more than I would like to admit, right now)
Hundreds of Hyperpartisan Sites Are Masquerading as Local News(be careful out there)
If you want more links to hand-picked, interesting things, pop over to CuriosityGadget.com.
Outro
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