Mar
9
Aaron's Tube
By Aaron Suggs
“All programmers are lazy. That’s why they program because they don’t want to do it by hand.”
Matt Haughey, on The Pipeline.
Mar
8
The discovery, loss, and rediscovery of the cure for scurvy
Wonderful essay on the accidents, coincidences, and eventual scientific rigor that lead to a modern understanding of scurvy as a vitamin C deficiency. Via waxy.org
Tree Branch Falls On Power Lines, and sounds like a nightmare.
Mar
5
The Atlantic Avenue tunnel photo set. It’s the world’s oldest subway tunnel (built in 1844), abandoned and forgotten until 1980.
Five and the melancholy of good fortune
Apparently, numbers can be regular, safe, happy, good, lucky, fortunate, and sexy.
Five appears to have it all: he’s regular, safe, good, lucky, and fortunate! Eleven even thinks he’s sexy. Despite it all, he is still unhappy.
Anthropomorphize your own numbers with Wikipedia’s List of prime numbers.
Since 1999, the rest of the OECD has a lower corporate tax rate than the US. I’m surprised. Corporate tax: The end of the show? | The Economist
“The social value of patents was supposed to be to encourage innovation — that’s what society gets out of it…The net effect is that they decrease innovation, and in the end, the public loses out.”
Eric Von Hippel, in What Apple vs. HTC Could Mean - NYTimes.com. Via Daring Fireball
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