2015-01-18

Notes.

I've been working on The Public Radio all weekend. Otherwise, none.

Pathing.

• Sasha Frere-Jones left the New Yorker to (I shit you not) annotate rap lyrics for Genius.com (née Rap Genius). This may seem silly, but whatever - Genius is *super* cool, especially if you want to learn about why, exactly, the quality of mercy is not strained.
• Lockheed Martin open sourced their StreamFlow data analytics software.
• Etsy may be planning an IPO, and Amazon hired Woody Allen to write a TV show.
• "Most of us think about love as something that happens to us...But what I like about this study is how it assumes that love is an action."
• Google is mixing up its Glass division, shutting down sales (temporarily) and putting the whole department under Nest's Tony Fadell.

Building.

• The animagraffs of how speakers work is awesome.
• OC Robotics builds some pretty cool snake-like robots.
• An awesome video of a guy making traditional Dutch wooden clogs.
• Elon Musk is apparently building a Hyperloop test track.
• Can anyone out there tell me more about how exactly antibiotics are isolated from dirt?

Logistics.

• A very convincing piece on the injustice of jaywalking laws, and an article about the crazy way that speed limits are decided upon.
• Shapeways is expanding their global supplier network. Hard to tell whether this would compete directly with 3DHubs, but it looks likely.
• A good piece on Amazon Mechanical Turk, its inner workings, and its effect on the labor marketplace.

Evaluation.

• Thom Yorke might have made up to $20M selling an album on BitTorrent.
• The rise and fall of Sam Adams, which spawned the craft beer industry that now shuns it.
• "Evidence suggests that [Obamacare] has likely led a few hundred thousand workers to see their hours cut or capped." <= This is an interesting article, and quite politically fair.
• Google says that 3DSystems' "Racetrack" 3D printing process isn't far enough along to use on their Ara phone.
• On the weird language around and implications of homelessness in SimCity.

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

• A really harrowing (but ultimately hopeful) story about how a husband dealt with his young wife's psychosis.
• Canola oil was named for Canada, where it was invented.
• According to Twitter, The Lakers are basically the Yankees of basketball.
• A pretty brilliant choose-your-own-adventure, all on Twitter.
• How a really despicable internet troll and a former corporate lawyer teamed together in a kind of valiant fight against prosecutorial overreach.

And.

"Novice Art Blogger" is an algorithm that describes abstract art.