Victor Loux — bookmarks

Wordle - A daily word game

powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

Guess the hidden word in 6 tries. A new puzzle is available each day.

Gell-Mann Amnesia - Epsilon Theory

epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

Calvin and Hobbes at Martijn's - Bill Watterson

web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html

jwz: Base Rate Fallacy

jwz.org/blog/2021/12/base-rate-fallacy/

Avoiding Internet Centralization

mnot.github.io/avoiding-internet-centralization/draft-nottingham-avoiding-internet-centralization.html

By design, distributed consensus protocols diffuse responsibility for a function among several, difficult-to-identify parties. While this may be an effective way to prevent many kinds of centralization, it also means that making someone accountable for how the function is performed is impossible, beyond the bounds of the protocol's design.¶

Right-to-left Styling

rtlstyling.com/posts/rtl-styling

I was at the gym when it felt like my eye fell out of its socket. I wasn't ready for what came next

abc.net.au/news/2021-12-11/dating-with-disability-young-stroke-survivors-australia/100621294

When Caleb Rixon suffered a catastrophic stroke aged 24, his life and career as a musical performer was turned upside down. While the path back to dating has been full of potholes, he's learnt a few things along the way.

David Byrne | Radio | David Byrne Presents: Cumbia For The Holidays!

davidbyrne.com/radio/cumbia

Scaling the Practice of Architecture, Conversationally

martinfowler.com/articles/scaling-architecture-conversationally.html

Web3 is Bullshit

stephendiehl.com/blog/web3-bullshit.html

Personal Blog

How ‘Law & Order’ Shaped Our Views of Policing

teenvogue.com/story/law-and-order-policing-media

We’ve been taught to root for the police and the prosecutor.

Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)

slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/

design, tag
cinema, tag
3 years ago

The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk - CDM Create Digital Music

cdm.link/2021/11/the-prince-symbol-has-been-salvaged-from-a-1992-floppy-disk/

Prince was way ahead of non-fungible tokens - with a symbol that was intended to make life a pain-in-the-a** for the record label. (Non-f***able totem?) And now Anil Dash and Limor Fried/Adafruit have brought back that image from a floppy.