Sunday Things - Edité-Frignim edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday April 28 2013
Important information! And some rust and decay.


Bonus Spaghetti Code corner:
- The Marbled Lungfish - largest known genome of any vertebrate, this unassuming creature is the Microsoft Windows of the animal world. What does it do with a genome over forty times the size of a human's?
Sunday Things - still another edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday April 21 2013
Catching up again. Sunday is imminent. Have some links!



Bonus Disappointing Robots corner:
- Robot Shaming - unlike 'pet shaming', robots don't have feelings. They hate it when you anthropomorphise them.
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Sunday Things - photogenic edition
posted in Photography by Cargo Cult on Sunday April 14 2013
Haven't had much in the way of intertubes. Have some photos instead - a couple shown below...
Bonus Space Plumbing corner:
- Houston, we have a hygiene problem - I've seen the Apollo 10 command module at the Science Museum in London. I didn't realise it had hosted such drastic ... floaters.
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Sunday Things - packet loss edition
posted in Links by Cargo Cult on Sunday April 7 2013
Stuck behind a really slow internet connection. Please accept some text-only links:
- Namie, Fukishima Prefecture, Japan - the world has a new Pripyat with the evacuated lands around the Fukushima nuclear power station. Perhaps politically motivated, a Google Street View car has been let loose on the roads of one particular town. Effectively abandoned, the dereliction ranges from the occasional earthquake-damaged building in the town to a scoured, apocalyptic coastline. Grim viewing.
- Baking a Hello World Cake - there's an esoteric programming language named Chef, which visually mimics cooking recipes. Unfortunately, the usual 'Hello World Soufflé' contains such unlikely ingredients as six gallons of oil and a hundred eggs - so one hero decided to design a functioning chocolate cake recipe as an alternative...
- Escape crew capsule - for when an ejector seat isn't enough. The accompanying photo of a capsule from a B-58 Hustler is a thing straight from science fiction.
- New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual - need to design yourself a '70s subway station, complete with fully authentic typography? Here you are. via locworks
Bonus Rampant Spoilers section:
- So, the splendid Bioshock Infinite has had plenty of interesting things written about it. Some only-read-if-you've-played-it articles here, here, here and here.
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Iain Banks - both with and without the 'M.' - diagnosed with terminal cancer.
If you haven't already noticed, his writing's a bit of a major personal influence.
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