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Linkdump 06-04-2016
Wed, Apr. 6th, 2016 10:00- Rising furniture design - Tech Insider
This is pretty incredible from a topological standpoint---I love the table and chair and the occasional table---but the bowl is bloody terrible. All the gravy would fall out.
- PORTFOLIO — NICK TANKARD ILLUSTRATION
This is gorgeous. Such meticulous shading. Reminds me of Piranesi's work.
- Iain Macwhirter: Shame on the SNP for choosing to park its conscience (From Herald Scotland)
I am not remotely surprised by this, just disappointed. It happened to the Lib Dems and now it's happening, in slightly less car-crash fashion, to the SNP. It will happen any time a party becomes mainstream and/or gets a sniff at the corridors of power. Radicalism is about pushing the envelope: it seems we need to start pushing a little harder again.
- Take a look at "SwiftKey Keyboard"
Okay seriously, why did I take so long to install this. The leaking curve took twenty minutes and yes, I knew all about that typo there, I left it in for comedic effect. LAUGH DAMN YOU. Typing on mobile is so much more comfortable now; it's uncanny.
- Why Beethoven rules supreme over Mozart | Torygraph
"Beethoven is simply on a different plane, when it comes to grandeur and the sublime." And "[c]ompared to Mozart and Haydn, his music is quite simply noisier"---I have been saying this for years. You can go on as much as you like about diminished fifths, but ultimately it is just that simple. Beethoven rocks your socks right off.
- Virtual reality is helping scientists to protect endangered jaguars | Mashable
Emergent functionalities.
- fuck, i need a tumblr for this shit • feministgamingmatters: feministgamingmatters: ...
"A text-replacer extension which corrects “pandering to [group]” to “being enjoyable for people who are not me.”" Yes.
- Computational Hydrographic Printing (SIGGRAPH 2015) - YouTube
Damn but this is clever.