My parents today arrive in their new home, which is approximately 30 seconds drive from their old home. Touching to farewell the Pohutukawa Palace, where our family moved way back in 1989. Did a lot of growing up there (and the little long-leggedy beastie has been doing the same), had a lot of crazy times with family and friends, and it has continued to be a shared social destination right up until earlier this week. End of an era. Thank you Pohutukawa Palace.
Maire put this in comments last week: dumb things at 2500 frames per second
Extended (full) version of China Mieville’s essay on London as postapocalyptic place – the shorter version (previously linkied) was splendid reading, this will probably be more so.
Here’s a short, sharp dismantling of libertarianism that will stick in your memory.
Via Ivan – an outstanding example of someone using game theory to outmaneuver a game show
Huge water resource under Africa? This would change a lot of stuff (via Damon)
Via Andrew Salmond – the entirety of legendary visual feast Baraka
Byliner’s 101 best nonfiction journalism of 2011. And I’ve hardly skimmed the surface of the 2010 list (previously linkied). This is the real deal – all sorts of amazing stuff here. (Thanks to the other moose for the headsup that this was out.)
Chris M beautifully remembers a game that never actually existed
And finally… spoon-playing grandma rocks out to the Black Keys
(via Dangerous Minds)
Thank you Morgue… Yay for water under Africa!
Found this statement (by the interviewer in the Chomsky interview) particularly creepy: “Only the military still scores well in terms of people’s trust in institutions. They still trust the military.”
Tourney sounds like a game I’d have happily got addicted to!
COULD SINGLE MOTHERS INFECT TAXPAYERS WITH AIDS? and WILL POLITICAL CORRECTNESS MAKE THE COUNTRYSIDE IMPOTENT? 😀 😀 😀
I don’t know which is stranger, that the woman non-chalantly fed kangaroos or that she had her spoons miked. God damn.