The Weather Out There - Long Now
I really liked this short story.
Link tags: ships
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The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
A fascinating in-depth look at the maintenance of undersea cables:
The industry responsible for this crucial work traces its origins back far beyond the internet, past even the telephone, to the early days of telegraphy. It’s invisible, underappreciated, analog.
It’s a truism that people don’t think about infrastructure until it breaks, but they tend not to think about the fixing of it, either.
6, 97: Why scorpions?
A fascinating and inspiring meditation on aerodynamics.
An Idea from Computer Science That Can Change Your Life – Jorge Arango
Applying Postel’s Law to relationships:
I aspire to be conservative in what and how I share (i.e., avoid drama) while understanding that other people will say all sorts of unmindful things.
So your grandmother is a starship now: a quick guide for the bewildered
Useful FAQs.
Your grandmother is not just a starship, she’s a highly individual starship with her own goals and needs!
“Designer + Developer Workflow,” an article by Dan Mall
Dan compares the relationship between a designer and developer in the web world to the relationship between an art director and a copywriter in the ad world. He and Brad made a video to demonstrate how they collaborate.
Empire of the Air: The Imperial Airship Service
The first in a series of articles looking at the history of British airships a century ago …just in time for the revival.
Apprenticeship: A better path to mastering our craft | Louder Than Ten
I’ve been thinking a lot about learning, teaching, mentoring, coaching …this article by Ivana McConnell from last year is packed with gold nuggets of wisdom concerning apprenticeships.
As lifelong learners, we may be reluctant to call ourselves “masters.” But that’s missing the point, and it discounts the fact that teaching is learning. We’re not there to guarantee mastery—we’re there to give our apprentices fundamentals, to foster their respect, and make journeymen (or women) out of them. Mastery will come; we just offer the tools.
Helium Dreams - The New Yorker
This article on airships has my new favourite sentence in the English language:
During the First World War, Germany and its allies ceased production of sausages so that there would be enough cow guts to make zeppelins from which to bomb England.
Of course it was Simon who pointed me to this. Of course.
Old Weather: Whaling
A subset of one of my favourite sites on the web:
Explore the Arctic of the past from the deck of a whaling ship.
Choose your vessel and get transcribing.
Culture Ship Randomizer · A gravitas free zone.
For when you just have to name something after a Culture General Systems Vehicle …or maybe a General Contact Unit.
NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities for Venus Exploration - IEEE Spectrum
Airships in the atmosphere of Venus. More plausible than it might sound at first.
Sex differences in intimate relationships : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group
Albert-László Barabási and Robin Dunbar are among the authors of this paper — it’s the scale-free network equivalent of the Avengers.
Allergic to "grilled cheese" - Love Letters - Relationships questions, advice and more
And the award for Best Euphemism In An Online Column goes to...
Google Code Blog: URLs are People, Too
This is great news! Brad Fitzpatrick and Kevin Marks have built a new Google API that will spider XFN links.
Web2Summit: Opening Up the Social Graph
David Recordon announces a new developer tool for tracking status changes on social networking sites.