Monthly Archives: August 2018

My favorite links from this week:

• Web UX: Default valid vs. default invalid
• A review of a $100 iPhone X knockoff
• Interesting twitter thread claiming zoning is a modern disaster
• Climate change is making Lake Tahoe warmer
• Why are poor people so patriotic?
• A video cross section of a kidney bean growing into a plant (3m)
• Maps of the spread of agriculture and the industrial revolution across Europe
• 1960s Space Motels
• An experiment demonstrates the consequences of a minimum wage in an online job market
• Incredible transcript of a conversation in 1978 between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg about creating Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (long)
• Quentin Tarantino and the Poetry Between the Lines (20m)
• A visualization of how America uses its land
• Algorithmically evolving floorplans

Thanks to some of you for contributing this week! I’m really enjoying finding interesting things on the web through non-social media channels.

Mark Zuckerberg told us all he would put our safety, and fixing the problems of Facebook ahead of profits. He did that. Wall Street may not have liked it, but there’s no way around it: the man held true to his word.

From We’re Lucky Mark Zuckerberg is in charge