Monthly Archives: May 2020

Some links to kick off your Friday:

1. How restaurants run by immigrants are surviving and thriving
2. Five different ways to rate
3. In any conversation, there are adders and subtractors
4. A (very difficult) simulator of the SpaceX ISS docking process – try it!
5. A fun iteration on tetris
6. Silk interactive generative art
7. A collection of photos of old Soviet control rooms
8. Why one person wants to bring back blogs (I wholeheartedly agree)

Have a great weekend!

Some interesting links for your Tuesday:

1. Mortal combat actors vs. characters
2. Internet traffic is up 20% due to the pandemic – and it is performing just fine
3. A spot-on satire of why $FAMOUS COMPANY switched to $HYPED_TECH
4. Six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months in 1965
5. A collection of 2020 Big Picture Competition winners
6. The cast of Back to the Future reunites for charity
7. Not all startups fit the pattern of Silicon Valley success – Zoom, for example
8. What are the consequences of oil’s collapse?
9. A video featuring people who were alive during the Bolshevik revolution (highly recommended)
10. Solar’s future is insanely cheap
11. NASA releases basic principles for Moon exploration
12. Spotify vs. Fitbit (org structure, processes, etc)

Have a great day!

Happy Monday! Here are some interesting things things to read about to start your week:

1. Astronomy Picture of the Day: Radio, The Big Ear, and the Wow! Signal
2. The ethics of benefiting financially from the adversity of others
3. How is May likely go proceed, given the last month?
4. UFOs. Should we take this stuff seriously? Why? Why not?
5. We should really stop looking towards China with envy
6. A crazy, simple 0-day on iOS (hint: it’s XML parsers)