Buzz Rickson’s
Fashion Cycles
Inside the Frenzied World of Rare Watches and the Rich People Who Love Them
Lost Purposes
What Is The Collecting Mindset?
The Little Can That Could
backstop#black-box-vs-white-box-optimization
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Epigrams on Programming
Design Graveyard
Simulacrum Levels
How It's Made Series: Yup, Our Beats Were Counterfeit (But They Cost About the Same to Make As the Real Ones)
http://solutions.redwingshoes.com/WorldsLargestBootA
Submission #6347: Chef Stef’s NES Arkanoid warpless
in 11:11.18
https://kingbird.myphotos.cc/packing/squares_in_squares.html
tank#alternative-examples
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Maximum overhang
Human Window on the World
At Any Given Moment in a Process…we Have a Certain Partially Evolved State of a Structure. This State Is Described by the Wholeness: the System of Centers, and Their Relative Nesting and Degrees of Life.
https://wiki.c2.com/?QualityWithoutaName
‘end-to-end’ directory
Contrasting Concepts of Harmony in Architecture
Noise in the landscape: Disputing the visibility of mundane technological objects
https://x.com/UnseenOps/status/1703882913387847849
How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt?
Stainless Steel Rubik's Cube
‘novelty U-curve’ directory
Formal Theory of Creativity & Fun & Intrinsic Motivation (1990–2010)
https://www.eater.com/2017/3/7/14839472/irish-pub-design
backstop#internet-community-design
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1986-hamming#consistent-progress
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‘RL exploration’ directory
Collections: Why Rings of Power’s Middle Earth Feels Flat
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbarrow
Give Us Something to Look At
Taste for Makers
The What-You’d-Implicitly-Heard-Before Telling Thing
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/contra-kriss-on-nerds-and-hipsters
The Big Problem With the Giant Stanley Cup: Stanley bottles have been a buy-it-for-life staple of the working class for more than 100 years. Now, the Quencher H2.0 FlowState Tumbler has become a symbol of social-media-fueled over-consumption
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-quest-to-decode-the-mandelbrot-set-maths-famed-fractal-20240126/
After Authenticity
Geeks, MOPs, and Sociopaths in Subculture Evolution
https://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/comments/zz63k8/why_do_hipsters_steal_stuff_many_fashions_and/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32321642