I bring you the finest reading on the Internet in my Linkfest — You got through Tuesday. Be proud. And kick back with my weekly Linkfest — a collection of the finest material I could hunt down on the Intertubes. Let’s begin … 1) 📷 The stark, hyperreal photos of Rickard Grönkvist Rickard Grönkvist is a photographer who specializes in taking photos of everyday objects and transforming them with stark contrast and…

It’s good thing, too! Collective intelligence FTW — Back in 2010, the game designer Matt Wood was working on a sequel to the hit title Portal, when he ran into a really interesting problem: The awesome power of two brains working as one. And that, as it turns out, may be related to the mystery of why our…

Experience the zen-like flow-state of almost never touching your trackpad — Hey, all you Gmail users? I’m about to make your lives every so slightly more delightful. Read on! (Impatient? Just wanna see the key commands? Skip to the cheat sheet halfway down this piece. But for those with time to kill, I have a few thoughts about typing and its…

Staring zebras, deadpan cyborg women, and an awful lot of eyeballs — When I was a kid in the 80s, I loved OMNI magazine. It was a mind-bending read for nerds of my vintage. In the early years they published some truly pioneering science and tech reporting — you’d read a long interview with Jonas Salk, a report on the frontiers of…

I grew up with maps showing how cities would be obliterated by a nuke. They’re back — It’s never a great time to be a teenager, but the 1980s had their own particular challenges. One of the main ones? Wondering — on a daily basis — if you were going to die, without much warning, in a nuclear strike. I’m not really exaggerating how frequently I and…

I bring you the finest reading in my weekly Linkfest — Thursday! Week’s almost done. Celebrate with this fantastic collection of links I made — just for you. Let’s begin … 1) 🎨 Anne Butler recreates analogue tech in porcelain art I seem to be on a trend of highlighting porcelain art in my Linkfests, since my one for last week also started with some cool porcelain work. This week, behold…

With Twitter, we’ll find out! Tesla, SpaceX and SolarCity certainly relied on tons of taxpayer dough — Assuming all goes well with his impending bid, Elon Musk will soon own Twitter. And what happens next? There’s plenty of speculation, and I don’t really have much to add to the already-expansive predictions. It seems likely that Musk wants, at minimum, to roll back the work Twitter has done…

Seriously, it’s really weird. But it’s helped me for 25 years! — Writing first drafts is hard. Like most writers, I procrastinate like mad. When I’ve finished my research and time comes to start writing, I’ll poke around in a zillion other tasks — rearranging my desk, tackling old email, going down Wikipedia rat holes. …

I fed in the first lines, then hit “autocomplete”. Hilarity ensued — Autocompleting AI is on a roll. It’s now sufficiently good enough that plenty of folks are using it in daily business. About 85% of content marketers are using it to crank out online material; students are using it to write essays. …