Contranyms, “Song Sharks”, and A Plant That Swings A Machete

I bring you the finest Internet reading every week, in my Linkfest

Welcome to my weekly Linkfest — the best stuff I could find for you after a week of scavenging the endless beaches of the Internet! (I’ve done 60 of these so far.)

To begin …

1) 🌊 Trevor Pottelberg’s photos of Lake Erie’s ferocious waves

The Great Lakes are truly tempestuous. I grew up cottaging on the shores of Lake Ontario, in a region known for such terrible weather — and pincer formations that produce massive doppler-effect-driven waves — that it is known as the “Sophiasburg Triangle”, an absolute graveyard of ships.

Trevor Pottelberg documents this howling kinetic violence in his amazing series on Lake Erie. As Colossal writes …

Facing winds up to 60 miles per hour, he frames massive waves as they emerge in dramatic outbursts, leaving sprays of icy mist and ripples in their wake. The monumental swells are energetic and immensely strong, showcasing the formidable power of nature.

You can see more of that series on his Pottelberg’s site, and buy prints too!

2) 🖼️A programming language made of colored blocks

That image above? It’s a “Hello, World” computer program, written in the computing language “Piet”, a creation of David Morgan-Mar.

In Piet, you compose the code by making a picture out of colored squares. How do you create computer commands out of colored blocks? Well, the Piet interpreter scans all the colored blocks in your image/program, starting in the top left corner and then going left to the next block over. The difference in color between any two blocks determines what command Piet will follow at that point.

As Anja119 describes it …

There are 17 commands available, encoded in the difference between colors when moving from one block to another. One pointer is used to keep track…