Assorted links #33

Dec 1, 2023
  1. Notes on Ghana / Notes on Guinea

  2. What's Special About This Number?

  3. On the scope of scientific hypotheses

  4. Index of Aesthetics

  5. How to Get Into Film Photography (And Why You Should)

  6. Musings on Chess Openings

  7. London Street Trees

  8. Are any words the same in all languages?

  9. How I Eat

  10. The 49 modern wonders of the world, as named by the experts

  11. How I stay reasonably anonymous online

  12. How Lego bricks went from five colors to nearly 200

  13. Recursive Recipes

  14. Plug & socket types around the world

  15. The Internet Pinball Machine Database

  16. The 40 Greatest Stand-Alone TV Episodes of All Time

  17. 24 hours in an invisible epidemic

  18. What’s in a domain name?

  19. Meta in Myanmar: Part I: The Setup, Part II: The Crisis, Part III: The Inside View, Part IV: Only Connect

  20. Every Type of Railcar Explained in 15 Minutes

  21. The Economics of Programming Languages

  22. How many animals get slaughtered every day?

  23. UK Address Oddities!

  24. Killed by Google

  25. Making Hard Things Easy

  26. Who is CS:GO’s greatest-ever player?

  27. Stain Solutions

  28. Bentham's Mugging

  29. 47 Anime for 47 Prefectures in Japan

  30. What was 'replying'?

  31. Would You Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong

  32. Commercially Available Chairs in Star Trek

  33. Version Museum: A visual history of your favorite technology

  34. Martin Scorsese’s 81 Greatest Movie Characters, Ranked

  35. We’re More Ghosts Than People

  36. Rick Steves' Europe

  37. It's crazy how much Transport for London can learn about us from our mobile data

  38. ‘Horse race’ reporting of elections can harm voters, candidates, news outlets: What the research says

  39. Internet Artifacts

  40. Hospitalithings: A quiet observation of objects found in places of accomodation

  41. 43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language

  42. Training AI to Play Pokemon with Reinforcement Learning

  43. The History of Microsoft Encarta

  44. Canon of the Netherlands

  45. The Best Way To Do Exercises

  46. The 100 best movies of the 1970s

  47. Coding for coffee: a programmer shares the secrets of writing espresso applications

  48. Analysis of Cheating In Titled Tuesday, Fantastic Cheaters and Where to Find Them

  49. Alfred J. Kwak

  50. The Furthest Object Visible From The Shard

  51. 20 things to see inside: St Paul's Cathedral, the Tower of London

  52. YouGlish: Improve your English pronunciation using YouTube

  53. Brickception


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