Inside the Barbie Dreamhouse, a Fuchsia Fantasy Inspired by Palm Springs
architecturaldigest.com
I love the sense of play behind this set design, particularly how the designers tapped into childhood memories of toy stores and gazing into the boxes.
Links
sjpiper145/MakerSkillTree
github.com
A repository of Maker Skill Trees and templates to make your own.
Smart3: The Self-Solving Rubik's Cube
makezine.com
I challenged myself to create something that seemed impossible. I like to surprise people, so I resolved to make a Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube, starting on it in March 2016; on September 13, 2018 it solved itself without getting stuck for the first time.
Searching for a Search Engine
garrettdimon.com
I’ve long been on the lookout for a search engine that would let me filter out sites that I’ve found to be more noise than signal. After a little over a month of paid use, I’m feeling cautiously optimistic about Kagi.
I’ve been hearing more and more about Kagi lately and definitely like the idea of paying for a service rather than being the good that is sold.
A senator had trouble saying no to TSA's voluntary facial recognition
washingtonpost.com
When Merkley said no to the face scan at Washington’s Reagan National Airport, he was told it would cause a significant delay, a spokeswoman for the senator said.
There was no delay. The spokeswoman said the senator showed his photo ID to the TSA agent and cleared security.
I try to leave time for this sort of thing, because I intend to push back in such scenarios.
Your car’s tires are swirling donuts of pollution
washingtonpost.com
In fact, wear and tear on tires and brakes have been shown to produce increasingly more particle pollution, by mass, than car exhaust systems did in several real-world and test scenarios. Some of the particles are large enough to see with our eyes. Others are fine particles (known as PM 2.5, with diameters up to 2.5 microns) and ultrafine particles (known as PM 0.1, with diameters of 100 nanometers), which can enter through our bloodstream and harm our organs.
I always wondered about this when I was a kid as soon as I learned that tires wear down. Where does the material go? If we can’t see it, is it small and do we breathe it in?
Turns out: yup.
87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games
gamehistory.org
This is where libraries and archives should come in. Anyone should be able to easily explore, research and play classic video games, in the same way that they can read classic novels, listen to classic albums, and watch classic movies. But outdated copyright laws are preventing institutions like ours from doing our jobs.
Humans Need Play
allenpike.com
The point here is not to add another todo to your pile: oh great, now I need to do all my stuff, and I need to play too?! The point is that we should support ourselves and others in play. We should appreciate the value of goofing off. We should note the difference between passive entertainment and intentional play, and celebrate its place in our lives.
‘Lunch of suffering’: plain ‘white people food’ goes viral in China
theguardian.com
“If such a meal is to extend life, what is the meaning of life?”
Moped Trip - 18660 km by moped
mopedtrip.com
In the summer of 1978 I (Walter Muma) undertook a 3-month 11,500-mile (18,660 km) journey by moped from Toronto (Ontario, Canada) to Yukon (Canada), Alaska (USA), and up the Dempster Highway to Inuvik, NWT (Canada), and back to Toronto.
This was the longest journey ever made on a true unmodified moped, until 2007.