But rather than allowing a massive reduction of working hours to free the world’s population to pursue their own projects, pleasures, visions, and ideas, we have seen the ballooning not even so much of the “service” sector as of the administrative sector, up to and including the creation of whole new industries like financial services or ( Read more... )

• Can't remember the last time I've anticipated a book release as much as the third book in the "Three Body Problem" trilogy, and, I'm happy to say, it did not disappoint. Looking back at the series, book 2 was definitely my favourite of the three; the only book I can think of that blew me away similarly was "Startide Rising". Book 3 started off ( Read more... )

Lovely drawing technique - an artist attaches a string to his drafting board for perfect two-point perspective guides.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/54a9nu/using_a_string_to_draw_in_proper_twopoint/

I reread this every so often; it's a really good reality check when people talk about saving the world in one go

https://newrepublic.com/article/120178/problem-international-development-and-plan-fix-it

https://ephtracy.github.io

Fun little voxel art creator.

Found via this great article on voxels and computer graphics in general.


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http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/bike-manufacturer-reduces-delivery-damage-70-per-cent-printing-tv-box-285180

For some reason, bicycles in big cardboard boxes have a tendency to ( Read more... )

Eggs and Flour announce they are to leave Great British Bake Off

http://www.marquand.net/coloretto/msindex.html

Fun abstract strategy game.

Lovely project - reproduces a picture using primitive shapes. Check out the project page for some examples, and https://twitter.com/PrimitivePic for many more.

here is an animated gif of the process being applied to the mona lisa

this is both sad and sweet. redditor has fond memories of comfort food they had as a kid; turns out for their parents it was desperation food when they were out of everything and waiting for payday.