The web is full of wonderful information. In fact there’s so much of it, it almost feels intimidating at times. I therefore plan to start a series of blog posts about articles/screencasts/lectures/etc. I enjoyed during the week (they may have been published at a totally different time though).

• The Philosophy of Punk Rock Mathematics
  An interview with Tom Henderson, aka @mathpunk.
• Augmented Reality: The Nightmare Scenario
  Short video by a Japanese architecture student about advertising in an augmented (hyper-)reality.
• The origins of abc
  Where does our alphabet come from?
• Beyond City Limits
  Is the age of nations over and are we entering the age of cities?
• Clojure 1.2 and Beyond
  A presentation by @fogus about the newly released Clojure 1.2. Covers everything that’s important and has some wild speculation about the future too.
• Cauchy Curves
  Drawing Cauchy curves with J.
• Digital copycats
  People in Japan are starting to digitize their books.
• Hydrogen bombshell: Rewriting life’s history
  Animals who don’t need oxygen for survival.
• An Implausibly Illustrated Introduction to HTML5 Web Workers
  Exactly what the title promises.
• Urlaub ohne Ende
  Netflix employees can take as many holidays as they want. Working models for the post-industrial age? (German)