I’ve seen some inexplicable graphics in my short time at WRI, but at least I don’t work for the government. Here’s a short review of Amazing Military Infographics.
Bike EXIF shows up in my Flipboard feed, and I occasionally browse through it to look at pretty motorcycles. Imagine my surprise when I recognized the name of the owner of this very pretty ride: the Loaded Gun Customs Triton, owned by an old acquaintance from back in the day.
That’s your job if you work with the internet: hoping the last thing you wrote is good enough to survive for a few hours so you can eat dinner and catch a nap. via Coding Sucks: Why a Job in Programming Is Absolute Hell.
WHAAAAAT?!? The Sundays Discuss New Music And Tour, in (of all things) American Airlines’ inflight magazine. It’s still a maybe, but fans like me can dream. I saw them at JHU on the tour to support their second album in ’93, and it was one of the best live shows I’ve seen.
While practicing is vital to learning and memory, studies have shown that practice is far more effective when it’s broken into separate periods of training that are spaced out. The rapid gains produced by massed practice are often evident, but the rapid forgetting that follows is not.
Why Malcolm Gladwell’s famous 10,000 hour advice falls short.
Two decades after Nevada’s founders proclaimed unswerving obedience to federal authority, Cliven Bundy’s family first settled the land where he and his supporters now make their heavily armed stand against federal power.
I’ve always found the people who deny federal authority to be interesting from a legal point of view; the Atlantic does a little historical backgrounding on The Irony of Cliven Bundy’s Unconstitutional Stand.
I never would have put the two together, but Joan Jett sounds incredible playing with Nirvana.
Though Hoefler and Frere-Jones were renowned among font enthusiasts, their popular name recognition was limited. Their abrupt, confusing split has drawn a surge of attention that has surprised their peers.
Inside the Design World’s $20 Million Divorce, from Businessweek.
This is awesome: an Australian couple bought an abandoned French chateau and they’re restoring it. Of course, because this is 2014, they’ve got a weblog with a ton of incredible images at Chateau Gudanes.