Note archive: February, 2021

Remember when we met for the first time? It was in an airport! Dallas, if I recall.

It’s got to the point where I think I miss Dallas airport.

Welcome, neighbour!

I’ll think of you while I devour my birthday T-bone.

We’ll always have Chicago!

Yes! …but only if you bring Cider.

(Oh, and my birthday request is for more pictures of Cider please!)

Jon, you tell yourself whatever you need to hear to sleep at night.

When you measure include the measurer.

—@MCHammer

The Star card:

http://cryptoart.wtf/#address=0xd07dc4262bcdbf85190c01c996b4c06a461d2430:159878:0x70015edd52ae84bb3dfd26711d7562218132e268

For six cards, you used enough energy to:

• fly for 36 hours,
• drive for 18,000 kilometres,
• boil a kettle 72,000 times, or
• use a laptop for 48 years.

I just placed a beer order with @IndependentBTN and they showed up within 30 minutes!

Suck on that, Amazon Prime.

Any sufficiently advanced 419 scam is indistinguishable from crypto.

I’ve spent a decade successfully lulling you into a false sense of victory.

steeples fingers

Soon.

Sooooooon.

Watched @GavRov’s film Archive and thoroughly enjoyed it!

Now I want @DaveAddey to dissect the typography for https://typesetinthefuture.com and @ChrisNoessel to examine the interfaces for https://scifiinterfaces.com

₿utton, ₿utton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)

The story “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson describes a stranger delivering a box with a button to a struggling couple. If you press the button, you get money. But someone you don’t know will die.

I think Satoshi Nakamoto read it.

It’s incontraverible. Proof of work deliberately wastes copious amounts of energy …by design.

It’s like someone heard about the trolley problem and thought “yeah, that’s let’s do this!”

Imagine how architects feel about the David Brents going around calling themselves “solutions architects.”

Reading Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor.

Touchdown!

Good luck, @PlanetaryKeri! (and everyone on the @NASAPersevere team) #CountdownToMars

It saddens me to see friends investigating Bitcoin as though it were a legitimate investment instead of a faith-based Ponzi scheme that consumes energy for no reason run by incels who can only string the same four words together.

Yup! It’s like flypaper, but for building a blocklist.

Reading Sustainable Web Design by Tom Greenwood.

Trans women are women.

This quote by Ira glass: https://quiteaquote.in/2017/09/29/ira-glass-taste-is-killer/

This film by Charles and Ray Eames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

This chili recipe: https://principiagastronomica.com/post/5

Adam Curtis is QAnon for Guardian readers.

I prefer @TomScott’s version: https://www.tomscott.com/infinite-adam-curtis/

Ugly bags of mostly water.

It’s all about the puns, baby!

Is Wikipedia a website up until the point that I start editing an article?

https://adactio.com/journal/6246

Responsive Web Typography by @JPamental: https://rwt.io/

Adentures in Typography by @RobinRendle: https://buttondown.email/robinrendle/

Coffee Table Typography by @Magalhini: https://coffeetabletypography.com/

When you realise that there is no longer a studio audience for University Challenge, the added soundtrack of applause just sounds creepy.

It is a happy coincidence that these two blog posts were published exactly six years apart:

https://adactio.com/journal/tags/blood

February 7th, 2015: https://adactio.com/journal/8352

February 7th, 2021: https://adactio.com/journal/17798

It is a coincidence! But I like it!

Yes! Robert Cailliau is very interested in the history of the Mundaneum—a precursor to the memex, in a way.

There are still tickets available for tomorrow’s online Web Stories conference—just €5!

https://webstoriesconf.com/

I’m really looking forward to talks by @LeonieWatson, @JohnAllsopp, and more…

Reading The Moment of Eclipse by Brian Aldiss.

This annoying bug in the latest version of @Firefox is making me realise how much I use bookmarklets every day—linking, huffduffing…

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689853

Hearing about TYC 7037-89-1 in Eridanus, a system with six stars (three pairs of binaries), and trying to imagine what it would be like from the surface of a planet to see the sun eclipsed by another sun.