field of vision: the evolution of eyes branching out as on a tree of life
land-grant college: the federal-funding based model for American post-secondary education is based on a deliberate post-World War II decision to outsource expertise and experimentation rather than compartmentalise it within government consortia
habeas corpus: relenting to the idea that some people have no rights is siding with authoritarianism and hoping you aren’t next
under construction: transform any modern website a late 90s GeoCities masterpiece—via Clive Thompson’s Linkfest
thank you easter bunny—bwak, bwak: more on the controversial, re-constructed, retcon of the holiday mascot
⌂: the tiny house in the middle of IBM’s eight-bit character set, adopted by PC clones with the 1981 Code Page 437—see previously—and its possible relation to Blissymbolics
rinki-tink in oz: deportation and administrative oversight in L Frank Baum’s paracosm
uniwersytet latajฤ cy: US institutions higher education can defy Trump’s crackdown by outreach and going underground, as Polish universities did under Communism—via Kottke
recaptcha: corvids demonstrate surprising mental acuity for identifying outlier shapes and geometric regularity—via MetaFilter
synchronoptica
one year ago: St Liduina (with synchronoptica) plus assorted links worth revisiting
seven years ago: US refusing Syrian refugees, American kakistocracy plus some local prehistory
eight years ago: bunking busting bombs, the White House Easter Egg Roll plus a grim future vision of US national parks
nine years ago: animated viruses, solar sails, more chatbot failures plus a walk from Wiesbaden to Mainz
eleven years ago: Ukrainian break-away republics
