a comparison using like or as: a treasury of simile and metaphor from Ross MacDonald’s private detective Lew Archer
mario v pareto: a scrolly-telling illustration of efficiency and optimisation—via Quantum of Sollazzo
siamese wins: Thailand avoided colonisation through diplomacy and cultural synthesis
world famous gopher hole museum: a visit to an usual tourist attraction in a tiny Albertan hamlet
biblioclasm: Amazon’s AI book-pulping division has a cartoonish evil logo
count coudenhove-kalergi: the Austro-Japanese politician and diplomat who championed the movement of European integration and was the inspiration for the character of Victor Laszlo in Casablanca—plus nominated Ode to Joy as the theme for the united continent
balloon banjo: a 3D printed heuristic tool for experimenting with acoustics
ounce dice trice: a garland ring of unusual words that ends up where it starts out
synchronoptica
one year ago: assorted links to revisit (with synchronoptica) plus a cache of vintage picture postcards
two years ago: a quick weekend get-away plus the Formosa Straits crisis of 1958
three years ago: the US Republican primary debates plus more links to enjoy
four years ago: even more links plus Ukraine re-establishes itself as an independent state (1991)
five years ago: assorted links worth the revisit, ant architecture plus Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
six years ago: cocktails for remote learning, superlative garden photographs plus re-sampling Soviet pop
