Enduring tabs

• Lion or Bear? Self-Tracking and Social Identity
  Users can change roles over time – the device vibrates when your state changes, but you can only see what role you’ve taken on by “mating” your device with another person’s device, giving the opportunity for conversation and interaction. For “complementary” roles, the animal icons will glow gold.
• The Quantitative Peace: The Dark Knight and Game Theory
  Game-theory influenced post focusing on the final scene of The Dark Knight. Awe-inspiring stuff on both counts (film and post)

After a blip, Sport Monthly has regained it’s place as the cream of sports-journalism. Here’s some of my personal favourites:

• Otto the strange: The champion who defied the Nazis
  The quite remarkable story of Otto Peltzer. Stuff of legend.
• Ready, Steady, Coe
  Awful title, but insightful article on Seb Coe. Didn’t realise he was Indian. I actually quite admire the guy.
• Nobody pounded the table anymore, nobody threw their cups
  Murakami is one of my favourite authors. So many echoes of his characters in this personal account of an ultramarathon.

• Open Source Food
  Doing the rounds, but I like the way this site is executed.
• Architecture goes algorithmic
  Compelling (even on YouTube). Music by Mogwai as well.
• Haunting composites of ‘evil’.
  Based on Einstein’s quote: ‘The world is not threatened by evil people but by those who allow evil things to happen.’ Great work.
• Penguin Classics Tumblr theme
  Good’un.
• Minotaur Shock
  Interesting interface. I’m seeing a lot of this kind of behaviour. Is this the influence of the iPhone? I’d miss my URLs.
• The Making of a Travel-Time Map of the Netherlands
  Super-talented Kars is now turning his hand to Processing and info viz. Great work mate.