Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world | Video on TED.com.
You’ve probably seen this linked in a dozen places already, but this draft post isn’t going to improve with age…
I’m remodelling the site theme again: innsmouth is becoming a sort of step-child theme of twentyten, the new WordPress 3.0 default. Some features are going to look a little strange while I chase down the more specialised stylings (many of the sidebar widget styles need attention at this point, inter alia).
If things get seriously broken, I’ll be switching back and forth between the new theme and the old.
I finally got around to looking at the stats, and here’s a capture of the Perelman spike from back in March. Each horizontal division is a week’s worth of visits.
Spiky, innit?
(via 3quarks)
How stable, self-replicating structures might develop, entirely through chemical processes.
(via Slashdot thread)
More slo-mo goodness. I must say I’m not over-keen on the soundtrack, but if you are, it’s over here.
(via 3quarksdaily)
Well, that didn’t take long. Only a few months ago, we had a hot lead towards immersive 3-D fractals (see Meet the Mandelbulbs) and now we have animations thereof…
Music by The Formula (there’s only a slightly alarming message loop on the link at the time of thiis posting), images by subblue (whose other efforts are worth exploring).
Also of related interest, the ferrofluid sculptures of slightly longer ago…
via Bruce Sterling.