The Snail Shell

Soma Smoothie ES. 2010. 60cm. Kept in great shape. It's big, it's light, drop bars, amazing parts. It's kinda perfect for every...

Wow. Those are words I don't say very often. I mean, ever. When have I ever made a lifelong commitment to anything? Almost never. I m...

I heard Black Mirror was totally the coolest, and it's not, but it's pretty great. I'd give it 4/5 stars. Minus two for being, ...

A week in Seoul is sadly over! First I will say, Seoul is kind of the best. I saw a nice temple, a modern art museum, a couple parks, biked...

Before They  - a portrait of shrinking tribes worldwide Requesting all the photos the DHS has of you  - hah, kind of neat. Antibiotics i...

I'm reading this book now, Rewire by Ethan Zuckerman. Overall, totally dig it. He's pushing cosmopolitanism, the idea that we can ...

In CS school, we learned about computational complexity (and if you start tuning out you can just skip to the next paragraph). Some algorit...

It feels like we, as humans, are not capable of processing certain questions above a certain level of complexity. For example, "should...

Three Letter Words Two Letter Words These were what I really wanted to do when I made Pokemon Watch . (I mean, besides have cute pok...

Hey. Okay. If you want to get angrier, read this: 7 Reasons America Is Stuck in Never-Ending War . It's on Mother Jones, so those of yo...

Been thinking about this and figured it'd be worth writing up. In this guide I assume: - you want to buy a bike to get around town, a ...

Okay, goddamn, the thing that I was trying to say before in point 9  two posts ago  is way better described by Scott Alexander here . (albe...

File this under "fun class/side projects." A watch that shows one Pokemon per minute instead of a numerical minute. (no hour han...

I know nobody else reads posts like these but I kind of want to save them/mentally catalogue all these links I've been saving: Histor...

Cleveland installed red light/speed cameras. You speed, or you go through a red light a fraction of a second too late, and it takes a pictu...

Grumpy in general, I guess, due in part to the internet. You know how Fox News and CNN are our parents' generation's hate machine...

" An open letter to privileged people who play devil's advocate ". If you see that this is on a site called "feministing...

Implementing a general rule that causes a lot of bad edge cases. For example: in India, there's a rule that you can't leave and ...

Check this the hell out. Internet browsing plus real data making a positive change in my life. tl;dr: I used to get canker sores a lot, the...

Ok I guess I talk about much more trivial things all the time, and it's enough of an issue that I better say a thing on Ferguson, so th...