What I saw on the web on 2020.11.19

1. The Queen’s Gambit …
   by Abe Janzen
   https://somemessynotes.wordpress.com/2020/11/19/the-queens-gambit/
   a review of the Netflix series. Sounds like it could be a good watch. If I was watching tv these days. And had Netflix.
   via rss
   
   
2. Interactive: see how your favourite dog breeds are related to each other
   by Nick Evershed
   https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2020/oct/25/interactive-see-how-your-favourite-dog-breeds-are-related-to-each-other
   dog people will likely find this data visualization tool fascinating
   via boing
   
   
3. Choldordin eezi. Altai throat singing
   by Danil Dangeev, Alan Samoev, and Ezenday Balbin
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghGhHIFD8AE
   some nice central Asian music
   via boing
   
   
4. Morton's Foot
   by Rabih Abou-Khalil and band
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leM4QzgVIHs
   shared for the excellent Sardinian overtone singing of Gavino Murgia
   via memory
   
   
5. Meet the Censored: Ford Fischer
   by Matt Taibbi interviewing Ford Fischer
   https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-ford-fischer
   remember: when tech.giants have the power to censor, they have the power to censor anyone
   via rss
   
   
6. Comedians Rate Journalist Humor
   by Matt Taibbi interviewing Noam Dworman and Tim Dillon
   https://taibbi.substack.com/p/comedians-rate-journalist-humor
   when do journalists succeed at being funny? When is it appropriate?
   via rss
   
   
7. collisions in Debian Sid's "insane"-sized American English dictionary
   by /u/skeeto
   https://np.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/18cj7u/out_of_98569_words_in_my_usrsharedictwords_one/c8dm9vp/
   an excellent source of band names
   via elsewhere on reddit
   
   
8. Matrix Multiplication Made Easy
   by Matthew Simonson
   https://blogs.ams.org/mathgradblog/2015/10/19/matrix-multiplication-easy/
   a nice visualization trick to remember how to multiply matricies
   via reddit