What I saw on the web on 2024.5.17

1. How This 300-Year-Old Pastel Stick Maker Creates Nearly 2,000 Colors — More Than Its Competitors
   by Business Insider reporting on Henri Roché
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu6po8_sPco
   (note: the company is 300 years old. a fascinating little documentary.)
   via discord
   
   
2. Banishing Rats Turned Tromelin Island Into a Seabird Paradise
   by Ethan Freedman
   https://reasonstobecheerful.world/tromelin-island-brought-back-seabirds/
   good news about birds! (tough news for rats.)
   via rss
   
   
3. Saturday Mornings at South Common
   by Grand Markets Edmonton
   https://124grandmarket.com/saturday
   might be worth a look!
   via taproot
   
   
4. Wilhoit's law
   by Frank Wilhoit
   https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288
   in case you're wondering what conservatism is ultimately about
   via seeing it mentioned somewhere
   
   
5. The Creator Of 'Magic: The Gathering' Knows Exactly Where It All Went Wrong
   by Tom Ley
   https://defector.com/the-creator-of-magic-the-gathering-knows-exactly-where-it-all-went-wrong
   having never played M:TG myself, this is mostly new. might be of interest also to old hands?
   via discord
   
   
6. What does a great cup of coffee taste like?
   by James Hoffman
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkssYHTSpH4
   a well-staged prose poem, and i say that as someone who has never had a cup of coffee in my entire life
   via boing
   
   
7. Artist Christine Sun Kim Rewrites Closed Captions
   by Christine Sun Kim et al
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfe479qL8hg
   cogent ciritism of current common closed captioning practice, creative suggestions for fixing them
   via boing
   
   
8. Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159...
   by Luke Gotszling, reported by Rob Beschizza
   https://boingboing.net/2024/05/17/non-euclidean-doom-where-the-value-of-pi-is-not-3-14159.html
   the demos start getting trippy when π = e
   via rss
   
   
9. Zero-to-the-Zero and the Do-Nothing Machine
   by James Propp
   https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2024/05/17/zero-to-the-zero-and-the-do-nothing-machine/
   the joys of empty products, and Dr. Seuss
   via rss