What I saw on the web on 2023.10.30

[reblogarythm]

1. What Makes Heavy Metal Heavy?
   by 12tone
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0mo17wLB4Q
   very short version: anything that makes you want to bang your head?
   via youtube recommends
   
   
2. Boarding planes could have been very different
   by Tom Scott
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3OqAN4ISOw
   those just look fun
   via rss
   
   
3. Just Intonation (Part 1)
   by John Carlos Baez
   https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/just-intonation-part-1/
   here comes the 5-limit
   via rss
   
   
4. mittening
   by Zach Weinersmith
   https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/mittening
   honestly, an idea whose time has come
   via rss
   
   
5. Many Paths to Tread: Modeling the Multiple Dimensions of Time in Tolkien's Legendarium
   by James Tauber
   https://vimeo.com/567956966/d53411201f
   a good talk, including a discussion of posets!
   via discord
   
   
6. The Vocabulary of the Latin Translation of the Hobbit
   by James Tauber
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVDZz6EUWcQ
   which gets into several details about translation about which i'd not previously thought
   via going looking for stuff from Tauberji