What I saw on the web on 2024.9.3

[reblogarythm]

1. Is my blue your blue
   by Patrick Mineault
   https://ismy.blue/
   i'm pretty close to average
   via boing
   
   
2. The Wrong Time Travel Story
   by Marissa Lingen
   https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-wrong-time-travel-story/
   because of course the time travel company would mess up from time to time (if that's the right expression?)
   via discord
   
   
3. A history of saving the world
   by Ada Palmer speaking to Hope is a Verb
   https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/hope-is-a-verb-5346114/episodes/ada-palmer-a-history-of-saving-222051393
   for when your will to live is too weak
   via discord
   
   
4. Perplexing the Web, One Probability Puzzle at a Time
   by Erica Klarreich
   https://www.quantamagazine.org/perplexing-the-web-one-probability-puzzle-at-a-time-20240829/
   lots of entertaining probability puzzles here
   via discord? i think it was on discord
   
   
5. Song Pong - William Tell Overture Finale
   by Rossini and Victor Tao
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0AXprDRsUU
   an idea that needed to happen
   via boing
   
   
6. Wikipedia articles written in the greatest number of languages
   by Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_articles_written_in_the_greatest_number_of_languages
   can someone explain why the article about David Woodard has the third greatest number of translations?
   via wandering around, wondering