What I saw on the web on 2021.9.8

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1. Miegakure Update September 2021
   by Marc ten Bosch
   https://marctenbosch.com/news/2021/09/miegakure-update-september-2021/
   still looking forward to when this is ready
   via rss
   
   
2. Doodles of famous mathematicians
   by _AstroErika
   https://twitter.com/_AstroErika/status/1435572120579346436?s=19
   fun! the last one isn't familiar to me
   via email
   
   
3. Ask Uncle Colin - An Implicit Curve
   by Flying Colours Maths
   https://www.flyingcoloursmaths.co.uk/ask-uncle-colin-an-implicit-curve/
   a couple of typos (at least as i'm looking at it now, perhaps corrected later?) but still a fun problem
   via rss
   
   
4. Acting Ensign Pride Pins
   by Wil Wheaton
   http://wilwheaton.net/2021/09/acting-ensign-pride-pins/
   in case you're wondering where to get one of these awesome (if subtle) pins
   via rss
   
   
5. Jazz Keys
   by plan 8
   https://jazzkeys.plan8.co/
   in case you want your typing to sound like improvised jazz piano (and who doesn't?)
   via boing
   
   
6. The ‘Seinfeld’ Theme Was Improvised
   by Jonathan Wolff talking to Great Big Story
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGa1brzAP6o
   and no, it's not a bass guitar
   via boing
   
   
   
7. EC1 - Custom synthesizer
   by Love Hultén
   https://www.lovehulten.com/ec1.html
   looks pretty, sounds pretty
   via boing
   
   
8. Scarcity of slugs has U of A biologist urging gardeners to dig some up for her research
   by Emily Fitzpatrick
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/scarcity-of-slugs-has-u-of-a-biologist-urging-gardeners-to-dig-some-up-for-her-research-1.6167288
   in case you have some spare slugs you're not using
   via rss
   
   
9. Saturn Hexagon
   by Randall Munroe
   https://xkcd.com/2513/
   clever, as we've come to expect
   via rss
   
   
10. The Unbearable Semiheaviness Of Being
    by Scott Alexander
    https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-unbearable-semiheaviness-of-being
    shared mostly for the Anselm crack
    via rss