Wednesday the Twenty-First of July, 2021

Inside Germany’s Giant, Hungry, Flightless-Bird Problem | Audubon
"The rhea’s unlikely appearance in the wild in this corner of the world began two decades ago, when seven birds escaped from their enclosure on a private property." (filed under: birds germany)
Glanced at: List of Netflix Categories - What's on Netflix
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Tuesday the Thirteenth

When Art, Architecture and Commerce Collided: The BEST Products Showrooms by SITE | ArchDaily
"Designed as a life-size cutaway diagram, SITE removed large chunks of the masonry façade, revealing mechanical systems above the suspended ceilings, as well as replica retail displays that exactly matched the displays on the inside of the glass curtain wall." (filed under: architecture shops history)
Glanced at: Crows possess higher intelligence long thought primarily human - STAT • How freezing changed the green pea - BBC Future

Tuesday the Fifteenth of June

The Splintered Mind: Review Drift
"What I'm starting to suspect is that, in the online shopping world, a lot of companies are starting to specifically target the moment of review." (filed under: shopping board games clothes)
Glanced at: LITS - Wikipedia

Wednesday the Fifth of May

Isaludo - Beta - Google Drive
"As an ode to the humble 52-card deck, this book contains ten solo games playable with a standard deck of cards." (filed under: games cards) (via: zarba)
Glanced at: Garlic Scape, An Off-Menu Treat | Red Cook • Femtitv 1.2.pdf - Google Drive • Royal Marriage | Board Game | BoardGameGeek • Writing Effective Rules - Writing+Effective+Rules.pdf

Monday the First of February

Cube Design - Grid Drafting and More - ChannelFireball
"For each pack, lay it out in a 3×3 grid face up. [...] The first player takes a row or column. The second player takes a remaining row or column." (filed under: games mtg)
Glanced at: UK jigsaw puzzle sales hit 100m as 'people find a balance in their lives' | Business | The Guardian • Dear BGG, is this no longer allowed? | BoardGameGeek • Stephenson's Rocket | PaperAndPencil_Stephensons_Rocket_v1.pdf | File | BoardGameGeek • Draft Comparison: Winchester vs. Grid | Article by Andrew Rogers • Grid, Tenchester, and Cutting a Color from the Cube - ChannelFireball - Magic: The Gathering Strategy, Singles, Cards, Decks • Dante's descendant seeks to overturn poet's 1302 corruption conviction | Books | The Guardian • Kaldheim Mechanics | MAGIC: THE GATHERING

Wednesday the Ninth of December, 2020

Human-made materials now equal weight of all life on Earth
"At the start of the 20th century, the mass of human-created stuff weighed in at 35 billion tons, or roughly 3 percent of global biomass. Since then, anthropogenic mass has grown exponentially to approximately 1.1 trillion tons today." (filed under: science construction pollution plastic)
Glanced at: Heiko's (not very) secret redesign addiction, including (some) PnP-links | BoardGameGeek • Northern Pacific | Board Game | BoardGameGeek • LoFi Virtual Museum by Michaela Joffe

Monday the Thirtieth of November

The Cruxwick File / Any Day In 2020 - Issue #20 - NaNoGenMo/2020
My NaNoGenMo entry for 2020: "It's felt like a very recursive and randomly ordered year for me, with any given day from earlier in the year being completely repeatable now, even including things which shouldn't make any sense in late November, like "hoping that the US election ends well" and "not knowing if there'll be a no-deal Brexit in January"." (filed under: creations random time illusions)

Monday the Twenty-Third

The Girl Chewing Gum | John Smith
"As the instructions become more absurd and fantasised, we realise that the supposed director (not the shot) is fictional; he only describes – not prescribes – the events that take place before him." (filed under: art illusions london)
Glanced at: Humans and the perils of Covid-Zero - Plugging the Gap • Five Minutes of Pink Oyster Mushroom Playing Modular Synthesizer - YouTube

Wednesday the Eighteenth

Underwater museum: how 'Paolo the fisherman' made the Med's strangest sight | Fishing | The Guardian
"In 2006, a desperate Tuscan government dropped concrete blocks into the sea in an effort to disrupt the trawlers. [...] He began to wonder: what if, instead of dropping concrete blocks into the water, he dropped art?" (filed under: art fish stone crime)
Glanced at: Engine • Golay Code | Visual Insight • Cashew - Wikipedia

Monday the Sixteenth

Keyword | kevan.org
"Keyword is a game where a player has to communicate a word to the rest of their team, describing it in terms of a secret "keyword" which only that team knows. A second team eavesdrops on the conversation, trying to work out what they're talking about." (filed under: games words secrets creations)
Glanced at: Random Noun Server • Photophone | kevan.org • Robotic 'Monster Wolf' Protects Japanese Town from Bears | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

Friday the Sixth

Need a lockdown project? Try the 100-year-old puzzle that only three men have solved
"It’s a whodunit that, due to an error at the printer’s (the “author’s note” regretted), had been accidentally bound in “an entirely haphazard and incorrect order” The reader was invited to reorder the pages correctly, thus solving the mysteries and revealing the identity of six murderers." (filed under: books puzzles mysteries secrets death crosswords random)
Glanced at: Cains Jawbone A Novel Problem by Edward Powys Mathers: Unbound • The Strong National Museum of Play • Optim @ Things Of Interest

Tuesday the Thirteenth of October

Insane in the Chromatophores - Backyard Brains
"When the iPod sends bass frequencies (<100Hz) the axons in the nerves have enough charge to fire an action potential. This will in turn cause the muscles in the chromatophores to contract." (filed under: squid music colour)
Glanced at: 'Jet fighter' godwit breaks world record for non-stop bird flight | Birds | The Guardian - Homescapes and Gardenscapes ads banned as misleading - BBC News - European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group - spreadsheet risk management and solutions conference - Fish eggs can hatch after being eaten and pooped out by ducks | Science News - Face (sociological concept) - Wikipedia - Amazon Offers New Blank Box Upcharge For Progressive Members To Discreetly Receive Prime Orders -
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