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: creationsrandomtimeillusions)
"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: artillusionslondon)
"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: artfishstonecrime)
"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: gameswordssecretscreations)
"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: bookspuzzlesmysteriessecretsdeathcrosswordsrandom)
"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: squidmusiccolour)
"In a major overview article, ‘Ecology of Australia’, Gordon Orians and Antoni Milewski portray sap and other sweet liquids as something cheap and superfluous that eucalypts can afford to waste, because nutrient-poor soils constrain their use of the sugars they produce."(filed under: plantsfoodbirdsaustralia)
"Games are described as structured sets of ludemes (units of game-related information). This allows the full range of traditional strategy games from around the world to be modelled in a single playable database for the first time."(filed under: gamesdesignhistory)
"It turned out that at 7am every morning the occupant would switch on their old TV which would, in-turn, knock out broadband for the entire village."(filed under: televisiontechnologyinternetmysteries)
"We reviewed published research about COVID, and used it to make rough estimates about the risk level of various activities in microCOVIDs. 1 microCOVID is a one-in-a-million chance of getting COVID."(filed under: virusesmathsdeath)
"[The] system can detect a smartphone’s location to within about 20 feet. [...] That means a phone in a tree outside Whole Foods’ door would get the delivery offer even before drivers sitting in their cars just a block away."(filed under: phonestreeshackingworkillusions)
"But after only a month they had reached the limit for the number of items allowed in one place, a technical restriction to keep Second Life running smoothly. One player offered to take away the rubbish in his rocket."(filed under: gameslitter)