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Check out Brain Pickings for a diagram of a Kafka story and one for Hamlet.
Here is an infographic with more. Apparently they were part of a rejected master's thesis (“which was rejected because it was so simple and looked like too much fun.”).

/u/AngelaMotorman approves of any mention of the great Shirley Jackson's short fiction.

It's an amazing write-up. I always get emotional when Shackleton, Worsley and Crean show up at the whaling station and knock on the manager's door. Powerful and inspirational stuff.

Edit: South! by Ernest Shackleton is his telling of the story. It covers the Ross Sea expedition, who were laying supplies for Shackleton's transcontinental trek, in harrowing detail. While Shackleton's men on the Endurance were all saved, several men perished in the Ross Sea party. Worth a read if only for the sheer audacity of their undertaking.

Indeed, the Sphinx now watches over a Pizza Hut & KFC complex directly across the street...although poor Sphinx can't afford even a whiff of that greasy goodness because it doesn't have a nose.

You can legally stream the show here: http://www.funimation.com/shows/cowboy-bebop/videos/official/asteroid-blues

That's a link to the first episode. The dub is great, the music is fantastic, the animation, characters, setting... It's all great.

Interesting. A bit more digging reveals this quote from a book called "What French Women Know..."

The author (Debra Ollivier) states that the term has been "appropriated by Anglophones" and that "if you ask your average French person what it means you'll get a Gallic shrug."

Ollivier goes on to suggest that the term may have its origins in the Serge Gainsbourg's song "Laide Jolie Laide".

Note: I have edited the title of the book, as it is really quite silly. The author is (predictably) American.

Picking a book on visualization is easy: Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. The point of a good visualization is to convey some information to the viewer. I think a lot of people get distracted by trying to convey the sophistication of the analysis used or the data set. This book focuses on making sure that the message is clear.

It's harder to pick a single book on leveraging data and it really depends where you are now and where you want to get to. Doing Data Science is pretty good, although if you're looking to leverage data not as a full time data scientist but as a marketing strategist or business development analyst then I would just pick up an introductory textbook on statistics.

If I ask 100 people if they've ever heard of my brand and 50 say yes, where last week 38 said yes, is that because something changed or just because I asked a different random 100 people? Knowing how to answer that question (and also thinking to ask it) is probably the most important step towards becoming more data driven.

You seem like a good CO.

My most notorious hide was this, and ended in a state of heavy river erosion, decomposition, and what seems to be illegal logging and scrap metal looting, probably by the homeless. The general location included an archaeological site, but I don't believe any of these people were digging pits or anything like that. The bugs make the place pretty much unbearable in the summer. Scrap metal person even kept replacing the final on the metal fixtures he left behind. Do you have any advice on what to do in such a situation?

Lindsay & friends decide they want to make a twilight-rip off, so they set forth to write the first communally sourced version. At the time of the videos, she was having polls/questions posted that viewers responded to in order to decide characters, plot, etc. Everything that could be decided upon structure-wise was done this way. They even created a pen name and interacted with people on various book forums. Lots of alcohol, polls, and contributing writers later, we have a finished product that is actually pretty well done for what it was. <em>Awoken</em>, available on Amazon!

Thanks so much for all the kind words guys, it means a lot to me.

Hope a shameless plug is ok, but you can follow me on Facebook and Instagram to view some of my latest stuff!

The music video was directed my Hype Williams who stated that the music video was inspired by Katsuhiro Otomo's film Akira. The music video was actually originally planned to feature scenes from the movie.

You can see some comparisons here, or here.

New-ish (internet?) slang for 'dog', which I find pretty pretty repugnant, actually.

Throw http://outline.com/ in front of the url for any article you want an easier read on. Works on paywalls too.

http://outline.com/www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2016/04/the_history_of_the_gay_subtext_of_batman_and_robin.html

The book Fifty Feet in Paradise was an interesting read about the history of development in Florida. Florida held the promises of a tropical paradise that almost sold itself to the rich northerners. Combined with the state being long and narrow it was perfect for railroad development, with each extension of the railroad be being sold along with a newer, bigger, shinier city each time. https://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Feet-Paradise-Booming-Florida/dp/0151307482

It's great, right? If you haven't read the novella it's based on, check it out, it's called Kneller's Happy Campers from The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God &amp; other Stories. I won't spoil it, but I think the ending is way better.

Also I had to watch it twice to see Nick Offerman was in it because it was years before Parks and Rec and I didn't recognize him the first time around

>Plainly, then, in the months after Ramanujan arrived in England, Hardy and Littlewood could hardly have more than skimmed the surface of the notebooks, dipping into them at points, lingering over particularly intriguing results, trying to prove this one or simply understand that one. But this first glance was enough to reinforce the impression left by the letters. After the second letter, Littlewood had written Hardy, "I can believe that he's at least a Jacobi." Hardy was to weigh in with a tribute more lavish yet. "It was his insight into algebraic formulae, transformation of infinite series, and so forth, that was most amazing," he would write. In these areas, "I have never met his equal, and I can compare him only with Euler or Jacobi."

-The Man Who Knew Infinity

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Also, oops? Today is the 15th, and I haven't been here in awhile. Are we doing Sunday posts now as well? I thought that was just more or less the day reserved for suggesting topics.

Here's a clip from the episode for those curious about it. You can really tell McCarthy went on to make a lot of the creative design choices for Fury Road. The full episode can be legally watched for free here.

If this is interesting to you, check out <em>Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond</em> by Martin A. Lee

For anyone interested in her writing, I've read most of her books that are available in English, and &quot;The Land of Green Plums&quot; is definitely my favorite.

An extremely hard, highly refractive crystalline form of carbon that is usually colorless and is used as a gemstone and in abrasives, cutting tools, and other applications. Definition from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/diamond why are they worth anything?

More here.

Two of these five series novels are unforgettable: Spiral is about the looting of the Mexican treasury in the wake of the Lopez-Portillo government; Heat From Another Sun is about warnography. These are not easy books to read, but extremely well written.

I have two of these. They are really cool and still work quite well. When I posted about them I was linked to this guy's flickr page where he posts photos of his optics collection. He is some kind of expert on them.

The word suggests they're beside the medic (doctors, nurses etc.) rather than the casualty, and the use of 'beside' isn't in the literal one, but a more metaphorical one.

According to etymonline, though, it derives from a parachuting medic.

Here's a link to more of the photos they took along with more of the story

There are still Gopher servers out there on the Internet if you want to play around with the protocol! Here is an overview of them:

https://www.shodan.io/report/my4D2aPK

Looks like there are hobbyists deploying them on Linode and Digital Ocean.

This NPR story explains it a bit. But it was also caused by the use of the Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit, which I believe has been banned since.

Don't use Telegram, though: https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches/archive/45cace9a-4f74-4591-8fd1-8ae54d14e156

Watch ‘The Campaign’, it’s a really good movie.

Then go read a book called Tangled web

Or don’t and keep being ignorant about a place you’ve never been and know nothing about.

I don't think they'd seen flying foxes before. Fact source was this book which is horribly outdated in the biology section.