Entrance to the Cuiraing, Skye. Waller Hugh Paton, 1873.
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Carl Röhrig draws the immune system.
Ruins.
The Richat Structure in the Saharan Desert of Mauritania.
An eroded geologic dome.
Scenes, Pattern Languages, and Nested Systems →
My latest essay. Comparing the notion of “pattern languages” across domains, like writing and architecture:
Miyazaki concept art for Princess Mononoke.
The Wrath of the Seas. Ivan Aivazovsky, 1886.
Amor Towles is one of the most articulate and interesting writers working. I loved this conversation from EconTalk. The discussion on constraints and the meaning hidden in “inconveniences” was great.
Interstate ‘76. Man we had fun playing this game.
The central control building of a solar farm in Karapınar, Turkey.
Future site of an unnamed science fiction film location shoot.
Temple des Eaux. Zaghouan, Tunisia.
Built by the Romans to supply the city of Carthage with water from its sacred spring. Visited in 2014.
Space mushrooms.
Charts on Design — Christoph Labacher · Interaction Designer →
A collection of chart designs.
The Valles Marineris canyon on Mars.
2,500 miles long, 120 miles wide, 4.5 miles deep. The largest canyon in the Solar System.
Interstate ‘76. Man we had fun playing this game.
Andor has some of the best cinematics of anything Star Wars.
James Murray
The circle of the English language has a well-defined centre, but no discernible circumference.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Zones of thought from Vernor Vinge’s eponymous science fiction series.
“Village Falls Asleep”, Karunchai Treetrong.
A cyberpunk rendition of Rear Window.
