Category: Links
check out my sick elephant!
I’m loving the sick elephant series on right now over at Wondermark.
I started reposting them all here for myself, but the best thing you can do is go to the first in the series and click through them on his site, so he gets good feels from knowing people are reading them. And so you’ll never know if you’re reading an elephant comic until you know you’re reading an elephant comic.
Don’t deprive yourself — go read them.
The second best thing you can do is read them all here if you’re too lazy to click through.
Update: I’ve posted up to number 13, but Wondermark is up to number 19 20 on the elephant train! Check out the sick elephant over there — I’m not going to keep reposting them.
Putting the No in Nose
In which an Elephant is sick
In which the Sickness descends
A Memory Set in Stone
In which a Case is cracked
In which a Professional is found
Bones of Stone, Heart of Gold
Bones of Stone, For the Bold
In which the Staff is short
The Cossack Gone Astray
In which the Stacks hold Facts
In which a Tract is hacked
Thick Skin, White Soap
frivolous questions as a gateway to discovery
Anything worth doing well is worth overdoing.
Says the guy who wrote a physics paper answering “what would happen if the entire Earth was suddenly made up of only blueberries?”.
Equalization and You
Equalization is a federal program where they spend more money in regions that are economically depressed. Full stop.
This five minutes 30 seconds is the best description I’ve heard of how equalization payments work in Canada. It’s two Albertan political strategists .
I’ll start you at 31:40 into the episode. Listen at least to the 37:10 mark.
We pay the exact same taxes (federal rate) in Alberta as they pay in Quebec…there’s no “I’m paying more because I’m a rich Albertan — you’re paying more because you’re rich.
Every province does a form of equalization…every city does a form of equalization, because we don’t make the same money and the reason we do a taxation system to begin with is to redistribute funds to those who need them.
Bonus quote, from later in the episode:
Ralph Klein was the one who started to establish this idea that we’re sending a cheque somewhere down East.
Well I’ll tell you something — before the 1970’s, we needed it too.
People have to remember that in Alberta we were a have-not province. Then we got a little bit of oil an gas going our way and things started to work for us. But it didn’t really start to work for us until the late 1960’s and the 1970’s.
Link Roundup – 2016 03 02
Some things worth looking at from the past week or so:
Kids These Days
Congrats for making me hate both sides of this argument.
A millennial complained about her job; the Internet responded by complaining about millennials. This guy actually had some great things to say.
He is what’s missing from most “conversations” on the Internet.
A series of bad choices, published for all to see online, goes viral and like magic, old and young people alike start rattling off all that’s wrong about kids these days.
Listen, assholes: You made mistakes when you were young. So did I. We still make mistakes.”
“Sometimes, it’s not just the kids’ fault. We don’t have to coddle her mistakes while still admitting that it’s kind of a screwed up world out there for anyone looking to forge a living as a young adult.
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Starkers
Why are we so obsessed with the human form that we’ve become paradoxically indifferent to it?
— Patrick Kirk-Smith, from his review of Starkers
Starkers, by Davy and Kristin McGuire. Take a look at their projects page for a ton of other incredible projector-based work, such as The Icebook.
(via Prosthetic Knowledge)
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Air Fountain
So mezmerizing.
By Daniel Wurtzel.
(via Prosthetic Knowledge)
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The man who made ‘the worst video game in history’
An interesting insight from a game developer turned psychotherapist:
Programmers and therapists are all systems analysts. It’s just that I’ve moved on to a much more sophisticated hardware.
The article is mainly a history of Atari, and nothing like that quotation.