a more or less weekly digest of juicy stuff

• a brief rant on the future of interaction design, with an entire body at your command, do you seriously think the future of interaction should be a single finger? highly recommended
• ten things about being a founder i wish i knew two years ago
• gti, a program that displays a badly made ascii-art animation to punish you for your typing error - and after that magically launches the command you meant to launch
• immersion, a people-centric view of your email life
• how ascii lost and unicode won, ascii really should have been named asciiwoa: the american standard code for information exchange with other americans
• arpanet/internet maps, 1969 - 1977
• use your browser as notepad
• the mystery of the voynich manuscript
• the stand, the sink-urinal that saves water and encourages men to wash hands
• atomic annie, the world's first and only nuclear gun
• why you should run, not walk, in the rain
• the origin of dubstep
• the best card trick in the world, explanation
• rostrotkupferbraunfastbronze, great poetry slam performance by patrick salmen (german)
• glorious master translator - e-mails from an asshole, it says your cd player is possessed by amanojaku, or "audio demon." you should light three candles and pray to benzaiten, the god of music
• "haben sie hinsichtlich der damen bestimmte wünsche?", "ich möchte mich nicht festlegen. mein geschmack neigt zu blond, meine erfahrung spricht dagegen.", fabian. die geschichte eines moralisten by erich kästner
• rubber band series, photography project by wes naman
• afghanistan in the 1950s and 60s
• die welt fragt, gunter dueck antwortet, inspiring podcast (german)