I bought the D&D cookbook “Heroes’ Feast: The Official D&D Cookbook” on a whim. To my surprise, it actually had some fun, and decent, recipes.
Besides the book, there was a whole TV series in which minor celebrities make the dishes and try them out. Pretty fun. You can watch it on Plex for free.
Jonsbo Mod5, DeepCool Quadstellar Infinity, Azza Pyramid. There’s some funky computer cases out there. Some even approach looking like modernist works of art. But there’s lots of oddball misses like pyramids and Ottomans. Even Apple has had a fair amount of duds for each of their design successes.
I’d love to see some artists really think about computer aesthetics. Some of the designs from the 1950’s or Kubrick’s 2001 look better than what we have today.
Simon Sinek claims that people don’t buy what you make/do, they buy why you are making it. He further claims you are not trying to align yourself with everyone, you’re trying to align yourself to the people who believe what you believe.
I would qualify his takes as marketing methodology that can work in the right conditions. For example, if Apple couldn’t actually make/deliver products that are good, this wouldn’t work. You can believe building a flying machine will change the world – without being able to technically do it.
I do agree if you just tell people what you have – it won’t be enough. If you tell people why you’re making the product and why you built it – it will be much more effective marketing.
In his point about Martin Luther King – he points out a truth for all Christians. We have seen people that spend all their time reposting their doom-scrolling and pointing out the bad in the world. In the end, it just focus them and others on hate, anger, frustration, and lashing out. A trap we see many fall into.
A much more profound method is to do exactly what Jesus did – preach the Truth. That elevates and points people in a direction and vision of how things should, and will, be. It also requires much more from the person doing it – a personal understanding, and relationship, with Jesus in which you learn these things. Hate and anger are cheap and easy – Truth is hard.
Do you miss computing from the 90’s? Innocuous little programs that turn out to install hordes of malware?
Odd Games has released a nifty little game called Malware that lets you relive those glory days with rogue software and malicious installers – can you spot them all and keep your computer clean? (Review)
It does raise the interesting question: would it be worth making a modern version of this as an educational aid for people and kids learning to use computers. It could teach them about common scams, malware, bitcoin theft, and many other interesting topics. Could it be as interesting as the Oregon Trail?
Patrick Boyle is a hedge fund manager, university professor, and former investment banker that continues his deadpan roasting of current business trends with this report on ridiculous actual tech inventions of things that already exist or are just beyond ridiculous.
It reminds me of the Smart Pipe – a parody video that came out over a decade ago and proves we’ve learned nothing.
A few ferrofluid speakers have hit the market. Beyond just your simple bluetooth speaker, these put on a little show at the same time. They contain a blob of ferrofluid suspended in clear liquid. As the music plays, it pulses magnetic fields through the medium and make the fluid dance. These two speakers seem to be the most interesting. Sovenomund Dancing Ferrofluid Speaker and the CAULO Wireless Ferrofluid Speaker.
The Shop of Many Things sells some interesting D&D style trinkets such as floating dice and inks that disappear when heated/reappear when cooled.
Disney Imagineering are using the term ‘conjured architecture’ to describe the magical, fluid, and organic appearance of the animated villians and their lairs. A look they are trying to capture in upcoming villain-themed land in their theme parks.
In looking at their inspiration media, it seems they’re utilizing organic flowing patterns found in art nouveau styles. Read more here or on the Disney Parks blog.
Riisitunturi National Park, in Finnish Lapland, is well known for its iconic, snow-laden forests, where trees become “sculptures” under the immense weight of accumulated snow and ice. The phenomenon is known as tykky.
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