Fairly Interesting

The Three Kinds of Laziness

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:36:06 +0100

Complete with handy solutions. By Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist Monk and Molecular Biology PhD, in his book of conversations with his philosopher father, “The Monk and the Philosopher”.

A colour film of London Bridge made in 1926 by Claude...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:29:34 +0100

A colour film of London Bridge made in 1926 by Claude Friese-Greene. See more of his films here.

How Shazam Works

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:12:00 +0100

How Shazam Works:

“You can think of any piece of music as a time-frequency graph called a spectrogram. On one axis is time, on another is frequency, and on the third is intensity.” (Via redcode.nl.)

Everything Apple Needs to Introduce at WWDC to Appease the Internet

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:08:33 +0100

Everything Apple Needs to Introduce at WWDC to Appease the Internet:

Only fifty things, too.

75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:51:04 +0100

75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life:

“The project, which began in 1938, has followed 268 Harvard undergraduate men for 75 years, measuring an astonishing range of psychological, anthropological, and physical traits.”

J.J. Abrams Takes Audience Suggestions for Star Wars on Jimmy...

Fri, 17 May 2013 03:16:55 +0100

J.J. Abrams Takes Audience Suggestions for Star Wars on Jimmy Kimmel’s show.

One World Trade Center’s spire being lowered into place.

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:56:05 +0100

One World Trade Center’s spire being lowered into place.

This Is What One Half Second of High Speed Trading Looks Like:...

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:57:00 +0100

This Is What One Half Second of High Speed Trading Looks Like: “The New York Stock Exchange is built on incredibly quick trades. About 10 million of Johnson & Johnson’s shares are traded each day, for instance. This video shows just one half-second of those trades.” Or, as the top-rated YouTube commenter puts it: “Behold, the instrument of our doom.” (Via Hacker News.)

"At the age of twenty, while a junior at Bennington, Ellis sold his first novel, Less Than Zero, to..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:24:23 +0100

“At the age of twenty, while a junior at Bennington, Ellis sold his first novel, Less Than Zero, to Simon and Schuster for five thousand dollars. The book is about a group of burned-out rich kids in L.A., with names like Clay and Rip and Blair and Spin, who do almost nothing (other than have sex, do drugs, watch MTV, play video games, and drive around the city looking for one another) for two hundred pages.”

- The Paris Review interviews Bret Easton Ellis.

A crashed bin.

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:09:16 +0100

A crashed bin.

Eurogamer story: Acclaimed Half-Life 2 mod Minerva polished up...

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:19:53 +0100

Eurogamer story: Acclaimed Half-Life 2 mod Minerva polished up and released on Steam.

Knob Feel reviews the Sony MDS-JE500. Plenty more knob reviews...

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:01:04 +0100

Knob Feel reviews the Sony MDS-JE500. Plenty more knob reviews here.

Cosmarxpolitan magazine.

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:59:45 +0100

Cosmarxpolitan magazine.

Londonist: Oyster Oddities: How To Travel Through Zone 1 At No...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:49:45 +0100

Londonist: Oyster Oddities: How To Travel Through Zone 1 At No Extra Cost.

Popular websites displayed in Internet Explorer 5. Above,...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:03:04 +0100

Charlie Brooker on television presenter types.

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:13:19 +0100

Charlie Brooker on television presenter types.

The Day Today: Alan Partridge At The Races.

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:02:51 +0100

The Day Today: Alan Partridge At The Races.

"Why am I so sure that the iPad will come to reign supreme at Apple? Because the company’s iPad..."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:17:00 +0100

“Why am I so sure that the iPad will come to reign supreme at Apple? Because the company’s iPad strategy follows the same script as that of the iPod. In that business—unlike in the phone market—Apple began by creating a category-defining product and then constantly expanded its lineup to cover every price point and usage scenario.”

- Farhad Manjoo writing in Slate: “Apple’s Next Big Thing: It’s not a watch, or TV, or smart glasses. It’s the iPad.”

Sim City bugs: “Our favourite is this video, by ko36, of a...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:46:07 +0100

Sim City bugs: “Our favourite is this video, by ko36, of a garbage truck bug that borders on the nightmarish.”

"In July 2012 the BBC completed the sale of Television Centre to Stanhope PLC. More recently, the BBC..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:27:38 +0100

“In July 2012 the BBC completed the sale of Television Centre to Stanhope PLC. More recently, the BBC and Stanhope have formed a joint venture company, TVC Developments, which is overseeing the redevelopment of Television Centre. Television Centre has eight large general purpose TV production studios, known as TC1 to TC8.
The current plan only proposes to retain three of these studios: TC1 to TC3. We believe this plan to be inadequate, wasteful and irresponsible.”

- Save Television Centre Studios: celebrity-backed campaign launched today.