Just Interesting
The “glossy magazine” category. Nothing too deep.
Book-shaped French cipher machine, with arms of Henri II of France gilt brass and gold. 1547–1559
Enciphered letter from Gabriel de Luetz d’Aramon, French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, after 1546, with partial decipherment
Foreground and background mutually define each other.
‘In the landscape of spring, there is neither better nor worse. The flowering branches grow naturally long or short’.
Ryōkan Taigu
I promise you this is the coolest and most dramatic film (~ 2 min) about water droplets that you have ever seen. Probably much better on a monitor (sound on) than on a phone.
I just up and wrote a tiny children’s book! Not a book for tiny children, though they are welcome to it, just a tiny book. Copyright me, this year.
The space we’ve surrendered to cars.
Yee. Steel and gilt brass rectal speculum, French, c. 1870-1890
Accuracy is the ability to hit a target,
Precision is the ability to achieve the same results over and over.
You can be accurate without being precise, and precise without being accurate.
