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This is really cool - it takes SoundCloud tracks and visualizes them as a spinning, pulsating circle. You can specify what SoundCloud track to play by specifying a url like this: http://mattdesl.github.io/spins?url=roman-mars/99-invisible-162-mystery-house. If you know a little JavaScript, you can open up the developer tools and tweak the parameters.

I wasn't aware that this is was thing, but when I became aware that was a thing, I wasn't all that surprised. Interesting to know about regardless.

I've heard of people doing this for reconstructive surgery, but never just because they felt like it.

Here's a video of an astronaut cooking a meal in space. The food almost escapes, but she prevails in the end.

Neat historical piece on the early days of graphics in computing. And of course, every new media is used first and foremost for pornography.

Sometimes I wonder what's going on. Things seem to change but still stay the same, and I'm here in the middle, floating along - or am I? As my only point of reference, I occasionally have trouble figuring out what matters and where I fit into it all. I think anyone in the future can recognize this feeling at least a little bit, so I think it's cool that this article is addressing existential thoughts in the mainstream.

Just one more way our retail experience is moving towards a gig-based, peer-to-peer service-oriented economy. I highly doubt it'd rattle brick-and-mortar stores for essentials like groceries (being able to InstaCart tends to be a luxury for those with the money to pay for the upcharge), but it certainly spreads more and more money into the platforms that create these delivery systems. Something to keep an eye on.