The “Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion” is one of my all-time favourite optical illusions (the squares overlapping while the circles don’t really kills me!), but I had not seen the “interactive applet” that lets you inspect how the illusion works. Genius!
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
Some Notes on Mutant Year Zero
In this second “Notes on…” article, we’ll look at another game my Friday group played for a few months on a weekly basis: Free League’s Mutant Year Zero (from now on referred to as MYZ).
Goodbye public market, hello little False Creek ferries. I love taking the little boats!
We have arrived! Food acquired.
Out and about along the seawall
This is a really cool typographic website for the history and presentation of a new typeface inspired by the old-school Heathrow Airport signage.
The original “How To Train Your Dragon” animated movie is an absolute gem, and one of my favourite movies… of course they’re re-making it as a live action movie. It looks well done and seems to match the original shot by shot soooo… once again, what’s the point? You know, except making money?
“A little-known Canadian wartime tragedy left a lasting mark on international law”: this is an interesting bit of history that ties the modern International Criminal Court, WW2 Nazi war crimes, and a WW1 Canadian hospital ship.
“The Reality Of Tariffs In Tabletop Gaming”: Steve Jackson Games’ Meredith Placko lays out what the next US presidency might mean for the #TTRPG and board gaming markets.
On Reading the News
This article from NiemanLab titled “I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how.” didn’t start particularly well for me. It read less about ways to read the news, and more about the inability of some people to just, you know, keep their phone in their pocket when they’re with other people. I know some people truly struggle with this, with connectivity, social media, and all that stuff leading to real mental health issues but, well, I don’t get it.
Anyway, there’s a great bit in the middle of the article, when the author decides to change their ways:
I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news. I have resubscribed to print newspapers because they are finite; when you’re done, you’re done