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Quick Links for April 2015

An oral history of OK Computer; Thom Yorke: "my goal was to make an album that would get us all sent to jail"
Satellite photos of South Korean seaweed farms
Winners of the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards
Great interview by Om Malik of Brunello Cucinelli. Lots of gems about working and attention.
An argument against making "just for girls/boys" products and media
Momofuku's David Chang is the co-founder of a new food delivery service, Maple
In interface design, obvious always wins
Simon Winchester: "How I came to be banned from the world's most remote island"
The untold story of the notorious dark market, Silk Road
Stewart Brand: we're not on the cusp of mass extinction and our concern is misdirected
The surprisingly complex design of the Ziploc bag. Big props to the Ziploc folks, generic resealable bags suck
Ai Weiwei, Jacob Appelbaum, and Laura Poitras (and Julian Assange) walk into a room...
Whoa, @thewirecutter is doing editorial content (on travel gear) right on Amazon's web site
How America makes decisions: "gradually and then suddenly"
Coke changed their formula 30 years ago; read the angry fan letters that brought Coke Classic back
YouTube turns 10 this year; here's a short history of their early struggles
Reminder: Vladimir Lenin's body is still sitting in Moscow's Red Square, looking better than ever
Scientists in China have successfully edited the genomes of human embryos O_O
Yes! Ham Goes Up An Escalator
Homeless Millennials Are Transforming Hobo Culture
Harbinger of the future: home solar is growing fast
An oral history of Mad Men. "I sat down and wrote all seven seasons of Mad Men in about four hours."
"Eeny, meeny, miny, mo" and the history of counting rhymes
Huge study of 95,000 children confirms no link between MMR vaccination & autism. Scientists: "well, duh."
America's 1.5 million missing black men
A history of slavery in NYC
The elevators to the WTC observatory show a cool timelapse of NYC's development, from 1500 to the present
Trailer for a new Showtime documentary on Allen Iverson
Elon Musk almost sold a nearly bankrupt Tesla to Google in 2013
Ernest Baker spends a week with Drake, "the most thoroughly modern of all rappers"
Confirmed: the first nesting pair of bald eagles seen in NYC in 100 years
An interview with Slack's CEO; Q. So do you think Slack is worth $3 billion? A. It is, because people say it is.
Choire Sicha reviews Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed. Daaaaang.
Tags: Blade Runner, sequels, Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford
Elon Musk: "humans need to be a multiplanet species"
Oral history of the 1990s Orlando Magic, the dynasty that wasn't
The monetary cost of gun violence in the US is $229 billion/yr. That's $700/person a year.
Comparing the rise of BuzzFeed to the similar trajectories of Time, USA Today, and MTV
Cryotherapy: The Dubious Appeal of Shooting -260 Degree Nitrogen at Your Naked Skin
Pew Research Center: Republicans are whiter, older, and have had less education than Democrats
Could we reboot our modern industrial civilization without fossil fuels?
The Wire's surveillance tech was so realistic that the police asked them to tone it down
Tom Cruise gets full marks for his movie stunt work from a veteran Hollywood stuntman
The camera industry is shrinking, but thanks to smartphones, cameras are much more popular than ever
Nicholas Felton's talk at Webstock on photography and data visualization
Turns out watching a three-piece band of teen/tween girls playing Enter Sandman is AWESOME
Using a 1997 Lonely Planet guide to NYC in the modern day. Lots of featured businesses/attractions now closed.
An Asshole Theory of the Apple Watch
The Robot Factory, a new app for kids from the amazing Tinybop team
Manhattan now has a pencil shop on the Lower East Side
Hurry Up and Wait is the second book from the Maira Kalman/Lemony Snicket/MoMA dream team collaboration
California is low on water because it's feeding America
Steven Strogatz's The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity is only $3 on Kindle right now http://t.co/POfhqjBhb1
Are you working at a start-up or are you in jail? "Are you dressed the same as everyone else?"
Transcript of a conversation between Peter Thiel and Tyler Cowen
Highball, a new cocktail collecting & sharing app from Studio Neat
Sarah Hepola recalls a hypothetical romance she had with Louis C.K.
Star Wars will soon available in digital format, in case you want to buy them for the 9th time
Philip Glass wrote a memoir, Words Without Music. Just came out yesterday.
From an analytical chemist: The "Food Babe" Blogger Is Full of Shit
Oliver Sacks writes about his General Feeling of Disorder
Over 15,000 new maps have been added to the David Rumsey Map Collection, bringing the total to 58,000+
CERN's Large Hadron Collider has been restarted after two years of rebuilding
An illustrated guide to all 456 deaths on Game of Thrones
From 1979, Mimi Sheraton reviews NYC's best pastrami; Carnegie Deli rates high, Katz's gets poor marks
Tesla used to be a car company but is now a battery company
Driving while black: Chris Rock is taking a selfie every time he gets pulled over by the police
Using Photoshop to make gluten-free art
The Sockman, a remembrance of the local neighborhood sock fetishist
What year does Interstellar take place?
Downton Abbey will end after next season
The history of barbed wire; farmers used it for telephone wire!
For superfans only, a 12-minute tour of the lenses Stanley Krubrick used in his films
Serena Williams has done her own version of Beyonce's 7/11 video
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