joshuago’s Bookmarks

You can use analytics and data-driven design to climb to the top of the current mountain, but it takes a creative leap and good judgment to spot a bigger mountain to climb.

Trigonometry made fun, with stories drawn from history.

A sad survey of the plight of Mexican migrant farm workers in the United States. A fair treatment of the issue and its various stakeholders.

The best computer science papers from various top-tier conferences.

The call to help the needy plays a major role in Christianity's history and is utterly central to its message. This should never be forgotten. The way to do something is to see the needy as people first, not projects.

The Oatmeal gets a thorough and very favourable treatment by The Economist. It's making money.

Introverts don't outwardly complain, but instead roll their eyes and silently curse the darkness.

Comparative discussion of how native tribes in Canada and Polynesia are dealing with the influx of industrially processed food. Includes anecdote about navigating the seas not with a compass or using the stars, but with one's nutsack.

A very entertaining and well-written account of how a programmer went from nothing to clients knocking down his doors asking him to work on open source software enhancements. It all started when he figured out how to write a module for nginx.

Just as Max Kleiber described animal scaling laws with equations, Geoffrey West has discovered laws that govern how entire cities function.