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A collection of traditional dyes and pigments.

Geometric patterns, plant and animal motifs, etc.

The most toxic consequence of social media manipulation, whether by the Russian government or others, may have nothing to do with its success as propaganda. Instead, it is that it sows an existential distrust.

Being contrarian may be useful in the right circumstances.

Look at the world! See it aching! It’s got so many problems—I promise you, there’s one with your name on it.

An excellent three part series.

Your default description of (almost) any problem will be too threatening/overwhelming.

A cute little deck builder.

…designers, limited as they must be by the capacity of the mind to form intuitively accessible structures, cannot achieve the complexity of the semilattice in a single mental act.

…complex systems run as broken systems.

Reconstucted historical fragrances and incense.

24 common misconceptions about Medieval Europe debunked with extensive citations.

Suppose you’re running an Erlang application (ejabberd, for instance). It’s been up for months and months but then you try to use a remote control script (like ejabberdctl) and it fails, probably saying things like “nodedown”, indicating it cannot communicate with the Erlang node; yet the application itself is apparently running just fine. Running out of ideas, you run epmd -names and, to your horror, it shows an empty list.