“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil
I haven’t done a links post in quite a while. Here are a few things I thought worth sharing.
- Why Google is obsessed with your photos
According to legend, caves in Shopshire, England, were used by members of the Nights Templar.
“In a landscape fast becoming dominated by artificial intelligence, data — in this case, your photos — has become its own reward.”
- Color perception across cultures
“Is color perception a universal human experience?” - “Unpaywall” shakes up academic publishing
“Open-source, nonprofit, and dedicated to improving access to scholarly research.” - How to vet a publishing deal
“Traditional deals don’t require the author to pay for anything.” - A rabbit hole leads to mystery caves
“An underground sanctuary said to have been used by devotees of a medieval religious order — but is everything what it seems?” - The Met’s online free-for-all
“375,000 images of works of art from its collection are now available online for unrestricted commercial and non-commercial use in a new initiative, Open Access.” - Creating the Hartford Whalers logo
“I have the letterforms ‘W’ and ‘H’ and I have a whale …” - Don’t confuse the Museum of Failure with the Museum of Folly (MoFo)
“I got kind of fed up with everybody’s worshipping of success all the time …”