MATHEMATICS

• Terence Tao: Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values. I only made it a few pages in, but I feel privileged to share the same universe as this guy, and that conjecture.
• Weirdo the cat-killing superchicken.
• Sandi Metz, who is an excelling programming writer, once came up with four rules for object-oriented programming. I've been more-or-less trying to stick to them for a while now. Good or not good?
• I'm obsessed with movies that can be edited down to less than three minutes without losing any plot points or characterization. Someone managed do the same to the entire run of the Sopranos.
• Tom Hanks MegaFacts. Includes him rapping while doing a Harry Morgan impression??
• John Waters has been releasing a list of his favourite movies of the year every year for two decades. Watching these is a new life goal.

• An article about Theodore de Bry, an extremely talented Netherlandish/Belgianish artist who did dozens of engravings of the New World without ever having been there.
• Every six months or so I find myself watching Bernie Mac's performance on Def Comedy Jam (NSFW). Even though the jokes aren't really that funny, it's one of the great stand up performances of all time.
• Hyper-negative ancient Sumerian creation myth (NSFW).
• Seanbaby spent what I imagine was hundreds of hours finding weird things in pre-code horror comic books (NSFWish).
• You might have seen a clickbaitish Youtube video or the like saying that 1+2+3... = -1/12. Here's an article dealing with a lot of the math around that in a pretty simple way, with a link to Terence Tao's more hardcore, scary, NSFW explanation at the end.
• A Bestiary of Single-File Implementations of Programming Languages.

• Steamed Dagoth Ur
• Hyper-Detailed, Picture-Filled Pre-War History Of The Ocarina
• Automatic Box Plan Generator
• banned.h
• Gut-wrenching: Italian Waiter Grinds Fresh Black Pepper Onto Daughter’s Grave
• Byrne's Euclid is a strange Victorian edition of Euclid using colours instead of letters. I'm not sure whether it's really easier for children, but it is interesting to look at. Some excellent person made a classy online edition.

Logic can be used to solve problems, but it cannot suggest which problems to try. No one has ever formalized significance. To recognize what is significant you need a certain amount of experience, plus that elusive quality: intuition.

• From 1949: Drawing for Beginners Part 3: The Square. Surprisingly relaxing. Thank God for not renewing copyrights.
• Nobody knows what the 'c' in calloc stands for.
• 8/2(2*2) = 1. A response to some recent heated Internet BEDMAS debates.
• Weird Universe asks which is more boring: Innovations of the Modern Tractor, or Timber Bridge Inspection in Oregon.
• Oldie but goodie: Introduction to Abject-Oriented Programming.
• The full version of the comic pictured above.

• A giant Marilyn Monroe statue ended up in a Chinese dump.
• In movie news, the Cats trailer (probably not safe to show children) makes the Sonic trailer look like some kind of CGI Mona Lisa.
• On the other hand, one of the actors from the best Canadian show right now is going to star in a Marvel superhero movie with Tony Leung of In The Mood For Love/Bullet In The Head fame, and Awkwafina of Queefing Like A Chief fame. When she became a big movie star she removed the original video, which is humanity's loss.
• Learn the Lambda Calculus through a children's game.
• "Did Jesus poop?"
• David Bowie's secret obsession with Memphis Design.