XScreenSaver for Android is... a set of screen savers and live wallpapers. That's it. It draws pretty pictures on your screen. And it's free. That's the whole deal.

But in their wisdom, Google -- the most rapacious privacy violator on the planet -- have decreed that XScreenSaver cannot be made available on their "Play" [sic] store until I publish a "Privacy Policy".

For a screen saver. A privacy policy. For a screen saver.

This pantomime where Google pretends to care about your welfare would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad, but here we are anyway.

Ok, strap in!

The Conway’s Game of Life community celebrated a landmark achievement on November 9th, 2022. An idea years in the making, the “Reverse Caber Tosser” design finally had all of the pieces it needed to achieve its stated goal.

That goal is simple. Select any pattern that can be built in Life – for example, the Waterbear. Begin with a small number of gliders (now 15) in an otherwise empty Game of Life universe. After enough time goes by, those gliders need to build that pattern. No extra leftover debris, no stray scaffolding, just a pure synthesis of whatever you chose.

This post will talk about how it works, how we got there, and why it’s so cool.

OK, OK. There aren’t exactly ten thousands different ways to hold chopsticks. But there are more than the one presumed, “correct” way to use chopsticks, and the one presumed, “incorrect/crossed” way to use chopsticks.

This article provides a visual guide to different chopstick grips that we have observed and recorded in real eating situations, such as the Standard Grip, the Idling Thumb grip, the Vulcan Grip, and the Chicken Claws grip. These are all fine ways of using chopsticks. In the spirit of #utensilequality, all grips are equal at the table. But these chopstick holding styles are also all different. We have captured this view in our retrospective, The Art and Science of Chopsticking.

You'll never look at Australia the same way again ;)

also: "Wales looks like a pig's head" :)

Simply awesome: Russian police choir sings "Get lucky" by Daft Punk

Notable mention: "The Cascading Stylesheet" et al. #halloween

100% this! /RT @winnersusedrugs ...

TIL someone photoshopped Hitler's mustache off, put him on Hor Or Not, and he scored 8.4.

iOS 1986, beautiful --

Computing’s proudest moment. Unicode 6.1 is out, and it includes this amazing new character: PILE OF POO (U+1F4A9) #fb

RT @bastianallgeier: Germany's next topmodel Finale als Reclam Heft. Einfach nur genial!!!

:D