Shorts
sixthings is on holiday (hiatus? indefinite leave?) while I think of what to do with it. If you have any ideas, or anything you’d like to see in this newsletter, or hear about from me, please leave a comment, or tweet at me, or email me, or something. I’d love to hear from you.
In the meantime, here are three shorts - half, if you will, of a normal sixthings newsletter:
Array Game
My son plays “clicker” games such as Cookie Clicker, but I’ve been finding Array Game very interesting. There’s a bit of maths behind it, which you can click into and read about, but you don’t have to. It just boils all these games down to “make big number get bigger”.
Desi Pubs
Despite being allergic to the word “desi” (for complicated intra-Asian reasons that I might explain in a future newsletter) I have bought but not yet read Desi Pubs, the new book by
. I am very much looking forward to it, and I can also recommend David’s newsletter .Listen to Wikipedia
This site maps Wikipedia edits onto a neat little display with melodic notes that indicate different things depending on the type of sound. You might need to click “enable sound” at the top.
