The story of waves
Following on from the terrible tsunami, the New Yorker recalls a fascinating and beautifully-written article from the 1950s about waves, both regular and tidal.
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Interesting links
A collection of 113 issues
The OSCE's media freedom guide
The OSCE have published a Media Freedom Cookbook.
Advice for the budding writer
John Scalzi’s “Utterly Useless Writing Advice” isn’t.
Viz Top Tips
A selection (via MeFi).
New horizons
25% of workers want to quit their jobs in 2005. Which makes me think, what about the other 75%? Link
The Ramayana in pictures
A comic book retelling of the Hindu sacred text.
There's a world outside your Windows
My friend and fellow WELLpern Mike Knell has started a new campaign called GeekAid, aiming to get geeks all around the world to donate a day’s pay to grassroots IT and technology projects in the Third World. It’s a worthy cause – take a look.
Then and now
The iron hand of history.
Science fiction authors imagine the future
Bruce Sterling, Norman Spinrad, Cory Doctorow, Ken Wharton, John Shirley, Pay Murphy and Kim Stanley Robinson discuss the future of society.
And Slashdot follows up.
(Thanks to Thomas Armagost for the link).
Underground typefaces
The Czech magazine Typo (articles in English and Czech) has produced a special issue on underground fonts in France, the UK and the Czech Republic. The issue (PDF download) contains several fascinating articles on the development of the London Undeground map and font, and of the Metron font designed in