Through Lines 205

I was not expecting new music from David Gilmour so what a nice surprise to discover The Piper's Call this morning — and featuring Steve Gadd on drums no less.

• Welcome to the Douglas Adams Age of technology! Seriously, look at this list and convince me otherwise :P
• Related: 27 Takes on What it Means to be a Serious Person which also happens to sum up many feelings I have about the city of San Francisco and the vast majority of Silicon Valley tech companies based on behavior alone.
• “Heta-uma encourages a more colorful understanding of Japanese culture, recognising its humour, playfulness, and the skillful embrace of the dirty, imperfect, and ambiguous.” The view from Tokyo.
• I was underwhelmed by the last St. Vincent album (still have not made it all the way through), but All Born Screaming (out today) is a decidedly different story.
• If you’re looking for somewhere to point your ire towards the state of the internet, Prabhakar Raghavan appears to be as good a place to start as any.
• Mark Simonson re-introduces Skin & Bones, a rare type revival and expansion involving the original designer, Douglas F. Jones.
• Well, this is a neat CSS trick I never knew existed and especially given how well it’s already supported. Plus other new-to-me tricks via The Cascade.
• NASA's Voyager 1 is back in business. Quite the remarkable achievement. Science!
• I don’t recall ever encountering The Helsinki Bus Station Theory of Creativity until this past week but boy, this is a humdinger.
• Love this idea for the Buffalo Tool Library as one possible solution to society’s truly dreadful throwaway consumerism problem.
• I can’t find fault in these three little nuggets of business philosophy that nearly everyone gets wrong in building something people want to be part of.
• Version 3 of the LEGO paper airplane maker. Wild that this works so well.
• Non-competes clauses are dead in the US. Finally.
• What could possibly go wrong with this?
• Doing something daily. Need more of this in my life.
• Buy something. Do good. Win!