Eight quick links for Monday morning

Dieter Rams pointing at things he doesn’t like. This had me in fits of uncontrollable laugher, literally for days.

Lofi Girl. I often have this playing in the background. I listen on Apple Music but here’s a YouTube station with links off to other streaming services.

How Jess (a software developer here in Australia) created 2D pixel art water. Being a kid of the ’80s I love this style of game. Being the parent of a kid who loves to code this style of game, I’m always on the lookout for inspiration and learning material for them.

But they were doing fine: autistic burnout. We’ve absolutely observed all this in our ASD child. It was validating to learn we weren’t just imagining it.

How the codpiece flopped. I love how the “solution” to wearing individual stockings on each leg was not to sew them into one piece, but rather to wear increasingly large and ornate codpieces.

LIGO has surpassed the quantum limit. LIGO (or Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) consists of 4-kilometer-long vacuum tubes, and detects ripples in space-time that are generated by colliding black holes and neutron stars, millions to billions of light-years away.

Five minutes that will make you love Thelonious Monk. I’ve been a fan since the early 2000s when a friend introduced me to Monk’s work. Maybe this will convert you too?

David Byrne’s dance rehearsals for stop making sense. As a kid, Talking Heads was one of my favourite bands. Seeing this brought back so many great memories.