“Printers are essentially paper torture chambers”: New Yorker article on why paper jams still persist.
“Paper jams!” he said. “Now you know why the crime rate in Chicago went down.”
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Processing bulk natural wood into a high-performance structural material:
Wood is among the oldest materials used by humans, and is still commonly used for building. Its low density has also made it useful for transport applications such as shipbuilding, but this property is associated with a relatively low strength and stiffness. Scientists have tried to devise processes that make wood denser, to obtain materials suitable for high-strength applications, but with limited success. In a paper in Nature, Song et al. describe a densification method that combines a chemical treatment with high-temperature compression, and which produces an unprecedented increase in stiffness and strength.
Between Heaven and Earth
Finally got around to doing a painting with a temple in it:
Made in Illustrator. Textured in Photoshop.
This is fascinating: Vernacular Economics: How Building Codes & Taxes Shape Regional Architecture.
Maciej Ceglowski’s May 2017 talk Legends of the Ancient Web is a good warning about mass surveillance. Recommended.
Louis Sauzedde’s videos on building wooden boats are fascinating.
This post on why everything might have taken so long to invent is great. (Also see the original post that spawned it, and a linked post on how reality has a surprising amount of detail.)
I’ve updated the rest of the scriptures in Word to match the new formatting, and I’ve added the remaining volumes of scripture to Google Docs as well. I’ve also added First Presidency Christmas devotionals to the Collected Talks.
Scriptures in Google Docs
I’ve taken the Word edition of the Book of Mormon and have uploaded it to Google Docs, where people can then copy it to their local Google Drive and use it as a study aid (highlighting, comments, etc.):
It also allows for some interesting collaborative scripture study possibilities.
The other volumes of scripture will be coming soon.
Book of Mormon in Word redesigned
I recently realized that I never actually put any design effort into the scriptures in Word. Pretty lackluster:
So I’m now redesigning them. The Book of Mormon is done and released as version 2.0:
I’m still working on the other volumes and hope to release them soon.