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Delaunay ImagesAbsolutely beautiful images based on something called Delaunay triangulations, which maximize the minimum angle of all the angles of the triangles in the triangulation; they tend to avoid skinny triangles. This was created using a scripting plug-in for Illustrator by Jonathan Puckey– &nbs... |
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Team Names: An Etymological Venn DiagramThis diagram (actually an Euler diagram {wiki}) sorts out professional baseball team names. Even more interesting is the accompanying list of links and explanations for every team name included. Link -via Jason Kottke ... |
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Scrabble Tips and TricksMehal Shah argues that Scrabble isn’t a game of who can get the best 6 letter words but a game of points and squeezing 2 letter terms into corners. Also, of frustrating your opponents. And cheating. Mostly amusing and occasionally helpful. The “dirty tricks” toward the end m... |
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‘How can you say it better in your own style?’James Thurber, the legendary New Yorker writer-cartoonist, in a 1959 memo on editing: “Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, “H... |
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