Pointers (January 2024)
- Telly Savalas wins the award for all-time greatest Wikipedia article section heading with “Baldness and Stardom.”
- If you ever played Pac-Man and thought, “Gee, this is great, but there are just too many dimensions,” then enjoy one-dimensional Pac-Man.
- Alexei Leonov was the first person to execute a spacewalk, which he came back home and painted himself. Show-off.
- Synthesizing Martian speech is a fun exercise in what you can do in speech synthesis when you want the results to sound inhuman.
- Planet Money’s “Rescues at Sea, and How to Make a Fortune” has it all: a violent storm, truly-surprising cargo, and arguments over centuries-old maritime law.
- Scrub all that out of your brain by listening to sorting algorithms for an hour.