Octopodial Chrome

Here’s a trig identity visualised nicely. Requires a browser which understands the canvas tag—it works in Firefox, and that’s all I care about.

I just saw a joke that read, Maturity is a high price to pay for getting older. The thing is, that couldn’t be further from the truth: rather, maturity is the reward for getting older.

Before I turned 30 a lot of folks tried to tell me how great their thirties had been—quite frankly, I didn’t believe a word of it. But they were right: getting older is nice. Having a brain that works is nice.

Maturity is the reward for getting older.

I just read a fascinating Brian Reynolds Meyers, author of The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters. Very, very interesting stuff. I’d vaguely known that they were racist and nationalist, but had no idea of the extent of the problem. Worth a read.