wk33/2021

Links from week 33, 2021 (16-22 August)

• Alf 2: Collision Detection is Hard, Blog Posts are Harder (nicole.express) - collision detection problems in the Mastersystem version of Alf
• People Who Draw Lines on Maps Are the Problem (dilanesper.substack.com) - why building high speed rail is not as easy as drawing the ideal line on a map
• Why Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water (bbc.com) - using ancient methods to delay the progress of rainwater into the sea by diverting into plants and underground
• End of Social Media (miikavonbell.com) - social media is an advert, designed to be addictive and it's pretty successful
• When America Had an Atomic Mecha Warrior Robot (orangebeanindiana.com) - huge U.S. military manned robot made to service a nuclear powered bomber that never materialised
• As demand for bikes surged, Amazon got in the way (theverge.com) - bike component manufacturer which dropped out of the Amazon marketplace to focus entirely on it's own shop and other local bike supply shops

Also I've become kind of obsessed with the YouTube channel Not Just Bikes which covers urban planning and the differences between cities designed for cars vs people