Ira Glass on Storytelling: Ira Glass describes the struggle from being crappy at something to being a master. A barrier to mastery that he describes is the long period of time when one’s ability to recognize good work makes it very easy to see that one’s own work isn’t all that good. His advice is to just push through that by producing tons of work on a schedule - for years.
Myriahedral projections of the earth, from computer scientist Jack van Wijk “use algorithms to ‘unfold’ and cut into the Earth’s surface in a way that minimises distortion, and keeps the distracting effect of cutting into the map to a minimum.
(via the always fascinating BLDGBLOG)

“Out on the Highway” - Kula Shaker
from the album Strangefolk