Why do we work so hard? - This article answers the question why we do not work 15 hours a week as predicted by Keynes in the 1930s. See also the insightful discussion on HN.
Welcome to the land that no country wants - an article about the journey to Bir Tawil (Google Maps), an unclaimed piece of land between Sudan and Egypt.
"They now have a bot that is intended to represent VXJunkies, but, hilariously, instead of providing detailed technical information about VX, it just spurts out random nonsense [...] Can you believe it? Spine tingling as a result of mornington axion insulation failing? LOL." - /r/VXJunkies about /r/SubredditSimulator
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/top - a subreddit generated from other subreddits using Markov chains: "TIL The Apollo 11 lunar landing was actually a very small percentage of people"
http://ldionne.com/hana/ - doing crazy stuff with metaprogramming: "Hana is a (long-winded) constructive proof that heterogeneous computations are strictly more powerful than type-level computations, and that we can therefore express any type-level computation by an equivalent heterogeneous computation."
I just found a wonderful article about Black MIDI and Blackers:
"[...]a group of musicians who use MIDI files (which store musical notes and timings, not unlike player piano rolls) to create compositions that feature staggering numbers of notes. They're calling this kind of music "black MIDI," which basically means that when you look at the music in the form of standard notation, it looks like almost solid black"
Beautiful :)
A nice compilation of map infographics, mostly from reddit :)