Weekendly clickables XVII

  • “Engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obcession with solving the problems of reality, when actually most problems, once you reach a basic level of wealth, are actually problems of perception.” — Rory Sutherland.
  • Jonathan Safran Foer on vegetarianism.
  • Blackberry-vanilla infused vodka.
  • I think YOU should learn to play the concertina this winter. You can pick one up cheap here (or get a nice one), and read up on how to play. Not easy!, but you will be feared and respected like this guy.
  • Shrink Pic detects when you’re emailing large photo files and automatically scales them to a preset size.
  • There is a massive debate going on about chapter 5 of Superfreakonomics, which you can read here.
  • Damien Hirst’s new paintings.
  • The frankencamera — an open-source camera you can re-program to do “anything,” although none of the examples they cite sound that compelling (except changing the focus after taking the picture, of which — skeptical, right?).
  • “Lawrence Lessig is against transparency in government?!
  • Audio analysis of the Beatles’ multitrack masters.
  • David Byrne has a book out about traveling around the world with his bicycle.
  • An optophonic lunaphone might be a device that makes music from the stars.
  • The mattress wallet.
  • Kreamy ‘Lectric Santa have a new album out. Listen, buy.
  • Life without cable. Easy.
  • Taken in totality, the Vigilant Citizen site sounds lunatic. But it’s a guarantee that whatever article you read first will be a little mind blowing.
  • Photographs of Lima.
  • Virtual Windows, a probably not profound toy for experimenting with different viewers, windows, and images?