How I Ate No Food for 30 Days | Motherboard
“Eating just for the nutrients is like having sex just to procreate,” she said.

Bill Gates: Here’s My Plan to Improve Our World — And How You Can Help | Wired Business | Wired.com
Serieuze mens: "These days I get to spend a lot of time trying to advance innovation that improves people’s lives in the same way that fertilizer did. Let me reiterate this: A full 40 percent of Earth’s population is alive today because, in 1909, a German chemist named Fritz Haber figured out how to make synthetic ammonia. Another example: Polio cases are down more than 99 percent in the past 25 years, not because the disease is going away on its own but because Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk invented polio vaccines and the world rolled out a massive effort to deliver them."

The perils of mixing open source and money (DHH)
Fundraising for open source has become trivial through venues like Kickstarter, so it's natural more projects are asking for money. "Imagine all the good I could do if I was able to work on this full time for the benefit of the community". Yes, let's imagine indeed.

Why Japanese Web Design Is So Bad
Japan is a land of tranquil Zen gardens, beautiful shrines, serene temples, and exquisite tea ceremonies. Both traditional and contemporary Japanese architecture, books and magazines are the envy of designers worldwide. Yet for some reason practically none of this mastery has been translated into digital products, in particular websites, most of which look like they hail from around 1998.

The Plot Against France – NYTimes.com
For the plot against France — I’m being a bit tongue in cheek here, but there really are a lot of people trying to bad-mouth the place — is one clear demonstration that in Europe, as in America, fiscal scolds don’t really care about deficits. Instead, they’re using debt fears to advance an ideological agenda. And France, which refuses to play along, has become the target of incessant negative propaganda.

▶ INCEPTION : preuve visuelle que la toupie s’arrête (par Marouane Mazid) – YouTube
Vous avez toujours voulu savoir si la toupie s'arrête de tourner ? Réponse en vidéo, preuve à l'appui. Vidéo réalisée par Marouane Mazid (BELGIQUE) étudiant à l'Université Catholique de Louvain.

Chrome Experiments – “Fluid Simulation with Turing Patterns” by Felix Woitzel
Move your mouse, the rest is selfexplaining. 😀 If not, this is a 2D GPU fluid simulation on a 512×256 pixels texture buffer mixed with another 1024×512 texture feedback loop for the Reaction-Diffusion "Turing Pattern" skin dot synthesis simulation.

Syntopia | Generative Art, 3D Fractals, Creative Computing
It has been quite a while since the last update to Fragmentarium, but I finally managed to find some time for creating a new release, which indeed is the first release stable enough to qualify as a version “1.0″.