Every Day Heroes: Morning Report 11/04/13
"The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe." - Alan Watts
Pictured Above: The 15th-century Church of the Assumption, perched on Bled Island, nestled in Lake Bled, all of Bled, Slovenia. The Baroque house of worship stands in the stead of a fallen temple to the Slavic goddess Živa, lost in a war fought between Pagans and Christians.
Relevant and less-than-relevant goings-on from around the interwebs:
- Ice Storm: Self-replicating RNA — which is slowly replacing DNA as what we think the building blocks for life were — might've been nursed on ice, not bubbling hot springs. [NewScientist]
- During a recent interview, Steve Wozniak — or Apple's original good cop to Steve Jobs' bad — expressed a desire to see the tech giants and Google as partners. [BBC]
- Gentleman Hacker: Visualization makes for better Reddit experience. [Fast.Co Design]
- Ghosts and Giant Babies: Tokyo Designers Week. [The Verge]
- Ingress, an alternate and augmented reality King of the Hill game from Google's Niantic Lab, will lose its invitation requirement of closed beta on December 14. Get ready to download and storm they digital-yet-oh-so-real castle. [Google+]
- Employing NASA models and a couple of designprograms, filmmaker Shane Gehlert has set up a virtual tour of our solar system. [Blue Dog Films]
- While Movember may dedicate November to the mustache, October was a month full of Every Day Heroes. [Men's Health]
- Someone tick you off so much there won't be any apologizing? Whatever you do, don't hire this hitman. [GQ]
Also, did you know... Resulting from simple name confusion, the Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail. [Slovak-Republic.org]