Edition-126 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About Douglas Engelbart’s 1968 first public demonstration of word processing, text messaging, and a weird little device dubbed a “mouse.” https://mashable.com/article/mother-of-all-demos-douglas-engelbart-50-years/
• About fixing surveillance with sousveillance, and why personal data stores never will work: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2018/12/we-cant-own-information.html
• About a mathematician looking at the everyday world with the eyes of a child: https://www.quantamagazine.org/tadashi-tokieda-collects-math-and-physics-surprises-20181127/
• About artists merging with engineers and the relationship between science and art (video): https://vimeo.com/228557512
• About 486,713 ways to get to Rome: awesome visualisation project: http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/an-interactive-map-shows-just-how-many-roads-actually-lead-to-rome.html

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