I linked to early 2000s cultural oddities featuring Osama bin Laden, including his image printed on toilet paper and the viral "Bert is Evil" collage that accidentally appeared on physical protest posters.
I bookmarked this 2001 report on the emergence of e-ink and e-paper technologies, which promised to revolutionize digital reading by creating screens that look and feel like traditional physical paper.
I explore a gallery of global toilet designs, highlighting futuristic models similar to the high-tech versions I used while working at Honda in 1998. It is a fascinating look at how sanitation technology varies across cultures.
I noticed that older rental houses in Ilford often have only one toilet for multiple bedrooms. Local insights suggest this resulted from historical council taxes based on the number of toilets, making modern shared living quite difficult.
Read the original paper by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page describing the anatomy of the Google search engine. It covers the architectural design, the PageRank algorithm, and the foundations of large-scale web crawling.
I found a fascinating link between Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series and Al-Qaeda: the Arabic translation of the book’s title is actually "Al-Qaeda," a connection explored in depth by The Guardian.