Sunday by-catch 13 May 18

Sunday comes round again, time travels real fast after the age of 13.
Speed? What about:

• Guy Martin is a fitter and a speed junkie:
• Doing the ton is a soap-box (unintentionally hilarious subtitles) 
• Sometimes he comes off
• Interviewed by the BBC
• More contemplative: beans on toast
• Valparaiso Cerro Abajo downhill
• Needle thrown through pane of glass

Computers. Last week I had a couple of links to Brian Kernighan who wrote the book on C, the programming language. It was so engaging that I went on a bit of a Computerfile jag listening to old buffers a bit older than me talking about the old days when computers were rare and wonderful and it was all to play for. The co-author on the C book was Dennis "dmr" Ritchie who invented that now ubiquitous language.

• More on dmr and other TLAs = early adopter usernames
• I wrote about the war between ASCII and EBCDIC before. Here is some EBCDIC history
• Brian Kernighan crosses the pond by boat: because he relishes a week of wireless time
• Ben Sparks on Phi, the math of the golden ratio 

Food engineering

• A couple of days for sourdough
• 5 days to to make gourmet KitKats by hand
• Kvikk Lunsj is better than Kit-Kat although the latter came first

Following up:

• Kathryn Mannix on the End of Life Trail: Macmillan Nurses
• Blood Roses [yest] by Tori Amos
• Footage of aftermath
• Q. Wot are Mitochondria? A, the powerhouse of the cell [last week]
• Lena Broditsky on the language of colour [prev]
• Here's a multiplex Aoife McLysaght talks about Lynn Margulis and Mitochondria
• Animation about how the powerhouse of the cell makes ATP

Other stuff

• A man who values garbage
• Zero waste and incineration for energy
• Woodworks
• The Amberley Bodger
• Make a rake
• Art of the Wheelwright - Building heavy wagon wheels
• The BBC asks people about their first shag. Which is of interest because it's an example of risk taking behaviour
• Which might be associated with a genetic variant in CADM2 on chromosome 3
• Here's another recently surfaced genetic variant V370A in EDAR a TNF-like receptor which affects the development of teeth, hair follicles, sweat glands and milk ducts.