Linked List: November 14, 2013

Thursday, 14 November 2013

iBooks Updated With iOS 7 Design 

Finally.

(I’m not surprised, but it’s interesting that they kept the page-curl animations.)

The Family Tree of Bourbon Whiskey 

“The complicated kissing cousins of the bluegrass state’s bourbon industry.”

Google BBS Terminal 

Speaking of links gleaned via Coudal (this one from Michele Seiler), here’s what Google would have looked like in the ’80s.

On the Perfect Size for a Pizza 

Speaking of pizza, here’s a brief paper by Eugenia Cheng of University of Sheffield:

We investigate the mathematical relationship between the size of a pizza and its ratio of topping to base in a median bite. We show that for a given recipe, it is not only the overall thickness of the pizza that is is affected by its size, but also this topping-to-base ratio.

(Via Jim Coudal.)

‘When I Look at Your Deep Dish Fucking Pizza, I Don’t Know Whether to Eat It or Throw a Coin in It and Make a Wish. And if I Made a Wish, It Would Be That I’d Wish for Some Real Fucking Pizza.’ 

Jon Stewart on Chicago-style deep dish pizza.