Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for December 3rd from 07:48 to 23:11:

• Science and Nature Get a Retro-Modern Make Over In This New Art Show –
• Holometer rules out first theory of space-time correlations – Our common sense and the laws of physics assume that space and time are continuous. The Holometer, an experiment based at the US Department of Energy’s Fermi…
• Craig Federighi talks open source Swift and what’s coming in version 3.0 – From error handling to app thinning, Apple continues to nudge devs away from ObjC.
  When Apple unveiled Swift 2.0 at WWDC back in June, one of the bigger…
• Bantu in the Bathroom – On 3 March 2014, the first day in the trial of Oscar Pistorius for the killing of Reeva Steenkamp, Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa made her way across courtroom…
• Michael Tsai – Blog – Apple Open Sources Swift – As promised, Apple has officially made its Swift programming language open source, making the project available through Swift.org . Most surprising, to me, is…
• The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists – @hondanhon while you wait, may I recommend this book?
• A town near me just added this for Facebook and Craigslist sales – Loading… browse your computer drag and drop here Ctrl + V paste from your clipboard