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Shiny baubles from around the Internet, December 2017 edition

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Instead of passively consuming the nearly endless stream of content coming my way I thought I’d gather together a few items to share with everyone here.

  • Forty-nine years ago this happened:
* I particularly like this polyphonic visualization * We were moved when we saw the remnants of the Berlin Wall last October, so I was pleased to see the site for the online [memorial](https://www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de/en/) * It's been over two decades since I was passed over for tenure but the feelings this left behind are still pretty much as fresh as what I see in [this account](https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-professor-and-his-wife-on-absorbing-the-shock-of-tenure-denial/) of the experience. I wrote an account of my own experience [on Quora](https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-be-denied-tenure-as-a-professor/answer/Richard-Magahiz?srid=XXIY). * Along the same lines as the tongue in cheek stories of [The Codeless code](http://thecodelesscode.com/contents) (unfortunately no longer live on the web) are [The Unix Koans of Master Foo](http://web.archive.org/web/20180305224708/http://rationalfiction.io/story/the-unix-koans-of-master-foo) * [Psychological safety in operations teams](https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_winter17_09_looney.pdf) * This blog post was inspired by [52 things I learned in 2017](https://medium.com/magnetic/52-things-i-learned-in-2017-d9fb0040bdcb)
 
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