Linkage
Unexpected shapes in smoke plumes, as photographed by Thomas Herbrich
ISAAC 2014 and COCOA 2014 accepted paper lists
FOCS 2014 program and best paper winners
Kinetic sculpture made of wooden balls on threads, with some extensive software simulation behind its design
How a 19th century math genius taught us the best way to hold a pizza slice, or, a practical application of the theorem that when a flat surface is embedded in 3d, it remains flat in at least one direction (G+)
Centered octahedral numbers on Wikipedia (G+)
A Möbius-Invariant Power Diagram and Its Applications to Soap Bubbles and Planar Lombardi Drawing (journal version of two of my old conference papers)
Researcher loses job at NSF after government questions her role as 1980s activist (G+)
How not to reference papers (a sad story by Igor Pak of academic misattribution; G+)
Steinitz Theorems for Simple Orthogonal Polyhedra (journal version of another of my papers)
Editorial board of Journal of K-theory goes on strike over publisher profiteering (G+)