Weekly Filet #129: Mumbai Madness. And more.
This week's top recommendation
This web documentary gives an intriguing flash view into the megacity of Mumbai. You follow a young commuter as she navigates Mumbai in a rickshaw, train and taxi and get to decide what to have a closer look at, be it the rickshaw driver, the people living in the slums next to the railroads or the traffic chaos manager.
→ Mumbai Madness – Traffic in a Megacity (DW)
Further recommendations
«The New Yorker» is being redesigned. Time to look back at all (yes, all) the covers of the iconic magazine, starting from February 21, 1925.
→ The New Yorker (Cover Browser)
This is the story of a man who one day wake up to realise he's become internet famous and everybody hated him.
→ I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything (The Awl)
What it feels like to be bitten by a black widow spider (and why you can still catch some fish before driving to the hospital).
→ Dancing With Black Widow Spiders (NY Times)
This image is very special. It contains every single of 16.7 million colors in the RGB specturum and no two pixels are the same.
→ All the colors, once each (Kottke)
Book recommendation
Unwinding, by George Packer
«Following the life of two dozen Americans from 1978 to today, «New Yorker»-author Packer carefully evokes the portrait of a country in decay. Now, I finally understand how and why the American dream has turned into a nightmare for so many people.»
– Olivia Kühni
This is one of over 50 recommendations by readers of the Weekly Filet, compiled on this list: Filter bubble bursting book recommendations.