Fun article about faux-physical UI metaphors

Ok, that's my own curious headline for this interesting article in the New York Times:

"What, after all, is a more recognizable symbol of the capriciousness of life than a deck of cards, out of which your fate is randomly dealt? And yet here the deck icon is only superficial. At heart it’s not a random-card generator but the opposite: a highly wrought program with a memory, an algorithm and a mandate to keep children in the game. An app posing as a spatiotemporal object." (from The New York Times)