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Tuesday November 5, 2024This is a recent development in the history of human civilization: To wake up with the whole world in your bed
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the internet
Tuesday November 5, 2024Private “homemade” docs > AI slop:
While Google Docs and Maps are easily shareable, some creators keep them close to their chests. “The docs I make are usually a curation of my friends’, lovers’, and personal recommendations of the cities I’ve been to,” Held says. “For this reason, they’re kinda sacred to me.” She appreciates the time, effort, and gesture of a good city doc, and tries to repay the favor: If anyone shares a doc with her, she’ll offer one of hers in return.
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Tuesday November 5, 2024There seems to be this kind of richness of the tactile experience that’s afforded by pushing buttons. They’re not perfect for every situation, but I think increasingly, we’re realizing the merit that the interface offers.
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Links for Week 45, 2024
Monday November 4, 2024- An illustrated guide to science-backed mood boosters.
- A zine about reclaiming your life from digital technology.
- A tool for searching independent websites.
- A collection of the “best” marketing headlines on the internet.
- Over the Garden Wall’s 10th anniversary stop motion short.
- Max Vogel Gonzalez’s illustrations.
- An experiment with giving out potatoes to trick or treaters.
- A concept to break procrastination.
- Some objects I covet: Nike C1TY “Surplus” shoes, El Oso Bear Tee, the Kobo Clara Colour, and the book Assembling Tomorrow.
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odd
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Thursday October 31, 2024In 1976, a television crew filming an episode of the show “The Six Million Dollar Man” descended on a rundown funhouse in Long Beach, California. While filming, they accidentally broke the arm off a wax dummy. Except it wasn’t a wax dummy. It was a real body. The body of a notorious train robber from the early 1900s, named Elmer McCurdy
What a wild story from The Atlas Obscura Podcast!
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Wednesday October 23, 2024
Any code I’ve written, any glib digital creation, disappears into the infinite feed. But a playground will stubbornly stand for the next twenty years, pointing to big ideas in computer science. It’s something I think about often.
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music
Friday October 18, 2024De La Soul opened a donut shop for their latest video “Oodles of O’s”. The video features cameos by artists, actors and personalities, all to honor the legacy of Dave, aka Trugoy the Dove.
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design
Thursday October 17, 2024IKEA Catalog from a Near Future
Some design fiction on the " …possible evolutions of home life, consumer trends and needs, and related topics in the categories of domestic life, food, urban life, travel, leisure, and entertainment."
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Friday October 11, 2024The networks we use to communicate across fields and distances, to find our friends and learn from people unlike ourselves—and to organize ourselves to respond to acute crises and long, grinding institutional failures—are the same networks that are making so many of us miserable and/or deranged.
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Friday August 23, 2024ytch.xyz
Flip through (YouTube) channels like the old days. /via bencrowder.net
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photography
Friday August 23, 2024Photo by Asako Narahashi from her collection half awake and half asleep in the water. /via notes.husk.org
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design
Tuesday August 20, 2024“I like to describe my job in terms of “The Door Problem”. Are there doors in your game? Can the player open them? Can the player open every door in the game? Or are some doors for decoration? How does the player know the difference?”
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links
Tuesday August 13, 2024A new edition of Things to Click! This edition covers an 8-bit lens, community connection, research as fun, suburbs' as horror movies, and more - all jam-packed!
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civic
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Thursday August 8, 2024American suburbs are full of ugly, empty, liminal spaces: spaces you are not meant to linger in or enjoy. They’re the creepy hallways of the built environment, and you can’t feel comfortable traversing them unless you’re zooming past them in a car.
American Suburbs Are a Horror Movie and We’re the Protagonists
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Saturday June 22, 2024
fireworks
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Wednesday June 19, 2024The internet isn’t for humans anymore. Bots use the internet more than we do; use shapes design.
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links
Friday June 14, 2024Another Friday, another lump of links for your clicking pleasure. In this issue: saving things, minor league baseball team names, and more.
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Saturday June 8, 2024
Across town:
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Saturday June 8, 2024
Summer starts
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links
Friday June 7, 2024Here are some things for you to click, entries include hand drawn sunspots, googly eyed library robots, and more. You can subscribe via email or RSS.
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links
Friday May 31, 2024Here are some things to click for the 22nd week of 2024.
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links
Friday May 24, 2024Another edition of Things to Click for your Friday! Subscribe via email or RSS if you are so inclined.
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blogging
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Thursday May 23, 2024If the web is now a metaphorical barren wasteland, pillaged by commercial interests and growth-at-all-costs management consultants, then I’m all the more motivated to keep my little patch of land lush, and green, and filled with rainbow flowers.
— My own little patch - Rach Smith