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2024
Here are some things to click for the 22nd week of 2024.
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If 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
The scale of the algorithm exceeds even our own understanding; its returns benefit only its owners and leave the rest of us awash in noise and bereft of understanding.
— Unscalable, Hand-Crafted Lists of Links - Christopher Butler
Every place I’m from is gone because it’s not just a place, it’s a place at a certain time. It would take a time machine to go back.
— Should I move back to France? - Mike Monteiro
Should I move back to France?
5/23/24
“Every place I’m from is gone because it’s not just a place, it’s a place at a certain time. It would take a time machine to go back.”
airtraveldesign.guide
A resource for air travel designers, policy makers and enthusiasts, that describes the design of artifacts / spaces / systems that impact the passenger experience of air travel.
Boring Sound Kit
A sound kit for prototyping and play.
linkpantry.com
A collection of links on various topics.
strength of one —
5/18/24
A man and his cigar on whatever comes our way
Guide - Air Travel Design Guide
5/18/24
Air ︎ Travel Design Guide The Air Travel Design Guide is a guidebook for airport stakeholders, designers, and air travel enthusiasts, which…
Who Needs GPS? The Forgotten Story of Etak's Amazing 1985 Car Navigation System - Fast Company
5/17/24
With backing from Atari’s cofounder, an engineer-navigator brought high-tech driving directions to cars–during the Reagan Administration.
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Inflatable Moon Base (dezeen.com)
By way of rocket summer (are.na)
CLÉMENT VUILLIER
5/14/24
Cargo
Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds.
wapo.st/3UXOJDe (gift link)
Abandoned blogs
abandoned blogs | Are.na
5/11/24
(mostly) abandoned blogs
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The Third Thing by Donald Hall | Poetry Magazine
5/9/24
Jane Kenyon and I were married for twenty-three years. For two decades we inhabited the double solitude of my family farmhouse in New Hampshire, writing poems, loving the countryside. She…
The gentle art of pottering — That’s Not My Age
5/9/24
May is the unofficial start of the pottering season. For the uninitiated, pottering involves wandering aimlessly around the house or garden in a pleasingly disassociated meditative state, straightening pictures, wiping plant leaves, or de-bobbling jumpers.
Weeknotes 14
5/9/24
The author imitates a publication. Featuring the usual suspects: interesting internet links, enjoyable media, some art. New this time: a poetry section!
A neat little ASCII town to explore
A 3D Model of the now deceased Beauly Elm. The tree was “… rumored to be older than Britain itself.” Via Atlas Obscura.
Beauly Elm - 3D model by Historic Environment Scotland (@HistoricEnvironmentScotland) [bf14d2b]
5/7/24
Beauly Priory is one of three priories founded in Scotland in about 1230 for monks of the Valliscaulian order. The area around Beauly, meaning ‘beautiful place’, includes several mature trees, including this ancient elm in the graveyard. It is thought to be around 800 years old, making it one of the oldest Wych Elms in Europe and a piece of heritage in its own right. Sadly, the tree has been suffering from Dutch elm disease in recent years and very little of its fabric is living material. To learn about visiting Beauly Priory, go to our website. Rae Project - Beauly Elm - 3D model by Historic Environment Scotland (@HistoricEnvironmentScotland)
Surrounded by dreck, the digital citizen is discovering that the best way to find what she used to get from social platforms is to type a URL into a browser bar and visit an individual site.
The Revenge of the Home Page (newyorker.com)
More of this is being good at sales than anyone wants to admit.
Erika Hall on the job of a designer (linkedin.com)
Bradley Ziffer’s personal site (bradleyziffer.com)