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Mechanical Pencil, an illustrated celebration of the engineering around us.

“Bar-tabacs are part café, part shop. You can buy cigarettes, lottery tickets, or newspapers, and sit down for a coffee or a glass of wine. They’re not particularly glamorous, but they serve as everyday meeting points, especially in rural areas … when a new bar-tabac opens, the …

“Years ago in Brooklyn, a wine-fueled Friendsgiving led to discovering a mysterious secret cavern underneath a Brooklyn Heights historic mansion.” metafilter.com

Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears (not a sci-fi story). popsci.com/environment/japan-robot-wolf-army/

A memorial gallery of useless websites that once lived on The Useless Web and have since gone offline, been squatted, or otherwise vanished. theuselessweb.com/sites-we-lost

“This is going to sound insane, but when I was a kid I found out my dad secretly recorded our phone calls.” emilyadel.lol/cassettes

TheROCKER:

Lines, Ranked from McSweeney’s is pretty funny. My favorite: Under. A little bench for your letters.

Destruction As A Service: Affluent families pay for the unbundled services and get something close to what civic infrastructure used to provide, except curated and selective and predictably high-quality. They aren’t just buying community. They’re buying social risk insurance: insulation …

Designing in the Glitch, Collages by Anton Elfilter

Title Scream: Type + Graphic inspiration from 8/16bit game title screens.

Words per … words-per-sentence.netlify.app

Hell in Baltimore www.flickr.com/photos/pa…

A visual explorer for unicode charcuterie.elastiq.ch

“When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark” …

I have the previous version of this knife and use the little pry bar as much as the knife thejamesbrand.com/products/…

Maxwell Ito, maker of the useless maxwellito.com

“The practice economy is what keeps a community running. It’s knitted together through relationships, reputation, and service. It’s the most resilient form of work in human history, compressed by every economic revolution. It always comes back.” …

A hippo by Roger Duvoisin mltshp.com/p/1RNKZ Drone video of polygon ice waves youtu.be/35S6IM_aQ… Drone inspired art by Francisco Fonseca www.instagram.com/p/DWv0nB_…

“Impromptu meals with friends. Making memories with my family. Going to bed early instead of watching another episode. Amazingly waking up (earlier!) feeling rested. Walking in the woods. Making more room to eat, drink, and be merry. (And play Magic: the Gathering.) All of those things are, by …

Haunted Words, Part 5: A collection of ghost words … 🆕 Ghost Acreage: “a term from agriculture and economics. It describes the unseen land, water, energy, and labour required to produce what we consume, even though those resources may sit outside the ways we usually measure things.” Ghost Newspapers: …

The J-Card generator is too fun. Like, I want to make some mixtapes fun (yes, I have an unopened blank tape and a tape player). I even made my own J-Card (and related mix).

Mischief’s Genius Ads for NPR Provoke Urgent Questions About the Right to Information: Across a range of formats, from merchandise and the sign on NPR’s headquarters to billboards and ad screens on the New York City subway, the recognizable block letters transform into urgent and timely …

The Four Rules for a Good Walk: useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting

Happiness in every language

Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses “I saw a video where a man puts the glasses on the bedside table and leaves the room,” one data annotator told the newspapers. “Shortly afterwards his wife comes in and changes her clothes.”

“We are all product managers now, pleading with obtuse underlings to go back and try again and to get it right this time.” eod.com

By Laura Makabresku instagram.com

Shiori is a “simple read-it-later app.” shiori.sh

“Percentage of U.S. employees who say they regularly feign working while at their desks : 58” harpers.org

[I was] “… at a tech conference where a robot was making and serving drinks, and me and a few friends followed a power cord to a curtained area, behind which was a human in VR controlling the robot manually.” hughhowey.com

Gravity Notes is a quick capture notepad with “No accounts, no folders, no noise.” gravitynotes.app

“The culture that feels the most dangerous, and, thus, exciting to young people, will be what you can’t see online. And the most dangerous thing for platforms is not racist garbage. It’s unmonetizeable content.” garbageday.email

“Is this how it all ends: each of us alone at home, messaging with increasing levels of desperation and punctuation?” walknotes.com

“[The Great Stay] is driven by fear. [Workers] are staying not because they love their role but because they’ve looked at the alternatives and concluded that the risk of leaving exceeds the pain of staying. thedrum.com

Molly Guard: the little plastic safety cover you have to move out of the way before you press some button of significance. unsung.aresluna.org

Source: nemfrog.tumblr.com

The Best Book Covers of the Last Decade. (lithub.com)

Links Supply: collects links shared on Bluesky. (links.supply)

Dumb Canes by Rabia S. Akhtar. (instagram.com)

Phantom Obligation: the guilt you feel for something no one asked you to do. (terrygodier.com)

What are you favourite well-made apps or sites? (unsung.aresluna.org)

A collection of found cassette tapes. (intertapes.net)

A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live at The Jazz Estate. (youtube.com, 58:20)

What podcasts do to our brains. “Silence activates the brain’s “default mode” — and that’s good. Quiet time makes space for self-reflection, planning, and daydreaming.” (vox.com)

Recipe for a good week An ingredient that works for me: take a bit of time to just stare out the window, drinking some coffee, checking in with the locals (birds, bunnies, and squirrels). (tracydurnell.com /via Chris Glass)

Radiant Computer. “We believe the current trajectory of personal computing is leading us to a less free world, and that only a new computing movement rooted in human dignity and creativity can change its course.” (radiant.computer)

The Resonant Computing Manifesto. “… rethinking the system architectures, design patterns, and business models that have undergirded the tech industry for decades.” (resonantcomputing.org)

Best Songs of 2025. “Songs I love more than demon-hunters, damselflies and the numbers six or seven.” (saidthegramophone.com)

Somewhere in Utah (flickr.com)

What is My Cookie Cutter (reddit.com)

Red nose studio’s puppets. (rednosestudio.com)

The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down. “But maybe when the crash comes it’ll look like the dotcom crash: A Pets.com or two gets razed to the ground, but the new infrastructure remains, and we humans spend years—decades—weaving it into our systems. I was there for the dotcom crash. I …

We used to look forward to things. “I hope we will either begin to detach ourselves from instant tech or find ways to use tech more intentionally to deliver a more immersive experience. To give us back time… porous time. Time to spend with a piece of art. Time to listen deeply. Time to world …

The story behind this photo is really great. (instagram.com)

Antic Bikes. I dig their brand and the bikes are pretty cool too. (anticbikes.com)

Last Light On The Creek by Steven Weinberg. (stevenweinbergstudio.com)

Orbital. “…without earth we are all finished. We couldn’t survive a second without its grace, we are sailors on a ship on a deep, dark unswimmable sea.” (wikipedia.org)

The Fundamentals Problem. “Anyone can make something that looks designed, but that doesn’t mean that design has happened.” (chrbutler.com)

Trees and Shore by Claire Sherman. (clairesherman.com)

Pebbling. “… the new term for when people share memes and gifs to those they are thinking of.” (redsetteragency.com)

Happy Halloween everyone! If you’re looking for something to get you through the day, here is an ongoing collection of spooky art, podcast episodes, videos, and articles.

Personal Business. “The type of business that both sustains and is sustained by a community.” (are.na)

The not-so-spooky origins of ‘ghost’ — and why the word still haunts our language (npr.org)

Bookmarklets, a small selection of premade bookmarklets you can try.

Secondhand Embarrassment. (robinsloan.com)

Some things I liked this week: These chair friends This bit on finishing things, I added it to my collection of endings This cute video: Beastie Boys through the years This site: LOADMORE that “collects distinctive mobile experiences” worth the click just for the little mascot

Read: This company is turning empty offices across America into farms / via SC 2.4.4

Watch: In Search Of… Ghosts - Season 1 Episode 18 (23:24)

Words: a glossary for artificial intelligence

Subscribe: 31 Days of Halloween

Watch: Ghost Waltz (2:04)

Meandering River

Listen: Flow State: Okonski. A nice listen to go gently into your weekend.

Roadside Lights

Bay Dreaming

Mangos. Manuals. Media.: librarians, heroes of the apocalypse. Science Fiction Movie Lettering: “Glowing letters were a big trend that started in the late 80s, most likely set off by the Alien franchise. And I can never get enough of the 3D type in early films.” /via The Future is Like …

Haunted Words, Part 4: A collection of ghost words … 🆕 Ghost Newspapers: “Most towns still have a local newspaper, but they don’t cover their communities any more.” Ghost Forests: “The haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever-widening …

This week I: Crawled the unhinged, but enjoyable Things you might find in a dungeon are.na board. Watched Why everyone is quitting social media … on a social media platform, with an ad in the middle, but it still rings true. Enjoyed the Geronimo Stilton style caption creator and the …

I am currently: Really into this mural painted by Ariel Lee. Listening to Rain Country by John Swanke. Coveting these pocket notebooks from Big I Design. Liking these “humble phantoms” carved from wood. Nodding along to this definition of the night feeling h/t Jack Cheng.

Glass Window by Brett Allen Johnson

grug.design “grug make design. grug not know much. but grug know pain. grug try to avoid pain. grug learn over many fire-cycles.”

“What I love about pencils is the balance they strike: you can geek out on materials, production, or mark-making, and yet some of the best pencils being made will only run you a dollar or two. So you don’t have to sweat lending one out or losing one.” BTW № 3: Analog Edition

By William Mackinnon.

“Dystopia is easy. You take what people are afraid of and tell them it’s right outside their door. The cure is to open the door and see the truth for yourself. What’s on the other side of the door is your neighbors, and some of them brought donuts.” How to stay hopeful

“There’s nothing at all wrong with honing in, developing your craft, making variations of things you’re good at, and getting better each time. Nothing small about it. Nothing unfulfilling about it.” Knives and battleships

“There seems to be a certain essence in us that we must allow to guide us through life. If we defy this compass, we can end up in places we don’t belong. But if we trust it, follow it, we might do something as grand as fulfilling our purpose.” vague, inchoate feeling

Bunker hallway 3

Rain by Lea Ignatius

The wave building

Some things to click for your Friday.

On Additive and Extractive Technologies, “an extractive technology seeks to extract value from you instead of providing it.” Avoid. Seer, “the built environment itself is, for all intents and purposes, becoming a gigantic archive, at all scales, forensically recording every event …

Photos of Baltimore at Night. BS 2000 a Beastie Boy adjacent project. Good advice from Chris Glass: Send the Card. The Amazing Art of the Video Game Marquee.

From Found Way, an amazing are.na collection of wayfinding, signs, etc.

Great sky last night.

Look: The art of Sebastian Foster

Look: The art of Kristin Moore

Watch: a summer without algorithms.

Read: The sound of inevitability: “These are some big names in the tech world, all framing the [AI] conversation in a very specific way. Rather than “is this the future you want?”, the question is instead “how will you adapt to this inevitable future?”. Note also the threatening tone present, …

Sites I like: The HTML Review, Issue 04

Look: Polaroid celebrates the analogue way of life in Flip camera campaign

Read: what “creative magnet” means to me

Read: I’m Pretty Sure I Would Remember That

Sites I like: ambient.garden

Podcast: Breaking the Internet, 30 years of web history to answer the bewildering question many ask when they go online today: “How did we get here?”

Words: Petrichor, the smell of rain.

Sites I like: Artemis, a calm web reader.

Listen: new Public Enemy album!

Look: the art of Shuan Tan.

Sites I like: linkitylink.lol

Look: the art of nata metlukh. The animated GIFs are a delight.

Sites I like: Pathfinder

Watch: Slice of Life: The American Dream. In Former Pizza Huts

Read: Work dailies

Read: Working from home makes us happier

Read: Get Your Kids A Landline

Read: I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something Incredible Happened.

Read: This is the story of Possibly Chaos and Text Goblin. I have no idea if it’s true, but it’s nice.

Sites I like: miocene.io.

Some links for you to click!

“We’re getting to the point where ghosts are real. The future is here, valuing magic and mystery over reality. Not only are we aware of the difference, but we’re at peace with it.” Louis Rosenfeld in reference to this.

“The phone eats time; it makes us live the way people do inside a casino, dropping a blackout curtain over the windows to block out the world, except the blackout curtain is a screen, showing too much of the world, too quickly.” My Brain Finally Broke

“I wish I spent more time moving atoms and less time moving symbols. It is far more rewarding to make things with atoms than symbols. Atomic creations are the things to be most proud of. The symbols on the screens should help us move and produce more, rather than sit and consume more …

The data behind remote work: Remote work companies save $10K per employee and employees are 5-10% more productive. /via Chris Glass

“Covey’s take was “an abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinion, possessions, or associations.” In my experience, that internal security overflows into their inner circle and wider community, believing that more for the people around …

“When you accept that the future’s security may not come only in the form of a steady ascent up a pay scale, something shifts. You may not quit your job, but you reorient your time and professional priorities around independent people and relationships, not prestigious companies or brands. You …

Haunted Words, Part 3: A collection of ghost words … 🆕 Ghost Forests: “The haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever-widening swath of these trees have died along the shore. These arboreal graveyards are showing up in places where the land slopes gently …

Source: svapicsandmags.com

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“In many ways the Light Phone III is a more mellow act of defiance, because it can pass as a regular smartphone, when in the hand. The camera lens peeks out in a recognizable way right above the palm, and the foreshortened size isn’t obvious at first. Whereas the Light Phone II was a clear if …

Source: Spatial Awareness: An are.na channel featuring photos of weird, wondrous, and spooky places.

Back to a Website!

“I often wonder about the costs of the “digital echo.” What is the psychological cost of knowing that your actions aren’t just your own, but create information that can be observed and analyzed by others? As more aspects of our lives generate digital echoes, they force an ambient awareness of …

Homeownership is a lifelong commitment to discovering what it takes to modernize a legacy system and the lengths to which and compromises you will make in doing so. Dan Hon

“Books can be picked up at any time, and an idea that was written down in the past can be released back into the present, and help to influence a future.” How to organize your books

Source: dezeen.com

MF DOOM Instrumentals, something to listen to while you work.

From: cutaway house illustrations appreciation post & fan club by way of Meanwhile.

“No Smoking” Mini Pencil

“A premonition is growing. I believe large swaths of the internet will be ceded, like it or not, to the creatures of the digital night: ghostly bots, cackling trolls, the baying hounds of attention. I imagine this future internet as a vast, boiling miasma, punctuated by signal towers poking up …

Words: mundus sine caesaribus

Look: starlinkmap.org. We are surrounded.

Sites I like: coffeereceiptstories.com

“Meanwhile, my little home-cooked apps each do the one thing they are supposed to do, sparkle-free. These apps are substantially finished the day I “launch” them, and, unlike modern commercial software, they are allowed to just: be finished.” Five years of home-cooked apps.

Look: The illustrations of Evan Choen.

Look: The illustrations of Kari Modén.

Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, and Dylan Day by Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, and Dylan Day Standing in the Doorway by Sam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, and Dylan Day. My Bandcamp Friday scoop. What you got?

Sites I like: Walkman.Land.

“When I was 7 I threw a ring I loved out of a car window as we searched for my dog who had run away, as an act of sacrifice to get her back. Well, guess what? She came back. And I’m still doing little spells to this day.” Casting Little Spells.

Look: Buildings as Isolated Facades.

Read: A lone dolphin has been yelling into Baltic Sea for years.

Listen: Welcome to the Jam: The looney story of the decades-old ‘Space Jam’ website. A conversation with the team that built the site, also serves as a look at what making websites used to be like way back in the day.

Sites I like: 18f.org. “But we came to the government to fix things. And we’re not done with this work yet.” Fuck yeah ❤️‍🔥

Look: The Perception of Doors.

Read: Jonathan Goldstein Joins Pushkin Industries to Revive Acclaimed “Heavyweight” Podcast. Yes!

Watch: Little Joys (2 minutes)

Look: Living seasonally

Sites I like: torrez.org

Site I like: lynnandtonic.com

Music: Rock the Cowbells by The Beastie Boys / Irn Mnky

Book (to read): State of Paradise by Laura Van Den Berg

Look: Ghost Tree

Watch: Inside Walton Goggins’s Enchanting 1920s New York Lodge. /via Studio Notes

Some Things, Week 6, 2025 : Photo by Yama Bato. You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism: “Trusted information networks have existed since long before the internet and mass media. These networks are in every town and city, and at their core are real relationships between neighbors—not their online, parasocial …

The Butchers: Photo by Gaetan Flamme from worldsportsphotographyawards.com. Found via the always great Curious About Everything.

You arrive at the harbour of a sleepy seaside town ...: Art by Owen Pomery via his newsletter.

The return of the Pebble watch: The new watch we’re building basically has the same specs and features as Pebble, though with some fun new stuff as well 😉 It runs open source PebbleOS, and it’s compatible with all Pebble apps and watchfaces. If you had a Pebble and loved it…this is the smartwatch for you. Why We’re Bringing …

AI Bureaucrats: You know, the world is being filled with AI bureaucrats that in the armies, in the banks, in the universities, in the governments, more and more decisions, which house to bomb, who is a terrorist, whether to give you a loan, whether to give you a job, whether to give you a place in a university. …

Solitude changes us: The individual preference for solitude, scaled up across society and exercised repeatedly over time, is rewiring America’s civic and psychic identity. And the consequences are far-reaching—for our happiness, our communities, our politics, and even our understanding of reality. From The Anti-Social …

A secret attic workspace: From r/CozyPlaces.

The Neon Museum: Photo by Tomasz Filipek of the Neon Museum + more from 99% Invisible.

Fiction resists summary: It is an interesting feature of stories and fiction that they resist summary. You cannot read a summary of Anna Karenina and somehow stockpile its pleasures and charms. Narrative resists compression. Resist Summary

Good advice: Art by Eve De Haan. Photographer unknown. /via Future Now / are.na

Dashboards : “every dashboard is a sunk cost / every dashboard is an answer to some long-forgotten question / every dashboard is an invitation to pattern-match the past instead of interrogate the present / every dashboard gives the illusion of correlation / every dashboard dampens your thinking” Charity Majors

Snowy night vibes: r/TheNightFeeling

Go light: Light Phone 3

January: By Stanley Roy Badmin.

Link blogs rock: Sharing interesting links with commentary is a low effort, high value way to contribute to internet life at large. My approach to running a link blog

Doing good versus doing nothing: In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn’t been good versus evil. It’s hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing. Always Go To The Funeral /via SwissMiss

The Death of Music Genres People are following their “personal taste curation” instead of “mass consensus.” /via Jorge Arango

From Eternity! Eternity! by Vincent Glielmi. /via booooooom.com

Haunted Words : A collection of ghost words … 🆕 Ghost Artists: “Spotify, the rumor had it, was filling its most popular playlists with stock music attributed to pseudonymous musicians—variously called ghost or fake artists—presumably in an effort to reduce its royalty payouts.” /via pixel envy …

The art of Silvia Celiberti / Instagram / via booooooom.com

a recurrent theme is a fatigue with the style of self-narration that the platforms encourage — which, whether we realize it or not, has been heavily influenced by brand storytelling logics. We talk about ourselves like we’re products. Posting Less

the best defense, the most meaningful work, the best preparation you can do at the level of an individual life is to boost your local resilience. To become a person of place. To connect with the people and land where you live. This is what we’re built to do. How I became ‘collapse …

Al Brydon

Kinopio is such a neat tool.

A “Christmas” album that resurrects each year. Example comment: The last time my grandfather and I hangout together 2 Christmas' ago, I had this on in the car and I’ll never forget when he told me how much he enjoyed The Grinch flip. It made me so happy. I miss him everyday now. …

Cancel all my meetings, Said the Gramophone’s best songs of 2024 dropped!

“RENAISSANCE # 05” by Conrad Jon Godly via Colossal

A very gothic morning.

His inner radio was all about oranges, dogs, and trucks: “Truly this book is in memory of my brother, Jeff. When confronted with hatred or violence, he used to say: I don’t get that station, man. His inner radio was all about oranges, dogs, and trucks. We always made up life on our own. I miss him every day.” From the dedication of …

a link dump, week 49, 2024: ↑ Mississippi River Elevation Study by Tim Wallace. Listen to the world’s largest and oldest tree. A list of things to love. When I tell you the Taco Bell is haunted now, a poem. r/TheNightFeeling, photos taken at night. Near death experiences, ghostly visits, growing up in Alaska, this episode of …

IMG_0001 is a site where you can watch random (forgotten) YouTube videos from when iPhones had a built-in “Send to YouTube” button.

How (and why) filmmakers like Wes Anderson and Christopher Nolan are using miniatures in their movies.

ui.land is a selection of websites, tools, engineers and designers to inspire, learn, and create. I can’t resist a good “list” site.

This is from American Squares by Leah Frances. Amazing work!

This map/diagram from the Parks book slaps. That is all.

From the Paynter Jacket Co. in 2020, but may be just as useful “care” guidelines for now. I’d add “Spend time with old friends” to the list as well. I was lucky enough to do that this past weekend and can say it recharges the batteries.

Future Community Jobs shares interesting open roles in nonprofit communications, content, journalism, fundraising and more.

“SUSA, the small conceptual electronic device can perform many of the functions of a smartphone, tablet or portable computer.” I’m dubious of all things AI, but the actual device is pretty neat. Shades of the Light Phone III.

Organic Software Directory lists software that has no external pressure (eg. from funding sources) to chase funding rounds, grow unsustainably, or to get acquired.

Log of the Bay is a LOG of radio traffic received on Marine VHF channels form a basement window in Oakland, California.

The romotow camping trailer swivels out to form a spacious deck lounge.

D-20 Stainless Steel is a watch that lets you roll a virtual 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, or 20-sided die with the push of a button.

Vintage Tech Logos is a collection of found vintage tech logos circa 1985.

Vintage Tech Logos: “Collection of found vintage tech logos circa 1985 (USA)”

Don't call it a Substack: “We constrain our imaginations when we subordinate our creations to names owned by fascist tycoons.”

Words like this presents beautiful passages of poetry in a beautiful, contemporary way.

Historical travel times from New York City to the rest of the...: Historical travel times from New York City to the rest of the U.S.

Salt Architecture + Interiors

Gallery of Tirana 2030: Watch How Nature and Urbanism Will...: Gallery of Tirana 2030: Watch How Nature and Urbanism Will Co-Exist in the Albanian Capital

Rhenen – Product — The Public Domain Review

"How often is it acknowledged that people thrive better in lower stimulus environments?": “How often is it acknowledged that people thrive better in lower stimulus environments?” - Lower stimulus environments | A Working Library

Akiya (vacant houses in Japan) “are becoming less like financial assets and more akin to natural resources, available to be harvested by those who wish put in the time and substantial effort to reclaim one from natural decay.”

A far-right attack on a community college reveals a blueprint for destroying higher ed The problem goes far beyond a three-person majority on the trustee board of a small community college. NIC and many other institutions are in danger because, over the last decade and a half, a core group of …

Remind me later is a comic about “technological problems.”

it’s okay if you just pick one thing you really care about, and it’s okay if that thing is “being a good friend” instead of “maximizing your potential” On what it means to not have time

Walkcast is an ever-changing podcast generated as you walk, revealing the hidden layers that surround you.

I don’t need these people’s psychodramas in my head anymore: “The closest thing to a political point I want to make is that I’ve dedicated far too much brain-space, in recent years, to marinating in the psyches of the angry, cynical and damaged men currently ascendant in our politics – which …

I don’t need these people’s psychodramas in my head anymore: “The closest thing to a political point I want to make is that I’ve dedicated far too much brain-space, in recent years, to marinating in the psyches of the angry, cynical and damaged men currently ascendant in our politics – which is basically what you’re doing when you spend time on Twitter, …

Mornings spent offline: This is a recent development in the history of human civilization: To wake up with the whole world in your bed

Private “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, …

Re-buttonization: There 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.

Links for Week 45, 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 …

In 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 …

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. A playground to outlast the feed

De 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.

IKEA 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."

Halloween by Bo Bartlett /via MLTSHP. More things of the spooky variety if you are interested.

You Only Have One Life : r/LiminalSpace

Samwise Gangee Backpack by Brad Hansen

Alex Tomlinson

@jonbilous • Scenes in downtown Worcester

OtherNetwork: OtherNetwork: OtherNetwork is a new type of cultural institution that connects independent art spaces worldwide.

Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information: Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information: Here are the Internet forums that are still alive and kicking and full of information and interesting people.

"Hell isn’t other people. Hell is people trying to make a group decision. And decisions are fucking...": “Hell isn’t other people. Hell is people trying to make a group decision. And decisions are fucking exhausting.” - How to make choices

"The networks we use to communicate across fields and distances, to find our friends and learn from...": “The 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.” - …

The 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. …

Career Hacks of the Ancients: “There has never been a shortage of people willing to make other people suffer so they can build a monument to themselves.”

Paper Apps: “Paper Apps are a fun, smart alternative to screen time. Check out our solo games like DUNGEON and GOLF, as well as gamified tools like TO•DO and NUTRI•TRACK. For the full experience, we recommend grabbing a couple of Pencil Dice as well!”

Websites, Done Cheap “More convenient than a new hobby!”

Clarity hacks: “If you want readers to do something, tell them what it is.”

A History of Link Blogs: 

Bullshit Numbers: “vexing equations with missing variables and euphemistic names. There are numbers everywhere, and they mean nothing”

five.sentenc.es: “all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less.”

Peter Fischli / David Weiss: How to Work Better

"Octopuses would also punch fish to keep the group moving. If the group is very still and everyone is...": “Octopuses would also punch fish to keep the group moving. If the group is very still and everyone is around the octopus, it starts punching, but if the group is moving along the habitat, this means that they’re looking for prey, so the octopus is happy. It doesn’t punch anyone,” Sampaio said.” - …

Khoi Vinh on remakes and sequels: Remakes and sequels are “… enterprises very purposefully stood up for the specific intent of reminding us how great those previous experiences were. “Remember this?” each movies asks. “Wasn’t it great? Here it is again.” It’s as if, instead of sending us on a new holiday abroad, they’re …

How positive is good?: “A new YouGov study reveals exactly how positively and negatively the population perceives various descriptions to be.”

The Supernatural Detective's Field Guide: 

Commonplace.day!: A public group journal. Pretty neat concept!

“Most fields have a problem with ‘ghost knowledge’, hard-won practical understanding that is mostly passed on verbally between practitioners and not written down anywhere public.”

Live Lightning Map: “See lightning strikes in realtime nearby your area. Get free online access to maps of former and current thunderstorms. A contribution by Blitzortung.org and contributors.”

An Illustrated History of Urban Legends: “A sceptical enquiry into urban legends, from Atlantis to the hollow Earth conspiracy, and everything in between.”

Not Built For This is a 6-part series from 99% Invisible. It explores how climate change is laying bare the vulnerabilities in the American built environment and how communities across the country have been left to bootstrap their own survival.

ytch.xyz Flip through (YouTube) channels like the old days. /via bencrowder.net

Photo by Asako Narahashi from her collection half awake and half asleep in the water. /via notes.husk.org

“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?” The Door Problem /via barnsworthburning.net

A 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!

American 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 …

This Crystal Fragment turns everything you see into 8-bit Pixel Art. /via bencrowder.net

America’s 7-Elevens to become ‘Japanese style’: “Japan’s 7-Eleven locations – referred to as konbini – have a different vibe. There, they put a focus on “tantalizing food,” according to TODAY. Items found at Japanese 7-Eleven stores include onigiri (rice balls), fried …

fireworks

The internet isn’t for humans anymore. Bots use the internet more than we do; use shapes design. The internet isn’t for humans anymore

Another Friday, another lump of links for your clicking pleasure. In this issue: saving things, minor league baseball team names, and more.

Across town:

Summer starts

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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?: “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.

www.fastcompany.com/3047828/w…

linkpantry.com A collection of links on various topics.

strength of one —: A man and his cigar on whatever comes our way

Guide - Air Travel Design Guide: 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: 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: Cargo

Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds. wapo.st/3UXOJDe (gift link)

Abandoned blogs www.are.na/lucy-pham…

abandoned blogs | Are.na: (mostly) abandoned blogs

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The Third Thing by Donald Hall | Poetry Magazine: 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: 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: 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 arborville.glitch.me

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]: 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 …

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)

A view source web (viewsource.info)

Piping at a subway station in Tokyo (migurski.tumblr.com)

Via https://arcadebroke.tumblr.com/post/746832187449556992/本所吾妻橋駅の配管: 

Heat Death of the Internet Enumerating all the ways the internet currently sucks. Example: You buy a microwave and receive ads for microwaves. You buy a mattress and receive ads for mattresses. No one wants this. The article does end on a positive note: You read the Wikipedia entry and there is a …

Heat Death of the Internet - takahē: You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you saw in the window. When you download a second app the prices are different again. You ring

Illustrations by Ben Pearce, more on his site and Instagram.

How a Connecticut middle school won the battle against cellphones (🎁 link) Gabe Silver, another eighth-grader, echoed that sentiment. When the pouches first arrived, “everyone was miserable and no one was talking to each other,” he said. Now he can hear the difference at lunch and in the hallways. …

Brutalist churches (dezeen.com)

COSMIC 🐙 SLOP on X: "orbital city of the future. postcard by soviet space artist andrei sokolov, 1982 https://t.co/B2BiorBKP6" / X: — COSMIC 🐙 SLOP (@afrocosmist)

Sacred Modernity showcases "unique beauty" of brutalist churches: Jamie McGregor Smith has spent the last five years capturing brutalist and modernist churches across Europe for his book Sacred Modernity.

Guardabosques' Meticulous Paper Portraits Celebrate Diverse Bat Species in 'Little Friends of Darkness' — Colossal: For Guardabosques, the mind-boggling variety of bats inspires ‘Amiguitos de la Oscuridad,’ or “little friends of darkness.”

Music for Programming is nice. Reminds me of the old Left as Rain. 🤞 for the return of music blogs.

“Sightings” by Artist Cable Griffith: A selection of paintings by Cable Griffith from his latest exhibition, “Sightings.”

Is the kottke.org comment section the best community on the web? I’m not a member yet, but I have been a lurker and it seems like a great place to hang out digitally.

Seven Minute Demos: People do demos of something they’ve built, or give a lightning talk on whatever topic they like. The demo/talk just has be less than 7 minutes long. There’s no minimum time limit. People can talk for 1 minute, 3 minutes, or take the whole 7. The time limit also …

The navigation for issue 3 of the HTML Review is too fun! Oh yeah, good links as well.

MY COMMENTS ARE IN THE GOOGLE DOC LINKED IN THE DROPBOX I SENT IN THE SLACK Too real.

File:Etna-Eruption-1766.jpg - Wikimedia Commons: 

Some things for week 16 of 2024. Anyone else enjoy looking at the tracking details of a package. Watching an item wend it’s way through a system of warehouses, trucks / trains, and multiple states. Maybe I’m the only shipping infrastructure nerd out here. “And yet, making …

The Analog Web: “Owning your own piece of the Internet (to borrow a recent phrase from Anil Dash) is itself a radical act. Linking to others at will is subversive all on its own.”

Timex x Raised By Wolves

Paper and pencil: “The tool which allows you to plan, record, create, schedule, sketch, brainstorm and write a love note. Never be without the pair.”

The Death of the Follower: “Something that’s not contorting our online personas in the image of the algorithm to reach ~10% more strangers who probably don’t care, and won’t stick around.”

We Need More Calm Companies: “The path to success isn’t to “grind harder” but to build products that people want that you can sell with healthy profit margins.”

Detail from a geological map of Vermont. Source: are.na

Standard Ebooks: “A volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” /via Austin Kleon

The bus terminal for Huelva: “The bus platforms have been designed around a large circular courtyard juxtaposing the garden and the buses. The result is one of the most outstandingly attractive parts of the plan.”

Taliban Militants Fed Up With Office Culture, Ready to Quiet Quit: “Now, the men find themselves shackled with the bureaucracy of running a country as they work civilian jobs and security positions, spend too much time in traffic and on Twitter, and yearn for the tranquility of village …

Little Owl is part of the 50 birds project.

End of NY

The Nautilus House.

The truth is that whether or not AI determines our future will be decided by a confoundingly small minority of humans who nevertheless control a counfoundingly vast majority of the world’s wealth. This is not a technology issue, really, but one of structural inequality. From Out Random the AI. See …

Darial Gorge by Ivan Aivazovsky

“looking down at an undulating fog bank that completely obscures the valley below. It’s like a mysterious sea with a forest-blanketed peak to the rear on a landmass ascending out of it. I don’t know what’s below the gray waves. Whatever is down there, it’s a different place from up here. I’m …

“Night Driving” for Volkswagen. Man, I forgot ads used to have the capacity to be amazing. See “Milky Way” also for Volkswagen. Via @genmon on accessing something other: “escape time, escape selfhood, whether that’s driving in the dark or sitting in a hotel lobby or …

Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers

The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck

Cherry blossoms by @sadtearsfish

Exploring the Sky Islands of the Trans-Pecos: High up on the Chisos, Davis, and Guadalupe mountains, rarified ecosystems abound in the sky islands of the Trans-Pecos

Feral Landscape Typologies - Ellie Irons: This research and photography project is an attempt to develop a typology of dwindling “vacant” spaces of Bushwick, Brooklyn. Of course so-called “vacant” land isn’t really vacant. It lacks the all-encompassing artifice associated with consistently maintained, human-centered habitats. It’s also void …

Source: presentandcorrect.com

No joke, loveless grilled cheese sandwiches suck. Little Nuggets of Pride

They Didn’t Just Want to Build a Housing Shelter. They Wanted to Shift Public Perception: Changing the way the public perceives shelters informed the design. From the nearby highway, the first glimpse you get of the structure includes an impressive mural by Australian artist Guido van Helten …

Nice clouds tonight.

Cross My Heart is a fun Frogger remake.

Organic Software Directory.

Why The Tokyo Metro Plays Bird Whistles.

Sea of Knowledge.

Eucalyptus and Sagebrush via Floorless

(via Pacífico — Felipe Bedoya)

sheds, ghost networks & more: 🏘️ Some of these Great British sheds are just awesome. 🎮 Cross My Heart is a fun Frogger “Demake” that you can play in the browser. 🛖 Bothies are “simple shelters in remote country for the use & benefit of all who love wild & lonely places.” 🤖 “Hiding on Slack …

Walden Pond “is a little paper zine that comes once a month in the mail. It’s full of a selection of the articles you’ve saved to Pocket.”

Jason Kottke on latest design of kottke.org: In thinking about how I wanted kottke.org to look and, more importantly, feel going forward, I wanted more social media energy than blog energy — one could also say “more old school blog energy than contemporary blog energy”. Blogs now either look like …

Knowing Machines “is a research project tracing the histories, practices, and politics of how machine learning systems are trained to interpret the world.”

The art of Felipe Bedoya is pretty amazing. Example:

I’m always on the lookout for good instrumental music to work to and Modern Country by William Tyler is that.

“It’s the fact that you recognized the thing that is important, not the thing itself. It’s your radar.”

Dead Simple Sites is “the most minimal sites on the web, curated in one place.”

The Golden Age of Web Design, some of these sites are still 🔥.

A week in Oaxaca

Some weird little things.

Mixtape garden let’s you make mixtapes with others.

RSS Joy is a little RSS aggregator. Reminds me of start.io.

A collection of alternative or niche search engines.

A list of blog platforms. Lots of options!

Pixel Poetry let’s you release your inner Austin Kleon.

On why Werner Herzog’s memoir finishes mid-sentence, it has to do with bullets and hummingbirds.

A time capsule of tumblelogs from 2007.

I miss human curation. Same, I’m doing my best at thingstoclick.com!

In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox.

Lee Friedlander’s black-and-white photography is odd, occasionally nsfw, and interesting. /via meanwhile

Feeds for your RSS reader. Works well with fraidyc.at.

“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement.

“Fast Car” is not a relic of its time but tragically timeless.

AIxDESIGN LIBRARY is a “library of books on the topics of technology, AI, society, and design.” Nice…: AIxDESIGN LIBRARY is a “library of books on the topics of technology, AI, society, and design.” Nice site.

"Real people sometimes pay to access content, or donate to support a nonprofit publisher, or watch an...": “Real people sometimes pay to access content, or donate to support a nonprofit publisher, or watch an ad. Those things can be annoying but pay for the content to be produced in the first place. If we strip them away, there’s no writing, information, or expression for the app to summarize. A world …

It’s lava like a live volcanoMight wild out like Lyle...: It’s lava like a live volcanoMight wild out like Lyle Alzado Wax Raps on Bicycle

An “indoor waterfall and garden/forest at Singapore’s Jewel...: An “indoor waterfall and garden/forest at Singapore’s Jewel Changi Airport.” via What’s Your Favorite Airport Amenity?

Lit Tapes: Lit Tapes: Playlists compiled from songs referenced in books.

Listen to music, audio books, and podcasts on a purpose-built...: Listen to music, audio books, and podcasts on a purpose-built device with a tried-and-true form factor, a familiar user interface, and no interest in your data. (via Tangara)

“I used to listen to your podcast”: “I used to listen to your podcast”: I get it. It’s fine. I take no offense. In fact, that’s part of the magic of podcasts! There’s an ebb and flow to them.

by Matt Schu

"AI is good at making scary images. Even if the prompt lacks all hints of horror kitsch, you need to...": “AI is good at making scary images. Even if the prompt lacks all hints of horror kitsch, you need to get ready to see or feel something disturbing when you look at AI images. It’s like a spell. Part of the scariness comes from the cancer-like pattern that reproduces the same ornament without …

"Humans weren’t designed for this level of omniscience": Source: @technicallymims on threads.net

Hundreds of people arm themselves with vegetables in Piornal,...: Hundreds of people arm themselves with vegetables in Piornal, Spain, each year to pelt an evil figure of legend. Turnips at the ready: Jarramplas festival

“Triple Seven” by Photographer Anne Lass

“A set can tell us what a character cannot. There is no...: “A set can tell us what a character cannot. There is no screen time for lengthy exposition about every detail that is Gwen Stacy, but through Set Decoration we can get hints of the events and details of her life that shaped her.” From Patrick O’Keefe‘s dive into production design. 

Atari Pong Sinclair Hat

It’s 2024 and FiiO is making a portable cassette player...: It’s 2024 and FiiO is making a portable cassette player with all-analog features

via ArtStation by Maojin.Lee

via Bjorn Steinbekk

"Life is a never-ending succession of NFL teams adding ping pong tables w/stories about how...": “Life is a never-ending succession of NFL teams adding ping pong tables w/stories about how they’re finally coming together as a family and enjoying each other’s company, and NFL teams removing ping pong tables w/stories about how they’re finally taking football seriously.” - Dan Steinberg

Baugespanne is the practice of visualizing “… future urban developments in scale 1:1 by an inflated balloon-structure.” Filing under the word of the day.

Recommended dosage of work: “to get the mental wellbeing benefits of paid work, the most “effective dose” is only around one day a week – as anything more makes little difference.” Not an Onion article.

A blog doesn’t need to be profound: it just needs to be a place to post some text you want to share. Ramana Sivaranjan on his 20 year old blog A Funkaoshi Production

We can engage with people outside the rule-bound linear progression of offline relationships, and discover information about another person, miles and years from the person they were when they were posted it. Try responding to a post on a message board dated a while ago, maybe 10 years or more. That …

Deepening a relationship. Visiting a sick friend. Serving at a soup kitchen. Andreessen’s “techno-optimist” mindset is confounded by acts of love. They don’t make money, they don’t supercharge a market, and perhaps most heretically, they’re typically low-tech or even involve no technology at all. …

the Dolphins hired McDaniel, and in came a philosophy that’s unusual in this business — albeit less and less in the rest of society. Miami’s rise comes amid a cultural reexamination of leadership, people management and parenting, a growing belief that successful, confident people should be neither …

There were devices that simply did what they were for, without demanding attention. For their makers, they had some real problems. They had moving parts, which meant that they required more factory tooling and had more warranty returns. They were terrible for displaying advertisements. Without …

Sidewalk Garden - Zach Klein: 

Kinder To Do Lists. I like this idea of using a different phrasing for your to do lists. Example: “When checking off an item that begins with “You promised to email Maria…” I feel as though I’m being a person who follows up on her promises. When checking off “Email Maria,” I feel as though …

Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time. “This site lets you randomly explore the IndieWeb. Simply click the button and you will be redirected to a random post from a personal blog.”

Every day is science fiction. Some quotes and links about the power of sci-fi with nuggets like " … a vision of History, extending magically into the future."

Astronomers have discovered that a third of the planets around the most common stars in the galaxy could be in a goldilocks orbit close enough, and gentle enough, to hold onto liquid water – and possibly harbor life. Source: One-third of galaxy’s most common planets could be in habitable zone - …

Relational Infrastructure " … refers to the social connections, interactions, and collective intelligence that underpin a community, network or group’s ability to collaborate, solve problems, and drive change."

They talk about you, gurgling sugar through their roots … Source: Root Words

Effectively, the time costs of doing things over a weekend have diminished considerably for those who don’t have to commute. Source: How remote work is boosting the U.S. economy

For my flavor of UX and Design, I’ve found my most important work is communication. My role is to discover, gather, and analyze the many varied contributions and specifications from all of these contributors and generate output in a language that everyone understands. I also need my outputs to …

A touchscreen, then, operates as a digital platform where features can be locked or unlocked by the company at will, depending on customers’ rent payments. Physical buttons, on the other hand, can’t be turned into rent. They only serve the customer, so they’re less attractive. Source: Creative …

Stack Rock Fort: Victorian island reclaimed by nature. The property has been bought by a community interest company, which plans to preserve it as a “living ruin”.

The quiet power of introverts. A nice animated short via the always great Converge Newsletter.

The “ghost hotel” nomenclature refers to an entire apartment building which is functionally a hotel because most or all units are short-term rentals instead of tenant-occupied. Source: All Long-Term Tenants at a Montreal Apartment Building Were Replaced With an Airbnb Ghost Hotel – Pixel Envy

Rad Reader by Alexander Cobleigh. “It’s like a pokedex for personal websites, and designed to surface the latest posts for you to view rather than juggle an ever-increasing inbox.”

It’s really hot, let’s look at some classic cold photos. “Snow” by Photographers Arturo + Bamboo

Tools versus Systems. “Yes, the two are different.”

Japan Jazz Kissa Tour — 2023. Binaural recording from various jazz kissa in Japan. Headphones recommended.

Melike Turgut created this diagram to try to “pin-point the stages of my creative process.”

If your concept of “progress” doesn’t put people at the center of it, is it even progress? Source: I’m a Ludite (and so can you!)

Webring. A list of hand-crafted wikis and portfolios.

What I learned from taking a train across the US. “Here’s how US train travel went from excellent to mediocre.” A Vox video.

Multi-layered calendars. “Notes are just emails to your future self. Emails are just tasks. And tasks are just calendar events.”

How do I find new music now that I’m old and irrelevant?, a podcast episode about how “a normal person can find new stuff when they feel like their ears have rusted.”

Give it the Craigslist test. “If you’re designing a new product or service, give it the Craigslist test — start with low-fidelity options that see if people would love it even if it looked like Craigslist.”

Taken at the Natural History Museum.

I love that my Grandpa Norm told me to put a $10 in my coat pocket when I put it away for the season: ‘You’ll give yourself a surprise treat when it gets cold again!’ He’s been gone for over five years, but I still think of him when swapping coats. Source: Have a Restorative Weekend - Cup of Jo

Because red and green are complementary colors opposite one another on the color wheel, they’ve become the default colors for every designer who wants to represent opposites: true and false, high and low, stop and go. Inconveniently, these are also the two colors most likely to be mixed up by people …

Moe Lauchert’s photography is pretty amazing.

Lynne Carty’s site is fun!

I think that if you want to know how something is made, you should look for the grids. They are the ever-present, behind-the-scenes structure of our cities, our machines, our homes, and our lives. You’ll find the grid in the artist’s studio, in the patterns of the textile weaver’s …

To return to information overload: this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). Source: Treat your to-read pile like a river

AllttA - Savages featuring an AI Jay-Z.

Palette of a beach sunrise by Slater

A TODO “App”

Podfriend. A “friendly podcast player app for mobile & desktop” (and in browser).

good personal blogs an Are.na channel. Fill thy feeds!

This Audio-Cassette-Shaped Object Lets You Stream to an Analog Boombox. “It’s essentially a Bluetooth receiver shaped like a cassette, and through some technical sorcery it can deliver audio through analog tape heads.” It’s like the modern version of this!

When my dad was sick, I started Googling grief. Then I couldn’t escape it. “There’s an assumption the industry makes that personalization is a positive thing.”

Axstone ✨SR on Twitter: 

Northern lights over Virginia by Peter Forister.

principles.design is an “open source collection of Design Principles and methods.” Great looking site, content, and URL.

Some things: Pitchfork on the band 100 gecs: “Theirs is the sound of a zillion infostreams from the depths of your social feeds shooting into your eyes at once, both poisoned by irony and aware that if you follow irony into its own ouroboros, you will discover the antidote.” I’m …

Receiving the cash is also empowering. “There’s a wide body of research that if you give someone a larger sum of cash it triggers long-term thinking,” says Williams. Or as Ray puts it, ”that energy of believing in myself again.” The effect is: “These people trusted me. Let me prove to them that I …

By Phyllis Shafer More here: www.phyllisshafer.com/oilpainti…

Mellow music to use in the background for reflection and discussion from Stanford’s Design School.

Four Thousand Weeks: A tribute to the book by Oliver Burkeman, an exploration of time management in the face of human finitude, and addressing the anxiety of “getting everything done.” https://leebyron.com/4000/

Ghost rockets: null

Embroidery Kit Cell Biology: 

Humans need play: 

Quality Work: 

Keeping a personal changelog ⤤ Winnie Lim on looking back at her journals: “I see all these archives of my thoughts and psyche as keeping a personal changelog. They document what has changed in me since.” /via Scott Nesbitt

Happy De La Soul day to all that celebrate.

Art by Holly Astle

Land Lines “… is an experiment that lets you explore Google Earth satellite imagery through gesture. “Draw” to find satellite images that match your every line; “Drag” to create an infinite line of connected rivers, highways and coastlines.”

“Forest Luminescence” by Jonathan Edwards

Happiness 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose - Hidden Brain Podcast Having a sense of purpose can be a buffer against the challenges we all face at various stages of life. Purpose can also boost our health and longevity. An interesting topic. Also, the Hidden Brain podcast in general is pretty good. …

Dimensions.com " …is an ongoing reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world." Example: /via Meanwhile by Daniel Benneworth-Gray

Or in simple terms, if what you say makes me think, processing it may naturally cause me to look away. To think “independently.” To sift through your information or idea, match it to my own perspectives or mental models, and then re-engage. From People Who Don’t Make Constant Eye …

A micro cabin.

I, too, see a crisis brewing, among not only people my age but among the peers of my teenage children and the college students I teach. Pushed further into isolation by the pandemic, we’re all losing the ability to engage in what I view as the pinnacle of human interaction: sitting around with …

Dozens of companies (in the UK) took part in the world’s largest trial of the four-day workweek — and a majority of supervisors and employees liked it so much they’ve decided to keep the arrangement. In fact, 15 percent of the employees who participated said “no amount of money” would convince them …

The sound of online trackers, an episode of Carefully with Per Axbom.

The demons hate fresh air.

Doorways: This and that.

ClipArt ETC provides students and teachers with over 71,500 pieces of quality educational clipart. Higher quality then expected.

Creep Mart features creepy, A.I. generated toys.

How bravely autumn paints upon the sky by Edward McKnight Kauffer

From Challenge Coins by Trevor Paglen

Unordered, incomplete list of things I want from a job by Lynn Fisher.

The Cabinet of Wikipedian Curiosities.

I picked up An Illustrated History of Ghosts featuring the awesome art (and words) of Adam Allsuch Boardman.

From Open Circuits

USPS Skateboard Stamps

How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the billionaires. Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don’t buy much. Their smartphones are six versions behind and have badly cracked screens. They fix bicycles, then they …

Remembering De La Soul: De La Soul’s Trugoy the Dove Dies at 54 So incredibly sad. Here is an interview with producer Prince Paul about the making of De La Soul’s first album. Also, mark your calendars for March 3rd when De La Soul’s music is finally coming to streaming.

A sports reporter tracks down the defenders who picked off Super Bowl quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, during his senior year of high school.

The Teenager Leading the Smartphone Liberation Movement. An episode of the First Person podcast.

By Illustrator - J. Marshall Smith

Somewhere in NY, 1973.

Let a website be a worry stone.

forgetting is a filter: I’m increasingly convinced that a much more relaxed approach to knowledge consumption – one that involves putting way less pressure on yourself to retain what you read, listen to, or watch – isn’t only more enjoyable, but better for your creative output, too. The first reason for this is that …

A tiny sci-fi story by @smllwrlds

Beadz is an experimental, polymetric drum machine, built with web technologies. Looks super fun and the aesthetic is great.

Happy 21st Birthday To Largehearted Boy: A Playlist. Wow, 21 years of blogging. Also, great gift to us!

A Failed Entertainment by Alessandro Calabrese: 

Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading with Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps. Does what it says on the tin.

Crackling Fireplace with Thunder, Rain and Howling Wind Sounds. This video is a whole mood.

Why You Should Stop Picking Your Nose. It’s a risk factor for alzheimers!

Weeknotes 1, 2023: I’m giving week notes a try to start the year. I like the idea of having a weekly way of sharing things I’ve learned, liked or some bits of life in general. Also, the rhythm of weeks or Veckas just kind of speaks to how my brain works. We’ll see where this goes. I just finished up …

Some distractions: Lynn Fisher’s personal site is fantastic! Paternoster elevators are terrifying! Signs of Mexico are just cool! Someone spiked the Titanic film crew’s dinner with PCP. Bill Paxton was unphased.

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📷 This place has pancakes bigger than your head!

Words of 2022 from Librarian of Things. So many rabbit holes. librarian.aedileworks.com

50 wonderful things from 2022 by Pop Culture Happy Hour’s Linda Holmes. npr.org

Happy to support fun yet ambitious projects like omg.lol.

Is it just me or do lake waves seem angrier than ocean waves? trevorpottelberg.com

📷 Somewhere in NY.

I hope everyone is having a properly slothful Dead Week. theatlantic.com

art in nature by eric kerr: 

Canoo p/u: 

Final Lap / Surrender by Sean Hamilton: 

Snowy country village: 

The University of British Columbia’s student union looks like a cool space.

Looria analyzes Reddit posts and comments to find the most popular products. Kinda related is the second half of this 99% Invisible episode on search.

Marco Cornacchia has a fun personal site.

Everything happens so much @Horse_ebooks from 2012, still true today.

The secret to making friends as an adult + the three types of loneliness we all face. → pushkin.fm

Liked: All Posts · Chris Burnell. What a fun “section landing” page.

Currently reading: Empire Of Wild by Cherie Dimaline 📚

Here’s the way I’ve been thinking about it: there’s a passenger ferry that goes from Cape Cod to Nantucket and there’s a stretch of time in the middle of the journey where you can’t see the mainland behind you and can’t yet see the island ahead — you’re just out in the open water. That’s what I …

Liked: Smol Pub is a tiny blogging service.

Liked: The sound of a black hole. Creepy!

Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel 📚 I liked it!

Product discovery process.

Liked: Music to Listen to While Focus. A Reddit thread with loads of recomendations.

Read: I’ve Used All The Notebooks. I like the idea of marginalia in your notebooks.

Liked: The plotter weaves. Kind of mesmerizing.

Liked: creating digital gardens. An Are.na board to get lost in.

A poem written by Maggie Smith:

Read: Design beyond deliverables. Good thoughts about collaborating on/presenting design deliverables and thinking about what you want to get out of those activities.

Listening to: Work Song by Dan Reeder 🎵

Read: Three Types of Notes by Jorge Arango, who is writing a book on the topic.

A world made up of atomized, physically isolated people is a world without a true shared reality Source: The Forgotten Joy of Hanging Out in ‘Third Places’ - The Atlantic 💬

Currently reading: Sea of Tranquility: A novel by Emily St. John Mandel 📚

Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚 Less, how to manage your tasks, more: To remember how little you matter, on a cosmic timescale, can feel like putting down a heavy burden that most of us didn’t realize we were carrying in the first place. I …

Literally fluffy giants. Can’t pet them though. Please fix that. Source: Bears - Earth Reviews 💬

Liked: Marine Biodiversity by Zoe Keller via Dense Discovery.

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong. Source: Tom Kerwin quoting Neil Gaiman 💬

Liked: Plain Text Sports.

Liked: Mobile Phone Museum, lots of classics in here.

Awesome van via F5: Bimma Williams Talks About the Best Chair, the Barbershop + More.

Want to read: Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange 📚

Liked: Rectangles. Each rectangle represents 10 minutes of your day.

Read: There’s No Cool Like 1990s Cool. A nostalgia bomb.

Finished reading: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. A pop song of a novel, very fun. 📚.

Things I learned, the world has already “ended” at least five times.

Currently reading: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman 📚

Things I liked this week: visitor centers, typical days, author notes, candid camera, and more.

Things I liked this week: Paper dungeons, ghost homes, life tests, and more

Things I liked this week synthetic paper, odd news, focus beats, walking, and more (1/22/21)

Things I liked this week evergreen notes, menacing Rube Goldberg devices, room tone, and more (jan.15.2021)

Perfectly circular home hides deep in the Polish forest

“It’s funny to think that we thought Gmail beat spam…but spam didn’t die, it morphed into pizza and music on other platforms."

Newsletters “or, an enormous rant about writing on the web that doesn’t really go anywhere and that’s okay with me.”

A foggy Christmas

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The loss of creative people is complex. If we have nothing to do with a creator in person, then our grief is often more to do with the loss of potential future output—the books unwritten and songs unsung. But we are not our work. It is a part of us, but not the whole of us. Certainly no substitute …

An introduction to object-oriented UX and how to do it This is how my brain works.

I’m jealous of Mo Willems' notebooks

mornin'

Commuting from home mug

Things I liked this week story machine, TIL, known dude, winter books, monkey men, and more

Somethings I liked this week ghost kitchens, mystery seeds, reading highlights, memorable passwords, hockey on a mountain, and more

Somethings I like this week (since it’s Friday in the US).

space, vikings, quiet internet, tactical IA, vaccine fiction, optimism, —, and more: thingstoclick.substack.com/p/somethi…

So I’m trying out Substack if you would like to subscribe for a weekly dose of links.

Frank Moth’s post cards from the future are amazing example:

Runners.

An evening walk, lots of crunchy leaves and some ghosts.

Some things I liked this week (autumnal equinox edition):: Saying goodbye to summer: Sunny Waves Morning vibes /via culture study The last cone of the summer And hello to Fall (and spooky season): Fall In an oldie, but a goodie (very pre-covid vibe though if that kind of thing makes you sad/nervous). Small Seasons to track the seasons within the seasons. …

Some things I liked this week::  Word Notebooks & Pilot G-2 mini pens Tune In, Zone Out, a playlist by Aquarium Drunkard, has been a good work companion this week The last gig of the Beastie Boys, only up for a short time The Tweak New Twitter extension is nice Gelatinous Cube by Andy Helms Typography on Pencils

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Twitter adds all those numbers to the end of usernames

[Shot by Ned is a painting by Peter Brown] (https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/conversations-prize/shot-ned)

Don’t draw the UI, draw the priority instead meaning you should " … write a humble list of priorities for every project: most important info at the top -> least important info at the bottom. So instead of trying to figure out the order of the information in a component—like a card or …

A first person video of walking in a heavy thunderstorm at night in NYC is much more intersting than it sounds. /via chris glass

Landsburg continued to photograph the eruption until the last possible moment, leaving himself enough time to wind up his film into its case, place his camera in its bag, place that bag into his backpack, and lay his body on top of the bag as the final protective layer against the shower of magma …

What it’s like to live in an isolated mountain cabin at the end of an abandoned logging trail.

Now, instead of finished plans, designers must create possibilities for others to design and make; designers must build flexible platforms, defined by patterns and rules for interaction and rules for changing the rules. Instead of making decisions about what and how, designers facilitate …

About Feeds hopes to ‘…become the default “Help! What is this?” link next to every web feed icon on the web.’

The Architecture of Information “collects examples of intriguing information structures from the web and beyond.” Always into anything Jorge Arango does.

What the recommended videos look like on other people’s YouTube home pages. Related to the above, Rabbit Hole is a podcast about what the internet doing to us. The origin of the Success Kid photo. The half-life of 90s music. A primer on affordances in digital work. A set of tiny icons for use …

After listening to Stay Down, Man it sounds like Dan Reeder and I have had similar friends in our past.

Watercolour paintings of TV and movie sets Example:

Shadrach Radio on Spotify. A crunchy mix of 90s music (Ween, Beasties, Primus …) if that’s your thing, enjoy.

Almost everything Caity Weaver looked up on Google or Wikipedia in a week the fun parts are in the footnotes.

Sounds made by humans for your app or whatever. Pops, ticks, nudges, and more.

An old float house in the woods

Typehut another super simple blog “… or newsletter, changelog, press page, devlog, announcements, events or anything else you can imagine.”

Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health “Each swipe through the timeline marks the end of a day of reckoning—for the state of the world at large and for the person attached to each appendage doing the scrolling.”

Analog is “a physical (paper + wood) companion for your digital tools that helps you prioritize and focus on your most important tasks.”

I wish there was a more peaceful feed reader. Something that doesn’t make keeping up with my favorite blogs feel like a chore. So I made a little Figma prototype to illustrate the idea. I call it MARKS and the concept is simple. A list of bookMARKS that lets you know when something is new plus …

Color Craft & Counterpoint: A Designer’s Life with Color Vision Deficiency is a detailed article about the life of a color blind person. I’m also color blind (red/green) and the block below about traffic lights spoke to me. I have problems when lights are blinking red or yellow late at …

Color Copy Paste is a pretty amazing app.

Small Seasons is a nice little website listing nature’s micro seasons. We are currently in the seeds and cereals. “Praying mantises hatch, fireflies come out. Time to seed the soil.” I saw my first fireflies of the summer on my walk last night.

Kicks Condor on blogging “But it’s still worth attempting - like any creative project that might flower into something. That might actually make life worth living.”

One of the Most Striking Photos of the Mount St. Helens Eruption Was Also One of Its Biggest Mysteries wweek.com

In the interest of trying to learn #Figma I started recreating those Lego Computer #UIs that made the rounds recently. If you’d like to have a go at it, here is the link.

From the other side of the bridge interconnected.org

Walkcar is a car you can carry around like a laptop PC.

Collected Notes is another simple blogging platform.

Bear Blog is an extremely lightweight blogging tool.

Passive income for the soul “I now have several forms of passive income: writing, drawing, cooking, exercising, photography. Doing any of these things pays immediate dividends into my mind vault …”

Time for a Walk #walkdaily

Ships from Carnival, Celebrity, and Royal Caribbean now form a strange new archipelago a network of ships “spread out loosely in three groups spanning some 30 miles” west from the Bahamas

Vertical tabs in Firefox

Tab groups in Chrome

Quarantine Goals

A list of good things

A crowd sourced reading list of foundational internet writing /via Laura Olin

Week 19.20: instrumentals, advice, stuff to love, and more: ↑ 9-eyes.com I created a Spotify playlist of mostly instrumental music. Not saying it’s great, but maybe you’ll find something to add to your own “Please Lord, just let me string together an hour of focus time today” playlist. Kevin Kelley’s 68 Bits of Unsolicited …

Jeff Bezos’s wealth gave me carpal tunnel syndrome

What is the job of a contact tracer?: I was reading my state’s Covid-19 recovery plan and was curious about the contact tracing part. Specifically, the job of contact tracing, so I looked up the job posting: Are you a self-motivated, people person looking to make meaningful contributions through work that impacts the nation? NORC …

louie zong

Finding Our Way is a new podcast on design leadership with Jesse James Garrett and Peter Merholz

Paul Ford

Music to listen to while wandering in a dungeon

There is a face house in Japan

A SCHOOL BUS jumping over a whole bunch of motorcycles

[What a beautiful map of California] (https://mobile.twitter.com/geo_spatialist/status/1251671066164056065) including clouds drifting off the coast

One Way to Potentially Track Covid-19? Sewage Surveillance sounds promising

The Sidewalk Weekly podcast is an interesting and light look at urban tech news

Roam is a super nerdy (I mean that in the best possible way) note taking tool that allows multiple ways to interconnect your thoughts

Week 15.20 - media diet, tiny offices, sea creatures, and more: ↑ Current mood, photo by Patrick Joust I just finished The Winter People, a creepy book that toggles between two families, one in 1908 and one in modern times, living in the same haunted/cursed farm house. I just started Terriers on Hulu. It’s like a less psychedelic Big Lebowski meets …

Larry David

MapLab: A Shrinking Mental Map “Under quarantine, the map of my world has shrunk in distance, but if I try hard enough, maybe it doesn’t have to shrink in detail.” 

An interesting nugget from Advice from Ten Years of Leading Remote Teams:

Nails, foggy nights, wave forms, and more: Just doing my part to prevent doomscrolling with these short videos and pretty pictures: Nightime in Pittsburgh // wave forms from a drawing machine // one foggy night // shaking nails, stick with it // tracing murmations

The 404 page for the Information Architecture Conference is fun:

Trains in Motion is a series of photos by Aaron Durand. /via Present & Correct

Still Hiring lists companies with open positions for those job hunting in these tough times. Looks like everything from grocery stores to marketing agencies are listed.

Some things for your eyeballs 👀: Peel Tridents are tiny little cars from the 60s // a map showing river basins in Florida // photos of the remote town of Norilsk in Siberia // tiny 3D scenes from pop culture // MD Eight is a font that seems to go with clackity keyboards + beeps and boops // commuting now

The Short Story Club is like a book club, but for short stories. RSVP, read a short story, and join a live discussion with the author on Zoom. First up, a story from Cory Doctrow. Plus proceeds go towards getting masks to healthcare workers. In.

U.S. Digital Response is looking for volunteers to help State and Local governments with technical support for their COVID-19 response. Types of skills sought include: UX research/design, content strategy, front-end engineering and more.

An integration loop

Really dark mode

Abandoned is a calm (to me) documentary series that “… explores abandoned places with the people who love them long after the lights have gone out.”

A nice conversation with InVision’s Mike Davidson

“The photographs of Joshua Dudley Greer are like small novellas that contain pathos, humor, and unfinished stories.”

🎙️ The latest episode of the podcast Nocturne was all about a group of friends who created a secret apartment in the middle of a mall and lived there for years.

Stoop is like a feed reader, but for email newsletters. I’ve been using it for a couple days, 👍.

“And in just one hour on Sunday, the community passed more than 2,000 books, hand to hand, to the new shop." npr.org

Dense Discovery is a newsletter that provides a “… curated mix of practical and inspirational links at the intersection of tech, design, and culture every Tuesday.” Highly recommend.

The dashboard for a asteroid chasing satelite. Very sci-fi UI.

The hex colors of the woods according to Picular.

A great story about a peach tree, a bear, and the automated podcast machine that was built to keep the bear from eating the peaches. 🍑🐻🎙️

The word of the day is refuturing. Coined and described by Warren Ellis as the “… sense of creating new immediate futures and repopulating the futures space with something entirely divorced from the previous consensus futures.”

This aerial time lapse video of dogs herding sheep is much more insteresting than it sounds. /via studio neat, the makers of the panobook.

Women’s Pockets are Inferior. There is an interactive part of this article where you can drop things into women’s and men’s pockets for comparison (see screenshot below). /via chris glass

Great video by Stephen Hackett, Why I Use Paper Notebooks in 2018. I’ll throw a plug out for Word. notebooks, another pocket notebook. I like the pre-made bullets:

Uses this is “a collection of nerdy interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done.” Very interesting to see how other people work.

From A Mirrored Mexican Home Hides Among a Lush Forest.

If your math works out like ours, you’ll end up with about one hour and 12 minutes a day for focused, productive work. Oh, that’s depressing.

🎵 My good friend Steve makes awesome loops and beats. Like this one that uses a sample from a Greatful Dead song. Enjoy!

Al Boardman - maker of fine animated gifs.

text.fyi let’s you publish something to the web with " … no tracking, ad-tech, webfonts, analytics, javascript, cookies, databases, user accounts, comments, friending, likes, follower counts or other quantifiers of social capital."

GIjoe365 is an art project by Chris Hemsworth who decided to draw the great 80s GI Joe action figures (example above). Super fun nostalgia trip!

Beth Dean’s home page is pure retro fun.

Huh, soup.io is still around.

Arron Reynolds (the creator of awesome Twitters like @swear_trek) tells the story of declaring his social media accounts when he visited America: I started with a softball: @DirtyPianoNames. “There’s only one tweet here and it says Yuja Wang.” “Yes, that’s …

He loves these

Freehand from InVision is pretty awesome. The Shape Detection during the draw mode is really smooth.

The “Int-Ball” is a bit larger than a softball, can float and maneuver by itself but also be controlled remotely, can take high resolution images and videos. /via apod.nasa.gov

I got a peak at a dead mall in my town today. Creepy. One of the creators of the Blair Witch wanted to film a movie in the mall, but I don’t think it went anywhere. Bonus link: a drone’s eye view of the mall.

Muzzle’s landing page is pretty funny.

The Panobook is a paneramic notebook for your desk. Backed. Also, I have a notebook problem.

I highly recommend doing “quick Twitter”

Mike D of the Beastie Boys writes about his crib for Architectural Digest

Because I’m Me by the Avalanches. Great song, great video, happy Friday!

Anyone out there try to get their Pinboard rss feeds into micro.blog?

I really like The Case Study Club, but it acts like a link farm for Medium. 11 out of 12 case studies on the site’s homepage are links to Medium articles. That’s not a dig at CSC, more of an example of the current state of web publishing.

40 Years of Hip Hop — That. Was. Awesome (said in Chris Farley fanboy voice).

Internet

Watching the new Samurai Jack with my eldest son, great way to close out the weekend.

Any suggestions out there on hooking Instagram into micro.blog?

International

Craig Mod has a new podcast about making books called On Margins. The first episode is an interesting interview with Jan Chipchase1 about his new book The Field Study Handbook. Aside, I’m pretty sure Chipchase is a William Gibson character from the Blue Ant series. ↩︎

Hi @manton the permalinks to posts I import via RSS dont seem to work. Could be on my end though.

Wow! Great game by Wall and the Wizards!