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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 observations is a good starting point for giving feedback. The trouble arises when we assume that those observations are both the start and the end, that we’re walking along a very short track.” From What you see by Mandy Brown. Can I say how much I appreciate everything changes? Lot’s of thoughtful writing!

• The website for the restaurant, Madeline’s is just so great. I was thinking the receipt concept would break down with deeper navigation, but nope!

• Lake Superior should really be considered an inland sea that is “wild, masterful, and dreaded.”

• Ok, I want this van.

🏘️ 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 isn’t all that hard, apparently; you just have to pretend you’re a bot. That’s what IT Brew’s Tom McKay did when he left Gizmodo in 2022, and he went undetected by the site’s management for months.”

📺 “Few cable and satellite networks are a force anymore, the byproduct of sudden changes in how people entertain themselves. Several have lost more than half their audiences in a decade. They’ve essentially become ghost networks, filling their schedules with reruns and barely trying to push toward anything new.”

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 in!
• Reading fiction can make you a better person: “Research suggests that fictional books may effectively be empathy-building tools, offering us the closest we can get to first-hand knowledge of someone else’s experience.”
• Meta Rediscovers the Cubicle: “To be fair, the company takes pains to argue that their solution is not cubicles, because, well, the walls are curved, and they are made out of fancier, sound-absorbing materials. Sure. Okay…” Solving a problem they made. The ultimate fireman/arsonist.
• Everything else!

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.