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  • 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, they’re kinda sacred to me.” She appreciates the time, effort, and gesture of a good city doc, and tries to repay the favor: If anyone shares a doc with her, she’ll offer one of hers in return.

    → 11:39 AM, Nov 5

  • 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.

    → 11:35 AM, Nov 5

  • 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 Vogel Gonzalez’s illustrations.
    • An experiment with giving out potatoes to trick or treaters.
    • A concept to break procrastination.
    • Some objects I covet: Nike C1TY “Surplus” shoes, El Oso Bear Tee, the Kobo Clara Colour, and the book Assembling Tomorrow.
    → 3:50 PM, Nov 4

  • 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 robber from the early 1900s, named Elmer McCurdy

    What a wild story from The Atlas Obscura Podcast!

    → 10:47 AM, Oct 31

  • photo of a computer science themed playground

    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

    → 10:18 AM, Oct 23

  • 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.

    → 10:26 AM, Oct 18

  • 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."

    → 10:52 AM, Oct 17

  • Halloween by Bo Bartlett /via MLTSHP.

    More things of the spooky variety if you are interested.

    → 9:28 AM, Oct 15



  • You Only Have One Life : r/LiminalSpace

    → 3:24 PM, Oct 14



  • Samwise Gangee Backpack by Brad Hansen

    → 3:24 PM, Oct 14



  • Alex Tomlinson

    → 3:23 PM, Oct 14



  • @jonbilous • Scenes in downtown Worcester

    → 3:23 PM, Oct 14

  • OtherNetwork

    OtherNetwork:

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

    → 12:34 PM, Oct 14

  • 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.

    → 12:14 PM, Oct 14

  • "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

    → 12:13 PM, Oct 14

  • "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.”

    - into the wreck

    → 9:00 AM, Oct 14

  • 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.

    Into the wreck

    → 10:52 AM, Oct 11

  • 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.”

    → 12:16 PM, Oct 9

  • 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!”

    → 12:45 PM, Oct 8

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

    → 12:44 PM, Oct 8

  • Clarity hacks

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

    → 4:53 PM, Oct 7

  • A History of Link Blogs

    → 1:36 PM, Oct 7

  • Bullshit Numbers

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

    → 1:35 PM, Oct 7

  • five.sentenc.es

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

    → 1:25 PM, Oct 7



  • Peter Fischli / David Weiss: How to Work Better

    → 3:14 PM, Sep 24
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