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

“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.

A man and his cigar on whatever comes our way

Air ︎ Travel Design Guide The Air Travel Design Guide is a guidebook for airport stakeholders, designers, and air travel enthusiasts, which…

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)

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…

(mostly) abandoned blogs

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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…

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.

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.