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 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.”
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 Substack/Medium or Snow Fall and I didn’t want to pattern kottke.org after either of those things. I don’t want to write articles — I want to blog.
My response? 🤘!!!
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.
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 🔥.
Mixtape garden let’s you make mixtapes with others.
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.
I miss human curation. Same, I’m doing my best at thingstoclick.com!
Lee Friedlander’s black-and-white photography is odd, occasionally nsfw, and interesting. /via meanwhile