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!

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!

• 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 Villager by Tom Cox. A psychedelic collection of stories about a small town on the moors and the people who live there. Neat concept, but if you read it make sure you do it at a consistent clip. I feel like some of the characters references between shorts may have been lost on me. Reading a book around the holidays can be a little choppy. Also, I want to take this opportunity to suggest Tom Cox’s other short story collection, Help the Witch. Just a really great collection of ghost stories and other oddities.
• I’ve also been diving back into Designing Connected Content. I need to brush up on my content and domain modeling for a complex project helping an academic medical center get their arms around a huge ecosystem of digital properties. The book is great! A super nerdy (I mean this in a good way) approach to researching and designing content.
• The melibe viridis is such an alien creature. I literally said whoa when I watched this little clip of it eating!
• I enjoyed reading Starting Off the New Year Without a Smartphone. As a Light Phone user myself, I’m glad they are getting more press so people know there are other options.
• This episode of Hidden Brain was very interesting. “Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. He says there are things we can do to make sure our choices align with our deepest values.”

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.

📷 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

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