Doorways: This and that.

ClipArt ETC provides students and teachers with over 71,500 pieces of quality educational clipart. Higher quality then expected.

Creep Mart features creepy, A.I. generated toys.

How bravely autumn paints upon the sky by Edward McKnight Kauffer

From Challenge Coins by Trevor Paglen

Unordered, incomplete list of things I want from a job by Lynn Fisher.

The Cabinet of Wikipedian Curiosities.

I picked up An Illustrated History of Ghosts featuring the awesome art (and words) of Adam Allsuch Boardman.

From Open Circuits

USPS Skateboard Stamps

How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the billionaires. Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don’t buy much. Their smartphones are six versions behind and have badly cracked screens. They fix bicycles, then they talk about fixing bicycles, then they show their friend, who just came over for no reason, how they fixed their bicycle, and their friend says, “Wow, good job,” and they make tea. That doesn’t seem like enough to build a town square on.

From God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter

Remembering De La Soul

De La Soul’s Trugoy the Dove Dies at 54

So incredibly sad.

Here is an interview with producer Prince Paul about the making of De La Soul’s first album.

Also, mark your calendars for March 3rd when De La Soul’s music is finally coming to streaming.

A sports reporter tracks down the defenders who picked off Super Bowl quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, during his senior year of high school.

The Teenager Leading the Smartphone Liberation Movement. An episode of the First Person podcast.

By Illustrator - J. Marshall Smith

Somewhere in NY, 1973.

Let a website be a worry stone.

forgetting is a filter

I’m increasingly convinced that a much more relaxed approach to knowledge consumption – one that involves putting way less pressure on yourself to retain what you read, listen to, or watch – isn’t only more enjoyable, but better for your creative output, too. The first reason for this is that forgetting is a filter.

Oliver Burkeman from his newsletter The Imperfectionist: How to forget what you read

A tiny sci-fi story by @smllwrlds

Beadz is an experimental, polymetric drum machine, built with web technologies. Looks super fun and the aesthetic is great.