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  • Week 15.20 - media diet, tiny offices, sea creatures, and more

    ↑ Current mood, photo by Patrick Joust

    • I just finished The Winter People, a creepy book that toggles between two families, one in 1908 and one in modern times, living in the same haunted/cursed farm house.

    • I just started Terriers on Hulu. It’s like a less psychedelic Big Lebowski meets 80s/90s detective show.

    • These little animated excercising stick figures are awesome, bonus points for an excercise regime you can do in a “postage-stamp flat”

    • I wonder if I could get a bunch of these mini-offices, one for each family member

    • The humble text field gets some design love

    • Whereby, a Zoom alternative

    • A rainy night in some Portuguese village

    • Stories to wash your hands by

    • What a strange sea beast

    “These days do feel long, but the year will be short.” - Emmet Connolly

    → 10:09 AM, Apr 10

  • Larry David

    → 10:51 AM, Apr 6

  • MapLab: A Shrinking Mental Map

    “Under quarantine, the map of my world has shrunk in distance, but if I try hard enough, maybe it doesn’t have to shrink in detail.” 

    → 9:21 AM, Apr 5

  • An interesting nugget from Advice from Ten Years of Leading Remote Teams:

    → 10:29 AM, Apr 3

  • Nails, foggy nights, wave forms, and more

    Just doing my part to prevent doomscrolling with these short videos and pretty pictures:

    Nightime in Pittsburgh // wave forms from a drawing machine // one foggy night // shaking nails, stick with it // tracing murmations

    → 3:42 PM, Apr 2

  • The 404 page for the Information Architecture Conference is fun:

    → 9:26 AM, Apr 2

  • Trains in Motion is a series of photos by Aaron Durand. /via Present & Correct

    → 5:03 PM, Apr 1

  • Still Hiring lists companies with open positions for those job hunting in these tough times. Looks like everything from grocery stores to marketing agencies are listed.

    → 11:54 AM, Apr 1

  • Some things for your eyeballs 👀

    Peel Tridents are tiny little cars from the 60s // a map showing river basins in Florida // photos of the remote town of Norilsk in Siberia // tiny 3D scenes from pop culture // MD Eight is a font that seems to go with clackity keyboards + beeps and boops // commuting now

    → 1:13 PM, Mar 31

  • The Short Story Club is like a book club, but for short stories. RSVP, read a short story, and join a live discussion with the author on Zoom. First up, a story from Cory Doctrow. Plus proceeds go towards getting masks to healthcare workers. In.

    → 8:17 PM, Mar 30

  • U.S. Digital Response is looking for volunteers to help State and Local governments with technical support for their COVID-19 response. Types of skills sought include: UX research/design, content strategy, front-end engineering and more.

    → 2:45 PM, Mar 30

  • An integration loop

    → 9:09 PM, Mar 29

  • Really dark mode

    → 9:15 AM, Mar 27

  • Abandoned is a calm (to me) documentary series that “… explores abandoned places with the people who love them long after the lights have gone out.”

    → 11:14 AM, Mar 26

  • A nice conversation with InVision’s Mike Davidson

    → 11:09 AM, Mar 26

  • “The photographs of Joshua Dudley Greer are like small novellas that contain pathos, humor, and unfinished stories.”

    → 10:06 AM, Mar 26

  • 🎙️ The latest episode of the podcast Nocturne was all about a group of friends who created a secret apartment in the middle of a mall and lived there for years.

    → 10:21 PM, Dec 12

  • Stoop is like a feed reader, but for email newsletters. I’ve been using it for a couple days, 👍.

    → 9:43 PM, Nov 24

  • “And in just one hour on Sunday, the community passed more than 2,000 books, hand to hand, to the new shop.”

    npr.org

    → 11:49 PM, Nov 14

  • Dense Discovery is a newsletter that provides a “… curated mix of practical and inspirational links at the intersection of tech, design, and culture every Tuesday.” Highly recommend.

    → 8:19 PM, Oct 23

  • The dashboard for a asteroid chasing satelite. Very sci-fi UI.

    → 3:10 PM, Oct 16

  • The hex colors of the woods according to Picular.

    → 5:06 PM, Aug 28

  • A great story about a peach tree, a bear, and the automated podcast machine that was built to keep the bear from eating the peaches. 🍑🐻🎙️

    → 9:25 PM, Aug 22

  • The word of the day is refuturing. Coined and described by Warren Ellis as the “… sense of creating new immediate futures and repopulating the futures space with something entirely divorced from the previous consensus futures.”

    → 4:23 PM, Aug 21

  • This aerial time lapse video of dogs herding sheep is much more insteresting than it sounds. /via studio neat, the makers of the panobook.

    → 2:06 PM, Aug 17
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