| 2024-05-18 |
The History of Tetris World Records |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-18 |
“A [2022] report adds to a growing line of research showing that... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-18 |
Here’s something that I believe without any evidence to back it up:... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-17 |
Whoa, classic console emulators work on Apple TV now? (In other words,... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-17 |
Danny MacAskill Goes Mountain Biking With Friends in Scotland |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-17 |
This week in crossword history (1924): Cross-Word Puzzlers to Hold [10-Letter Word... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-17 |
In case anyone else is on a bedside lamp acquisition journey, I... |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-17 |
One Strange Side Effect of Parenting |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-17 |
Addicted to Exercise? |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-17 |
The 40-hour workweek isn’t “a biological necessity,” per a recent episode of... |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-17 |
Diary Comics, Dec. 26-28 |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-17 |
Cicadas and Prime Numbers |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-17 |
The movies that influenced Star Wars, from Flash Gordon & Buck Rogers... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-16 |
Trailer for Season Two of The Rings of Power |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-16 |
I Was Shot in Vermont. What if It Had Been in the... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-16 |
Scope of Work is holding a contest around the idea of “umarelling”,... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-16 |
Pulitzer Prize in Fiction juror Michael Chabon recommended three non-winning books that... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-16 |
On Sports Parenting |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-16 |
Tracing the history of emoji, surprisingly, back to the 80s. “Once you... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-16 |
Delia Brown’s Portraits |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-16 |
Paul Ford writing about AI is a treat. “AI is, very simply,... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-16 |
“My love of farm-fresh frozen confections does not outweigh my distaste for... |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-16 |
The Trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-16 |
TIL that some tiny bits of bitcoins are more valuable than others.... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-16 |
Whoa, a 5500-piece Lego set of the tower of Barad-dûr from LoTR.... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-16 |
Google is replacing their search results with AI answers. There’s a very... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-15 |
Hot Frank Summer Starts Now! |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-15 |
Love this phrase: decanting groceries. “Do you really want to spend your... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-15 |
Hey, if you’re looking for a well-designed (and free!) ebook of Frankenstein... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-14 |
Out Sick Today |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-14 |
This is a good piece about third places (“settings a person frequents... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-14 |
“Just 27% of civilian workers in the U.S. get paid family leave.... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-14 |
The Kids Are Right (and Alright) |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-14 |
Lauren Groff has opened a bookstore called The Lynx. “As book bans... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-14 |
Currently listening to Atavista, a “new” album from Childish Gambino (which he... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-14 |
Incredible fact: none of the Big Three US automakers makes a sedan... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-14 |
The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-13 |
Geologist finds setting for Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. “Art historians said Leonardo always... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-13 |
A new LoTR movie is coming: Andy Serkis is starring and directing... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-13 |
The Sky Was Purple and Red and Yellow and On Fire |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-11 |
Patriarchy According to The Barbie Movie |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-11 |
We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-11 |
A lovely essay: Variations on the Theme of Silence. “I’ve begun to... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-11 |
Seabike is an “underwater mobility device” that can propel you through the... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-11 |
NASA Visualization of Flying Into a Supermassive Black Hole |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-11 |
A neat technique to rebuild roads using a movable temporary bridge —... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-11 |
A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair. “Learning to fix bicycles... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-11 |
Miranda Lambert’s “Wranglers” & Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-11 |
AI Copilots Are Changing How Coding Is Taught; they can “free up... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-10 |
Some tips for long walks. “We’re prone to lean forward when we... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-10 |
The Lowest Possible Score in Super Mario Bros |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-10 |
I missed this from last year: the original “on the internet, nobody... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-10 |
Spring and Summer Skies by Amy Jean Porter |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-10 |
Romanian Singer Maria Coman |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-10 |
Take Two Trips |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-10 |
This is the first I’m learning of the spookily named Decline at... |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-10 |
Diary Comics, Dec. 21-25 |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-10 |
“I maintain that the trash compactor onboard the Death Star in Star... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-09 |
Wes Anderson’s Montblanc Commercial |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-09 |
It’s Time to Tax the Billionaires. In 2018, “for the first time... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-09 |
The Gentle Librarian |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-09 |
Hackers can reprogram NES Tetris *from within the game*, which may lead... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-09 |
After launching last month, the Delta game emulator has been one of... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-09 |
Attempting to thwart ticket scalpers, Billie Eilish is selling supposedly “untransferable” tickets... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-09 |
Fantastical Portraits of Cate Blanchett |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-09 |
I’d missed that Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend now has a graphic... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-09 |
Parents Micro-Targeted by Their Kids’ Hand-Drawn Ads on Facebook |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-08 |
The Cheese-Making Magic of Alka-Seltzer, Explained. You can make a creamy nacho... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-08 |
A short essay on freediving. “In the mindful state of freediving, I... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-08 |
“For the first time ever, more online news sites produced Pulitzer finalists... |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-08 |
How Rope Was Made the Old Fashioned Way |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-08 |
New Pompeii excavations reveal frescoes & mosaics about the Trojan War. “The... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-08 |
The Light Eaters and Plant Intelligence |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-08 |
I’ve known Anil Dash for 20+ years and I still keep finding... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-08 |
Did you know that “Broccolini” is actually a registered trademark of Del... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-08 |
An Update on the Beloved Broccoli Tree |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-07 |
Thanks to a newly deciphered Herculaneum scroll, researchers have pinpointed the location... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-07 |
This is the goofiest, dorkiest advertising/marketing I’ve ever seen from Apple —... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-07 |
A North Yorkshire county authority banned apostrophes on street signs because they... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-07 |
The Shardlake Series |
Edith Zimmerman |
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| 2024-05-07 |
Hi, I am Needs to Read About A Rap Beef in the... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-07 |
Zadie Smith: “To send the police in to arrest young people peacefully... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-07 |
Squaring the Reality of What We See |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-07 |
Hey everyone, it’s Hot Frank Summer! Aka we’re all reading Mary Shelley’s... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-07 |
Booting up an Apple IIc to play Lode Runner. Oh maaaaaan, this... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-07 |
These folks wrote an autopilot in Javascript that can control planes in... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-07 |
Skating the Contours of Nature |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-07 |
Oh cool, spiders can swim now. “The diving bell spider is the... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-06 |
Wondering why “people invent false conspiracies when there are so many real... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-06 |
Jason Polan: I Want to Know All of You |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-06 |
The trailer for Senna, a Netflix limited series about Brazilian F1 driver... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-04 |
Road Snacks #2 — Jack Van Cleaf |
Aaron Cohen |
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| 2024-05-04 |
Looking to relax or fall asleep? Try Sleep Baseball (aka “baseball radio... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-04 |
A Calming Visit to Claude Monet’s Famed Gardens in Giverny |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-04 |
From designer Frank Chimero, a list of stuff he learned in his... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-04 |
Jack Kerouac’s 30-item list of Belief and Technique for Modern Prose, including... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-04 |
The Flashlight Gun Is Peak WTF America |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-04 |
From 1912 to 1952, the Olympics gave out medals for the arts... |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-03 |
The Art of Work in the Age of AI Production |
Jason Kottke |
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| 2024-05-03 |
Designing a 3D-Printed Rollercoaster Clock. “I used to play tons of Rollercoaster... |
Jason Kottke |
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