Wednesday, April 17 » Letter from the editors of Scientific American: We Need to Make Cities...
Wednesday, April 17 » CCTV Footage Cross-Stitch
Wednesday, April 17 » PodcastAP allows you to follow podcasts and music feeds in the fediverse....
Wednesday, April 17 » I don’t really know how to describe this but here goes: Tavi...
Wednesday, April 17 » This sounds really good: astrophysicist Katie Mack and curious person John Green...
Wednesday, April 17 » Drawing Media, an Interview With Nick Catucci
Wednesday, April 17 » Matthew Haughey: Embrace the Weird. “Who cares? Just make weird shit.”...
Wednesday, April 17 » An appreciation of Calvin and Hobbes and its creator Bill Watterson by...
Wednesday, April 17 » Are the Kids Alright When They Grow Up?
Wednesday, April 17 » The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”, an excerpt from Abrahm Lustga...
Tuesday, April 16 » The homicide rate continues to plummet in major American cities. “The nation...
Tuesday, April 16 » How Candles Are Made
Tuesday, April 16 » Apparently you can teach rats to drive tiny cars? Chef Gusteau: “Anyone...
Tuesday, April 16 » E-bike subsidies should be more widespread, following the lead of Colorado ($450...
Tuesday, April 16 » Eric Topol interviews Jennifer Doudna on the bright future of genome editing...
Tuesday, April 16 » The Longest Total Solar Eclipse Ever (73 Minutes!)
Tuesday, April 16 » A brief history of the LAN party. In the 90s, if you...
Tuesday, April 16 » So, I saw Civil War last night and while it’s well-made with...
Tuesday, April 16 » Today’s Work Music: Philip Glass Solo
Tuesday, April 16 » I do not think people should keep octopuses as pets, but I...
Monday, April 15 » Lessons from a First Time EV Owner. This jibes with my experience....
Monday, April 15 » 90 Women Photographers Celebrate Jane Goodall’s 90th Birthday
Monday, April 15 » New favorite vocabulary word: wankpanzer (basically, “tank for jerks”)...
Monday, April 15 » “May thy knife chop and shatter.” A quick update on Choppke’s (m...
Monday, April 15 » High-Diving Penguin Chicks
Monday, April 15 » Love this Letterboxd movie list title: “Definitely there was love, oh but...
Monday, April 15 » US courts & legislatures are giving women the curse of time travel...
Monday, April 15 » End-Stage Poverty Is Killing People in Safety Net-Free America
Monday, April 15 » Always a good day to read Daniel Radcliffe’s open letter to J.K....
Monday, April 15 » A Pareto analysis of the best driver/kart build you can drive in...
Monday, April 15 » As optical illusions go, this is pretty good....
Monday, April 15 » Papyrus 2: A Bold New Look for Avatar
Monday, April 15 » So kottke[dot]org had some significant downtime this weekend but it seems to...
Friday, April 12 » Proudly Second Best!
Friday, April 12 » Starting in 1978, a high school science teacher told his students that...
Friday, April 12 » Liam Neeson is starring in a Naked Gun reboot? Why? Is it...
Friday, April 12 » Mount Etna Volcano Blowing Perfect Smoke Rings
Friday, April 12 » Why don’t we have solar eclipses every month? Because we don’t deserve...
Friday, April 12 » Jamelle Bouie on the inappropriate use of the presumed intent of the...
Friday, April 12 » 20 Minutes of Charles Schulz Drawing Peanuts Comics
Friday, April 12 » Moira Donegan: “OJ Simpson died the comfortable death in old age that...
Friday, April 12 » This “overexposed” photo of the total eclipse by Randy Olson is just...
Friday, April 12 » The UN’s climate chief says governments, business leaders and development ba...
Thursday, April 11 » Viral Videos I Missed: Is This Available? (Attorney General)
Thursday, April 11 » Take a Letter Maria, the Live Audience Music Video
Thursday, April 11 » What’s Happening Now That Might Only Make Sense in 1,200 Years?
Thursday, April 11 » It’s National Card & Letter Writing Month (
Thursday, April 11 » Diary Comics, Dec. 6-8
Thursday, April 11 » What Are the Odds?
Thursday, April 11 » It works! Three men stranded on a tiny Pacific island for more...
Thursday, April 11 » How to Be a Climate Activist Even Though You’re Too Shy to...
Thursday, April 11 » I’m the Draft List at This Brewery and No, You Can’t Have...
Thursday, April 11 » The Pyramids of Giza, Shrouded in Mist
Thursday, April 11 » Capricious social media algorithms are modern-day Greek gods: “Oh my crops f...
Thursday, April 11 » “Men who say they are pro-life and want to reduce or eliminate...
Wednesday, April 10 » The Function of Colour in Factories, Schools & Hospitals (1930)
Wednesday, April 10 » Adam Moss and the Creative Process
Wednesday, April 10 » A map of the “foreign” origins of our global diet. “You cannot...
Wednesday, April 10 » The saga of the Coyote vs. Acme movie and what it says...
Wednesday, November 25 » Kamra's Deja Vu
real-time face manipulation in the form of a music video [ via ]
Wednesday, November 25 » Nicky Case's Emoji Simulator
Vi Hart made a pretty complicated one
Wednesday, November 25 » xkcd's Hoverboard
it's bigger than it looks
Wednesday, November 25 » Bret Victor goes deep on what technologists can do about climate change
"despair is not useful. Despair is paralysis, and there's work to be done"
Wednesday, November 25 » Donald Trump's skid towards outright fascism
I hope Nate Silver's right , but Trump's gone from mildly amusing to scary pretty quick...
Monday, November 23 » Jason Scott on the Infocom Cabinet
staggering collection of Infocom history , now on Archive.org
Monday, November 23 » NeuralTalk and Walk
Kyle McDonald walks around Amsterdam with a neural net trying to describe what it sees ...
Sunday, November 22 » How Reddit Talks
n-gram analysis of Reddit comments from 2007-2015
Friday, November 20 » Operation Wonderland
re-enacting reference footage for Alice in Wonderland; actual reference shots here
Friday, November 20 » Line of Sight
live visualization of satellites in the line of sight above us; more info here [ via ]&...
Friday, November 20 » Gay Island
homophobic Tumblr post turns into dystopian young adult sci-fi
Thursday, November 19 » Behind-the-scenes story of Google Pac-Man background audio bug in 2010
bizarre confluence of browser plugin and bad design choices
Thursday, November 19 » Paint Drying
force the British film board to watch paint drying; currently at six hours, six minutes...
Tuesday, November 17 » Valleywag "permanently shuttered" in Gawker refocusing
I fully expect someone else to fill this niche soon
Tuesday, November 17 » Unfollow
Adrian Chen on Megan Phelps-Roper, a former Westboro Baptist member that found empathy ...
Monday, November 16 » Rdio to shut down in wake of Pandora acquisition
I always preferred Spotify's listening model, but the loss of a good competitor is a bu...
Monday, November 16 » Maciej Ceglowski live-tweets the Next:Economy conference
if the whole bookmarking thing doesn't work out, he has a great future in conference co...
Monday, November 16 » VR Guitar
the race is on for the first full VR band
Sunday, November 15 » mirror lake
stunning generative art by Katie Rose Pipkin
Friday, November 13 » Eight Sensible Gifts for Hanukkah
always fun to receive little surprises in the mail from a bunch of weirdos