Sunday, August 20 » Walter Cronkite reports on the 1979 solar eclipse
Sunday, August 20 » Solar eclipse myth busted: it’s perfectly safe for kids to be outside during an ec...
Sunday, August 20 » A simulated “play-by-play” of a total eclipse
Friday, August 18 » Viewing a total solar eclipse from an airplane
Friday, August 18 » Heritage, racism, and Confederate flags in New England
Friday, August 18 » This Book Is a Planetarium
Friday, August 18 » How to predict total solar eclipses
Thursday, August 17 » Infographic of the fascinating timeline of the far future
Thursday, August 17 » The paradox of tolerance
Thursday, August 17 » Characters saying the opening quotes from The Wire
Wednesday, August 16 » Oddly Ikea (aka Ikea ASMR)
Wednesday, August 16 » Become a member of kottke.org today
Wednesday, August 16 » Freaks and Geeks and the 70s-ness of the early 80s
Wednesday, August 16 » A tour of our solar system’s eclipses
Tuesday, August 15 » Scientists think the first Americans arrived by boat
Tuesday, August 15 » Prince gets his own Pantone color
Tuesday, August 15 » How to make a blockbuster movie trailer
Tuesday, August 15 » Solar eclipse searches match the path of totality
Tuesday, August 15 » From VICE News Tonight and HBO, an up-close look at the terrorism in Charlottesville
Monday, August 14 » More Primitive Technology: sandals, prawn traps, and water hammers
Monday, August 14 » Philip Glass: Piano Works by Víkingur Ólafsson
Monday, August 14 » The Death of Stalin
Friday, August 11 » The shyness of trees
Friday, August 11 » Hilarious recipe videos in the style of famous directors
Friday, August 11 » Today’s Google logo is a set of playable turntables
Friday, August 11 » Trailer for season 2 of The Crown
Thursday, August 10 » A digital archive of Soviet children’s books 1917-1953
Thursday, August 10 » Recreating the Loot Train Battle from Game of Thrones
Thursday, August 10 » The size of life: the differing scales of living things
Thursday, August 10 » Karl Ove Knausgaard on his favorite kind of gum
Wednesday, August 9 » A day at the office, in miniature
Wednesday, August 9 » Faces projected onto fabric tossed in the air
Wednesday, August 9 » The Vietnam War documentary series by Ken Burns
Wednesday, August 9 » Two hot dogs in a bun
Tuesday, August 8 » Huge trove of digitized 78rpm records
Tuesday, August 8 » Hilarious robot-generated Pepsi logo t-shirts
Tuesday, August 8 » Yes, barbed wire fenced cows but also provided telecommunications
Tuesday, August 8 » People are awesome, even in 2017
Tuesday, August 8 » X-ray maps of NYC subway stations
Monday, August 7 » Obama, An Intimate Portrait by White House photographer Pete Souza
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
Friday, November 13 » Emoji Party
make your own , click to party
Wednesday, November 11 » Photojojo's Amit Gupta at XOXO
one of the most moving talks we've ever had
Wednesday, November 11 » Vox Product's employee Code of Conduct
on Github , too [ via ]
Wednesday, November 11 » #ALLMYMOVIES
watch Shia LaBeouf watch every Shia Labeouf movie in reverse-chronological order, 24 ho...
Monday, November 9 » Max Temkin on why Hello from the Magic Tavern is amazing
they performed live at XOXO this year, and it was glorious
Monday, November 9 » 12 Weird, Excellent Twitter Bots Chosen by Twitter's Best Bot-Makers
several of my favorites are in here
Saturday, November 7 » Dumb Cuneiform
convert tweets to actual clay tablets; yes, this is real
Friday, November 6 » Robin Sloan on the dystopian vibes of Uber-for-food startups
there are alternatives , empowering indie cooks and bringing neighborhoods together
Friday, November 6 » Keynote Motion Graphic Experiment
Linda Dong shows off animation tools in Keynote, and the file for download
Thursday, November 5 » Reconsider
DHH's epic rant against disruption culture; related: Jennifer Daniel's Design Is Capita...
Thursday, November 5 » Suck, Again
fan-made newsletter reissuing Suck.com columns, 20 years later to the day
Wednesday, November 4 » iTunes Terms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel
the complete legal agreement, drawn in the style of famous cartoonists
Monday, November 2 » Daily Dot on @1995regi, a webcomic told on Instagram
related: the newly-launched Glitched , a comic told entirely through Twitter
Friday, October 30 » C. Spike Trotman at XOXO
one of the best talks we've ever had; also, Dooce and The Toast's Mallory Ortberg
Friday, October 30 » Bob Ross marathon on Twitch
currently at 60,000 viewers, promoting the launch of Twitch Creative
Friday, October 30 » Twitch Installs Arch Linux
a cooperative text-based horror game
Tuesday, October 27 » Inside story of SXSW's Gamergate debacle
worse than I could have imagined
Tuesday, October 27 » Celery Man Simulator
add sequence: OYSTER
Tuesday, October 27 » Medium's stack
in a footnote, nice to hear they're working on tools for writers to make money next
Tuesday, October 27 » Remembering XOXO 2015
our yearly recap; also, just posted the first XOXO talk, Heather Armstrong on sharing h...