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Ok, I think I have to move back to NYC (at least...
9 hours, 36 minutes agoOk, I think I have to move back to NYC (at least for Sept.) because this Big & Loud series sounds amaaaazing: films like Lawrence of Arabia, Close Encounters, 2001, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Matrix, Fury Road, etc. in 70mm + Dolby Atmos. Wow!
The Evolution of How Rappers Construct Their Rhymes
11 hours, 1 minute agoIn this video, Vox’s Estelle Caswell and Martin Conner break down how rappers construct their rhymes and how it’s changed and evolved since rap’s early days. As someone who doesn’t know a whole lot about music and even less about rapping but appreciates both, this was super entertaining and …
Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date. “Over millennia, our...
12 hours, 13 minutes agoYour Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date. “Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.” (I actually wrote about this 26 years ago.)
Reviews of the best mp3 players you can buy in 2025. “MP3...
12 hours, 54 minutes agoReviews of the best mp3 players you can buy in 2025. “MP3 players — or digital audio players, as they should more accurately be called — are seeing a small resurgence…”
Why AI Narrators Will Never Be Able to Tell a Real Human...
13 hours, 37 minutes agoWhy AI Narrators Will Never Be Able to Tell a Real Human Story. “Narrating audiobooks today is the closest thing to that primal art form. One person, one voice, spinning a tale for another.”
Objects From Films
14 hours, 17 minutes ago
Artist and poet Marcus Merritt draws objects from films — the TV above is from E.T. and the payphone is from Terminator 2.
I very much dig the spare illustration style here. (via waxy)
Tags: art · Marcus Merritt · movies
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Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape. “Recently, disposable vapes have gotten...
15 hours, 5 minutes agoHosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape. “Recently, disposable vapes have gotten more advanced”; some have USB-C and rechargeable batteries.
Dataguessr. “This game is inspired by the work of Gapminder and Our...
15 hours, 52 minutes agoDataguessr. “This game is inspired by the work of Gapminder and Our World in Data. It uses data to give you a better understanding of the state of the world.”
TypePad is closing down at the end of the month and Phil...
17 hours, 24 minutes agoTypePad is closing down at the end of the month and Phil Gyford has shared the process for downloading a TypePad blog (so that you can turn it into “a pretty self-contained ‘static HTML’ site”).
Coulou’s Vinyl Cafe (No. 1)
18 hours, 16 minutes agoThis is not some AI-generated to-study-to jazz video; it’s a guy who really likes jazz playing a bunch of records from his extensive collection.
over the years i’ve built a small but reallllly incredible and meaningful record collection, spanning from jazz, classical, a great folk collection from …
Defiant nuns flee care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps....
19 hours, 26 minutes agoDefiant nuns flee care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps. “‘Before I die in that old people’s home, I would rather go to a meadow and enter eternity that way,’ said Sister Bernadette.” (Someone get a screenplay going on this…)
Karen Attiah: “The Washington Post Fired Me”
21 hours, 15 minutes agoFormer Washington Post opinion columnist Karen Attiah this morning on Bluesky: “I’ve been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.” Until the Post’s relatively recent shift towards the right, Attiah had been a pivotal figure at the paper:
I am perhaps …
Radical Neighbouring. “The food from this place has been offered as a...
3 days, 14 hours agoRadical Neighbouring. “The food from this place has been offered as a gift to the neighbours and strangers who find their way here. Welcome to the farm where nothing is for sale.”
How to Navigate a City Without Street Addresses
3 days, 15 hours agoDirecciones is a short documentary about how giving directions works in Costa Rica, where “a centralized system for street addresses does not exist”. Instead, people use landmarks as reference points when giving directions. Here’s a postal worker talking about how some senders use outdated location markers to send letters:
…How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism. “As a...
3 days, 15 hours agoHow Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism. “As a target of anti-Semitism…the Jewish scientist was well aware of the harm that discrimination inflicts, and sought to use his platform to speak out against the mistreatment of others.”
David Friedman on how he created a fun little game called Doomscroll....
3 days, 16 hours agoDavid Friedman on how he created a fun little game called Doomscroll. “I’m not a coder, but I enjoy how vibe coding lets me turn an idea into something real. So naturally, I turned to vibe coding for this. It didn’t work.”
The Hive Architect: Saving Britain’s Wild Bees
3 days, 17 hours agoThe Hive Architect is a short documentary about honey bee conservationist Matt Somerville and the log hives he builds to house wild bees.
There is a widely held theory that our British honey bee couldn’t exist without being domesticated by beekeepers. However, for bee conservationists like Matt Somerville, …
A collection of newspaper front pages from around the world. (See also...
3 days, 18 hours agoA collection of newspaper front pages from around the world. (See also cable news chyrons.)
This YouTube channel has a bunch of 40-60 minute DJ mixes of...
3 days, 19 hours agoThis YouTube channel has a bunch of 40-60 minute DJ mixes of jazz vinyl. The videos have names like “Jazz Kissa”, “Velvet Night”, “Elegant Morning”, and “Breezy Noon”.
Enjoyed these thoughts from food critics about what they’d like to see...
3 days, 21 hours agoEnjoyed these thoughts from food critics about what they’d like to see more of (“simple foods broken down and made perfect”) and less of (“caviar, truffles, Wagyu and uni in the wrong places”) in restaurants.
Rogue Rattlesnake Removed from Grand Isle. This is such a Vermont story...
4 days, 10 hours agoRogue Rattlesnake Removed from Grand Isle. This is such a Vermont story — the woman who found the snake “sat for 30 minutes, until these rangers arrived, doing my loving-kindness meditation, trying to just send peace to this snake”.
I Planted a Forest Four Years Ago
4 days, 11 hours agoFour years ago, Beau Miles planted 1440 trees in 24 hours. Recently, he went back to see how they were doing; those trees are a bonafide forest now.
In 2021 I planted a tree a minute, for 24 hours, on my mates farm. It was freakin hard …
Watching the highlights of the recent GeoGuessr world championships is wild; competitors...
4 days, 12 hours agoWatching the highlights of the recent GeoGuessr world championships is wild; competitors nailing the exact coordinates of Street View locations in a matter of 30-60 seconds is just bonkers.
Tycho’s Burning Man Sunrise Set for 2025
4 days, 13 hours agoI needed some new bouncy/chill music today and Tycho’s sunrise DJ set from this year’s Burning Man is doing the trick. I also ran across this playlist with 190 DJ sets from Burning Man this year containing 305 hours of music.
(via @mikeakers.bsky.social)
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A new book from photographer Sally Mann: Art Work: On the Creative...
4 days, 14 hours agoA new book from photographer Sally Mann: Art Work: On the Creative Life. I really enjoyed Mann’s previous book, Hold Still.
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