Hello, everyone. I’m going to be taking an extended break from kottke.org, starting today. I’ve been writing here for m
Two Quick Links for Saturday Evening
Some, uh, "New Yorkers" are dropping the "the" from place names like "the East Village" and "the Lower East Side". Like
My Recent Media Diet, Spring 2022 Edition
Well hey there, it’s been a few months, so it’s time for another roundup of what I’ve been reading, watching, listening
Cars vs Giant Bulge and Other Outlandish Vehicular Simulations
It is Friday and this is the perfect Friday sort of post. BeamNG is a video game of sorts that’s “a dynamic soft-body p
Three Quick Links for Friday Noonish
Stop talking about coat hangers and start talking about misoprostol. "[Don't] use the coat hanger as a rallying cry, be
Letter of Recommendation: Get a Vasectomy
Men in the US typically do not talk about or worry about birth control that much, to the detriment of the health and sa
Five Quick Links for Friday Morning
GOP Handmaid's Tale. Short but sobering view into what living in a conservative, theocratic police state might look lik
Five Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
An epidemiological take on abortion: banning abortions will not stop abortions. "With increased desperateness, the rate
Delia Derbyshire Demonstrates How Electronic Music Was Made at BBC Radiophonic Workshop
In this video from 1965, electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, who arranged the original theme music for Doctor W
Noto: A Typeface for the World
Google has developed a typeface called Noto that seemingly includes every single character and symbol used for writing
Four Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
Overturning Roe v Wade has been the fundamentalist Christian plan all along. "It's never been a secret. The plan has be
Abortion Protects the Lives of Women
Dr. Dipti S. Barot writing for HuffPost, My 11-Year-Old Patient Was Pregnant. Here’s What I Want You To Know About Bein
The Real Fight for Abortion Rights
Melissa Gira Grant writing in The New Republic with a reminder that activists have seen this coming for a long time and
Into the Dark Ages
Speaking of the fundamentalist movement to repeal the 20th century, Jack Mirkinson isn’t writing for The Atlantic and t
The Plan to Repeal the 20th Century
Adam Serwer writing in The Atlantic about the leaked Supreme Court opinion draft penned by conservative justice Samuel
Three Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish
If the pretext is "this wasn't mentioned in the Constitution", then same-sex marriage may be next to go. [twitter.com]
The Invention of Coca-Cola, Miracle Brain Tonic
Spurred by a near death experience in the Civil War (after sustaining a saber wound to the chest) and looking for a wa
How Postwar Italy Created The Paparazzi
From film fan Benito Mussolini and the postwar explosion of Italian filmmaking to a financial rule with big effects an
Three Quick Links for Tuesday Morning
Reminder: safe and effective medication for having an abortion is available via the mail. "Even in states with the stri
Three Quick Links for Monday Noonish
Richard Feynman on how play can provide the antidote for burnout. "The diagrams and the whole business that I got the N
Logos You Can See From Space
Elissaveta M. Brandon recently wrote about the uptick in companies placing huge logos, often drawn in solar panels
How an Architect Redesigns NYC Streets
In this video, using before-and-after satellite imagery, Claire Weisz of WXY, an architecture and urban design firm, e
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