Patti Smith remembers Tom Verlaine. “As I watched Tom play, I thought, Had I been a boy, I would’ve been him.” The litt
Walking the Basketball Dog
If you’ve watched a high-level basketball game in the last ten or so years (NBA, WNBA, NCAA), you’ve probably seen som
Cistercian Numerals
Cistercian numerals were invented by the Cistercian order of monks in the 13th century. Giuseppe Frisella explains how
A Table Read for The Muppet Show
In film and television, a table read is an early part of the rehearsal process where, as the name suggests, all the per
Two Quick Links for Sunday Noonish
Mac 30th Anniversary Icons. Icons in SVG format of Macs from the original Macintosh 128K to 2013's Mac Pro. [rknightuk.
Two Quick Links for Saturday Noonish
From XKCD, a recipe for a margarita made from the icy nucleus of a planet-killing-sized comet. "The juice from 20 trill
Geometric Primes
Nicholas Rougeux designed a series of posters to visualize all 143 prime numbers with three digits based on simple ru
Sunburn Photographic Printing
For his project Illustrated People, Thomas Mailaender imprinted photographic images onto people’s skin by shining a
Three Quick Links for Friday Noonish
"Decades of research have shown that focusing on housing, without making sobriety or mental health treatment a prerequi
Creating the Soundtrack for a Pinball Machine
This is a delightfully early-80s clip about how electronic music legend Suzanne Ciani created the soundtrack and sound
Succession. Season Four Teaser Trailer. Boom.
With soooo much TV these days, everyone has their own pick for The Best Show on TV Right Now and my pick, aside from t
Bike Lanes Are Good for Business, But Local Shops Still Hate Them
This is something I’ve heard over and over again, in many cities around the world: putting in bike lanes in place of ca
Cinema’s Best Ending Credits?
Catherine Scorsese appeared in many of her son Martin’s films — Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets, Casino, etc. —
Four Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
Orion Magazine recently republished Rebecca Solnit's 2013 piece, Cyclopedia of an Expedition Around Svalbard. "The wate
Light Painted Landscapes
It’s been a bit since we’ve checked in on artist Reuben Wu, who uses drones to paint (sculpt?) with light in the sky
The Rijksmuseum Brings All the Vermeers to the Yard
Wow! A forthcoming exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum will bring together 23 of the 37 known paintings by Dutch mas
Four Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish
'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens. [theonion.com]
Actually, Japan has changed a l
Disfrustrating Puzzles
XKCD’s Randall Munroe recently shared some of the pages from his grandfather’s collection of Disfrustrating Puzzles and
The Availability of Guns and Books in America
Image by Cuban cartoonist Osvaldo Gutierrez Gomez. The cartoon is a few years old, but with the increased scrutiny of
Two Quick Links for Tuesday Morning
New album from Ladytron: Time's Arrow. [ladytron.bandcamp.com]
Early Abortion Looks Nothing Like What You've Been Told.
How Do You Design the Next Wordle?
David Shariatmadari, an editor at The Guardian, was asked by a colleague to “have a go” at inventing a new game, a new
Lessons on How to Draw by Hokusai
In 1812, Japanese woodblock print artist Katsushika Hokusai, who would later become famous for his iconic Great Wave of
Two Quick Links for Sunday Night
Tweetbot has been discontinued as well. Much appreciation to the Tapbots and Iconfactory (Twitterrific) teams for their
Two Quick Links for Friday Afternoon
Currently listening to Moby's recent Ambient 23 album. Good background music for working. [open.spotify.com]
Increasing
How to Change Your Life, One Tiny Step at a Time
Here’s Kurzgesagt on the deceptively simple way we can make changes in our life: build new routines and turn them into
Why Tipping Is Impossible to Get Rid of in America
Eric Huang is the chef/owner/operator of Brooklyn’s lauded Pecking House fried chicken joint. In a recent Instagram pos
Magnificent Black & White Photos of the Earth Rising Over the Moon
South Korea currently has a probe called Danuri orbiting the Moon at an altitude of about 62 miles above the surface.
Tiny Seawater Worlds
Smithsonian Magazine is featuring some incredible photos from Angel Fitor’s SeaDrops project: microphotography of tin
Four Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
I do not know if this video is real, but I cannot stop watching it. [instagram.com]
This is a couple months old, but I
Mink!
In the course of making his Oscar-winning documentary about basketball star Lusia Harris, director Ben Proudfoot becam
Fun With Magnets
Magnets are cool. Full stop. The Magnetic Games channel has a ton of videos about all the neat stuff you can do with
The History of Rome With Mary Beard
The Odyssey YouTube channel is a trove of documentaries about the ancient world, “from the dawn of Mesopotamia to the
Five Quick Links for Wednesday Noonish
Niche Museums, a growing collection of small museums about seemingly every topic under the sun. "If someone cared enoug
The Plywood E-Bike
Self-described “maker of things” Evie Bee has made a cool thing indeed: an e-bike with a frame constructed mostly from
Five Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish
Isaac Newton's personal copy of Opticks, believed to be lost, has been rediscovered in an American engineer's personal
The Mandalorian. Season Three. Official Trailer.
The length of winter near the northern 45th parallel requires events to look forward to in order to feel like you’re n
Drone Dives the Full Height of the Burj Khalifa
Based in Dubai, video artist André Larsen spends a lot of time shooting the Burj Khalifa which, at 2,722 feet and 163
Detailed Martian Geologic Maps from the USGS
The USGS Astrogeology Science Center recently released a series of detailed geological maps of Mars that detail featu
The Best Opening Title Sequences of 2022
The Art of the Title, Print magazine, Slashfilm, and Salon have each compiled their picks for the best film and TV o
24 Pieces of Life Advice from Werner Herzog
Paul Cronin’s book of conversations with filmmaker Werner Herzog is called Werner Herzog - A Guide for the Perplexed.
Gio Swaby’s Colorful Textile Portraits
I am loving these vibrant fabric portraits by Bahamian artist Gio Swaby (Instagram). Here’s a brief statement of wo
The Original Legend of Zelda as a VR First-Person Shooter
This is such a trip to see the familiar original version of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda being played as a VR first-
A Soothing Hour of the Sun
Sure, the James Webb Space Telescope and ok, the Hubble, but the Solar Dynamics Observatory has to be right up there f
“The Power of Indulging Your Weird, Offbeat Obsessions”
Clive Thompson, himself a person with a number of “weird, offbeat obsessions”, writes about the power of curiosity, inc
The Style Guide for American Highways
For Beautiful Public Data, Joe Keegan takes a look at the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Hi
The White Man in the Photo of the Black Power Salute at the 1968 Olympics
During the medals ceremony for the 200 meter race the 1968 Olympics, gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist Jo
A Short History of the Basketball Mile World Record
People running “unconventional miles” is a thing now (see the beer mile) and during the pandemic, when meets and other
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