Former gang leader Duane Keith Davis has been indicted for the murder of Tupac Shakur. "The broad outlines of what occu
Hand Embroidered Satellite Imagery
Danielle Currie creates these amazing hand-embroidered artworks of satellite views of Earth.
Danielle Currie's int
50 Unknown Facts About Star Wars
50 unknown facts about Star Wars, many gleaned from How Star Wars Conquered the Universe. I've heard some of these bef
Seven Quick Links for Friday Noonish
A good interactive from The Pudding on the invisible loneliness epidemic in America. "The amount of time we spend with
Stunning High-Resolution Lidar Images of Rivers & Deltas
I cannot get enough of Dan Coe's high-resolution images of rivers and river deltas constructed from lidar data.
Winners of the 2023 Bird Photographer of the Year Competition
From over 23,000 entered images, the judges in the Bird Photographer of the Year competition for 2023 have selected
Three Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
"Health experts are calling for a 'feminist approach' to cancer to eliminate inequalities, as research reveals 800,000
The Origins of the Socialist Slur
The Atlantic has an adapted excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson's new book, Democracy Awakening: The Origins of the Soc
Artistic Leaf Raking
In a nice example of accidental occupational surnames, land artist Nikola Faller travelled to a pair of European par
A Cover of Radiohead's Creep by Prince
Prince covered Radiohead's Creep at the Coachella music festival in 2008. The video got yanked due to copyright infrin
Three Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish
In honor of National Pancake Day, may I humbly offer you The World's Best Pancake Recipe.
America's 2023 Covid booster
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson, author of the excellent Letters from an American newsletter, has a new book out today about th
The Plot of All Objects in the Universe
You just have to admire a chart that casually purports to show every single thing in the Universe in one simple 2D plo
Eminem's Lose Yourself, the Super Mario Bros Edition
There I Ruined It is fast becoming one of my favorite web delights — musician Dustin Ballard remixes and mashes belove
"The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca. 1850–60)"
I don't know about you, but the title "The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca. 1850–60)" made me click pre
Five Quick Links for Monday Noonish
Painter David Salle has been working with an AI program trained on his work. "Salle had to admit the machine was finall
Typical Urban Planning Opinion Progression
From XKCD, the progression of people's opinions about cars & urban planning, from "I wish there wasn't so much tra
How to Apologize
Elizabeth Spiers for the NY Times on how to apologize (given the recent spate of celebrity non-apologies): I Have a Que
Two Quick Links for Monday Morning
The Writer's Guild and the Hollywood studios reach a tentative deal after 146 days of striking. WGA's negotiating commi
Three Quick Links for Friday Afternoon
How Big Ben Works: A Detailed Look Inside London’s Beloved Victorian Clock Tower. Always down for a clock mechanism exp
NASA's Logo: the Worm vs. the Meatball
NASA's original logo looked something like this:
It was referred to, colloquially, as the meatball. In the 1970s, the
Three Quick Links for Friday Noonish
The JWST has found carbon on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. It's got water, it's got carbon...it's got life mayb
It's Time to Replace Urban Delivery Vans
European cities are transitioning to the use of cargo e-bikes and other micro-mobility solutions for package and other
Emerald and Stone, a Visual Tribute to Brian Eno
As a tribute to Brian Eno, visual artist Thomas Blanchard made this video of Emerald and Stone, a 2010 song that Eno c
Two Quick Links for Thursday Night
Studio Ghibli has sold a controlling stake to Nippon Television and will become a subsidiary of the Japanese broadcaste
Two Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
"A tachyonic antitelephone is a hypothetical device in theoretical physics that could be used to send signals into one'
What Happens If You Destroy A Black Hole?
Here's a fun thought experiment: can you destroy a black hole? Nuclear weapons probably won't work but what about anti
Three Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
Never past your prime! 13 peaks we reach at 40 or later. "Ageing doesn't have to mean slowing down. In fact, you're mor
Everyone Loves Someone Who Had an Abortion
Using a phrase popularized by reproductive justice activist Renee Bracey Sherman, The National Network of Abortion Fun
Three Quick Links for Wednesday Afternoon
People's behaviour at music gigs is getting worse. I have three rules to solve that. "Most of these conventions simply
Antique Book Patterns
From the Bergen Public Library Norway, a collection of antique book patterns from front or end papers. The books i
Fantastic 1970s Letter From Lego to Parents
At some point in the 1970s, Lego included the following letter to parents in its sets:
The text reads:
The urge to cr
Tycho's Burning Man Sunrise Set for 2023
Every year at Burning Man (pandemic years aside), Tycho does a ~2hr DJ set around sunrise and then releases it on Sound
Three Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon
Close to 2,000 Environmental Activists Killed Over Last Decade. "Violence, intimidation, and harassment are also being
Jet Line: Voicemails from the Flight Path
Talk to anyone who lives near the flight path of Burlington, Vermont's airport and it won't be too long until they are
The Process Tee
When you start something new, how do you know where you're going to end up? Most of the time, you don't — you stumble
Two Quick Links for Monday Afternoon
How Pontevedra, Spain transformed into a more people-centric city. "It's not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a p
Cutting Up a Huge Lego Salmon
In this ASMR stop motion cooking video, a chef butchers a huge Lego salmon and prepares a salmon and rice bowl. This v
Some Stunning Shots From the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023 Competition
The Royal Observatory Greenwich in London has announced the winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023
Five Quick Links for Monday Noonish
How to Cool Down a City. "Almost every aspect of how we build cities amplifies heat, from the buildings we live in to t
Well Wishes My Love, Your Love
I don't think I've ever seen the animation style Gabriel Gabriel Garble uses in his short film Well Wishes My Love, Yo
Two Quick Links for Friday Afternoon
I was reminded this morning that Emily Wilson's translation of The Iliad comes out in less than 2 weeks! Very excited!
Movies That Began As Short Films
Deadline's Robert Lang compiled a bunch of short films (that you can watch for free online) that were later developed i
The Brassicas Will Continue Until Morale Improves
For a recent XKCD, Randall Munroe celebrates the the magical brassica oleracea plant.
Brassica oleracea is a species
Five Quick Links for Friday Noonish
The winners of the 2023 Ig Nobel Prize (for unusual and often goofy scientific achievements) include an explanation of
AI-Assisted Language Translation of Speaking, Including Mouth Movements
Ok, this is a little bit bonkers: HeyGen's Video Translate tool will convert videos of people speaking into videos of t
Three Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon
Lego is selling a kit with braille bricks for those with visual impairments. The studs on the bricks correspond to numb
The iPhone Alarm as a Piano Ballad
If you expand the default iPhone alarm into a piano ballad, it sounds quiet lovely actually. The sheet music is availa
Birds of the World: The Art of Elizabeth Gould
Birds of the World: The Art of Elizabeth Gould is a new book documenting the work of early 19th century naturalist a
Four Quick Links for Thursday Noonish
The Analogue Pocket is a portable video game system that can play "the 2,780+ Game Boy, Game Boy Color & Game Boy A
A Teaser Trailer for Season Four of For All Mankind
The first teaser trailer for season four of the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind takes the form of a recruitment video
Disney+ to Air a Real-Time Toy Story Version of an NFL Game
This is pretty clever actually: Disney+ and ESPN+ will air a real-time, Toy Story-ified version of the Oct 1st Jackson
The Science of the Perfect Second
I really enjoyed this piece by Tom Vanderbilt on how time is kept, coordinated, calculated, and forecast. It's full of
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