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“He strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.” · URSULA K. LE GUIN

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Posts from blogs I read written in the last few days.

  • Great Art Explained: Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio.... Jason Kottke

    Great Art Explained: Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio. “Even Matisse wasn’t entirely sure what he had created and nobody wanted to buy it.”…

    Yesterday · 14:19
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    • The top 10 paintings of Judith beheading Holofernes. “I...
    • Three-Body Orbits
    • James Bridle on making chairs with LLMs. “What we have...
    • In a late-stage trial, personalized mRNA vaccines for...
    • Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Site Search!
    • Listen to a Long-Lost Daft Punk Mix From 1997
    • Rest In Peace, Patrick Stewart (1940-2026)
    • An Italian farmer planted some decades-old seeds he found...
    • Star Wars: The Radio Drama
    • Dumpster Archeology. “Lew Blink’s passion for dumpster...
    • What’s the largest tweetable number? You’ve got 280...
    • Rolling Stone: The 200 Greatest Rock Songs of the 21st...
    • The Remarkable Serbian Election
    • The NY Times recently asked readers “what they can no...
    • Old Newspaper Headlines About the Name Doppelgängers of Current Celebrities
    • I made a small tweak to Prometheus (gift link discovery...
    • Errol Morris shot ads for Theranos and recently revealed...
    • Remember the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game? Turns out:...
    • A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive...
    • The Moving Image Archive
    • It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical. “It was disappointing how...
    • Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we...
    • Paleovirology: How HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed
    • They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A...
    • Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for...
    • Have We Confused Having Good Taste With Being Creative?
    • “Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half...
    • John Oliver on the Republican Party and the Far Right...
    • Once Upon a Time in Harlem
    • Apple Music’s 404 page features a fully functional iPod...
    • Short video teasing an new collab between Daft Punk and...
    • The American Divide on Empathy
    • OMG, the height of these waves hitting a seawall in...
    • Michael Pollan reflects on what has and hasn’t changed in...
    • Matt Webb is bunkering down, bracing for more LLM-driven...
    • Harry Kane is this year’s men’s winner of the Ballon...
    • A poignant short documentary about a mother who only...
    • From Charles Mann, a quick history of porcelain, which is...
    • Russian and East European Posters
    • Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as...
    • How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American...
    • NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven
    • Simon Willison: “Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded —...
    • This exhibition of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) by Utagawa...
    • Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026
    • How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64. “Oh, don’t...
  • Gig at The Grove Simon Collison

    I’m playing at The Grove in Nottingham soon, supporting Foule, with Oiseaux also on the bill. It’s on Thursday 26th November. Tickets via Gigantic. It’ll be my fi…

    Yesterday · 09:00
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    • Autechre & Space Afrika
  • Jobs Podcast Chris Coyier

    I joined Nathan Puls on his Jobs Podcast: A conversation about making stuff, making a living, and making a little room for weirdness on the web. What if you had to be Chris? Nathan opens with a strang…

    Yesterday · 07:43
  • Studio Notes #108 Dan Cederholm

    Howdy, Fine Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 👻 Light Capsules is an incredible project that uses light projection to br…

    Yesterday · 05:00
  • Productive friction Derek Featherstone

    When production friction went down, our opportunity for productive friction went down with it.…

    Two Days Ago · 18:00
  • The Day the Focus Died Jeffrey Zeldman

    If we failed to do this, I feared, we would stop leading the industry and turn into “merely the CSS trick of the week.” The post The Day the Focus Died appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Two Days Ago · 10:25
  • The ship is anchor’d safe and sound. Ethan Marcotte

    Sir Patrick Stewart has died. I don’t really know what to say — words really are failing me right now. So I’ll start here: I grew up on Star Trek. When I call up fond memories from my…

    Three Days Ago · 22:00
  • Another Interview from “Head in the Cloud 2026” Marc Thiele

    Here is another little interview from mittwald’s “Head in the Cloud”. I was asked what makes an event more than just a conference. My answer is…

    Four Days Ago · 11:05
  • Arc-like automatic picture-in-picture in Chromium Dave Rupert

    There’s a lot to miss about Arc (RIP), but the feature I miss the most has got to be automatic picture-in-picture. You start a video and when you change tabs to jump to another task, the video anch…

    The Other Day · 09:31

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