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

  • Girls In Their Married Bliss by Edna O’Brien Jeremy Keith

    I really liked Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls so when I saw a copy of Girls In Their Married Bliss for £1 in a local charity shop, I snapped it up even though it had the worst cover you could…

    Today · 05:20
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    • Radiant Star by Ann Leckie
  • The Right to Resist Optimization Josh Clark

    “If machines are great at the things we’ve long thought to be uniquely human, maybe we’ve been misunderstanding humanity all along.” This weekend I picked up a physical copy…

    Yesterday · 08:35
  • Thing that I am now invested in: this woman has spent 30... Jason Kottke

    Thing that I am now invested in: this woman has spent 30 weeks secretly training to beat her brother (a former competitive player) at Dance Dance Revolution. The showdown is today……

    Yesterday · 08:17
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    • The video rental store as “third place” . “Decades...
    • The End of Google Search . The internet giant is...
    • Media Matters : “ABC, CBS, and NBC aired a...
    • Fun little review by Marcin Wichary of a 1984 flying...
    • I love this little video of burbling pasta sauces...
    • I’d Be Lead Harpooner on the Pequod If It Wasn’t for...
    • 25 things that explain America , including personal...
    • How Does an Enigma Machine Work?
    • How Wildfire Smoke Is Reshaping Childhood ....
    • This guy hooked his hamster’s wheel up to Strava —...
    • Astronomers have measured the size of the largest galaxy...
    • “ In this video , I’ll take you from farm to...
    • The Computer That Helped Win World War II . “…it...
    • How to Store Ebooks in Instagram Reels and Other Covert Data Storage Tricks
    • Lidar and other discoveries continue to show that the...
    • Heading On Out…
    • This is an old list but still interesting: the 12 most...
    • Tressie McMillan Cottom’s reading list for fighting back...
    • Emily Wilson takes another crack at a critique of...
    • Surfing Alaska’s Turnagain Arm (home to a twice-daily...
    • In recent years, science has been learning more and more...
    • Huh, here’s the trailer for a new director’s cut (of...
    • Are You Good at Mowing Lawns?
    • “ poetry camera is a new way to see your world....
    • The Phone in Your Hand . “A layer-by-layer teardown of...
    • An 8K Cinematic Tribute to the Artemis II Mission
    • The Past Catalog Archive is a throwback to fun & modest...
    • Reading Maps : Journeys from books & films (Moby-Dick,...
  • Matthias Ott Speaking at TYPO3 Developer Days Marc Thiele

    As part of the beyond tellerrand partnership with TYPO3, TYPO3 invited me to curate a few slots at this year’s developer days. For one of the slo…

    Two Days Ago · 10:27
  • Studio Notes #96 Dan Cederholm

    Grand risings, my friends. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 👾 Coral Pixels is a new color font that's inspired by “…

    Two Days Ago · 07:43
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Zinkraft John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts Massimo Vignelli was canonically adamant that a contemporary designer only requires a handful of typefaces and should “trash the rest.” He was talking abo…

    Three Days Ago · 21:25
  • Outburst Chris Coyier

    Just had a little trip up to my favorite city of Juneau, Alaska. So lovely. Here’s just one story from the trip. There is a Big Thing going on there right now which is essentially an impending f…

    Three Days Ago · 14:32
  • OTP replay: “One time” doesn’t always mean one session WonderProxy

    Something made me pause! This was when I noticed something strange. I had entered the exact same OTP code three times across different browser sessions. Now that is a critical red alert!…

    Four Days Ago · 07:00

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