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

  • Harry Kane is this year’s men’s winner of the Ballon... Jason Kottke

    Harry Kane is this year’s men’s winner of the Ballon d’Or. 100% the right choice — he had the best season of anyone. Like, almost ever.…

    Yesterday · 18:25
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    • 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...
    • The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers...
    • The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea...
    • “US households are paying 62% more for drinking water...
    • Open Thread #Potato
    • “an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this...
    • The Flipbook of the Rings
    • An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the...
    • Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window...
    • This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison....
    • The Winners of the 2026 International Pano Awards
    • “Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the...
    • The title of this video is The Fastest Downhill Run Ever....
  • 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…

    Yesterday · 09:31
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    • Bad at email
  • Autechre & Space Afrika Simon Collison

    Storm Boelo was hammering the Greenwich peninsula when I arrived. Inside, Autechre seemed to channel that violence into a dense ele…

    Yesterday · 07:00
  • Cult of Chucky Rob Weychert

    🎬 Don Mancini, 2017, ★★ I finally got around to seeing all the Child’s Play / Chucky movies, and pound for pound, this is probably the most tolerable deep dive of a long-running…

    Two Days Ago · 21:59
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    • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 10/24
  • Sick Day Project: Outlanders 2 “Wiki” Kellan Elliott-McCrea

    I was supposed to ride the NYC Century today, but I ended up coming down with a nasty cold and I’m spending the day on the couch. I enjoy the Outlanders 2 game, an easy going village sim. But someh…

    Two Days Ago · 18:13
  • Community Marco Arment

    I’ve been taking a break from Mastodon as my social home on the web for about six weeks. It has been more difficult than I’d usually admit. I have an amazing local community in my town that I lov…

    Three Days Ago · 09:44
  • The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon Jeremy Keith

    This is an infuriating book. So much so that I didn’t finish it. Don’t get me wrong; I love the idea of The Pirate Queen. Telling the life story of Gráinne Ní Mháille is an excellent premise…

    Four Days Ago · 08:57
  • Studio Notes #107 Dan Cederholm

    Hello hello, Good People. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. ⚾️ An ode to the iconic typography of Topps trading cards fro…

    Four Days Ago · 05:00
  • What Is a Friend? Naz Hamid

    A spectrum of intimacy. A long time ago, I realized the concept of a best friend was flawed. I had “best friends” in high school, people I resonated with deeply and was…

    The Other Day · 20:53

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