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

  • Significant Find of Cambrian Explosion Fossils Jason Kottke

    A recent paper in Nature details what scientists found at the Huayuan biota: Here we report the Huayuan biota — a lower Cambrian (Stage 4, approximately 512 million years ago) BST L…

    Today · 13:36
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    • Culinary Students Given Live Baby To Learn How To Care...
    • Volleyball Player Does Sliding Dogeza Apology
    • As part of their coursework, students at UC Berkeley are...
    • The Schoolchildren of Minneapolis . “As thousands...
    • Autocratic backfire : when dictators construct echo...
    • Darren Aronofsky’s AI Studio Used Artificial...
    • Do you know about the original vampire ending for Marty...
    • Tim Burton on Catherine O’Hara :...
    • ProPublica : “The two federal immigration agents...
    • Another brutal Melania pan : “First Lady is a...
    • When horrible people make bad art, the reviews are fun to...
    • “The end of Temporary Protected Status has...
    • Illustrator Chris Piascik has made several of his...
    • Stamps: Graphic Art in Miniature
    • I learned two important pieces of news in this post: 1)...
    • This guy built an autonomous flying umbrella (powered...
    • Spurious Correlations
    • Minnesota community leaders are calling for an...
    • A huge collection of graphic design archives and...
    • “There isn’t a lot of reliable information...
    • Prettifying Graffiti
    • “AI skeptics need to update their priors: Plenty of...
    • Vimeo was recently acquired by a private equity firm and...
    • Your Friends Are Still Acting Like Everything is Normal...
    • Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education....
    • Thing I did not know I was looking for (but totally was):...
    • Vintage Tourist Maps of Japan
    • The Copyrightability of Fonts Revisited by Matthew...
  • Designing a Life That Excites You with Christine Vallaure | Wake Up Excited! Brad Frost

    On the latest episode of Wake Up Excited!, I talk with my friend Christine Vallaure. Christine is a designer, speaker, and the founder of moonlearning, an online learning platform for UI and product d…

    Today · 11:42
  • People Photographed With Their Vehicles Tina Roth Eisenberg

    People photographed with their vehicles. Made me smile.…

    Today · 08:08
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    • Thinking Is The Enemy of Creatvity
    • Painted Rocks
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 1/31 Rob Weychert

    Added to the film diary:Carlito’s WayBrian De Palma, 1993, ★★Ricky Jay and His 52 AssistantsDavid Mamet, 1996, ★★★★Side EffectsSteven Soderbergh, 2013, ★★★Added to the music lib…

    Two Days Ago · 22:00
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    • Forever, I’ve Been Being Born
  • Improving my newsletter's open rate the hard(er) way Cassidy Williams

    Turns out just asking for help gets you help? Who knew? Here's how I increased my newsletter open rate.…

    Two Days Ago · 17:00
  • Studio Notes #69 Dan Cederholm

    Hi Folks,Normally we'd deliver quick bits to you, as we do every Friday. Today however, we are essentially closed for business; standing in solidarity with the people of Minnesota and all people…

    Three Days Ago · 10:14
  • Hand-me-down tools for school Derek Featherstone

    Tools I've used in my tech life that help my son in school…

    Four Days Ago · 19:33
  • Minimum viable image optimization Stoyan Stefanov

    This post is another installment of the series dedicated to building sightread.org. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. When I was writing the last blog post, it occurred to me that I'm still optimizing images by ha…

    Four Days Ago · 17:10
  • Mark your calendar: Local News Day is 9 April Jeffrey Zeldman

    It’s no secret that newspapers across the country exist in a fragile ecosystem. Automattic has long supported journalism and local media with investments in publications and platforms like Longread…

    Four Days Ago · 09:57
  • Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood Jeremy Keith

    Towards the end of 2025, I wrote: I think I might change things up in 2026. Instead of waiting until the end of the year to write all the little reviews at once, I think I should write a review…

    Four Days Ago · 07:45
  • Tubes Chris Coyier

    Me, Stacey, and Miriam kicking it talkabout about CSS Scope & Mixins: Daniel and I chattin’ about playing the long game…

    The Other Day · 17:11

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