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  • From a tongue-in-cheek Google Japan, a conveyor belt... Jason Kottke

    From a tongue-in-cheek Google Japan, a conveyor belt keyboard, where the keys move and your hand stays still while typing. One of several unusual keyboards released by the company. You can…

    Today · 15:20
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    • Silent Friend
    • Things That Are Good to Do. Including “admit what you...
    • The Ku Klux Klan is rebranding itself as The Knights...
    • Watch One of Radiohead’s Best Live Shows: Bonnaroo 2006
    • An interesting long profile of Mark Zuckerberg. “Mark is...
    • The Best Sandwich Shop in America?
    • Richard Linklater is directing a film adaptation of the...
    • Mapsnap is a program designed to take old Sanborn...
    • JumpStar is the world’s strongest Chinese Checkers AI...
    • Random TV Time: watch old TV pulled from the Internet...
    • Designer Giorgia Lupi: In Defense of the Detour. “I fear...
    • Stalin Boys is a short documentary about a Joseph...
    • Nappy is a site offering free stock photos of Black and...
    • O Superman, Laurie Anderson
    • Mapping Tariffs explores “the potential impacts of...
    • After working hard taking away the civil rights of people...
    • The 2026 Comedy Wildlife Awards Finalists
    • Is American Culture Simply Bad Now? I’ve been hanging...
    • Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden...
    • OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small...
    • The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
    • Don’t Cook That: a collection of real recipes that you...
    • So Many Amazing Control Rooms
    • The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism. “What’s this middle bit?”...
    • “Influencers are the private equity of culture: draining...
    • Prince Was One of the First Players of The Oregon Trail
    • A “Kelvin wave” powered by El Niño will soon raise sea...
    • The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault...
  • “The joy of life is in the contrast.” Greg Storey

    While I appreciate the time we just spent on the road, I envy an old friend who recently finished a year of traveling abroad with her family. Sophie, her partner, and daughter visited thirty-two count…

    Today · 10:23
  • Kelsey Chris Coyier

    My sister is in a currently-running-on-TV political ad. It’s against the republican chucklefuck Tom Tiffany who was one of those anti-American dingleberries that claimed Biden “stole the e…

    Today · 10:05
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    • WordPress MCP
    • im Water
  • Recursion is DEAD and HTML killed it Dave Rupert

    There’s a new web platform feature flighting in Chromium called Declarative Partial Updates. This proposal adds a new <?marker> element which enables out-of-order streaming of content. Rather…

    Today · 09:36
  • Lake Of Souls by Ann Leckie Jeremy Keith

    In some ways, the short story is the ideal format for science fiction. If science fiction is all about ideas, a short story is a way to take an idea and play it out without any obligation to build a…

    Today · 09:31
  • Help! I’ve fallen out of the Google search index Chad Dickerson

    My blog more or less fell out of the Google Index in late August and I was suddenly unable to find anything in it via Google. (I set up Google Search Console long ago but don’t look at it very o…

    Today · 05:43
  • Resident Evil Rob Weychert

    🎬 Zach Cregger, 2026, ★★★★ Yes! Fumbling through the dark; ears twitching at every unidentified sound; scanning the environment for weapons, ammo, keys, exits, and most importa…

    Yesterday · 21:58
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    • Strangers on a Train
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    • Good Boy
    • Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
  • Laser Storm Brad Frost

    This weekend, I took Ella to her cousin's birthday party at Laser Storm on McKnight Road north of Pittsburgh. The small structure is now dwarfed by much larger, newer chain stores, but entering the do…

    Yesterday · 18:00
  • Dark Forestry Henry Desroches

    Dark Forestry | Henry From Online…

    Yesterday · 12:16
  • Debugging download initiator Stoyan Stefanov

    I was recently debugging why an image was being downloaded. In Chrome devtools, in the network panel, the column for "initiator" was pointing to the end of the HTML document. But that wasn't true and…

    Three Days Ago · 18:08
  • Another Saturday, Another Song. Jeffrey Zeldman

    🎧 “Side Two” LP in progress. At 14 songs, it is nearly complete. I expect to release it before the year’s end. The post Another Saturday, Another Song. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Prese…

    Three Days Ago · 11:17
  • Studio Notes #104 Dan Cederholm

    Howdy, Folks. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. At the risk of celebrating too much, I realize #104 means this little newsletter started…

    Four Days Ago · 05:00

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