“I feel stuck and sad and I don’t know what else to do.” Yeah, same.…

Bees use polarized sunlight scattered by the atmosphere in order to navigate; they always know where the sun is, even if it’s cloudy or behind a mountain. Then they waggle dance to inform…

Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection. “This page contains a collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games.” 💬 Join…

Out of the 1000 most-discussed books on Hacker News, it looks like around 50 of them were written by women.…

Just wanted to drop a quick note to say that kottke.org moved servers over the weekend. You shouldn’t have noticed anything, except perhaps that the site is faster now. There was a small is…

A wreck on the Lehigh Valley trackage in South Somerville, NJ circa 1918. (via shorpy) Tags: this is a metaphor for something · trains…

I loved watching this quick video recap of how Penguin designer Elisha Zepeda made the book covers for 10 books that came out in 2025. Zepeda has a much longer look at his process on YT.…

Using lidar, scientists discovered a 400-foot-long wall composed of “60 massive granite monoliths, set directly onto the bedrock in pairs at regular intervals”. The wall is 30 feet underw…

Added to the music library:Hyper VigilanceRamleh, 2025The Shallowest EndNape Neck, 2025I’m Not HereOh Mr James, 2025Added to the film diary:Girl with HyacinthsHasse Ekman, 1950, ★★★No Other…

Read the book, Typographic Firsts It is a treat to find a typeface that tastes as good as it looks. The Noeler family, designed in 2025 by Michael Rafailyk, a new novelty family that looks as eatable…

words.zip is “an infinite collaborative word search where anyone can find and submit words — no account required.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org �…

There’s a shark called the cookiecutter shark because it leaves bite marks the shape of “neat, circular holes resembling the cut of a cookie cutter”. 💬…

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person. “I dug a fire pit in my backyard and burned my complete set of hardcover Harry Potters.”…

A soaring US vs a stagnant EU? “Europeans benefit from more leisure time than Americans, higher life expectancy & lower inequality levels, all w/ comparable productivity rates. However one…

Alexandra Petri: I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well. “I have just driven six and a half hours to Ohio in order to forecast my own weather. From a hot-air balloon.” She also…

What You’re Watching Isn’t What You’re Really Watching. “You think you’re watching an innocent woman being shot and killed in cold blood by the federal government, but what you’re…

Greetings, my friends. Here's issue #66 of Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🧑‍🚀 MTV Rewind is an ad-free website that collected over 3…

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