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

  • The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris.... Jason Kottke

    The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris. “Ironically, Tetris’s success began because the totalitarian Soviet regime did not recognize what we take for granted in the West: the…

    Today · 10:59
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    • On commodified, automated intelligence. “If any of these...
    • The MN Stolen Neighbors Quilt
    • In the wake of her divorce, Curtis Sittenfeld revisits...
    • OpenAI isn’t going to release its newest model because...
    • This American Life has a whole episode with Nikole...
    • Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of...
    • What do you you do when the book you’re reading is too...
    • Well. I’m not sure what to think about this. The teaser...
    • What if America Went Completely Dark? “We came up with...
    • Now We Can Sing is the first single from Max Richter’s...
    • This is a fun daily game: Catfishing. You guess the...
    • Terry Riley’s In C is a composition where any number of...
    • “The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination...
    • “The Romanian Football Federation (FRF) has introduced a...
    • Lego’s biggest set ever is coming out soon: the...
    • What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage...
    • Scans of City Textures
    • Homer’s Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the...
    • Practical Engineering: Are beavers actually good at...
    • The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. Brad Pitt...
    • Trace is a daily puzzle game where you build a “recipe”...
    • The lessons four Islamic polymaths — al-Biruni, Alhazen,...
    • 50 Songs That Explain America. “The songs were chosen on...
  • Viva Las Here. Greg Storey

    Without an announcement or a decision, really, I used the sale of my home and the flurry of events that followed as an excuse to walk away from just about everything. Not permanently, mind you, and it…

    Today · 10:52
  • Tupo Dave Rupert

    “Triple Threat” Josh Collinsworth has a brand new daily puzzler game called Tupo. On it’s surface it looks like a simplified 4×4 Sudoku block but with colored squares. That is the foundation f…

    Two Days Ago · 09:26
  • Delia’s ninth Simon Collison

    Another eclectic Delia happening last night. Things kicked off with songs from Pete Hollingsworth, followed by captivating piano improv from Alucidnation. After the brea…

    Two Days Ago · 08:00
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 9/26 Rob Weychert

    🎬 Added to the film diary:Triple Fisher: The Lethal Lolitas of Long IslandDan Kapelovitz, 2012, ★★★★PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PAPineapple ExpressDavid Gordon Green, 2008, ★★📖 Added…

    Three Days Ago · 22:00
  • Banjos in the Woods Chris Coyier

    Went camping with Adam. He blogged it because blogging rules. His post has some videos we did kinda right when we got there for a memento. Here’s a couple of those same songs in shorter clips sm…

    Three Days Ago · 08:45
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  • Think local Jeremy Keith

    If you’re anything like me, you’re sick of hearing about so-called “AI”. We are not a fringe. The majority consensus amongst actual regular people is that this is being forced down our throa…

    Four Days Ago · 09:49
  • Studio Notes #103 Dan Cederholm

    Hello, Autumnal Friends (and friends in the Southern hemisphere as well). Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 👾 Tiny5 is a retro…

    Four Days Ago · 07:59
  • Undersung Hero: M. Frog Jeffrey Zeldman

    I bought this LP because of its Milton Glaser-designed cover featuring the colored pencil musical notations of composer/synthesist and former monk Jean-Yves Labat, alias M. Frog. It was 1973; I was ab…

    Four Days Ago · 06:12

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