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“You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.” · FRED ROGERS

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

  • Homer’s Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the... Jason Kottke

    Homer’s Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the Greek ships that set out for Troy were from and what they may have looked like. “No Homeric ship survives. What we have are pictures…

    Today · 14:49
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    • 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...
    • The 🔥🔥🔥 New Social App: NPR Podcasts Comments Section on Spotify
    • How to rescue an orphaned baby elephant. “The baby...
    • Jimbōchō Book Town
    • Robert Eggers is doing Romeo & Juliet. “When it comes to...
    • Play Solitaire Alone Together. “It’s Windows 98...
    • The Museum of Time-Based Art. “My idea for this site is...
    • I can’t remember where I heard about this, but judging by...
    • When’s the Last Time You Cried?
    • Chimpanzees use tools to collect food and deliberately...
    • Some advice on giving good advice. “Not every situation...
    • The Earth in the Sky
    • TIL they can do wing replacements on injured...
    • Engaging read on how the Bugs Bunny cartoon What’s Opera,...
    • The 25 Photos That Changed Fashion Forever. “It didn’t...
    • Some Newsletter Tidying
    • A thoughtful review of Nolan’s The Odyssey, comparing it...
    • Mary Cassatt: The Impressionist Who Painted The Mind
    • 3D models for every single object in Katamari Damacy, all...
    • Ross Anderson on NASA’s recently launched Nancy Grace...
    • Canyon Groove. What if the grooves on a record were...
    • Dimensional Drawings of Apple Products
    • What’s your “origin” video game? “I’m talking about the...
    • TIL Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris (aka The Hunchback...
    • “The best next steps are the concrete ones: Big AI needs...
    • Ed Sheeran tried to stay neutral on a moving train. “If...
    • Monopoly as a metaphor for racial inequity. “During the...
    • Relationships are key to human happiness. “The top five...
    • Cars, New York City (1974-1976)
    • The Film Experience is a free online course from MIT...
    • I didn’t know Beehiiv had a program to support...
    • Imagine playing chess against a seven-year-old who’s...
    • Gorgeous Nerikomi Pottery
    • In Prison, White Supremacist Literature Is Required...
    • “Starring Genden Phuntsok, Tom Hiddleston, and Willem...
    • Music for the Dyeing
    • This story, about a dressage trainer who shot his female...
    • I am stunned that we are still finding new species of cat...
    • Cole Escola’s Broadway smash Oh, Mary! is coming to HBO...
    • Amazing piece by Nikole Hannah-Jones about the betrayal...
  • How Many Dudes? Dave Rupert

    If I’ve been missing from the internet it’s because I’ve been spending my evenings grinding on a game from Butterscotch Shenanigans called How Many Dudes? Hot off the heels of the release of the…

    Today · 09:03
  • The summer of ’26 Jeremy Keith

    It was the autumnal equinox a few days ago. For a moment our planet was balanced perfectly, with everyone experience twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness. Here in the northern hemis…

    Today · 07:32
  • Bass Chris Coyier

    I bought a standup bass back in June! I set up a Facebook Marketplace alert for them, and it actually worked; a good option came up. It feels like Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace are the only opti…

    Yesterday · 20:35
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  • I am now an Instagram Micro-Influencer Stoyan Stefanov

    AMA. What's a "Micro-Influencer"? Someone with 10K or more followers. Approximately 15% of all Instagram accounts. So I'm a "15 percenter" What's an Instagram? A window on your baby television that ea…

    Yesterday · 19:31
  • To understand Türkiye and Turkish worldviews a bit, this book is a good quick start Derek Sivers

    To understand Türkiye and Turkish worldviews a bit, this book is a good quick start: sive.rs/book/TurkeyCS…

    Yesterday · 13:29
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    • When walking a city, what do different experts notice that you don’t? Fun book on this
    • Very good China book, following four real women in current China
  • How to test alternative text (alt-text) WonderProxy

    Let me explain why “Every image needs a good reason to have alt-text”. Some images are decorative. They add polish, mood, or visual rhythm to a page, and if you removed them tomorrow, nobody using…

    Two Days Ago · 22:10
  • Last chance to get our courses at pre-release prices! Brad Frost

    I sent out a newsletter today and wanted to share it here too. Forgive the sales-y post, but we're at the finish line of the courses we've been pouring our entire selves into for the last two years. W…

    Two Days Ago · 18:00
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  • Building the Open Standard website with Stripe Jonnie Hallman

    Reuniting with my friends at Stripe, I collaborate with them on the landing page for Open Standard.…

    Three Days Ago · 07:53
  • In my dream, MAGA went manga in a new season… Rob Weychert

    In my dream, MAGA went manga in a new season of House of Cards. New administration officials’ hairdos looked like something out of a sloppified, live-action Dragon Ball Z. One guy grew out and ge…

    Three Days Ago · 05:09
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