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- You Need to Be Bored. Here’s Why.
When was the last time you were bored? If your like many, it has been a while. The lack of boredom is, in my opinion, one of the biggest impacts that mobile devices and constant…
- The Best Table Tennis Points Of 2024
This is just crazy stuff. 🏓
- The Best Goals in Football for 2024
🤩⚽️🎉
- The Lego Great Ball Contraption
This video left me flabbergasted at all the different ways of moving balls around with LEGO. So very cool. 🤯
- Big Hockey Players, Itty-Bitty Rink
A hockey rink 1/10th the size with two full teams.
- 55 Things to Know About Tim Walz
- The History of Tetris World Records
I’m good at Tetris, but not anywhere near great. It is still one of my favorite games. I’m looking forward to watching this movie!
- The Best Photos and Videos of the 2024 Solar Eclipse
Some great images of the recent eclipse.
- Introducing the New Kottke.org Comments
Kottke.org is one of the bellweather blogs of the Internet and it is exciting to see it bringing comments back. I also think the idea of requiring a subscription for comments is a…
- The World’s Best Pancake Recipe
Always on the lookout for even better pancakes! 🥞
- The Kottke.org Ask Me Anything: Thoughts on AI
Kottke launched a new Ask Me Anything feature, and got a question on his experiences with AI. He actually used ChatGPT to create the AMA site itself. He goes on… There have only…
- Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today and I’m Going to Write About It
I love this celebratory post from Kottke marking his blogs 25th year! My love for the web has ebbed and flowed in the years since, but mainly it’s persisted — so much so that as…
- Announcement: I’m Going to Miss You, But I Am Taking a Sabbatical
Jason Kottke has been publishing online for nearly as long as there was an "online". 24 years.
- Revenge Bedtime Procrastination by Anne Helen Petersen - Culture Study
I have never heard this term before, but it is an interesting read, and I’m pretty guilty myself of grabbing my phone at night after turning in. Or you’re actually doing something…
- The Circles of Friendship
I’m a big believer in Dunbar's Number and I’m super interested to hear that he has a new book out, Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships . I…
- 30 Minutes of Relaxing Visuals from Studio Ghibli
I've only seen a small part of Studio Ghibli movies, but I love their style and this is cool.
- Earthrise: A Poem About Climate Change by Amanda Gorman
Continuing the Amanda Gorman fandom here is another great poem from her.
- How Are You Doing?
Good chart if you are having a hard time understanding how you really are doing.
- How to Protect Yourself from the Aerosol Spread of Covid-19
It is bonkers that this is being published by going around official venues, but at least the information is out there.
- Living in a Conspiracy Nation
Conspiracy theories have existed forever, but when they came to Facebook they found new vectors for their memes to grow unbounded, in leaps and bounds. I don't know how we get…
- The Country with the Best Covid-19 Response? Mongolia.
Mongolia took things very seriously. Let’s have that again: 3.17 million people, 0 local cases, 0 deaths. How did they do it? I expected the punchline of this to be in part…
- Noah Takes a Photo of Himself Every Day for 20 Years
What an amazing video. Wow.
- Perfectly Normal, How Autism Feels From the Inside
A peek into life with autism.
- Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2018
Can we start a campaign to get President Obama off of Facebook and share information like this without requiring people to submit to surveillance to get his posts? Plus, like some…
- An Infinite Icosahedral Puzzle of the Earth
Fun gift idea.
- The original demo of Imagine by John Lennon
I love the raw sound of this great song. Imagine is such a great song.
- Some reflections on my roadtrip across the western United States
Jason Kottke took a road trip through the beautiful midwest and visited a number of spots I've been. Nice photos and a well written travelogue. 🚙
- Zines are the future of media
Kottke's read on this prediction is good. I hope that the prediction is directional right.
- Universal Basic Income explained
Nice video overview of the core concepts of basic income including examples where it has been tried.
- The 2017 kottke.org Holiday Gift Guide
Kottke's extremely thorough gift guide! 🎁
- My social media fast
- F1 pit stop ballet
- Shit New Yorkers say
A collection of things that New Yorkers say. Like "where's the train?", "you have to go to Brooklyn, it's the law", and "tourists!"
- The woman with 100 personalities
Kim Noble, although she doesn't care to be called that, has over 100 distinct personalities. For a journalist, this presents certain problems. Kim Noble herself is merely a name…
- Skyliners Paris trailer
These folks attached a cable to France's highest twin towers and then walked around on it. Really wild shots. These guys are wearing saftey harnesses, which tells me they're…
- Making 'The Shining'
- Personal style
The seventh episode of Put This On covers personal style...for which they interviewed Gay Talese. Tags: fashion Gay Talese video
- Les Twins
I've seen other more formal on-stage performances by these amazing French twin dancers, but I like this one the best...even fooling around, their precision is impressive. Tags:…
- World's best Tetris player
You think you're good at Tetris? Think again. Hell, you think you're good at anything? Think again, again! Tetris grandmaster Jin8 shows you how it's done:
- Chartwell, the infographics font
- 2010 Feltron Annual Report
Nicholas Felton has been doing personal annual reports since 2005. But for 2010, he did a report of his late father's life utilizing various documents (birth certificates,…
- NoteSlate
- Auditioning replacements for the Moon
This video shows what various planets (Jupiter, Mars, etc.) would look like in the night sky if they orbited the Earth at the same distance as the Moon. See also Imagining Earth…
- Short documentary on The Sartorialist
A really lovely seven-minute documentary about Scott Schuman, aka The Sartorialist. Watching the concentration, focus, and determination in Schuman's eyes and body as he walks…
- The beauty of Pixar
A nice video tribute to Pixar that weaves together footage from all their films. (thx, asdhsa) Tags: movies Pixar remix
- Sword-tip video camera
- The lost Radiohead album
Cool.
- Mathematical doodling
- Albino redwoods
Albino tree?
- Stopping the world
- Zenyatta's last race
With a record of 19-0, Zenyatta was a favorite to win the Breeders' Cup Classic. As her jockey eased her into the top of the stretch, she was dead last. Right where she wanted to…
- Is this what they meant by dancing about architecture?
Last Saturday, the IAC building in Chelsea became the screen for a giant video art project. Tags: architecture art
- Journalism in the age of data
A 50-minute documentary on information visualization and its use in journalism. Lots of kottke.org regulars in there...Fry, Wattenberg, Koblin, Felton, Stamen, etc. And Amanda Cox…
- Ikea cookbook
Ikea is coming out with a cookbook -- the name translates as "Homemade is Best" -- and the photography looks great. Tags: books food Ikea
- Jure Robic, RIP
Jure Robic, the world-class ultra-endurance cyclist I wrote about earlier this year, was killed in a traffic accident in his native Slovenia late last week. He died as he lived:…
- Twenty-nine years alone
Robert King spent 29 years in prison in solitary confinement for a crime for which he was later cleared. It was a dimly lit box, 9ft by 6ft, with bars at the front facing on to…
- Rough seas
This is footage from a camera on board a cruise ship from when some rough weather hit. On August 1, the Pacific Sun ran into a heavy storm 400 miles north of New Zealand, hitting…
- CAPTCHA advertising
People need to pay attention to CAPTCHAs to complete all sorts of tasks on the web...so why not make the CAPTCHA an advertisement? "Ads are just getting bigger and louder as…
- Bouncing baby bombs
This little guy is a newborn uncontrolled nuclear fisson reaction. You know, an atomic bomb. This is from a NY Times photo slideshow of atomic bomb explosions. Check out the…
- Lost World's Fairs
Want to see the state of the art in web design using web fonts and Typekit? Check out Lost World's Fairs. It's all good, but Frank Chimero really knocked it out of the park with…
- Michael Lewis on the Greek financial crisis
Of all the stories I've heard about the recent financial crisis -- the high-risk mortgage loans, the CDOs, the credit default swaps, the Icelandic crisis -- the story of the…
- The Luckiest Bastards Alive
Made my palms sweaty. (Some of these people — the train dodgers in particular — really put the dumb in dumb luck.) ★
- How a watch works
From 1949, a video explanation of how the innards of a mechanical wristwatch function. Ingenious. It's difficult to take the complexity of technology for granted after watching…
- Think Different
One of the first things that Steve Jobs did after taking over as Apple's interim CEO in 1997 is to get Apple back on track with their branding. In this short presentation from…
- Kurt Vonnegut's advice to young writers
- Americans don't know how to die
- Not your father's style manual
The Chicago Manual of Style addresses some recent questions about citation, grammar, and even fashion. Q. Hi there! For a sign for bachelorette parties, would the phrase…
- How to trick people into thinking you're good looking
Hair, makeup, and style tips from an ugly girl about "creating a human optical illusion". (via clusterflock) Tags: how to video
- Rupert Murdoch sees all
A fantastically entertaining story about a NY Post employee, short pants, and Rupert Murdoch's hidden camera in the cafeteria. Sal looks at me oddly and goes, "Mr. Murdoch would…
- 1996 audio of David Foster Wallace
The Takeaway has several audio clips from David Lipsky's 1996 road trip with David Foster Wallace which eventually ended up in book form. Tags: audio David Foster Wallace David…
- There is Bergkamp
Congratulations to the Dutch for reaching the World Cup final. To celebrate, here's a great Dutch moment from a past World Cup...Dennis Bergkamp's epic goal vs. Argentina in the…
- Stages of a photographer
Shouldn't the HDR Hole actually extend below the baseline? Larger version is here. See also Clayton Cubitt's three-step guide to photography: 01: be interesting. 02: find…
- The Avon Barksdale Story
Here's the trailer for The Avon Barksdale Story, a documentary about the real-life Baltimore gangster than inspired the Avon Barksdale character on The Wire. Barksdale's real…
- When URL shorteners fail
URL shorteners still suck, but several URL shortening services have agreed to hand over the keys to 301Works in the event that a URL shortening company goes under. 301Works will…
- Hamburger style guide
A Hamburger Today presents a guide to all the different styles of hamburgers and cheeseburgers out there, including sliders, the pub burger, and guberburgers (a regional burger…
- Javascript Nintendo emulator
This Javascript Nintendo emulator works amazingly well in Google Chrome. You can play Dr. Mario, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, The Legend of Zelda, etc. I highly recommend you use…
- Growth of Twitter vs. Blogger (kottke.org)
In mid-March, Andy Baio noted that Twitter uses publicly available sequential message IDs and employed Twitter co-founder Evan Williams' messages to graph the growth of the…