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Gisèle Pelicot is the person of the year for 2024. “She told...
12/19/24 - 02:49PM MST
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From Literary Hub, The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of 2024. Book bannings,...
12/19/24 - 12:50PM MST
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Megastars used a pandemic-era grant intended to save music venues from closing...
12/19/24 - 11:43AM MST
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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott writes about the $2 billion in donations her foundation...
12/19/24 - 10:40AM MST
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The Killings of Young Mothers. In the US, “when women under age...
12/19/24 - 09:54AM MST
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The Vanity Fair Interview with Billie Eilish, Year Eight
12/19/24 - 09:12AM MST
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Superman Trailer
12/19/24 - 08:25AM MST
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The Muppets’ Carol of the Bells
12/18/24 - 03:24PM MST
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The Missing van Gogh Masterpiece
12/18/24 - 02:34PM MST
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I’m an Apple News+ Article. Come and Get Me, Baby. “‘You can...
12/18/24 - 01:47PM MST
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Saving this for future reference: the 25 most popular recipes published by...
12/18/24 - 12:55PM MST
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Thanks to a large donation, lift tickets will be free all season...
12/18/24 - 12:03PM MST
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“Substack Is At It Again”
12/18/24 - 11:22AM MST
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How to make your own Die Hard Christmas tree ornament of John...
12/18/24 - 10:41AM MST
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I am almost positive that I have posted this before but I...
12/18/24 - 10:02AM MST
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They Thought They Were Free
12/18/24 - 08:39AM MST
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Jamelle Bouie: “Either democracy was on the ballot in November, or it...
12/18/24 - 07:08AM MST
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12/17/24 - 04:00PM MST
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36 Things That Stuck With Us in 2024, including Chappell Roan, Missy...
12/17/24 - 03:22PM MST
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A group of scientists warns against creating mirror cells. This sentence is...
12/17/24 - 02:29PM MST
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What Are Your Personal Foundational Texts?
12/17/24 - 01:14PM MST
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Then Comes The Body
12/17/24 - 11:28AM MST
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It is easy to be cynical about the do-gooding motivations of a...
12/17/24 - 10:27AM MST
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Yo-Yo Ma played the prelude to Bach’s Suite No. 1 in G...
12/17/24 - 09:34AM MST
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Two More Tiny Desks
12/17/24 - 08:40AM MST
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Apple has renewed Silo for two more seasons. The show will end...
12/17/24 - 07:51AM MST
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Trailer for The White Lotus Season Three
12/16/24 - 04:55PM MST
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Speaking of Tiny Desk Concerts, the most popular set of 2024 (18M...
12/16/24 - 03:40PM MST
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Actual things my parents said while watching my son’s swimming lesson. “MOM:...
12/16/24 - 12:33PM MST
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HPV vaccines have been linked to a steep drop in cervical cancer...
12/16/24 - 11:47AM MST
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Billie Eilish’s Tiny Desk Concert
12/16/24 - 10:54AM MST
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“Americans spend more years being unhealthy than people in any other country.”...
12/16/24 - 10:01AM MST
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Isle of Tune: a web-based game where you build streetscapes that play...
12/16/24 - 09:00AM MST
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From an old version of the Wikipedia page for Warren G and...
12/16/24 - 08:10AM MST
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Kottke Comments, Now With Faves
12/16/24 - 06:54AM MST
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Once again, The 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide. If you’re shopping online,...
12/14/24 - 12:05PM MST
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Go Back Home, Your Mother Made You Waffles
12/13/24 - 03:11PM MST
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“What would happen if you spent a nanosecond on the surface of...
12/13/24 - 01:55PM MST
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Time Lapse: From Pinecone to Pine Tree in 110 Seconds
12/13/24 - 01:03PM MST
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Look at feisty confectionary upstart Skittles trying to get in on the...
12/13/24 - 11:58AM MST
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The Invention That Accidentally Made McMansions
12/13/24 - 10:50AM MST
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I really like this: “If you think about it, the very best...
12/13/24 - 09:58AM MST
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Restoring Vintage Star Wars Posters
12/13/24 - 09:10AM MST
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Evan Gershkovich, recently freed by the Putin regime, has the lead byline...
12/13/24 - 08:10AM MST
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Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines. “Parents in the...
12/13/24 - 07:50AM MST
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Museums should be free, but if they can’t be free, they should...
12/13/24 - 07:16AM MST
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Wow, look at this video of wild skating — a thin layer...
12/12/24 - 03:48PM MST
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I’m sorry, but if you need to fact-check an interview with your...
12/12/24 - 02:46PM MST
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The Biggest Bomb in the World
12/12/24 - 02:00PM MST
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A list of medieval English dog names, including Fyndewell, Sturdy, Plodder, Harmeles,...
12/12/24 - 01:13PM MST
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This is interesting and somewhat counterintuitive: “Fare-free transit is not an environmental...
12/12/24 - 12:30PM MST
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Aerial Foodscapes
12/12/24 - 11:20AM MST
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I missed this back in August: the excellent Art of the Title...
12/12/24 - 10:36AM MST
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Tressie McMillan Cottom: “Whether you call it crony capitalism or just an...
12/12/24 - 09:51AM MST
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Great Casey Johnston piece on how chronic pain & capitalism intersect in...
12/12/24 - 09:01AM MST
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“The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the...
12/12/24 - 08:08AM MST
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I just updated the 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide, including some gifts...
12/11/24 - 04:55PM MST
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Now Serving: Drinkable Mayonnaise
12/11/24 - 04:05PM MST
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Holiday Terms & Conditions (A Christmas Album). Lyrics include: “It’s beginning to...
12/11/24 - 02:55PM MST
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Bryan Cranston Reads From Robert Caro’s The Power Broker
12/11/24 - 02:02PM MST
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Recently found: a message in a bottle at an archaeological dig left...
12/11/24 - 01:15PM MST
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Racing’s Deadliest Day. After the 1955 Le Mans disaster, “it would be...
12/11/24 - 12:25PM MST
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Monument Valley 3 is out today on iOS & Android and is...
12/11/24 - 10:45AM MST
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The Origin of Delay, Deny, Defend
12/11/24 - 09:32AM MST
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Check Out the 2025 Moon Phases
12/11/24 - 08:46AM MST
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If you haven’t had the pleasure, you should double back and read...
12/11/24 - 07:54AM MST
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The old school Oregon Trail video game is being adapted into an...
12/11/24 - 07:11AM MST
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In Training: A Book of Bonsai Photos
12/10/24 - 04:10PM MST
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A very simple little browser game: open the microwave door as close...
12/10/24 - 03:29PM MST
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Straight White Male, the Game of Life’s Lowest Difficulty Setting
12/10/24 - 02:44PM MST
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The New Rules of Media. “Everything is a personality cult, and maybe...
12/10/24 - 02:04PM MST
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Willem Dafoe interviewed by Matt Zoller Seitz. “If you make it about...
12/10/24 - 01:24PM MST
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“ProPublica’s Claim File Helper lets you customize a letter requesting the notes...
12/10/24 - 12:39PM MST
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Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop...
12/10/24 - 11:44AM MST
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A thread of some letters people wrote to each other on clay...
12/10/24 - 10:55AM MST
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What’s The One Thing Only You Noticed?
12/10/24 - 09:32AM MST
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An analysis of the UX of Lego interface panels. “Armed with 52...
12/10/24 - 08:51AM MST
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For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website. “It will only...
12/09/24 - 02:33PM MST
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The Arresting Typography of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
12/09/24 - 01:42PM MST
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The oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, a 74 year old Laysan albatross,...
12/09/24 - 12:51PM MST
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No One Has to Settle for Bad Pizza Anymore. “Violinists have the...
12/09/24 - 11:59AM MST
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Grand Theft Hamlet
12/09/24 - 11:12AM MST
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Vaccines have saved 150 million children over the last 50 years. “Every...
12/09/24 - 10:22AM MST
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No surprise: conservatives are embracing media villains like Tony Soprano & Judge...
12/09/24 - 09:31AM MST
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Your 2024 Therapy Wrapped. “2024 was a BUMPY ride…and your therapist was...
12/09/24 - 08:54AM MST
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This Beautiful Day: Daily Wisdom from Mister Rogers
12/09/24 - 08:12AM MST
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“Food deserts are not an inevitable consequence of poverty or low population...
12/09/24 - 07:15AM MST
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Just updated the 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide with suggestions from Kottke...
12/08/24 - 10:46AM MST
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It appears that the brutal reign of the Assad regime is over...
12/08/24 - 09:56AM MST
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Catherine Russell has starred in the same off-Broadway play for 37 years,...
12/08/24 - 09:06AM MST
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Jia Tolentino on the sometimes celebratory reaction to the death of UnitedHealthcare...
12/07/24 - 05:38PM MST
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A fantastic interactive feature about the newly restored Notre-Dame cathedral. “Each day...
12/07/24 - 04:31PM MST
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A Bluesky starter pack of major news outlets that have joined the...
12/06/24 - 02:21PM MST
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This Is What The Internet’s For
12/06/24 - 01:35PM MST
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404 Media, reporting on 404’d media: big health insurance companies are removing...
12/06/24 - 12:28PM MST
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98-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Stars in Lovely New Coldplay Video
12/06/24 - 11:09AM MST
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“The sound of traffic and a uniform sea of barley have been...
12/06/24 - 10:28AM MST
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The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age. “We’ve been cored like...
12/06/24 - 10:11AM MST
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After almost 25 years, Paul Krugman is retiring as a NYT opinion...
12/06/24 - 09:34AM MST
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NASA’s Rocket Engine Fireplace
12/06/24 - 08:56AM MST
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“subtle foreshadowing” — I laughed unbelievably hard at this, just absolutely gasping...
12/06/24 - 08:16AM MST