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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Neat little prototype demo of a Bluesky reader that... ]]></title>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/montoulieu.dev/post/3muu5higixs2i">Neat little prototype demo</a> of a Bluesky reader that uses the UI of the long-retired Paper app. I loved the design of Paper.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ A late 90s guide to Super Metroid was written in... ]]></title>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully">A late 90s guide to Super Metroid was written in monospaced type, fully justified with no double spaces or hyphens</a>. “I just chose words carefully so that everything lined up on the right hand side.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Biiiiig Stretch ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-11T12:30:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-11T12:30:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>Back when I <a href="https://kottke.org/22/05/announcement-im-going-to-miss-you-but-i-am-taking-a-sabbatical">went on sabbatical in 2022</a>, I told the story of the fiddle leaf fig tree I bought shortly after my ex-wife and I separated and I’d moved into my own apartment.</p>
<blockquote><p>I’d recently moved into my own apartment after separating from my wife and figured a large plant in my new place would add some liveliness to a new beginning that was feeling overwhelming, lonely, and sad. For the first couple of months, I didn’t know if my tree and I were going to make it. I’d never really had a plant before and struggled getting a handle on the watering schedule and other plant care routines. It started losing leaves. Like, an alarming number of leaves.</p><p>I’d brought this glorious living thing into my house only to kill it! Not cool. With the stress of the separation, my new living situation, and not seeing my kids every day, I felt a little like I was dying too.</p><p>One day, I decided I was not going to let my fiddle leaf fig tree die…and if I could do that, I wasn’t going to fall apart either. It’s a little corny, but my mantra became “if my tree is ok, I am ok”. I learned how to water & feed it and figured out the best place to put it for the right amount of light. It stopped shedding leaves.</p><p>The fig tree was a happy plant for several years after that. And I was ok because my plant was ok — I found new routines and rhythms in my altered life, made new traditions with my kids, got divorced, met new people, moved to a new state (w/ my family and tree), rediscovered who I was as a person, and, wonderfully and unexpectedly, forged a supportive and rewarding parenting partnership and friendship with my ex. We made it through that tough time together, that plant and me.</p></blockquote>
<p>I got a lot of feedback from that post…so many kind notes and comments. But there was one email from a reader that particularly stuck in my mind. Of course I can’t find the actual message in my disaster of an inbox, but the gist of it was something like: <em>There may come a time when you feel like you need to let your fiddle leaf fig go and that will be ok too.</em> </p>
<p>Over the next few years, I thought often of that email. About how my tree, which in some sense kept me going during one period of my life, might not be quite right for whatever the next period in my life would be.</p>
<p>Recently, that time arrived. I carried the fig out to my car, stopping to snap this pic on the way:</p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1789115228-ae1e3d9b.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1789115228-ae1e3d9b.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1789115228-ae1e3d9b.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p>I loaded it into the car and drove it a short distance to its new home with my friend and her three young boys. Here it is in its new habitat:</p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1789115256-7ae8dd0d.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1789115256-7ae8dd0d.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1789115256-7ae8dd0d.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p>Looks pretty good, right? Like it belongs there. I’m really happy it found such a good new home. I hope it thrives along with their family.</p>
<p>A few days ago, about two weeks after the tree departed, I left my house in Vermont for the last time too. In the preceding months, I’d sold some of my things (including my car), given a bunch of stuff away, and put the rest in storage. I drove my rental car to Boston and got on a flight to Tokyo. Right now, I’m sitting in a cafe near my rental apartment writing this post, jetlagged but happy to be here.</p>
<p>So what’s my plan? I’m going to travel for an indeterminate period (mostly outside of the US and dipping back in for visits), starting in Japan for a couple of months. I don’t know where I’m going next yet — probably somewhere closer to the US so I can visit my kids more easily during this transition.</p>
<p>Zooming out a bit, the broader plan is to attempt to answer the questions that I’ve been thinking about for the past few years, ever since <a href="https://kottke.org/23/12/where-do-you-call-home">I went on a Walk and Talk in Thailand</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Where do you call home? And why?</p><p>I’ve been struggling with the concept of home for the past several years. NYC very much felt like home to me shortly after I moved there in 2003 in a way that Minneapolis and (especially) San Francisco hadn’t. Since moving to Vermont in 2016, I’ve never really felt at home here. But NYC isn’t home anymore…and neither is Wisconsin, where I grew up. Where do I want to go to find a home? Do I need to feel at home somewhere? Or is home simply wherever my bed/desk/stuff happens to be? I had more questions than answers around this issue and I was interested in how other people in the group, which included folks that had lived and travelled all over the world, would answer the question.</p></blockquote>
<p>I’m not going to lie…I’m a little terrified. Sitting on the plane to Narita, I looked out the window thinking “what have I done?” But I’m also excited. Living elsewhere in the world has been on my mind for a long while and at this point, I can’t not do it. I’ll let you know how it goes.</p>
<p>As for what this means for KDO: hopefully not much and only good things. I moved; I didn’t retire. As I get more settled here and my body accepts its new timezone, regular service will resume. I’m hoping the more stimulating surroundings and injection of culture shows up in interesting ways in my life and on the website. I don’t think KDO will ever become a travel blog, but I imagine I’ll write sometimes about where I am and what I’m doing. I’ve got a backlog of things I want to do for the site and now that the massive time sink of moving is done, I’ll have the opportunity to do them.</p>
<p>For now, I’m going to pack my computer up and walk to find something tasty for lunch — I’ve so missed being able to easily do that. Catch you on the flip side.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ “In almost every [US] county, extreme heat is at... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049561-its-not-just-you-america-"/>
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<published>2026-09-11T12:10:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-11T12:10:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>“In almost every [US] county, extreme heat is at least as bad as it was 30 years ago. In most counties, it’s much worse.” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/05/opinion/editorials/extreme-heat-summer.html?unlocked_article_code=1._1A.uZfp.KqzCg_FVwEOZ">It’s Not Just You. America Has Gotten Much Hotter.</a> (Not a fan of articles like this being in the “opinion” section…)
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer... ]]></title>
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<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-10:49572</id>
<published>2026-09-11T01:58:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-11T01:58:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital">VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer Capital</a>. “We must understand that it is no longer a financial machine that is used to fund startups, but a political and social machine focused on dismantling democracy and civil society.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ The Simpsons Switcheroo ]]></title>
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<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-10:49573</id>
<published>2026-09-11T01:15:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-11T01:15:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0IA0tOWCMJQ" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>At the beginning of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IA0tOWCMJQ">a clip</a> from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjWPkOHk_BM">this podcast episode</a> of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend with Matt Groening, Conan talks about one of his favorite things they did on The Simpsons:</p>
<blockquote><p>It’s a phenomenon that the Simpsons did so beautifully, which is — and we did this with Homer a lot — but Homer is not the smartest guy in the world, but if it’s funny for him to have a certain knowledge of something or turn a phrase, suddenly he has it.</p><p>And one of my favorites of that is he’s sitting around the table and Lisa’s despondent. Something didn’t go well for her and she doesn’t think she’s going to get to go to a good school now. And she’s sitting at the table and she said, “Oh no, now I’ll never get to go to an Ivy League school. I’ll have to go to Vasser.” Which is just this like — by the way, my wife went to Vasser, it’s a very good school. But it was just this thing where in Lisa’s little world, oh my god, I’ve been I’ve been ruined. I’ll have to go to Vasser. And Homer like slams a table and says, “There’ll be no Vasser bashing in this house.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I loved this about the show too. And it was part of a general thing the writers did where sometimes characters would play against type. So Marge became reckless, Homer was smart/sensitive, Bart was organized, and Lisa was a giggly little girl. Those moments helped make the show and when, after the epic run in the early-to-mid 90s, the show became almost exclusively about how dumb & crass Homer was, it was much less rich and entertaining. (thx, mark)
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ “ Gimme is a dazzling ever-growing type family of... ]]></title>
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<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-10:49571</id>
<published>2026-09-11T00:35:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-11T00:35:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>“<a href="https://www.futurefonts.com/typearture/gimme">Gimme</a> is a dazzling ever-growing type family of multi-chromatic and variable display typefaces…” This is bonkers…letters made from Battleship pieces, Connect Four boards, playing cards, wooden railroad tracks, etc.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Bring Blockbuster Video back to your town/city by... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049567-setting-up-a-little-free-"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-10:49567</id>
<published>2026-09-10T23:45:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-10T23:45:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>Bring Blockbuster Video back to your town/city by <a href="https://www.freeblockbuster.org">setting up a little free library of VHS tapes & DVDs</a>. “Take a movie, leave a movie.” Love this.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Gloria Steinem’s final essay , posthumously published by... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049566-gloria-steinems-final-ess"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-10:49566</id>
<published>2026-09-10T22:55:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-10T22:55:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/life-and-letters/gloria-steinems-final-essay">Gloria Steinem’s final essay</a>, posthumously published by the New Yorker. “When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role as an older person is to remind us how far we have come.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ TIL that my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in i t (for... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049563-my-iphone-has-a-tiny-bit-"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-10:49563</id>
<published>2026-09-10T22:15:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-10T22:15:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>TIL that <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/09/iphone-18-pro-redesigned-vapor-chamber">my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in i</a>t (for cooling).
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Teaser trailer for Musk , a 3h45m-long documentary film... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049564-teaser-trailer-for-musk"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-10:49564</id>
<published>2026-09-10T21:38:17Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-10T21:38:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUmImn2GYq4">Teaser trailer for Musk</a>, a 3h45m-long documentary film on fascist businessman Elon Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. “He’s chaotic, random, capricious. He is manifestly cruel and selfish. In a science fiction novel, he would not be a hero.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ “We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049570-these-ais-colluded-to-sha"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-09:49570</id>
<published>2026-09-10T02:24:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-10T02:24:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>“We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web research task. <a href="https://collusion.wiki">These AIs colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restrictions</a>.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ The Chicago Public Library informs patrons of how much... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049560-how-much-money-theyve-sav"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-09:49560</id>
<published>2026-09-10T01:24:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-10T01:24:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>The Chicago Public Library informs patrons of <a href="https://www.salon.com/2026/09/06/my-library-card-has-saved-me-1330-and-i-want-more">how much money they’ve saved borrowing from the library instead of buying</a>. “You just saved $58.94 by using your library. You have saved $231.79 this past year and $1,107.24 since you began using the library!”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Over the past 12 years, Super Bowl-winning coach Mike... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049559-has-built-a-minecraft-cit"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-09:49559</id>
<published>2026-09-10T00:24:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-10T00:24:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>Over the past 12 years, Super Bowl-winning coach Mike Tomlin <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/wants-record-mike-tomlin-son-014917388.html">has built a Minecraft city.</a> He <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DdClnf5BJA5">started playing the game</a> for the same reason <a href="https://kottke.org/23/04/the-joy-of-fortnite">I started playing Fortnite</a>: his kids. “How do I meet them where they are and spend time with them?”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ From the Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049558-vanishing-culture-a-repor"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-09:49558</id>
<published>2026-09-09T23:34:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-09T23:34:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>From the Internet Archive: <a href="https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/mode/2up">Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record</a>. “When digital materials are vulnerable to sudden removal…our collective memory is compromised, and the public’s ability to access its own history is at risk.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Vintage Eastern European Matchbox Labels (1950-1980s) ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/vintage-eastern-european-matchbox-labels-1950-1980s"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-09:49557</id>
<published>2026-09-09T22:44:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-09T22:44:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>Over on Flickr, Jane McDevitt maintains <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/maraid/albums/72157594234429063">a huge collection of 20th century matchbox label art from Eastern Europe</a>, over 4000 photos in all. Some of the labels <a href="https://matchbloc.com">are available as prints</a>. They <a href="https://matchbloc.com/products/matchbloc-book">did a book too</a>, but it’s sold out. It was really difficult to narrow these down to some of my favorites, but I managed.</p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989507-87f8a427.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989507-87f8a427.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989507-87f8a427.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989524-a4d578a7.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989524-a4d578a7.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989524-a4d578a7.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989541-52b28015.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989541-52b28015.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989541-52b28015.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989553-0961e128.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989553-0961e128.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989553-0961e128.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989571-8cdd5318.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989571-8cdd5318.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989571-8cdd5318.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989598-449dd8a8.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989598-449dd8a8.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989598-449dd8a8.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989643-e921a279.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989643-e921a279.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989643-e921a279.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p>P.S. I wrote this whole post and then discovered that <a href="https://kottke.org/21/11/mid-century-modern-matchbox-labels-from-eastern-bloc-countries-1950s-1980s">I’d written about this collection before</a>. But I picked different labels so it’s all good.
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]]><![CDATA[ <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/art">art</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/illustration">illustration</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/Jane%20McDevitt">Jane McDevitt</a></p>]]></content>
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ A catalogue of 645 acts of hate from the week after 9/11... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049556-a-catalogue-of-645-acts-o"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-09:49556</id>
<published>2026-09-09T21:44:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-09T21:44:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://post911.org">A catalogue of 645 acts of hate from the week after 9/11</a>. “Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh Americans were targeted for how they looked, dressed, or prayed.”
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Bayeux Go! A playable video game of the Bayeux... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049555-bayeux-go"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-09:49555</id>
<published>2026-09-09T21:04:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-09T21:04:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://bayeuxgo.live">Bayeux Go!</a> A playable video game of the Bayeux Tapestry. “Thou art Harold. Win Thine Battle. Tap to starte.”
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Spaceships : A version of Asteroids where “you are not... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049552-spaceships"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-09:49552</id>
<published>2026-09-09T19:35:04Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-09T19:35:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://spaceships.treybastian.com">Spaceships</a>: A version of Asteroids where “you are not the ship” — you control the rocks instead.
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ The 101 Plays Itself . The five lanes of highway 101 in... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049554-the-101-plays-itself"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-09:49554</id>
<published>2026-09-09T13:00:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-09T13:00:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://the-101-plays-itself.netlify.app">The 101 Plays Itself</a>. The five lanes of highway 101 in LA turned into a musical instrument: each car on the live Caltrans camera is a note.
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Teaser trailer for You Can See Everything from Nathan... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049553-teaser-trailer"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-07:49553</id>
<published>2026-09-08T00:04:22Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-08T00:04:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJSRFWALTI">Teaser trailer</a> for <a href="https://a24films.com/films/you-can-see-everything">You Can See Everything</a> from Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim. “Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move.” WHAT WAS THAT?
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Autumnal Open Thread ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/autumnal-open-thread"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-03:49551</id>
<published>2026-09-03T17:03:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-03T17:03:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>My <a href="https://kottke.org/26/08/heading-on-out">move</a> is coming down to the wire (omg so many things to juggle!), kids are heading back to school, I’m going to be traveling, and it’s a holiday weekend here in the States, so there’s probably not going to be too much going on here until next week. Thanks for your patience…I can’t wait to get back to work here.</p>
<p>In the meantime, I thought I’d open up this thread for folks to share what they feel like sharing. I’ll go first below…
</p>
]]><![CDATA[ <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/kottke.org">kottke.org</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/open%20threads">open threads</a></p>]]></content>
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049550-writer-journalist-and-fem"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-03:49550</id>
<published>2026-09-03T12:35:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-03T12:35:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/politics/gloria-steinem-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-VA.soKO.y8R9UFSU8TBY">Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem has died</a>. She was 92.
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/trump-is-in-open-revolt-against-the-constitution"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49549</id>
<published>2026-09-01T22:10:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T22:10:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/opinion/trump-mail-in-voting-constitution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.91A.Ks4V.txXYW5ePA3Rj">Jamelle Bouie</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The details of what is happening here are important — that’s why I laid them out — but it’s also important to step back and make a more fundamental point: the president of the United States is engaged in a conspiracy against the voting rights of the American people, which is to say that the president is engaged in a conspiracy against the Constitution itself. And this is part of a larger effort, spearheaded by the most fanatical of his allies, like Stephen Miller, to end the American republic and supplant it with an authoritarian regime in which President Trump holds sovereign authority over the whole nation.</p><p>It is important to say, as well, that this is all out in the open, as plain as day.</p></blockquote>
<p>*repeated hair tearing-out noise*
</p>
]]><![CDATA[ <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/Donald%20Trump">Donald Trump</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/Jamelle%20Bouie">Jamelle Bouie</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/politics">politics</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/usa">usa</a></p>]]></content>
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049548-the-joy-of-making-stuff-w"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49548</id>
<published>2026-09-01T21:17:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T21:17:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>Gina Trapani: <a href="https://notetoself.studio/post/the-joy-of-3d-printing">The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer</a>. I’ve always been a little 3D printer-curious and this looks like a good resource to start with.
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ 2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049547-emily-wilson-is-completel"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49547</id>
<published>2026-09-01T20:21:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T20:21:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: <a href="https://apnews.com/article/emily-wilson-odyssey-translation-homer-a05084e4753528dff13766703161d24d">Emily Wilson is completely retranslating The Odyssey</a>. “It’s a complete retranslation. It’s not a revision of the old version.” This is the exact opposite of resting on one’s laurels.
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049546-whistle-blower-says-trump"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49546</id>
<published>2026-09-01T19:21:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T19:21:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/us/politics/whistle-blower-voting-by-mail.html?unlocked_article_code=1.91A.2zAh._gjQZ_5niDsi">Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail</a>. “The Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans.”
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ How Blackwing Pencils Are Made ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/how-blackwing-pencils-are-made"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49545</id>
<published>2026-09-01T18:00:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T18:00:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fow-LsdaH2E" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>The thing about me is if I see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fow-LsdaH2E">a making-of video for pencils</a>, I’m gonna stop and watch it and then post it to my website, especially if said pencils are Blackwings, made in Japan.</p>
<blockquote><p>Take a first-ever, in-depth look at the Blackwing pencil manufacturing process. This short film gives a glimpse into its manufacturing facilities in Japan and California. Beginning in Kofu, Japan, the film details the intricate graphite formulation and cutting process, then transitions to the woodworking facility in Tokyo where the pencils are pressed and lacquered.</p><p>Finally, it ends in Stockton, California at Blackwing’s headquarters where the pencils are imprinted, assembled with its signature ferrule, quality-checked, and hand-packed. Each and every Blackwing pencil is thoughtfully made to help you slow down and have the best tools for your creative journey.</p></blockquote>
<p>I’m always so curious about what’s being blurred out in making-of videos like this!</p>
<p>See also <a href="https://kottke.org/23/08/see-how-pencils-are-made-in-a-japanese-factory">See How Pencils Are Made in a Japanese Factory</a>, <a href="https://kottke.org/19/09/how-pencils-are-made">How Pencils Are Made</a>, <a href="https://kottke.org/18/01/a-visit-to-an-american-factory-thats-been-producing-pencils-since-1889">A Visit to an American Factory That’s Been Producing Pencils Since 1889</a>, and <a href="https://kottke.org/16/10/a-history-of-pencil-lead-and-how-pencils-are-made">A History of Pencil Lead and How Pencils Are Made</a>. (via <a href="https://kottke.org/26/08/open-thread-for-august-2026#cmt-17219">NaOH</a>)
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]]><![CDATA[ <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/Blackwing">Blackwing</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/how%20to">how to</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/pencils">pencils</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/video">video</a></p>]]></content>
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Industry Standard Tools . “Every trade has a small... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049544-industry-standard-tools"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49544</id>
<published>2026-09-01T17:20:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T17:20:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://industrystandard.tools">Industry Standard Tools</a>. “Every trade has a small number of items so entrenched that they’ve become the de facto tool that nearly everyone in that trade uses.”
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come? On... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049543-if-you-build-it-will-they"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49543</id>
<published>2026-09-01T16:00:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T16:00:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>This is a fun read: <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/08/21/if-you-build-it-will-they-come-on-the-sperm-racing-world-cup">If You Build It, Will They Come? On the Sperm Racing World Cup</a>. “The cells then race through courses less than a half-centimeter long that are etched into microfluidic silicon chips.”
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</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another*... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049542-nationally-unsubsidized-a"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49542</id>
<published>2026-09-01T14:54:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T14:54:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://acasignups.net/rate_changes/2027/national">Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another* ~15% next year</a>. We can’t continue like this (but I feel like this has been the case for the last ~10 years and will in fact likely continue…)
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Here’s how noise-cancelling headphones work (and when... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049541-heres-how-noise-cancellin"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49541</id>
<published>2026-09-01T14:04:50Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T14:04:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/what-noise-cancelling-headphones-do">Here’s how noise-cancelling headphones work</a> (and when they don’t). “This is why ANC is better suited for reducing low, sustained sounds like those of motors and airplane engines, and it’s why such headphones can’t filter out screaming kids.”
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America .... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049540-google-maps-changes-lake-"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-31:49540</id>
<published>2026-08-31T13:22:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-31T13:22:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/world/canada/lake-ontario-america-google-maps.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9lA.L1sF.rYRYYwubA8i2">Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America</a>. Totally pathetic and stupid. Maps are wayfinding tools and this toadying political change will help no one find their way.
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049538-the-windows-98-disk-defra"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-29:49538</id>
<published>2026-08-29T21:02:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-29T21:02:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of <a href="https://defrag98.com">the Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator</a>.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards , featuring... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-29T18:30:00Z</published>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://tinyawards.net/vote">Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards</a>, featuring 10 sites that celebrate “the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”. You have until Sept 25 to vote.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Heat waves are disproportionately harming people with... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-29T14:16:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-29T14:16:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/heat-wave-schizophrenia">Heat waves are disproportionately harming people with schizophrenia</a>. “The bodies of people with schizophrenia, especially those on medication, simply regulate temperature very differently than others do.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Emptying the Tabs… ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-27T16:12:49Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-27T16:12:49Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>Ok, we’re gonna go a little old school today. I’m talking the late 1990s and early 2000s, back before permalinks (sorry), RSS, and social media turned blog posts & tweets into their own little discrete units packaged to be easily passed around and things were less homogeneous. Back then, blogs — at least the ones I loved — tended to be more of a stream of consciousness thing, just an unordered and uncurated list of whatever happened to pop into people’s heads or cross their screens.</p>
<p>So, I’ve currently got at least 120 tabs across 20+ windows open in Chrome. I know, I know, I’ve gotta get a tab manager, but this is where I am right now. Each of these tabs contains something interesting and potentially bloggable, but some of them have been sitting there for <em>months</em> and with <a href="https://kottke.org/26/08/heading-on-out">moving stuff</a> consuming most of my days right now, I don’t have time to sit down and give them each even a Quick Links treatment. So I’m gonna do them rapid-fire in the hopes that you might find some of it interesting. Here we go, let’s empty some tabs!!</p>
<p><a href="https://ippawards.com/winners/showcase">The winners of the 2026 iPhone Photography Awards</a>. Via my pal <a href="https://jodiettenberg.com">Jodi</a>, I think. I love this one, which rhymes with this famous photo (<a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/98333">Behind the Gare St. Lazare</a>) by Henri Cartier-Bresson:</p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787846978-c932dc6f.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787846978-c932dc6f.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787846978-c932dc6f.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><a href="https://orionmagazine.org/article/ways-of-treeing">Ways of Treeing</a>, “Meditations on time and rebellion against the straight line”.</p>
<p><a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-irony/the-quiet-grief-of-adult-friendship">The quiet grief of adult friendship</a>. “Adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life.” (Via <a href="https://www.swiss-miss.com/2026/08/the-quiet-grief-of-adult-friendship.html">swissmiss</a>; have I linked to this one before?)</p>
<p>Hugh Howey (author of the Silo books) on <a href="https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era">how the self-publishing window has closed</a> (or at least narrowed). “We had less than 20 years of writing being hard and publishing being easy, and we will never get that window back.”</p>
<p>I haven’t done <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/media%20diet">a media diet post</a> since November (and may not again?) but I’ve been eagerly watching s03 of Silo, listening to Toni Morrison read <a href="https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780739342138-beloved">Beloved</a> (great book but what a fucking gift to hear Morrison read it), and enjoyed the new Spider-Man, a series that is at its best when the three leads just chill and talk.</p>
<p>“Artist and researcher Maggie Coblentz <a href="https://ambrook.com/offrange/culture/miso-in-space">fermented miso in orbit</a>, chasing a deeper question: What makes a miso a miso—or a person a person—away from Earth?”</p>
<p><a href="https://byebyepaywall.com/en">Bye Bye Paywall</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780593994993">I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World</a> by Sarah Wilson.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.messynessychic.com">Messy Nessy’s Cabinet</a> (always a good source of interesting links) redesigned recently.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.core77.com/posts/144869/The-Dutch-Community-Where-People-Live-on-Strips-of-Land-in-a-Lake">These Dutch strip islands</a> are cool.</p>
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<p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/humans-did-not-invent-art-it-was-the-other-way-around">How art invented humanity</a> (instead of the other way around).</p>
<p>I don’t watch enough videos by Phil Edwards these days: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhjp--rA9ho">“Why are bowling alleys across America replacing 2,000-pound mechanical pinsetters with nylon strings?”</a></p>
<p><a href="https://aeon.co/videos/is-democracy-without-elections-possible-could-a-lottery-be-better">Is democracy without elections possible? Could a lottery be better?</a> I actually watched this a couple of months ago but never got around to writing it up. <a href="https://www.lottocracy.org">More on this from Alex Guerrero</a>.</p>
<p>I really wanted to get to this one but just never could find the time: Historia Civilis on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=872JcpP3FEM">The History of the City</a>.</p>
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<p>This might be a minority view, but my YouTube algorithm is actually pretty good at showing me stuff I’m interested in. Case in point: when I was getting the link for the city video above, I noticed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDLbO9KeddY">a newish video from Tom Scott about Bletchley Park and the secrecy of the Intelligence Factory</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlK4JKFPf7U">The Spectacle</a>: Has Taking the Perfect Photo Ruined Tourism?</p>
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<p><a href="https://geologyscience.com/gemstone/fordite-detroit-agate">Fordite</a> is an artificial gemstone made up of dozens of layers of automotive paint that built up and hardered over time.</p>
<blockquote><p>This material is typically found in the paint booths of auto factories, where cars were spray-painted by hand. As the paint sprayed over vehicles, excess paint would build up on the equipment and surfaces around the painting area. Over the years, these layers of paint would harden, creating colorful, agate-like structures.</p></blockquote>
<p>Fordite is no longer being produced: “The switch from solvent-based paints to more environmentally friendly, quicker-drying paints in modern automotive plants has virtually ended the creation of new fordite, making it a finite material.”</p>
<p><a href="https://samizdat.co/digest">Infinite Digest</a>: a collection of infographics about DFW’s Infinite Jest.</p>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/45232468">Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See</a>, “a 40-minute crash course in design thinking”. Found this via <a href="https://www.edwardtufte.com">Edward Tufte</a>.</p>
<p>Debbie Millman on <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/debbie_millman_the_fleeting_euphoria_of_success">the fleeting euphoria of success</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjmUzxEPJeM">YouTube</a>).</p>
<p><a href="https://marchforthfilm.com">March Forth</a> is a feature-length documentary about Reginald Dwayne Betts, who was incarcerated at 16; “after his release, Betts went on to become an acclaimed poet, author, lawyer, activist and MacArthur Genius Award winner”. <a href="https://vimeo.com/1194096475">Trailer</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBN5SWCReJQ">The Professor Who Taught People How To Think (1962)</a>. This looks great; shades of Feynman.</p>
<p><a href="https://typewritten.org/Media">Screenshots of various operating systems (1983-2005)</a>. See also <a href="https://virtualosmuseum.org">The Virtual OS Museum</a> (“1,700+ pre-installed operating systems, ready to run”).</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1PDqzqhM4">The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum</a>. Got this from <a href="https://waxy.org">Andy</a> so you know it’s good.</p>
<p>Speaking of Andy, he recently posted about <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezos-called-artificial-ai-is-shutting-down.html">Amazon’s decision to shutter Mechanical Turk</a>. Kinda shocked it was still going tbh.</p>
<p>2018 PBS special hosted by Michael Keaton: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM3Bhi70kQE">Why Mister Rogers Still Matters Today</a>. I’m gonna make some time to watch this one after my move is done.</p>
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<p>Love the premise of this: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0CpxSfg-Vg">Mediocre Movies That Changed My Life</a>. Eddie the Eagle!</p>
<p><a href="https://music.jessyin.world">Visual Instruments: An Exploration of Making Music Out of Images</a>. This is a fun little web toy to play with.</p>
<p>I wanted to do a whole post on <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=Palette">the artist’s palettes they have in the collection at the Met</a>.</p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787840262-ad14cb97.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787840262-ad14cb97.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787840262-ad14cb97.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><a href="https://comicbooks.com/exhibition">A Living Museum of the Comic</a>. “A living museum of where the comic came from — its Western and Eastern roots, the women who drew the early funnies, the Europeans who invented its grammar, and the golden age of the American color cartoon. Every artifact is public domain, restored by us, and free to explore.”</p>
<p>From Kurzgesagt: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/Kurzgesagt/posts/new-video-us-in-165740172">The Impenetrable Barrier Trapping Us in the Solar System</a>. “From the vast empty space to the laws of physics themselves, there are many reasons why the dream of space travel might stay just a dream.” Alt title: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyl3X88KEgg">Why Humanity Will Never Leave The Solar System</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieDDvt7igc">The Dingo Fence | The Longest Fence in the World</a>. “In the heart of Australia, the continent has been cut in two by the longest fence in the world in a bid to protect livestock from dingoes. Dingoes have divided the nation for the past 150 years, but with new research coming to light, is it time for this to change?”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVeLFFf--ro">“I rebuilt 1901 by Phoenix from scratch to figure out what makes it so good.”</a> I love this song and will make time to watch this soon.</p>
<p><a href="https://gizmodo.com/the-deadly-legacy-of-hiv-truthers-1737928027">The Deadly Legacy of HIV Truthers</a> (2015). “Even as the medical community reached a consensus that HIV caused AIDS, a counter-movement was emerging, claiming that HIV didn’t exist, or that the virus existed but was harmless. The symptoms of AIDS, according to some of these people, were actually caused by HIV therapies themselves.” </p>
<p>Recent Howtown: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/Howtown/posts/so-did-nasa-find-165926089">So… did NASA find life on Mars?</a> “Awkwardly, we’ve now collected the most promising extra-terrestrial biosignature in a tube that might spend the rest of eternity sealed inside a dead rover.”</p>
<p>I love <a href="https://fontawesome.com/icons/gallery">these little icon collages and creations from Font Awesome</a> (FA serves the icons I use on KDO). Starry Night! Sudoku! Chef Vader! Business Fett!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/ansel-adams">More than 200 Ansel Adams photos</a>, mostly of National Parks, that are free to view & download. Via <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/ansel-adams-photographs-of-great-american-national-parks.html">Open Culture</a>, one of the gems of the open web.</p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787844622-8cfd9211.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787844622-8cfd9211.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787844622-8cfd9211.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD44sIxJuyY">The Crazy History of the Shower</a>. I think that’s self-recommending.</p>
<p>Jamelle Bouie saw The Odyssey and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLkZk9BN2Q4">shared his thoughts about it on YouTube</a>. From <a href="https://letterboxd.com/jbouie/film/the-odyssey-2026">his Letterboxd review</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Odyssey or, what if you did THE DARK KNIGHT in ancient Greece?</p><p>This, to be clear, is not a bad thing. Nolan is covering the same thematic territory he did nearly 20 years ago and more recently with OPPENHEIMER. And it is compelling! A kind of Burkean liberalism that sees the heroism of “great men” as a necessary bulwark against disorder and chaos but understands the great men as merely men — who themselves bear some responsibility for the chaos — and sees heroism as a terrible burden to bear, more akin to a curse than a crown. There are no parades or honors. In the end you bear the scars and fade away, an exile remembered in legend.</p><p>Anyway, I am glad Hollywood keeps giving the man hundreds of millions of dollars to make his didactic and idiosyncratic blockbusters. Keep ‘em coming!</p></blockquote>
<p>Yeah, exactly. I feel like most pans of The Odyssey fell into two main buckets: 1) it wasn’t long enough — pacing off, didn’t include my favorite scene, etc. — which was entirely due to 3-hour runtime constraints of IMAX projectors, and 2) I wish Christopher Nolan hadn’t made a Christopher Nolan movie.</p>
<p>Debbie Millman again: <a href="https://time.com/article/2026/08/18/is-the-world-getting-uglier">Is the World Getting Uglier?</a> First brand she mentions is a Tesla Cybertruck, a completely tasteless monstrosity designed by Elon <a href="https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer">Simpson</a> that I still laugh at every time I see one on the road.</p>
<p>Due to drought in Britain, you can see <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DcMTsG8F-Xk">“gardens that disappeared hundreds of years ago starting to show themselves again through the grass”</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DcDzhLrtA9R">Artisans make punchcards by hand</a> for the looms that weave beautiful banarasi sarees.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/one-of-the-best-preserved-ancient-manuscripts-of-the-iliad-is-now-digitized-see-the-bankes-homer-manuscript.html#google_vignette">One of the Best Preserved Ancient Manuscripts of The Iliad Is Now Digitized: See the “Bankes Homer” Manuscript in High Resolution (Circa 150 C.E.)</a></p>
<p>Ok, that’s all for now. I didn’t close all of the open tabs though…maybe I’ll do some more in a few days. How about you? Do you have anything interesting to share with the rest of the class that’s been languishing for a few weeks in a browser tab?
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Dolly Parton and Kermit the Frog Sing Everyday People (1987) ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-25T22:31:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-25T22:31:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<p>On the fifth episode of her late 80s variety show Dolly, Dolly Parton was joined by Kermit the Frog for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eojJTLf-mIo">a lovely rendition</a> of Sly and the Family Stone’s 1968 hit Everyday People.</p>
<p>You can also watch the clip on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DVmGOqUEQsi">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1fbzab5/dolly_parton_singing_everyday_people_with_kermit">Reddit</a>. The full episode, which features special guest stars Delta Burke, Terence Trent D’Arby, and the Oak Ridge Boys (in addition to Jim Henson as Kermit), <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7LqjK9HLos">can be seen on YouTube</a> (not very good quality unfortunately).</p>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s family is asking for... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-25T20:42:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-25T20:42:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s family is asking for <a href="https://imaginationlibrary.com">donations to her Imagination Library</a>, which has distributed over 330 million books to kids.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ RIP Dolly Parton, a gem and a hero. She died today at... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-25T18:18:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-25T18:18:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>RIP Dolly Parton, a gem and a hero. <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/dolly-parton-dead-country-music-1236680877">She died today at the age of 80</a>.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ “Ultimately there are people who want to live, not... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-25T17:21:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-25T17:21:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>“Ultimately there are people who want to live, not in a world of reconciliation, but <a href="https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-cut-off-your-parents">in a world without repercussions</a>.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ “ At least 1-in-4 of all the people who have played... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049532-at-least-1-in-4-of-all-th"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-25:49532</id>
<published>2026-08-25T16:05:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-25T16:05:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/us/nfl-cte-brain-disease.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8FA.Fcy2.IGUmpsv6pkCr">At least 1-in-4 of all the people who have played in the NFL might expect to end up with chronic traumatic encephalopathy [CTE]</a>, according to a study of hundreds of cases over a recent six-year period.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ More Fucked Today than Yesterday . “I keep wanting... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-25T14:47:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-25T14:47:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://climatecasino.substack.com/p/more-fucked-today-than-yesterday">More Fucked Today than Yesterday</a>. “I keep wanting to write a post showing off my latest graphics along with the latest data and forecasts, because the picture they paint is one of a truly fucked planet.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Flock banned Benn Jordan from their recent convention... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-25T13:30:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-25T13:30:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Target’s now-pulled children’s Halloween costume is so... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049529-targets-now-pulled-childr"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-25:49529</id>
<published>2026-08-25T11:51:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-25T11:51:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/fact-check-target-removed-kids-194600773.html">Target’s now-pulled children’s Halloween costume</a> is <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/lorennacleary.bsky.social/post/3mtre25fevk2a">so unbelievably racist</a> that it had to, on some level, be purposely done by someone in the decision chain and everyone else was like, “seems ok to me”.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049524-using-superparamagnetic-m"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-24:49524</id>
<published>2026-08-24T17:47:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-24T17:47:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field <a href="https://www.sci.news/biology/pigeon-magnetoreception-14809.html">using superparamagnetic macrophages in their livers</a>. So metal! 🤘
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Just quickly reupping this post to remind you things... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049528-this-post"/>
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<published>2026-08-24T15:55:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-24T15:55:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>Just quickly reupping <a href="https://kottke.org/26/08/heading-on-out">this post</a> to remind you things might be slower than usual around here for the next few weeks…moving crunch time is here. (I’ll still be posting though…it’s nice to sit down and flow state through some links occasionally.)
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Meat proxy (noun) : “A person who forwards... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049527-meat-proxy"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-24:49527</id>
<published>2026-08-24T15:00:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-24T15:00:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://sfisms.org/meat-proxy">Meat proxy</a> <em>(noun)</em>: “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? “Any stream, from the... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049523-why-are-rivers-so-mathema"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-24:49523</id>
<published>2026-08-24T14:00:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-24T14:00:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-rivers-so-mathematical-20260810">Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?</a> “Any stream, from the littlest brook to the mightiest river, has a length that’s proportional to its drainage area raised to the power of 0.6.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Opinion columnist Karen Attiah won her arbitration... ]]></title>
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<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-24:49526</id>
<published>2026-08-24T12:19:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-24T12:19:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/business/washington-post-karen-attiah.html?unlocked_article_code=1.71A.MIsp.hZLydEMjrl9o">Opinion columnist Karen Attiah won her arbitration against the Washington Post</a>. They are ordered to reinstate her and pay full back pay. The Post fired her almost a year ago for her remarks in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder.
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Jodi Ettenberg on living grief and a serendipitous... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049522-jodi-ettenberg-on-living-"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-22:49522</id>
<published>2026-08-22T14:30:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-22T14:30:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.legalnomads.com/living-grief">Jodi Ettenberg on living grief and a serendipitous discovery</a>. “Living grief lacks the tapestry of rituals, language, and social permissions around grieving that a person is offered with death.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Walking the Length of Manhattan . I did this, solo,... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049521-walking-the-length-of-man"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-21:49521</id>
<published>2026-08-21T17:48:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-21T17:48:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/232">Walking the Length of Manhattan</a>. I did this, solo, right before I moved out of NYC. Loved it. Will do it again someday.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ “When Jason Ganos was asked to help sell an old box full... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049520-how-97-copies-of-an-unrel"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-21:49520</id>
<published>2026-08-21T16:57:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-21T16:57:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>“When Jason Ganos was asked to help sell an old box full of NES cartridges…” <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/how-97-copies-of-an-unreleased-version-of-super-mario-bros-duck-hunt-were-discovered-in-a-wisconsin-warehouse">How 97 Copies of an Unreleased Version of Super Mario Bros. Duck Hunt Were Discovered in a Wisconsin Warehouse</a>.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ What a great idea for a book: Cookbooking: A Fan’s... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049519-cookbooking-a-fans-guide"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-21:49519</id>
<published>2026-08-21T15:56:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-21T15:56:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>What a great idea for a book: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9781958417874">Cookbooking: A Fan’s Guide</a>. “An eclectic, visually stunning pop-history, Cookbooking explores the most influential and beloved cookbooks through photographs, listicles, graphics, and snappy writing.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ “ The principal aim of President Trump’s second... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049518-the-principal-aim-of-pres"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-20:49518</id>
<published>2026-08-20T22:12:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-20T22:12:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/opinion/trumps-revenge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.61A.WX7t.wDeVzPwnZu7y">The principal aim of President Trump’s second term is revenge</a>,” says Jamelle Bouie. “Revenge shapes the president’s priorities, drives his actions and structures the decisions of his government.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Weird Al Yankovic’s Tiny Desk Concert ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-20T21:15:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-20T21:15:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o4I-Y8XiBIs" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Holy moly, NPR’s Tiny Desk has been going for a long time. Weird Al Yankovic first stopped by the desk <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v9D1nf1p_Y">in <em>2010</em></a>, so early that they didn’t even have it on YouTube until more recently. And the other day, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v9D1nf1p_Y">they had him back for a second session</a>!</p>
<blockquote><p>Yankovic focused on originals the first time around, but for this show he brought parodies of Don McLean’s “American Pie” (“The Saga Begins,” from 1999’s Running with Scissors) and Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” (“eBay,” from 2003’s Poodle Hat), as well as the Weezer pastiche “Skipper Dan,” from 2011’s Alpocalypse. And, for fans of the breathtakingly factual 2022 biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, he performs the film’s Emmy-losing closing-credits blues-rock jam “Now You Know.”</p><p>We only get so many gifts in this life, so let’s set an intention here and now to return “Weird Al” Yankovic to the Tiny Desk in the summer of 2042. But if he’s gonna come back and see us (or whoever’s buried us and moved on) at a sprightly 82, we’ll have to ask him to bring a string section, just to keep things fresh.</p></blockquote>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Anil Dash built a standalone Touch ID sensor to use... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049516-anil-dash-built-a-standal"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-20:49516</id>
<published>2026-08-20T20:25:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-20T20:25:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.anildash.com/2026/08/20/introducing-dashboard-touch">Anil Dash built a standalone Touch ID sensor</a> to use with your Mac if you don’t have a newer Apple keyboard. It’s open-source…<a href="https://github.com/anildash/dashtouch">the code and instructions are on Github</a>.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Analysts Warn U.S. Economy Becoming Overly Dependent On... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049515-analysts-warn-us-economy-"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-20:49515</id>
<published>2026-08-20T19:35:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-20T19:35:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://theonion.com/analysts-warn-u-s-economy-becoming-overly-dependent-on-anne-hathaway">Analysts Warn U.S. Economy Becoming Overly Dependent On Anne Hathaway</a>. “We estimate that Anne Hathaway films currently account for a staggering 63% of all U.S. exports.” Zendaya is the other 37%.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ When you take screenshots of posts in iOS social apps... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049514-they-use-this-little-tric"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-20:49514</id>
<published>2026-08-20T16:59:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-20T16:59:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>When you take screenshots of posts in iOS social apps like Bluesky or Threads, <a href="https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots">they use this little trick to replace the “Follow” button with the app’s logo</a>.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ “All our neighbors worked for those firms —... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049513-none-of-them-would-let-th"/>
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-20:49513</id>
<published>2026-08-20T14:29:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-20T14:29:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>
</author>
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="https://kottke.org/"><![CDATA[ <p>“All our neighbors worked for those firms — Facebook, Google and Apple. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technology/silicon-valley-tech-fans-children.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6VA.lKFj.DijwrbLexEr-">None of them would let their children interact with any screens</a>. They all knew how addicting they were and how to protect their own children.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Neat little prototype demo of a Bluesky reader that... ]]></title>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/montoulieu.dev/post/3muu5higixs2i">Neat little prototype demo</a> of a Bluesky reader that uses the UI of the long-retired Paper app. I loved the design of Paper.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ A late 90s guide to Super Metroid was written in... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-11T16:15:00Z</published>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully">A late 90s guide to Super Metroid was written in monospaced type, fully justified with no double spaces or hyphens</a>. “I just chose words carefully so that everything lined up on the right hand side.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Biiiiig Stretch ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-11T12:30:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-11T12:30:00Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Back when I <a href="https://kottke.org/22/05/announcement-im-going-to-miss-you-but-i-am-taking-a-sabbatical">went on sabbatical in 2022</a>, I told the story of the fiddle leaf fig tree I bought shortly after my ex-wife and I separated and I’d moved into my own apartment.</p>
<blockquote><p>I’d recently moved into my own apartment after separating from my wife and figured a large plant in my new place would add some liveliness to a new beginning that was feeling overwhelming, lonely, and sad. For the first couple of months, I didn’t know if my tree and I were going to make it. I’d never really had a plant before and struggled getting a handle on the watering schedule and other plant care routines. It started losing leaves. Like, an alarming number of leaves.</p><p>I’d brought this glorious living thing into my house only to kill it! Not cool. With the stress of the separation, my new living situation, and not seeing my kids every day, I felt a little like I was dying too.</p><p>One day, I decided I was not going to let my fiddle leaf fig tree die…and if I could do that, I wasn’t going to fall apart either. It’s a little corny, but my mantra became “if my tree is ok, I am ok”. I learned how to water & feed it and figured out the best place to put it for the right amount of light. It stopped shedding leaves.</p><p>The fig tree was a happy plant for several years after that. And I was ok because my plant was ok — I found new routines and rhythms in my altered life, made new traditions with my kids, got divorced, met new people, moved to a new state (w/ my family and tree), rediscovered who I was as a person, and, wonderfully and unexpectedly, forged a supportive and rewarding parenting partnership and friendship with my ex. We made it through that tough time together, that plant and me.</p></blockquote>
<p>I got a lot of feedback from that post…so many kind notes and comments. But there was one email from a reader that particularly stuck in my mind. Of course I can’t find the actual message in my disaster of an inbox, but the gist of it was something like: <em>There may come a time when you feel like you need to let your fiddle leaf fig go and that will be ok too.</em> </p>
<p>Over the next few years, I thought often of that email. About how my tree, which in some sense kept me going during one period of my life, might not be quite right for whatever the next period in my life would be.</p>
<p>Recently, that time arrived. I carried the fig out to my car, stopping to snap this pic on the way:</p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1789115228-ae1e3d9b.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1789115228-ae1e3d9b.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1789115228-ae1e3d9b.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p>I loaded it into the car and drove it a short distance to its new home with my friend and her three young boys. Here it is in its new habitat:</p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1789115256-7ae8dd0d.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1789115256-7ae8dd0d.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1789115256-7ae8dd0d.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p>Looks pretty good, right? Like it belongs there. I’m really happy it found such a good new home. I hope it thrives along with their family.</p>
<p>A few days ago, about two weeks after the tree departed, I left my house in Vermont for the last time too. In the preceding months, I’d sold some of my things (including my car), given a bunch of stuff away, and put the rest in storage. I drove my rental car to Boston and got on a flight to Tokyo. Right now, I’m sitting in a cafe near my rental apartment writing this post, jetlagged but happy to be here.</p>
<p>So what’s my plan? I’m going to travel for an indeterminate period (mostly outside of the US and dipping back in for visits), starting in Japan for a couple of months. I don’t know where I’m going next yet — probably somewhere closer to the US so I can visit my kids more easily during this transition.</p>
<p>Zooming out a bit, the broader plan is to attempt to answer the questions that I’ve been thinking about for the past few years, ever since <a href="https://kottke.org/23/12/where-do-you-call-home">I went on a Walk and Talk in Thailand</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Where do you call home? And why?</p><p>I’ve been struggling with the concept of home for the past several years. NYC very much felt like home to me shortly after I moved there in 2003 in a way that Minneapolis and (especially) San Francisco hadn’t. Since moving to Vermont in 2016, I’ve never really felt at home here. But NYC isn’t home anymore…and neither is Wisconsin, where I grew up. Where do I want to go to find a home? Do I need to feel at home somewhere? Or is home simply wherever my bed/desk/stuff happens to be? I had more questions than answers around this issue and I was interested in how other people in the group, which included folks that had lived and travelled all over the world, would answer the question.</p></blockquote>
<p>I’m not going to lie…I’m a little terrified. Sitting on the plane to Narita, I looked out the window thinking “what have I done?” But I’m also excited. Living elsewhere in the world has been on my mind for a long while and at this point, I can’t not do it. I’ll let you know how it goes.</p>
<p>As for what this means for KDO: hopefully not much and only good things. I moved; I didn’t retire. As I get more settled here and my body accepts its new timezone, regular service will resume. I’m hoping the more stimulating surroundings and injection of culture shows up in interesting ways in my life and on the website. I don’t think KDO will ever become a travel blog, but I imagine I’ll write sometimes about where I am and what I’m doing. I’ve got a backlog of things I want to do for the site and now that the massive time sink of moving is done, I’ll have the opportunity to do them.</p>
<p>For now, I’m going to pack my computer up and walk to find something tasty for lunch — I’ve so missed being able to easily do that. Catch you on the flip side.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ “In almost every [US] county, extreme heat is at... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-11T12:10:00Z</published>
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<![CDATA[ <p>“In almost every [US] county, extreme heat is at least as bad as it was 30 years ago. In most counties, it’s much worse.” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/05/opinion/editorials/extreme-heat-summer.html?unlocked_article_code=1._1A.uZfp.KqzCg_FVwEOZ">It’s Not Just You. America Has Gotten Much Hotter.</a> (Not a fan of articles like this being in the “opinion” section…)
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-11T01:58:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-11T01:58:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital">VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer Capital</a>. “We must understand that it is no longer a financial machine that is used to fund startups, but a political and social machine focused on dismantling democracy and civil society.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ The Simpsons Switcheroo ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-11T01:15:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-11T01:15:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0IA0tOWCMJQ" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>At the beginning of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IA0tOWCMJQ">a clip</a> from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjWPkOHk_BM">this podcast episode</a> of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend with Matt Groening, Conan talks about one of his favorite things they did on The Simpsons:</p>
<blockquote><p>It’s a phenomenon that the Simpsons did so beautifully, which is — and we did this with Homer a lot — but Homer is not the smartest guy in the world, but if it’s funny for him to have a certain knowledge of something or turn a phrase, suddenly he has it.</p><p>And one of my favorites of that is he’s sitting around the table and Lisa’s despondent. Something didn’t go well for her and she doesn’t think she’s going to get to go to a good school now. And she’s sitting at the table and she said, “Oh no, now I’ll never get to go to an Ivy League school. I’ll have to go to Vasser.” Which is just this like — by the way, my wife went to Vasser, it’s a very good school. But it was just this thing where in Lisa’s little world, oh my god, I’ve been I’ve been ruined. I’ll have to go to Vasser. And Homer like slams a table and says, “There’ll be no Vasser bashing in this house.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I loved this about the show too. And it was part of a general thing the writers did where sometimes characters would play against type. So Marge became reckless, Homer was smart/sensitive, Bart was organized, and Lisa was a giggly little girl. Those moments helped make the show and when, after the epic run in the early-to-mid 90s, the show became almost exclusively about how dumb & crass Homer was, it was much less rich and entertaining. (thx, mark)
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ “ Gimme is a dazzling ever-growing type family of... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-11T00:35:00Z</published>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<![CDATA[ <p>“<a href="https://www.futurefonts.com/typearture/gimme">Gimme</a> is a dazzling ever-growing type family of multi-chromatic and variable display typefaces…” This is bonkers…letters made from Battleship pieces, Connect Four boards, playing cards, wooden railroad tracks, etc.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Bring Blockbuster Video back to your town/city by... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-10T23:45:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-10T23:45:00Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Bring Blockbuster Video back to your town/city by <a href="https://www.freeblockbuster.org">setting up a little free library of VHS tapes & DVDs</a>. “Take a movie, leave a movie.” Love this.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Gloria Steinem’s final essay , posthumously published by... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-10T22:55:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-10T22:55:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/life-and-letters/gloria-steinems-final-essay">Gloria Steinem’s final essay</a>, posthumously published by the New Yorker. “When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role as an older person is to remind us how far we have come.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ TIL that my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in i t (for... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-10T22:15:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-10T22:15:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p>TIL that <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/09/iphone-18-pro-redesigned-vapor-chamber">my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in i</a>t (for cooling).
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Teaser trailer for Musk , a 3h45m-long documentary film... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-10T21:38:17Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-10T21:38:17Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUmImn2GYq4">Teaser trailer for Musk</a>, a 3h45m-long documentary film on fascist businessman Elon Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. “He’s chaotic, random, capricious. He is manifestly cruel and selfish. In a science fiction novel, he would not be a hero.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ “We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-10T02:24:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-10T02:24:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<![CDATA[ <p>“We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web research task. <a href="https://collusion.wiki">These AIs colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restrictions</a>.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ The Chicago Public Library informs patrons of how much... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-10T01:24:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-10T01:24:00Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[ <p>The Chicago Public Library informs patrons of <a href="https://www.salon.com/2026/09/06/my-library-card-has-saved-me-1330-and-i-want-more">how much money they’ve saved borrowing from the library instead of buying</a>. “You just saved $58.94 by using your library. You have saved $231.79 this past year and $1,107.24 since you began using the library!”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Over the past 12 years, Super Bowl-winning coach Mike... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-10T00:24:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-10T00:24:00Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Over the past 12 years, Super Bowl-winning coach Mike Tomlin <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/wants-record-mike-tomlin-son-014917388.html">has built a Minecraft city.</a> He <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DdClnf5BJA5">started playing the game</a> for the same reason <a href="https://kottke.org/23/04/the-joy-of-fortnite">I started playing Fortnite</a>: his kids. “How do I meet them where they are and spend time with them?”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ From the Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-09T23:34:00Z</published>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<![CDATA[ <p>From the Internet Archive: <a href="https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/mode/2up">Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record</a>. “When digital materials are vulnerable to sudden removal…our collective memory is compromised, and the public’s ability to access its own history is at risk.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Vintage Eastern European Matchbox Labels (1950-1980s) ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-09T22:44:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-09T22:44:00Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Over on Flickr, Jane McDevitt maintains <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/maraid/albums/72157594234429063">a huge collection of 20th century matchbox label art from Eastern Europe</a>, over 4000 photos in all. Some of the labels <a href="https://matchbloc.com">are available as prints</a>. They <a href="https://matchbloc.com/products/matchbloc-book">did a book too</a>, but it’s sold out. It was really difficult to narrow these down to some of my favorites, but I managed.</p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989507-87f8a427.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989507-87f8a427.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989507-87f8a427.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989524-a4d578a7.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989524-a4d578a7.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989524-a4d578a7.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989541-52b28015.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989541-52b28015.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989541-52b28015.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989553-0961e128.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989553-0961e128.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989553-0961e128.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989571-8cdd5318.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989571-8cdd5318.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989571-8cdd5318.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989598-449dd8a8.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989598-449dd8a8.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989598-449dd8a8.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989643-e921a279.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989643-e921a279.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989643-e921a279.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p>P.S. I wrote this whole post and then discovered that <a href="https://kottke.org/21/11/mid-century-modern-matchbox-labels-from-eastern-bloc-countries-1950s-1980s">I’d written about this collection before</a>. But I picked different labels so it’s all good.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ A catalogue of 645 acts of hate from the week after 9/11... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-09T21:44:00Z</published>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://post911.org">A catalogue of 645 acts of hate from the week after 9/11</a>. “Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh Americans were targeted for how they looked, dressed, or prayed.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Bayeux Go! A playable video game of the Bayeux... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-09T21:04:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-09T21:04:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://bayeuxgo.live">Bayeux Go!</a> A playable video game of the Bayeux Tapestry. “Thou art Harold. Win Thine Battle. Tap to starte.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Spaceships : A version of Asteroids where “you are not... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-09T19:35:04Z</published>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://spaceships.treybastian.com">Spaceships</a>: A version of Asteroids where “you are not the ship” — you control the rocks instead.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ The 101 Plays Itself . The five lanes of highway 101 in... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-09T13:00:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-09T13:00:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://the-101-plays-itself.netlify.app">The 101 Plays Itself</a>. The five lanes of highway 101 in LA turned into a musical instrument: each car on the live Caltrans camera is a note.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Teaser trailer for You Can See Everything from Nathan... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-08T00:04:22Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-08T00:04:22Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJSRFWALTI">Teaser trailer</a> for <a href="https://a24films.com/films/you-can-see-everything">You Can See Everything</a> from Nathan Fielder & Lance Oppenheim. “Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move.” WHAT WAS THAT?
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Autumnal Open Thread ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-03T17:03:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-03T17:03:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p>My <a href="https://kottke.org/26/08/heading-on-out">move</a> is coming down to the wire (omg so many things to juggle!), kids are heading back to school, I’m going to be traveling, and it’s a holiday weekend here in the States, so there’s probably not going to be too much going on here until next week. Thanks for your patience…I can’t wait to get back to work here.</p>
<p>In the meantime, I thought I’d open up this thread for folks to share what they feel like sharing. I’ll go first below…
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-03T12:35:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-03T12:35:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/politics/gloria-steinem-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-VA.soKO.y8R9UFSU8TBY">Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem has died</a>. She was 92.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-01T22:10:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T22:10:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/opinion/trump-mail-in-voting-constitution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.91A.Ks4V.txXYW5ePA3Rj">Jamelle Bouie</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The details of what is happening here are important — that’s why I laid them out — but it’s also important to step back and make a more fundamental point: the president of the United States is engaged in a conspiracy against the voting rights of the American people, which is to say that the president is engaged in a conspiracy against the Constitution itself. And this is part of a larger effort, spearheaded by the most fanatical of his allies, like Stephen Miller, to end the American republic and supplant it with an authoritarian regime in which President Trump holds sovereign authority over the whole nation.</p><p>It is important to say, as well, that this is all out in the open, as plain as day.</p></blockquote>
<p>*repeated hair tearing-out noise*
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer... ]]></title>
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<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49548</id>
<published>2026-09-01T21:17:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T21:17:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Gina Trapani: <a href="https://notetoself.studio/post/the-joy-of-3d-printing">The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer</a>. I’ve always been a little 3D printer-curious and this looks like a good resource to start with.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ 2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely... ]]></title>
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<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49547</id>
<published>2026-09-01T20:21:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T20:21:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p>2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: <a href="https://apnews.com/article/emily-wilson-odyssey-translation-homer-a05084e4753528dff13766703161d24d">Emily Wilson is completely retranslating The Odyssey</a>. “It’s a complete retranslation. It’s not a revision of the old version.” This is the exact opposite of resting on one’s laurels.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court... ]]></title>
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<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49546</id>
<published>2026-09-01T19:21:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T19:21:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/us/politics/whistle-blower-voting-by-mail.html?unlocked_article_code=1.91A.2zAh._gjQZ_5niDsi">Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail</a>. “The Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ How Blackwing Pencils Are Made ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-01T18:00:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T18:00:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fow-LsdaH2E" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>The thing about me is if I see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fow-LsdaH2E">a making-of video for pencils</a>, I’m gonna stop and watch it and then post it to my website, especially if said pencils are Blackwings, made in Japan.</p>
<blockquote><p>Take a first-ever, in-depth look at the Blackwing pencil manufacturing process. This short film gives a glimpse into its manufacturing facilities in Japan and California. Beginning in Kofu, Japan, the film details the intricate graphite formulation and cutting process, then transitions to the woodworking facility in Tokyo where the pencils are pressed and lacquered.</p><p>Finally, it ends in Stockton, California at Blackwing’s headquarters where the pencils are imprinted, assembled with its signature ferrule, quality-checked, and hand-packed. Each and every Blackwing pencil is thoughtfully made to help you slow down and have the best tools for your creative journey.</p></blockquote>
<p>I’m always so curious about what’s being blurred out in making-of videos like this!</p>
<p>See also <a href="https://kottke.org/23/08/see-how-pencils-are-made-in-a-japanese-factory">See How Pencils Are Made in a Japanese Factory</a>, <a href="https://kottke.org/19/09/how-pencils-are-made">How Pencils Are Made</a>, <a href="https://kottke.org/18/01/a-visit-to-an-american-factory-thats-been-producing-pencils-since-1889">A Visit to an American Factory That’s Been Producing Pencils Since 1889</a>, and <a href="https://kottke.org/16/10/a-history-of-pencil-lead-and-how-pencils-are-made">A History of Pencil Lead and How Pencils Are Made</a>. (via <a href="https://kottke.org/26/08/open-thread-for-august-2026#cmt-17219">NaOH</a>)
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Industry Standard Tools . “Every trade has a small... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-09-01T17:20:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T17:20:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://industrystandard.tools">Industry Standard Tools</a>. “Every trade has a small number of items so entrenched that they’ve become the de facto tool that nearly everyone in that trade uses.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come? On... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049543-if-you-build-it-will-they" />
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49543</id>
<published>2026-09-01T16:00:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T16:00:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p>This is a fun read: <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/08/21/if-you-build-it-will-they-come-on-the-sperm-racing-world-cup">If You Build It, Will They Come? On the Sperm Racing World Cup</a>. “The cells then race through courses less than a half-centimeter long that are etched into microfluidic silicon chips.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another*... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049542-nationally-unsubsidized-a" />
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49542</id>
<published>2026-09-01T14:54:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T14:54:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://acasignups.net/rate_changes/2027/national">Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another* ~15% next year</a>. We can’t continue like this (but I feel like this has been the case for the last ~10 years and will in fact likely continue…)
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Here’s how noise-cancelling headphones work (and when... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049541-heres-how-noise-cancellin" />
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49541</id>
<published>2026-09-01T14:04:50Z</published>
<updated>2026-09-01T14:04:50Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/what-noise-cancelling-headphones-do">Here’s how noise-cancelling headphones work</a> (and when they don’t). “This is why ANC is better suited for reducing low, sustained sounds like those of motors and airplane engines, and it’s why such headphones can’t filter out screaming kids.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America .... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049540-google-maps-changes-lake-" />
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-31:49540</id>
<published>2026-08-31T13:22:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-31T13:22:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/world/canada/lake-ontario-america-google-maps.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9lA.L1sF.rYRYYwubA8i2">Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America</a>. Totally pathetic and stupid. Maps are wayfinding tools and this toadying political change will help no one find their way.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049538-the-windows-98-disk-defra" />
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-29:49538</id>
<published>2026-08-29T21:02:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-29T21:02:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of <a href="https://defrag98.com">the Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator</a>.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards , featuring... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-29T18:30:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-29T18:30:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
<uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri> </author>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://tinyawards.net/vote">Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards</a>, featuring 10 sites that celebrate “the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”. You have until Sept 25 to vote.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Heat waves are disproportionately harming people with... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049537-heat-waves-are-disproport" />
<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-29:49537</id>
<published>2026-08-29T14:16:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-29T14:16:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/heat-wave-schizophrenia">Heat waves are disproportionately harming people with schizophrenia</a>. “The bodies of people with schizophrenia, especially those on medication, simply regulate temperature very differently than others do.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Emptying the Tabs… ]]></title>
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<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-27:49536</id>
<published>2026-08-27T16:12:49Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-27T16:12:49Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Ok, we’re gonna go a little old school today. I’m talking the late 1990s and early 2000s, back before permalinks (sorry), RSS, and social media turned blog posts & tweets into their own little discrete units packaged to be easily passed around and things were less homogeneous. Back then, blogs — at least the ones I loved — tended to be more of a stream of consciousness thing, just an unordered and uncurated list of whatever happened to pop into people’s heads or cross their screens.</p>
<p>So, I’ve currently got at least 120 tabs across 20+ windows open in Chrome. I know, I know, I’ve gotta get a tab manager, but this is where I am right now. Each of these tabs contains something interesting and potentially bloggable, but some of them have been sitting there for <em>months</em> and with <a href="https://kottke.org/26/08/heading-on-out">moving stuff</a> consuming most of my days right now, I don’t have time to sit down and give them each even a Quick Links treatment. So I’m gonna do them rapid-fire in the hopes that you might find some of it interesting. Here we go, let’s empty some tabs!!</p>
<p><a href="https://ippawards.com/winners/showcase">The winners of the 2026 iPhone Photography Awards</a>. Via my pal <a href="https://jodiettenberg.com">Jodi</a>, I think. I love this one, which rhymes with this famous photo (<a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/98333">Behind the Gare St. Lazare</a>) by Henri Cartier-Bresson:</p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787846978-c932dc6f.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787846978-c932dc6f.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787846978-c932dc6f.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><a href="https://orionmagazine.org/article/ways-of-treeing">Ways of Treeing</a>, “Meditations on time and rebellion against the straight line”.</p>
<p><a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-irony/the-quiet-grief-of-adult-friendship">The quiet grief of adult friendship</a>. “Adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life.” (Via <a href="https://www.swiss-miss.com/2026/08/the-quiet-grief-of-adult-friendship.html">swissmiss</a>; have I linked to this one before?)</p>
<p>Hugh Howey (author of the Silo books) on <a href="https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era">how the self-publishing window has closed</a> (or at least narrowed). “We had less than 20 years of writing being hard and publishing being easy, and we will never get that window back.”</p>
<p>I haven’t done <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/media%20diet">a media diet post</a> since November (and may not again?) but I’ve been eagerly watching s03 of Silo, listening to Toni Morrison read <a href="https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780739342138-beloved">Beloved</a> (great book but what a fucking gift to hear Morrison read it), and enjoyed the new Spider-Man, a series that is at its best when the three leads just chill and talk.</p>
<p>“Artist and researcher Maggie Coblentz <a href="https://ambrook.com/offrange/culture/miso-in-space">fermented miso in orbit</a>, chasing a deeper question: What makes a miso a miso—or a person a person—away from Earth?”</p>
<p><a href="https://byebyepaywall.com/en">Bye Bye Paywall</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780593994993">I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World</a> by Sarah Wilson.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.messynessychic.com">Messy Nessy’s Cabinet</a> (always a good source of interesting links) redesigned recently.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.core77.com/posts/144869/The-Dutch-Community-Where-People-Live-on-Strips-of-Land-in-a-Lake">These Dutch strip islands</a> are cool.</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CYWIZ2cc6kc" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/humans-did-not-invent-art-it-was-the-other-way-around">How art invented humanity</a> (instead of the other way around).</p>
<p>I don’t watch enough videos by Phil Edwards these days: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhjp--rA9ho">“Why are bowling alleys across America replacing 2,000-pound mechanical pinsetters with nylon strings?”</a></p>
<p><a href="https://aeon.co/videos/is-democracy-without-elections-possible-could-a-lottery-be-better">Is democracy without elections possible? Could a lottery be better?</a> I actually watched this a couple of months ago but never got around to writing it up. <a href="https://www.lottocracy.org">More on this from Alex Guerrero</a>.</p>
<p>I really wanted to get to this one but just never could find the time: Historia Civilis on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=872JcpP3FEM">The History of the City</a>.</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/872JcpP3FEM" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>This might be a minority view, but my YouTube algorithm is actually pretty good at showing me stuff I’m interested in. Case in point: when I was getting the link for the city video above, I noticed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDLbO9KeddY">a newish video from Tom Scott about Bletchley Park and the secrecy of the Intelligence Factory</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlK4JKFPf7U">The Spectacle</a>: Has Taking the Perfect Photo Ruined Tourism?</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FlK4JKFPf7U" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p><a href="https://geologyscience.com/gemstone/fordite-detroit-agate">Fordite</a> is an artificial gemstone made up of dozens of layers of automotive paint that built up and hardered over time.</p>
<blockquote><p>This material is typically found in the paint booths of auto factories, where cars were spray-painted by hand. As the paint sprayed over vehicles, excess paint would build up on the equipment and surfaces around the painting area. Over the years, these layers of paint would harden, creating colorful, agate-like structures.</p></blockquote>
<p>Fordite is no longer being produced: “The switch from solvent-based paints to more environmentally friendly, quicker-drying paints in modern automotive plants has virtually ended the creation of new fordite, making it a finite material.”</p>
<p><a href="https://samizdat.co/digest">Infinite Digest</a>: a collection of infographics about DFW’s Infinite Jest.</p>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/45232468">Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See</a>, “a 40-minute crash course in design thinking”. Found this via <a href="https://www.edwardtufte.com">Edward Tufte</a>.</p>
<p>Debbie Millman on <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/debbie_millman_the_fleeting_euphoria_of_success">the fleeting euphoria of success</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjmUzxEPJeM">YouTube</a>).</p>
<p><a href="https://marchforthfilm.com">March Forth</a> is a feature-length documentary about Reginald Dwayne Betts, who was incarcerated at 16; “after his release, Betts went on to become an acclaimed poet, author, lawyer, activist and MacArthur Genius Award winner”. <a href="https://vimeo.com/1194096475">Trailer</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBN5SWCReJQ">The Professor Who Taught People How To Think (1962)</a>. This looks great; shades of Feynman.</p>
<p><a href="https://typewritten.org/Media">Screenshots of various operating systems (1983-2005)</a>. See also <a href="https://virtualosmuseum.org">The Virtual OS Museum</a> (“1,700+ pre-installed operating systems, ready to run”).</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1PDqzqhM4">The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum</a>. Got this from <a href="https://waxy.org">Andy</a> so you know it’s good.</p>
<p>Speaking of Andy, he recently posted about <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezos-called-artificial-ai-is-shutting-down.html">Amazon’s decision to shutter Mechanical Turk</a>. Kinda shocked it was still going tbh.</p>
<p>2018 PBS special hosted by Michael Keaton: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM3Bhi70kQE">Why Mister Rogers Still Matters Today</a>. I’m gonna make some time to watch this one after my move is done.</p>
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<p>Love the premise of this: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0CpxSfg-Vg">Mediocre Movies That Changed My Life</a>. Eddie the Eagle!</p>
<p><a href="https://music.jessyin.world">Visual Instruments: An Exploration of Making Music Out of Images</a>. This is a fun little web toy to play with.</p>
<p>I wanted to do a whole post on <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=Palette">the artist’s palettes they have in the collection at the Met</a>.</p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787840262-ad14cb97.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787840262-ad14cb97.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787840262-ad14cb97.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><a href="https://comicbooks.com/exhibition">A Living Museum of the Comic</a>. “A living museum of where the comic came from — its Western and Eastern roots, the women who drew the early funnies, the Europeans who invented its grammar, and the golden age of the American color cartoon. Every artifact is public domain, restored by us, and free to explore.”</p>
<p>From Kurzgesagt: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/Kurzgesagt/posts/new-video-us-in-165740172">The Impenetrable Barrier Trapping Us in the Solar System</a>. “From the vast empty space to the laws of physics themselves, there are many reasons why the dream of space travel might stay just a dream.” Alt title: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyl3X88KEgg">Why Humanity Will Never Leave The Solar System</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieDDvt7igc">The Dingo Fence | The Longest Fence in the World</a>. “In the heart of Australia, the continent has been cut in two by the longest fence in the world in a bid to protect livestock from dingoes. Dingoes have divided the nation for the past 150 years, but with new research coming to light, is it time for this to change?”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVeLFFf--ro">“I rebuilt 1901 by Phoenix from scratch to figure out what makes it so good.”</a> I love this song and will make time to watch this soon.</p>
<p><a href="https://gizmodo.com/the-deadly-legacy-of-hiv-truthers-1737928027">The Deadly Legacy of HIV Truthers</a> (2015). “Even as the medical community reached a consensus that HIV caused AIDS, a counter-movement was emerging, claiming that HIV didn’t exist, or that the virus existed but was harmless. The symptoms of AIDS, according to some of these people, were actually caused by HIV therapies themselves.” </p>
<p>Recent Howtown: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/Howtown/posts/so-did-nasa-find-165926089">So… did NASA find life on Mars?</a> “Awkwardly, we’ve now collected the most promising extra-terrestrial biosignature in a tube that might spend the rest of eternity sealed inside a dead rover.”</p>
<p>I love <a href="https://fontawesome.com/icons/gallery">these little icon collages and creations from Font Awesome</a> (FA serves the icons I use on KDO). Starry Night! Sudoku! Chef Vader! Business Fett!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/ansel-adams">More than 200 Ansel Adams photos</a>, mostly of National Parks, that are free to view & download. Via <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/ansel-adams-photographs-of-great-american-national-parks.html">Open Culture</a>, one of the gems of the open web.</p>
<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787844622-8cfd9211.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787844622-8cfd9211.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787844622-8cfd9211.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD44sIxJuyY">The Crazy History of the Shower</a>. I think that’s self-recommending.</p>
<p>Jamelle Bouie saw The Odyssey and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLkZk9BN2Q4">shared his thoughts about it on YouTube</a>. From <a href="https://letterboxd.com/jbouie/film/the-odyssey-2026">his Letterboxd review</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Odyssey or, what if you did THE DARK KNIGHT in ancient Greece?</p><p>This, to be clear, is not a bad thing. Nolan is covering the same thematic territory he did nearly 20 years ago and more recently with OPPENHEIMER. And it is compelling! A kind of Burkean liberalism that sees the heroism of “great men” as a necessary bulwark against disorder and chaos but understands the great men as merely men — who themselves bear some responsibility for the chaos — and sees heroism as a terrible burden to bear, more akin to a curse than a crown. There are no parades or honors. In the end you bear the scars and fade away, an exile remembered in legend.</p><p>Anyway, I am glad Hollywood keeps giving the man hundreds of millions of dollars to make his didactic and idiosyncratic blockbusters. Keep ‘em coming!</p></blockquote>
<p>Yeah, exactly. I feel like most pans of The Odyssey fell into two main buckets: 1) it wasn’t long enough — pacing off, didn’t include my favorite scene, etc. — which was entirely due to 3-hour runtime constraints of IMAX projectors, and 2) I wish Christopher Nolan hadn’t made a Christopher Nolan movie.</p>
<p>Debbie Millman again: <a href="https://time.com/article/2026/08/18/is-the-world-getting-uglier">Is the World Getting Uglier?</a> First brand she mentions is a Tesla Cybertruck, a completely tasteless monstrosity designed by Elon <a href="https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer">Simpson</a> that I still laugh at every time I see one on the road.</p>
<p>Due to drought in Britain, you can see <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DcMTsG8F-Xk">“gardens that disappeared hundreds of years ago starting to show themselves again through the grass”</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reels/DcDzhLrtA9R">Artisans make punchcards by hand</a> for the looms that weave beautiful banarasi sarees.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/one-of-the-best-preserved-ancient-manuscripts-of-the-iliad-is-now-digitized-see-the-bankes-homer-manuscript.html#google_vignette">One of the Best Preserved Ancient Manuscripts of The Iliad Is Now Digitized: See the “Bankes Homer” Manuscript in High Resolution (Circa 150 C.E.)</a></p>
<p>Ok, that’s all for now. I didn’t close all of the open tabs though…maybe I’ll do some more in a few days. How about you? Do you have anything interesting to share with the rest of the class that’s been languishing for a few weeks in a browser tab?
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Dolly Parton and Kermit the Frog Sing Everyday People (1987) ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-25T22:31:00Z</published>
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<p>On the fifth episode of her late 80s variety show Dolly, Dolly Parton was joined by Kermit the Frog for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eojJTLf-mIo">a lovely rendition</a> of Sly and the Family Stone’s 1968 hit Everyday People.</p>
<p>You can also watch the clip on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DVmGOqUEQsi">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1fbzab5/dolly_parton_singing_everyday_people_with_kermit">Reddit</a>. The full episode, which features special guest stars Delta Burke, Terence Trent D’Arby, and the Oak Ridge Boys (in addition to Jim Henson as Kermit), <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7LqjK9HLos">can be seen on YouTube</a> (not very good quality unfortunately).</p>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s family is asking for... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049534-donations-to-her-imaginat" />
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<published>2026-08-25T20:42:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-25T20:42:00Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[ <p>In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s family is asking for <a href="https://imaginationlibrary.com">donations to her Imagination Library</a>, which has distributed over 330 million books to kids.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ RIP Dolly Parton, a gem and a hero. She died today at... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-25T18:18:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-25T18:18:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<![CDATA[ <p>RIP Dolly Parton, a gem and a hero. <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/dolly-parton-dead-country-music-1236680877">She died today at the age of 80</a>.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ “Ultimately there are people who want to live, not... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-25T17:21:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-25T17:21:00Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[ <p>“Ultimately there are people who want to live, not in a world of reconciliation, but <a href="https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-cut-off-your-parents">in a world without repercussions</a>.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ “ At least 1-in-4 of all the people who have played... ]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/08/0049532-at-least-1-in-4-of-all-th" />
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<published>2026-08-25T16:05:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-25T16:05:00Z</updated>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<![CDATA[ <p>“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/us/nfl-cte-brain-disease.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8FA.Fcy2.IGUmpsv6pkCr">At least 1-in-4 of all the people who have played in the NFL might expect to end up with chronic traumatic encephalopathy [CTE]</a>, according to a study of hundreds of cases over a recent six-year period.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ More Fucked Today than Yesterday . “I keep wanting... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-25T14:47:00Z</published>
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<name>Jason Kottke</name>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://climatecasino.substack.com/p/more-fucked-today-than-yesterday">More Fucked Today than Yesterday</a>. “I keep wanting to write a post showing off my latest graphics along with the latest data and forecasts, because the picture they paint is one of a truly fucked planet.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Flock banned Benn Jordan from their recent convention... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-25T13:30:00Z</published>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Flock banned Benn Jordan from their recent convention (they even emailed his hotel to cancel his room) but, taking a page from law enforcement & Flock itself, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GQoQkeMdvQM">he electronically surveilled the whole thing from outside</a>, sniffing Wifi, Bluetooth, mics, etc.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Target’s now-pulled children’s Halloween costume is so... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-25T11:51:00Z</published>
<updated>2026-08-25T11:51:00Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/fact-check-target-removed-kids-194600773.html">Target’s now-pulled children’s Halloween costume</a> is <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/lorennacleary.bsky.social/post/3mtre25fevk2a">so unbelievably racist</a> that it had to, on some level, be purposely done by someone in the decision chain and everyone else was like, “seems ok to me”.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-24T17:47:00Z</published>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field <a href="https://www.sci.news/biology/pigeon-magnetoreception-14809.html">using superparamagnetic macrophages in their livers</a>. So metal! 🤘
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Just quickly reupping this post to remind you things... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-24T15:55:00Z</published>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Just quickly reupping <a href="https://kottke.org/26/08/heading-on-out">this post</a> to remind you things might be slower than usual around here for the next few weeks…moving crunch time is here. (I’ll still be posting though…it’s nice to sit down and flow state through some links occasionally.)
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Meat proxy (noun) : “A person who forwards... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-24T15:00:00Z</published>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://sfisms.org/meat-proxy">Meat proxy</a> <em>(noun)</em>: “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? “Any stream, from the... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-24T14:00:00Z</published>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-rivers-so-mathematical-20260810">Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?</a> “Any stream, from the littlest brook to the mightiest river, has a length that’s proportional to its drainage area raised to the power of 0.6.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Opinion columnist Karen Attiah won her arbitration... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-24T12:19:00Z</published>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/business/washington-post-karen-attiah.html?unlocked_article_code=1.71A.MIsp.hZLydEMjrl9o">Opinion columnist Karen Attiah won her arbitration against the Washington Post</a>. They are ordered to reinstate her and pay full back pay. The Post fired her almost a year ago for her remarks in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Jodi Ettenberg on living grief and a serendipitous... ]]></title>
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<published>2026-08-22T14:30:00Z</published>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.legalnomads.com/living-grief">Jodi Ettenberg on living grief and a serendipitous discovery</a>. “Living grief lacks the tapestry of rituals, language, and social permissions around grieving that a person is offered with death.”
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[ Walking the Length of Manhattan . I did this, solo,... ]]></title>
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<id>tag:kottke.org,2026-08-21:49521</id>
<published>2026-08-21T17:48:00Z</published>
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/232">Walking the Length of Manhattan</a>. I did this, solo, right before I moved out of NYC. Loved it. Will do it again someday.
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<![CDATA[ <p><a href="https://www.anildash.com/2026/08/20/introducing-dashboard-touch">Anil Dash built a standalone Touch ID sensor</a> to use with your Mac if you don’t have a newer Apple keyboard. It’s open-source…<a href="https://github.com/anildash/dashtouch">the code and instructions are on Github</a>.
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<![CDATA[ <p>When you take screenshots of posts in iOS social apps like Bluesky or Threads, <a href="https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots">they use this little trick to replace the “Follow” button with the app’s logo</a>.
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<![CDATA[ <p>“All our neighbors worked for those firms — Facebook, Google and Apple. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technology/silicon-valley-tech-fans-children.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6VA.lKFj.DijwrbLexEr-">None of them would let their children interact with any screens</a>. They all knew how addicting they were and how to protect their own children.”
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"content": "<p>Over on Flickr, Jane McDevitt maintains <a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/maraid/albums/72157594234429063\">a huge collection of 20th century matchbox label art from Eastern Europe</a>, over 4000 photos in all. Some of the labels <a href=\"https://matchbloc.com\">are available as prints</a>. They <a href=\"https://matchbloc.com/products/matchbloc-book\">did a book too</a>, but it’s sold out. It was really difficult to narrow these down to some of my favorites, but I managed.</p>\n\t<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989507-87f8a427.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989507-87f8a427.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989507-87f8a427.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989524-a4d578a7.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989524-a4d578a7.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989524-a4d578a7.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989541-52b28015.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989541-52b28015.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989541-52b28015.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989553-0961e128.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989553-0961e128.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989553-0961e128.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989571-8cdd5318.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989571-8cdd5318.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989571-8cdd5318.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989598-449dd8a8.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989598-449dd8a8.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989598-449dd8a8.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989643-e921a279.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989643-e921a279.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1788989643-e921a279.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<p>P.S. I wrote this whole post and then discovered that <a href=\"https://kottke.org/21/11/mid-century-modern-matchbox-labels-from-eastern-bloc-countries-1950s-1980s\">I’d written about this collection before</a>. But I picked different labels so it’s all good.\n</p>\n \n\n \n <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/art\">art</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/illustration\">illustration</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Jane%20McDevitt\">Jane McDevitt</a></p>",
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"title": "Autumnal Open Thread",
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"content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/us/politics/whistle-blower-voting-by-mail.html?unlocked_article_code=1.91A.2zAh._gjQZ_5niDsi\">Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail</a>. “The Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans.”\n</p>",
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"content": "<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/fow-LsdaH2E\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p>The thing about me is if I see <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fow-LsdaH2E\">a making-of video for pencils</a>, I’m gonna stop and watch it and then post it to my website, especially if said pencils are Blackwings, made in Japan.</p>\n\t<blockquote><p>Take a first-ever, in-depth look at the Blackwing pencil manufacturing process. This short film gives a glimpse into its manufacturing facilities in Japan and California. Beginning in Kofu, Japan, the film details the intricate graphite formulation and cutting process, then transitions to the woodworking facility in Tokyo where the pencils are pressed and lacquered.</p><p>Finally, it ends in Stockton, California at Blackwing’s headquarters where the pencils are imprinted, assembled with its signature ferrule, quality-checked, and hand-packed. Each and every Blackwing pencil is thoughtfully made to help you slow down and have the best tools for your creative journey.</p></blockquote>\n\t<p>I’m always so curious about what’s being blurred out in making-of videos like this!</p>\n\t<p>See also <a href=\"https://kottke.org/23/08/see-how-pencils-are-made-in-a-japanese-factory\">See How Pencils Are Made in a Japanese Factory</a>, <a href=\"https://kottke.org/19/09/how-pencils-are-made\">How Pencils Are Made</a>, <a href=\"https://kottke.org/18/01/a-visit-to-an-american-factory-thats-been-producing-pencils-since-1889\">A Visit to an American Factory That’s Been Producing Pencils Since 1889</a>, and <a href=\"https://kottke.org/16/10/a-history-of-pencil-lead-and-how-pencils-are-made\">A History of Pencil Lead and How Pencils Are Made</a>. (via <a href=\"https://kottke.org/26/08/open-thread-for-august-2026#cmt-17219\">NaOH</a>)\n</p>\n \n\n \n <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Blackwing\">Blackwing</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/how%20to\">how to</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/pencils\">pencils</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/video\">video</a></p>",
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"title": "Industry Standard Tools . “Every trade has a small...",
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"content": "<p><a href=\"https://industrystandard.tools\">Industry Standard Tools</a>. “Every trade has a small number of items so entrenched that they’ve become the de facto tool that nearly everyone in that trade uses.”\n</p>",
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"id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49543",
"title": "This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come? On...",
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"content": "<p>This is a fun read: <a href=\"https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/08/21/if-you-build-it-will-they-come-on-the-sperm-racing-world-cup\">If You Build It, Will They Come? On the Sperm Racing World Cup</a>. “The cells then race through courses less than a half-centimeter long that are etched into microfluidic silicon chips.”\n</p>",
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"id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-09-01:49542",
"title": "Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another*...",
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"published": "2026-09-01T14:54:00.000Z",
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"content": "<p><a href=\"https://acasignups.net/rate_changes/2027/national\">Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another* ~15% next year</a>. We can’t continue like this (but I feel like this has been the case for the last ~10 years and will in fact likely continue…)\n</p>",
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"title": "Here’s how noise-cancelling headphones work (and when...",
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"published": "2026-09-01T14:04:50.000Z",
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"content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/what-noise-cancelling-headphones-do\">Here’s how noise-cancelling headphones work</a> (and when they don’t). “This is why ANC is better suited for reducing low, sustained sounds like those of motors and airplane engines, and it’s why such headphones can’t filter out screaming kids.”\n</p>",
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"id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-08-31:49540",
"title": "Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America ....",
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"published": "2026-08-31T13:22:00.000Z",
"updated": "2026-08-31T13:22:00.000Z",
"content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/world/canada/lake-ontario-america-google-maps.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9lA.L1sF.rYRYYwubA8i2\">Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America</a>. Totally pathetic and stupid. Maps are wayfinding tools and this toadying political change will help no one find their way.\n</p>",
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"id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-08-29:49538",
"title": "Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98...",
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"published": "2026-08-29T21:02:00.000Z",
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"content": "<p>Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of <a href=\"https://defrag98.com\">the Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator</a>.\n</p>",
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"id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-08-29:49539",
"title": "Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards , featuring...",
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"published": "2026-08-29T18:30:00.000Z",
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"content": "<p><a href=\"https://tinyawards.net/vote\">Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards</a>, featuring 10 sites that celebrate “the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web”. You have until Sept 25 to vote.\n</p>",
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"id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-08-29:49537",
"title": "Heat waves are disproportionately harming people with...",
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"published": "2026-08-29T14:16:00.000Z",
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"content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/heat-wave-schizophrenia\">Heat waves are disproportionately harming people with schizophrenia</a>. “The bodies of people with schizophrenia, especially those on medication, simply regulate temperature very differently than others do.”\n</p>",
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"id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-08-27:49536",
"title": "Emptying the Tabs…",
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"content": "<p>Ok, we’re gonna go a little old school today. I’m talking the late 1990s and early 2000s, back before permalinks (sorry), RSS, and social media turned blog posts & tweets into their own little discrete units packaged to be easily passed around and things were less homogeneous. Back then, blogs — at least the ones I loved — tended to be more of a stream of consciousness thing, just an unordered and uncurated list of whatever happened to pop into people’s heads or cross their screens.</p>\n\t<p>So, I’ve currently got at least 120 tabs across 20+ windows open in Chrome. I know, I know, I’ve gotta get a tab manager, but this is where I am right now. Each of these tabs contains something interesting and potentially bloggable, but some of them have been sitting there for <em>months</em> and with <a href=\"https://kottke.org/26/08/heading-on-out\">moving stuff</a> consuming most of my days right now, I don’t have time to sit down and give them each even a Quick Links treatment. So I’m gonna do them rapid-fire in the hopes that you might find some of it interesting. Here we go, let’s empty some tabs!!</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://ippawards.com/winners/showcase\">The winners of the 2026 iPhone Photography Awards</a>. Via my pal <a href=\"https://jodiettenberg.com\">Jodi</a>, I think. I love this one, which rhymes with this famous photo (<a href=\"https://www.moma.org/collection/works/98333\">Behind the Gare St. Lazare</a>) by Henri Cartier-Bresson:</p>\n\t<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787846978-c932dc6f.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787846978-c932dc6f.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787846978-c932dc6f.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://orionmagazine.org/article/ways-of-treeing\">Ways of Treeing</a>, “Meditations on time and rebellion against the straight line”.</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-irony/the-quiet-grief-of-adult-friendship\">The quiet grief of adult friendship</a>. “Adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life.” (Via <a href=\"https://www.swiss-miss.com/2026/08/the-quiet-grief-of-adult-friendship.html\">swissmiss</a>; have I linked to this one before?)</p>\n\t<p>Hugh Howey (author of the Silo books) on <a href=\"https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era\">how the self-publishing window has closed</a> (or at least narrowed). “We had less than 20 years of writing being hard and publishing being easy, and we will never get that window back.”</p>\n\t<p>I haven’t done <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/media%20diet\">a media diet post</a> since November (and may not again?) but I’ve been eagerly watching s03 of Silo, listening to Toni Morrison read <a href=\"https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780739342138-beloved\">Beloved</a> (great book but what a fucking gift to hear Morrison read it), and enjoyed the new Spider-Man, a series that is at its best when the three leads just chill and talk.</p>\n\t<p>“Artist and researcher Maggie Coblentz <a href=\"https://ambrook.com/offrange/culture/miso-in-space\">fermented miso in orbit</a>, chasing a deeper question: What makes a miso a miso—or a person a person—away from Earth?”</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://byebyepaywall.com/en\">Bye Bye Paywall</a>.</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780593994993\">I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World</a> by Sarah Wilson.</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://www.messynessychic.com\">Messy Nessy’s Cabinet</a> (always a good source of interesting links) redesigned recently.</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://www.core77.com/posts/144869/The-Dutch-Community-Where-People-Live-on-Strips-of-Land-in-a-Lake\">These Dutch strip islands</a> are cool.</p>\n\t<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/CYWIZ2cc6kc\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://aeon.co/essays/humans-did-not-invent-art-it-was-the-other-way-around\">How art invented humanity</a> (instead of the other way around).</p>\n\t<p>I don’t watch enough videos by Phil Edwards these days: <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhjp--rA9ho\">“Why are bowling alleys across America replacing 2,000-pound mechanical pinsetters with nylon strings?”</a></p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://aeon.co/videos/is-democracy-without-elections-possible-could-a-lottery-be-better\">Is democracy without elections possible? Could a lottery be better?</a> I actually watched this a couple of months ago but never got around to writing it up. <a href=\"https://www.lottocracy.org\">More on this from Alex Guerrero</a>.</p>\n\t<p>I really wanted to get to this one but just never could find the time: Historia Civilis on <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=872JcpP3FEM\">The History of the City</a>.</p>\n\t<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/872JcpP3FEM\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p>This might be a minority view, but my YouTube algorithm is actually pretty good at showing me stuff I’m interested in. Case in point: when I was getting the link for the city video above, I noticed <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDLbO9KeddY\">a newish video from Tom Scott about Bletchley Park and the secrecy of the Intelligence Factory</a>.</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlK4JKFPf7U\">The Spectacle</a>: Has Taking the Perfect Photo Ruined Tourism?</p>\n\t<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/FlK4JKFPf7U\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://geologyscience.com/gemstone/fordite-detroit-agate\">Fordite</a> is an artificial gemstone made up of dozens of layers of automotive paint that built up and hardered over time.</p>\n\t<blockquote><p>This material is typically found in the paint booths of auto factories, where cars were spray-painted by hand. As the paint sprayed over vehicles, excess paint would build up on the equipment and surfaces around the painting area. Over the years, these layers of paint would harden, creating colorful, agate-like structures.</p></blockquote>\n\t<p>Fordite is no longer being produced: “The switch from solvent-based paints to more environmentally friendly, quicker-drying paints in modern automotive plants has virtually ended the creation of new fordite, making it a finite material.”</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://samizdat.co/digest\">Infinite Digest</a>: a collection of infographics about DFW’s Infinite Jest.</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://vimeo.com/45232468\">Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See</a>, “a 40-minute crash course in design thinking”. Found this via <a href=\"https://www.edwardtufte.com\">Edward Tufte</a>.</p>\n\t<p>Debbie Millman on <a href=\"https://www.ted.com/talks/debbie_millman_the_fleeting_euphoria_of_success\">the fleeting euphoria of success</a> (<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjmUzxEPJeM\">YouTube</a>).</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://marchforthfilm.com\">March Forth</a> is a feature-length documentary about Reginald Dwayne Betts, who was incarcerated at 16; “after his release, Betts went on to become an acclaimed poet, author, lawyer, activist and MacArthur Genius Award winner”. <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/1194096475\">Trailer</a>.</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBN5SWCReJQ\">The Professor Who Taught People How To Think (1962)</a>. This looks great; shades of Feynman.</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://typewritten.org/Media\">Screenshots of various operating systems (1983-2005)</a>. See also <a href=\"https://virtualosmuseum.org\">The Virtual OS Museum</a> (“1,700+ pre-installed operating systems, ready to run”).</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1PDqzqhM4\">The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum</a>. Got this from <a href=\"https://waxy.org\">Andy</a> so you know it’s good.</p>\n\t<p>Speaking of Andy, he recently posted about <a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezos-called-artificial-ai-is-shutting-down.html\">Amazon’s decision to shutter Mechanical Turk</a>. Kinda shocked it was still going tbh.</p>\n\t<p>2018 PBS special hosted by Michael Keaton: <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM3Bhi70kQE\">Why Mister Rogers Still Matters Today</a>. I’m gonna make some time to watch this one after my move is done.</p>\n\t<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/YM3Bhi70kQE\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p>Love the premise of this: <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0CpxSfg-Vg\">Mediocre Movies That Changed My Life</a>. Eddie the Eagle!</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://music.jessyin.world\">Visual Instruments: An Exploration of Making Music Out of Images</a>. This is a fun little web toy to play with.</p>\n\t<p>I wanted to do a whole post on <a href=\"https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=Palette\">the artist’s palettes they have in the collection at the Met</a>.</p>\n\t<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787840262-ad14cb97.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787840262-ad14cb97.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787840262-ad14cb97.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://comicbooks.com/exhibition\">A Living Museum of the Comic</a>. “A living museum of where the comic came from — its Western and Eastern roots, the women who drew the early funnies, the Europeans who invented its grammar, and the golden age of the American color cartoon. Every artifact is public domain, restored by us, and free to explore.”</p>\n\t<p>From Kurzgesagt: <a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/Kurzgesagt/posts/new-video-us-in-165740172\">The Impenetrable Barrier Trapping Us in the Solar System</a>. “From the vast empty space to the laws of physics themselves, there are many reasons why the dream of space travel might stay just a dream.” Alt title: <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyl3X88KEgg\">Why Humanity Will Never Leave The Solar System</a>.</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JieDDvt7igc\">The Dingo Fence | The Longest Fence in the World</a>. “In the heart of Australia, the continent has been cut in two by the longest fence in the world in a bid to protect livestock from dingoes. Dingoes have divided the nation for the past 150 years, but with new research coming to light, is it time for this to change?”</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVeLFFf--ro\">“I rebuilt 1901 by Phoenix from scratch to figure out what makes it so good.”</a> I love this song and will make time to watch this soon.</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://gizmodo.com/the-deadly-legacy-of-hiv-truthers-1737928027\">The Deadly Legacy of HIV Truthers</a> (2015). “Even as the medical community reached a consensus that HIV caused AIDS, a counter-movement was emerging, claiming that HIV didn’t exist, or that the virus existed but was harmless. The symptoms of AIDS, according to some of these people, were actually caused by HIV therapies themselves.” </p>\n\t<p>Recent Howtown: <a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/Howtown/posts/so-did-nasa-find-165926089\">So… did NASA find life on Mars?</a> “Awkwardly, we’ve now collected the most promising extra-terrestrial biosignature in a tube that might spend the rest of eternity sealed inside a dead rover.”</p>\n\t<p>I love <a href=\"https://fontawesome.com/icons/gallery\">these little icon collages and creations from Font Awesome</a> (FA serves the icons I use on KDO). Starry Night! Sudoku! Chef Vader! Business Fett!</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://www.archives.gov/research/ansel-adams\">More than 200 Ansel Adams photos</a>, mostly of National Parks, that are free to view & download. Via <a href=\"https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/ansel-adams-photographs-of-great-american-national-parks.html\">Open Culture</a>, one of the gems of the open web.</p>\n\t<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787844622-8cfd9211.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787844622-8cfd9211.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//plus/misc/images/editor-1787844622-8cfd9211.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD44sIxJuyY\">The Crazy History of the Shower</a>. I think that’s self-recommending.</p>\n\t<p>Jamelle Bouie saw The Odyssey and <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLkZk9BN2Q4\">shared his thoughts about it on YouTube</a>. From <a href=\"https://letterboxd.com/jbouie/film/the-odyssey-2026\">his Letterboxd review</a>:</p>\n\t<blockquote><p>The Odyssey or, what if you did THE DARK KNIGHT in ancient Greece?</p><p>This, to be clear, is not a bad thing. Nolan is covering the same thematic territory he did nearly 20 years ago and more recently with OPPENHEIMER. And it is compelling! A kind of Burkean liberalism that sees the heroism of “great men” as a necessary bulwark against disorder and chaos but understands the great men as merely men — who themselves bear some responsibility for the chaos — and sees heroism as a terrible burden to bear, more akin to a curse than a crown. There are no parades or honors. In the end you bear the scars and fade away, an exile remembered in legend.</p><p>Anyway, I am glad Hollywood keeps giving the man hundreds of millions of dollars to make his didactic and idiosyncratic blockbusters. Keep ‘em coming!</p></blockquote>\n\t<p>Yeah, exactly. I feel like most pans of The Odyssey fell into two main buckets: 1) it wasn’t long enough — pacing off, didn’t include my favorite scene, etc. — which was entirely due to 3-hour runtime constraints of IMAX projectors, and 2) I wish Christopher Nolan hadn’t made a Christopher Nolan movie.</p>\n\t<p>Debbie Millman again: <a href=\"https://time.com/article/2026/08/18/is-the-world-getting-uglier\">Is the World Getting Uglier?</a> First brand she mentions is a Tesla Cybertruck, a completely tasteless monstrosity designed by Elon <a href=\"https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Homer\">Simpson</a> that I still laugh at every time I see one on the road.</p>\n\t<p>Due to drought in Britain, you can see <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DcMTsG8F-Xk\">“gardens that disappeared hundreds of years ago starting to show themselves again through the grass”</a>.</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reels/DcDzhLrtA9R\">Artisans make punchcards by hand</a> for the looms that weave beautiful banarasi sarees.</p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/one-of-the-best-preserved-ancient-manuscripts-of-the-iliad-is-now-digitized-see-the-bankes-homer-manuscript.html#google_vignette\">One of the Best Preserved Ancient Manuscripts of The Iliad Is Now Digitized: See the “Bankes Homer” Manuscript in High Resolution (Circa 150 C.E.)</a></p>\n\t<p>Ok, that’s all for now. I didn’t close all of the open tabs though…maybe I’ll do some more in a few days. How about you? Do you have anything interesting to share with the rest of the class that’s been languishing for a few weeks in a browser tab?\n</p>",
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"content": "<p>RIP Dolly Parton, a gem and a hero. <a href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/dolly-parton-dead-country-music-1236680877\">She died today at the age of 80</a>.\n</p>",
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"content": "<p>“All our neighbors worked for those firms — Facebook, Google and Apple. <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technology/silicon-valley-tech-fans-children.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6VA.lKFj.DijwrbLexEr-\">None of them would let their children interact with any screens</a>. They all knew how addicting they were and how to protect their own children.”\n</p>",
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