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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Harry Kane is this year’s men’s winner of the Ballon...]]></title>
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        <published>2026-10-27T00:25:00Z</published>
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            <name>Jason Kottke</name>
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[A poignant short documentary about a mother who only...]]></title>
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        <published>2026-10-26T21:46:00Z</published>
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        <author>
            <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.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/opinion/graffiti-mother-son-relationship-sweden.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LVE.0yGh.93xRPpGwBU5S">A poignant short documentary</a> about a mother who only knows her son is alive by the new graffiti tags he leaves around town. Eventually, she started tagging back&#8230;
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[From Charles Mann, a quick history of porcelain, which is...]]></title>
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        <published>2026-10-26T20:59:00Z</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>From Charles Mann, <a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/everything-rhymes-with-porcelain">a quick history of porcelain</a>, which is basically what his pricey induction stovetop is made from. (Fun fact: I went to grad school for ceramic engineering before dropping out after a semester to teach myself web design.)
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Russian and East European Posters]]></title>
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        <published>2026-10-26T19:59:00Z</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><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919867-486981ee.png" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919867-486981ee.png 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919867-486981ee.png 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//images/posts/01/editor-1792920730-28e1de76.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792920730-28e1de76.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792920730-28e1de76.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792919892-44e93635.png" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919892-44e93635.png 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919892-44e93635.png 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//images/posts/01/editor-1792920742-86debaca.png" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792920742-86debaca.png 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792920742-86debaca.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
	<p>Princeton houses <a href="https://digital-collections.princeton.edu/collections/soviet_posters">a large digital collection of posters from Russia and Eastern Europe</a>, almost 5000 total item spanning 101 years (1904-2004). <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/albums/72057594117941491">This album on Flickr</a> contains nearly 1500 Russian &#038; Soviet posters from 1917-1991 — not sure how much overlap there is between the two.
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as...]]></title>
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        <published>2026-10-26T19:11:00Z</published>
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        <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.itsnicethat.com/articles/eternal-family-film-project-151026">Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as chosen by Eternal Family</a>. I <a href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049709-eternal-family">linked to</a> Eternal Family recently and this is a good guide to some of their weirdest stuff.
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American...]]></title>
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        <published>2026-10-26T18:16:00Z</published>
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        <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.newyorker.com/science/elements/how-tree-rings-challenged-the-myth-of-american-wilderness">How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness</a>. &#8220;When one revisits colonial accounts of North America, one finds a striking amount of evidence that Native Americans set fire to the landscape.&#8221;
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven]]></title>
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        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-26:49871</id>
        <published>2026-10-26T17:22:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-26T17:22:00Z</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/XaxuV6tsIb4" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>According to NASA, the Perseverance rover has driven just over 28 miles on the surface of Mars, making it the vehicle <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/perseverance-mars-rover/2026/10/12/nasas-perseverance-sets-off-world-record-for-total-distance-driven">that has driven the farthest distance outside of Earth</a>.</p>
	<blockquote><p>On Oct. 11, the rover’s odometer reached 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers), eclipsing the record of 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers) set by NASA’s Opportunity rover, which explored Mars from 2004 to 2018. Perseverance reached the mark on the 2,006th Martian day, or sol, of its mission, covering in five and a half years a distance that took Opportunity almost 15.</p></blockquote>
	<p>For a vehicle <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/resource/how-perseverance-drives-on-mars">whose top speed is 0.1 mph</a> and which stops all the time to do science, 28 miles is quite a distance. The route video is fun to watch&#8230;it resembles a dog&#8217;s path, sniffing out its favorite spots and doubling back along familiar routes.</p>
	<p>BTW, the Guinness World Record for the number of miles driven by one vehicle on Earth is <a href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-vehicle-mileage">3,039,122 miles</a>. (And the guy kept driving it after the record was recorded&#8230;he <a href="https://www.volvocars.com/au/news/electrification/2023-october-one-careful-owner">reached 3,260,257 miles</a> before he died.)
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Simon Willison: “Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded —...]]></title>
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        <published>2026-10-26T16:15:00Z</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://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/20/battledrones">Simon Willison</a>: &#8220;Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded — I’ve reviewed almost none of the code, and it’s built in a language (TypeScript) that I’ve hardly used myself.&#8221; There&#8217;s <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/21/panache">a French steampunk version</a> too.
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        <published>2026-10-26T15:21:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-26T15:21:00Z</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.tnm.jp/modules/r_free_page/index.php?id=2759&#038;lang=en">This exhibition of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) by Utagawa Hiroshige at the Tokyo National Museum</a> was great. Awesome to see these prints in person.
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026]]></title>
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        <published>2026-10-26T14:29:00Z</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><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917530-d0977975.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917530-d0977975.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917530-d0977975.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792917606-73045d77.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917606-73045d77.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917606-73045d77.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792917806-ccf51c58.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917806-ccf51c58.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917806-ccf51c58.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792917748-172f9206.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917748-172f9206.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917748-172f9206.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792918117-a29307f0.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792918117-a29307f0.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792918117-a29307f0.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
	<p>London&#8217;s Natural History Museum has announced the winners of the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, a competition that has been going since 1965. You can see a gallery of all the winners <a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery?tags=award.ctgrywnnr,award.impactaward,award.wldlfphtgrphrfthyr,award.yngwldlfphtgrphrfthyr&#038;tags=ed.current">on the competition website</a> (and also places like <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2026/oct/14/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2026-winners-in-pictures">The Guardian</a> and <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/2026/10/winners-wildlife-photographer-year-2026/689005?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ_IDWljBk4RsBy6qXZusibY">The Atlantic</a>.)</p>
	<p>Photos above by Kutub Uddin, Amelie Davis, Michał Michalski, James Lewin, and Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas.
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64. “Oh, don’t...]]></title>
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        <published>2026-10-26T13:26:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-26T13:26:00Z</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><a href="https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/08/install-an-app-commodore-64">How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64</a>. &#8220;Oh, don’t worry, you’ll just need to type in the code for that program. There’s an article explaining what MLX is, which you can read really quickly on page 93, and then you’ll find the code for it on page 94.&#8221;
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers...]]></title>
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        <published>2026-10-25T14:11:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-25T14:11:00Z</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.youtube.com/watch?v=6jt_2bIaoxo">The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers on the iPhone Duo</a>. Ten machines included: &#8220;Macintosh, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Amiga 500, Windows 95, ThinkPad, iMac G3, iBook G3, PowerBook G4 and Windows XP.&#8221; XP even crashes sometimes. Love this.
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea...]]></title>
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        <published>2026-10-23T17:44:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-23T17:44:00Z</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.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/10/restaurant-phone-number-question/688926?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ0tFeAhe7IhdA8vfU9uxDyc">The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants</a>. &#8220;The idea of a restaurant I’d never been to using a dossier on me to decide, say, where I should sit, what I was likely to order, even whether I should be given a reservation at all, gave me chills.&#8221;
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[“US households are paying 62% more for drinking water...]]></title>
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        <published>2026-10-23T16:30:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-23T16:30:00Z</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>&#8220;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/06/households-drinking-water-cost-study">US households are paying 62% more for drinking water than they did a decade ago</a> — outpacing inflation, grocery prices and household incomes.&#8221;
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Open Thread #Potato]]></title>
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        <published>2026-10-23T11:00:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-23T11:00:00Z</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>Seems like it&#8217;s a good time for an open thread. I cannot remember what number we&#8217;re up to, so it&#8217;s &#8220;Potato&#8221;. I just had french fries for lunch and ate the longest french fry I have ever seen.<sup id="fnref:fmvkh037xik8n"><a href="#fn:fmvkh037xik8n" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> I should have taken a photo, but I was in consumption mode and not attention mode. My apologies for the oversight.</p>
	<p>Anyhoo, I&#8217;ve been working on the site a lot this week (did you see <a href="https://kottke.org/26/10/meet-prometheus-a-gift-link-search-engine">Prometheus</a>?)<sup id="fnref:fmvkhmyzy6qe2"><a href="#fn:fmvkhmyzy6qe2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup> and have some cool stuff coming up. But I need to take a tiny step back to do some life admin and email<sup id="fnref:fmvkggdgoxeqh"><a href="#fn:fmvkggdgoxeqh" rel="footnote">3</a></sup> today, so the site will be a little slower than usual. A fall summer Friday, if you will.</p>
	<p>What&#8217;s going on in your world? I know the onset of dark &#038; cold in the northern hemisphere makes life challenging for some of you this time of year; I hope you&#8217;re hanging in there. I&#8217;ve been thinking about <a href="https://kottke.org/23/12/where-do-you-call-home">what home means</a>, taking long baths, walking a lot, and <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780593717202">reading</a> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780199536061">three</a> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9781419777172">books</a>, listening to <a href="https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=25361&#038;awinaffid=1677195&#038;ued=https%3A%2F%2Flibro.fm%2Faudiobooks%2F9781501965630">one book</a>, and watching two <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0H4LD7LYS/ref=nosim/0sil8">TV</a> <a href="https://www.netflix.com/tudum/the-diplomat">shows</a>, trying to keep everything straight.</p>
	<p>And here&#8217;s a couple of photos I took of some really cool engravings on a sword at the Tokyo National Museum.</p>
	<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792739809-7d902855.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792739809-7d902855.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792739809-7d902855.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
	<ol>
<li class="footnote" id="fn:fmvkh037xik8n"><p>How many individual french fries do you think you&#8217;ve seen/eaten in your life? 10,000? 100,000? 1M? (This is a good <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem">Fermi problem</a>.) <a href="#fnref:fmvkh037xik8n" title="return to article">↩</a></p></li>
	<li class="footnote" id="fn:fmvkhmyzy6qe2"><p>Oh, and have you noticed that typos have been much better recently? I built a spellchecker for my post editor, so I&#8217;ve been able to more easily spot them. (Cue incident of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law">Muphry&#8217;s Law</a> in this post&#8230;) <a href="#fnref:fmvkhmyzy6qe2" title="return to article">↩</a></li>
	<li class="footnote" id="fn:fmvkggdgoxeqh"><p>If you&#8217;ve emailed me in the past ~3-4 months and have not gotten a reply, I apologize. I have been preoccupied with other things (moving, Tokyo, website) and my inbox has become a nightmare (I&#8217;m getting 10-20 additional emails <em>per day</em> with people writing in with their new projects, most of them written by AI (You posted X so I thought I&#8217;d send you Y. I&#8217;m proud of this project. Free, no signup, no tracking, no ads. Etc. Etc.) It&#8217;s like spam but sort of not?) I&#8217;ve been largely ignoring it and it&#8217;s time I get more of a handle on it. <a href="#fnref:fmvkggdgoxeqh" title="return to article">↩</a></li>
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[“an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049854-but-its-not-hithealth-poi"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49854</id>
        <published>2026-10-22T21:38:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-22T21:38:00Z</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>&#8220;an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing &#8216;hp&#8217; in the context of &#8216;not being at full hp&#8217; &#8216;applying your full hp to a task&#8217; etc.&#8221; <a href="https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/830127683810836480">But it&#8217;s not hit/health points&#8230;</a>
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Flipbook of the Rings]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/the-flipbook-of-the-rings"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49853</id>
        <published>2026-10-22T20:31:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-22T20:31:00Z</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>For more than a year, marshalled by animator <a href="https://www.andymation.com">Andy Bailey</a>, more than 1000 artists collaborated to create a hand-drawn, shot-for-shot, animated, flipbook version of Peter Jackson&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The entire three hours. 120,000 individually drawn pages. A couple of months ago, they released <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWtX7nVFrUw">the first 11 minutes</a>:</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lWtX7nVFrUw" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>It&#8217;s pretty amazing. It doesn&#8217;t include the audio or music from the movie, but I bet you could mute the sound on this and simultaneously play the actual movie for the sound. Here&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vCN8EXoCVk">an earlier sneak peek</a> at some of the scenes:</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4vCN8EXoCVk" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>This artist <a href="https://awonderfulsheep.com/2025/08/01/lotr-the-flipbook-of-the-rings">wrote about their participation in the project</a>; they contributed 108 drawings that amounted to roughly 10 seconds of animation (and took 30-40 hours to do):</p>
	<blockquote><p>The first clip I claimed was a pretty iconic scene from the beginning of the movie. I chose to render it in pencil as it’s night time and I felt black and white would be more dramatic. As I worked through the frames, I did worry that the subtle variances in shading would make the clip look disjointed, but I think it adds a cool movement to the scene. There is that rough, quirky imperfection to hand drawing. You can see the final result with comparison below (digitized and compiled by Andy).</p></blockquote>
	<p>Here&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R-vtxh5aVA">a clip of that scene</a>:</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_R-vtxh5aVA" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see the finished product — I hope they&#8217;re able to release it online.
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049857-an-archive-of-omni-magazi"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49857</id>
        <published>2026-10-22T19:49:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-22T19:49:00Z</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://archive.org/details/omni-archive">An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995)</a>, courtesy of the Internet Archive. &#8220;Omni was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science, parapsychology, and short works of science fiction and fantasy.&#8221;
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049835-railpass"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49835</id>
        <published>2026-10-22T18:44:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-22T18:44:00Z</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://train.samismith.com">Railpass</a> simulates a train ride in your browser window using real video footage. Choose from trains from around the world or add some weather to the mix. Sound on for the best ride.
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison....]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049838-this-is-what-its-like-to-"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49838</id>
        <published>2026-10-22T17:49:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-22T17:49:00Z</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.youtube.com/watch?v=chpgT_VTEjE">This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison</a>. &#8220;None of us want to be defined solely by the person we were in our youth, or by the worst thing we ever did. The men serving life without parole feel the same way.&#8221;
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Winners of the 2026 International Pano Awards]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/the-winners-of-the-2026-international-pano-awards"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49852</id>
        <published>2026-10-22T16:37:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-22T16:37:00Z</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><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630739-6060dc2b.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630739-6060dc2b.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630739-6060dc2b.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792630761-54efc34a.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630761-54efc34a.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630761-54efc34a.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792631523-bcc8e27d.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631523-bcc8e27d.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631523-bcc8e27d.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792631340-4d90a42e.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631340-4d90a42e.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631340-4d90a42e.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792631054-ade916dc.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631054-ade916dc.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631054-ade916dc.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
	<p><a href="https://thepanoawards.com/2026-winners-gallery">The winners of the 2026 Epson International Pano awards</a> were announced recently, featuring some of the best panoramic photography in the world. Alan Taylor at the Atlantic <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/2026/10/winners-2026-epson-international-pano-awards/689074?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ6WaEKPnt4eHEgYyRVz6VGM">shared some of his favorites</a> and I shared some of mine above. Starting at the top, photos by Xuecheng Liu, Shimon Perlstein, Tomás Sánchez Ruiz, Preeti &#038; Prashant Chacko, and Daniel Viñé Garcia.</p>
	<p>P.S. In case you were wondering about the aspect ratio of panoramic images: <a href="https://thepanoawards.com/preparing-your-images">according to the submission rules</a>, the image&#8217;s longest side needs to be at least twice the length as the shortest side.
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[“Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049848-demonstrating-that-human-"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49848</id>
        <published>2026-10-22T15:40:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-22T15:40:00Z</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>&#8220;Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the mind-bending goal of creating computers made of brains by <a href="https://www.404media.co/computers-made-of-human-brain-tissue-identify-braille-letters-in-breakthrough">demonstrating that human neural tissue can classify letters of the Braille alphabet</a>.&#8221;
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The title of this video is The Fastest Downhill Run Ever....]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049825-the-fastest-downhill-run-"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49825</id>
        <published>2026-10-22T14:52:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-22T14:52:00Z</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 title of this video is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad2IzyWsNUY">The Fastest Downhill Run Ever</a>. I don&#8217;t know if that is true, but oh my god does it look dangerous to go this fast on a mountain bike through the streets of Genoa. (It looks slightly less nuts in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsHd06_IPLI">the non-POV</a>, but not by much.)
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Meet Prometheus, a Gift Link Search Engine]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/meet-prometheus-a-gift-link-search-engine"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49843</id>
        <published>2026-10-22T00:49:03Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-22T00:49:03Z</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>Sometime in the past few years, media sites like Bloomberg, The Economist, The Atlantic, Defector, Talking Points Memo, and the NY Times started offering a way for subscribers to share paywalled articles with friends and followers. These are commonly referred to as gift links.</p>
	<p>Thousands of gift links are shared on websites and social media daily. Some helpful <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/davidsacerdote.bsky.social/feed/aaaixbb5liqbu">aggregated feeds</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/giftlink">hashtags</a> are available, but finding specific information can be difficult. Whenever possible here on KDO, I link to paywalled articles with gift links. To help in that endeavor, I&#8217;ve built a gift link discovery tool called <a href="https://kottke.org/prometheus">Prometheus</a>.</p>
	<blockquote><p>Prometheus collects gift links to paywalled news articles shared by subscribers — from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and more. Links are gathered from Bluesky, Mastodon, and the web throughout the day, and you can search by keyword &#038; URL and filter by publication.</p></blockquote>
	<p>Right now, Prometheus is only available to active <a href="https://kottke.org/members">kottke.org members</a> while I&#8217;m testing and refining it — it&#8217;s definitely a beta tool rn. If you&#8217;re a member, <a href="https://kottke.org/prometheus">check it out</a> and let me know if you&#8217;ve got any feedback or notice any rough edges.</p>
	<p>An informed public is the foundation of a healthy society — and while paywalls aren&#8217;t the only challenge here, they also <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/30/read-all-about-how-paywalls-are-bad-for-democracy-right-behind-this-paywall">aren&#8217;t helping</a>. Big thanks to everyone sharing their gift links online and to these media companies for enabling their subscribers to share their journalism with others.
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[“A SpudCell can grow, copy its DNA, divide in two, and...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049851-but-this-cell-is-made-by-"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49851</id>
        <published>2026-10-21T21:57:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-21T21:57:00Z</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>&#8220;A SpudCell can grow, copy its DNA, divide in two, and start its cell cycle all over again. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/science/spudcell-adamala-biotic.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVE.in7C.avsNc611Xlqh">But this cell is made by people, created from lifeless ingredients.</a>&#8221; Um, what?
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Bastardica is “a foundry for bastard web fonts. Mix,...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049802-bastardica"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49802</id>
        <published>2026-10-21T21:12:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-21T21:12:00Z</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://bastardica.mitpit.com">Bastardica</a> is &#8220;a foundry for bastard web fonts. Mix, stretch and/or squish them.&#8221; E.g. Nervous Sans: &#8220;Arial is stacked five times, pseudo-randomly twitching out of line.&#8221; I quite like Impacter.
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[How did life on Earth arise? Three of the biggest...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049846-how-did-life-on-earth-ari"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49846</id>
        <published>2026-10-21T20:07:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-21T20:07:00Z</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/2026/10/19/science/evolution-life-earth.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVE.hmnh.mNZL7wVyDP-f">How did life on Earth arise?</a> Three of the biggest inflection points were ~4 billion years ago when life first emerged, ~2 billion years ago when eukaryotic cells appeared, and ~580 million years ago when life got big.
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[NYC’s Fastest Bike Messenger (1985)]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/nycs-fastest-bike-messenger-1985"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49827</id>
        <published>2026-10-21T18:54:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-21T18:54:00Z</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>For CBS News in 1985, Charles Kuralt <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMvJ83XpGoI">profiled</a> bike messenger David Leopold.</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xMvJ83XpGoI" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t go slow. I don&#8217;t stop for red lights. I go against traffic. I disobey every traffic law there is.</p></blockquote>
	<p>Great street footage of NYC from 40 years ago. You might think that Leopold ended up as a stain on the pavement. In 2010, CBS News did <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKyt2PWqup8">a follow-up</a> on him:</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QKyt2PWqup8" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>See also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2y4hNuqlTs">Leopold on David Letterman from 1985</a>.
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Library Is Closed. Feel Free to Come In. “In...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049849-the-library-is-closed-fee"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49849</id>
        <published>2026-10-21T18:07:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-21T18:07:00Z</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://reasonstobecheerful.world/the-library-is-closed-feel-free-to-come-in">The Library Is Closed. Feel Free to Come In.</a> &#8220;In communities where workspaces are scarce, libraries are welcoming visitors outside of staffed hours. All they need is a library card.&#8221;
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Tiny People in a Big World is like a birdwatching guide,...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049845-tiny-people-in-a-big-worl"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49845</id>
        <published>2026-10-21T16:58:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-21T16:58:00Z</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.kickstarter.com/projects/sneakyartist/tiny-people-in-the-big-world">Tiny People in a Big World</a> is like a birdwatching guide, but for people-watching. &#8220;I made this campaign to produce a book that will help you notice and appreciate the tiny people who pass through your big world.&#8221;
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Link Loop is basically a 2D version of Portal. Looks fun!]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049833-link-loop"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49833</id>
        <published>2026-10-21T16:03:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-21T16:03:00Z</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><a href="https://www.playlinkloop.com">Link Loop</a> is basically a 2D version of Portal. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-8hU9XEep8">Looks fun!</a>
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Ambient Earth]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/ambient-earth"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49844</id>
        <published>2026-10-21T14:49:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-21T14:49:00Z</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/alJMoaKpV_E" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJMoaKpV_E">Ambient Earth</a> is a 7.5-hour, real-time, 4K, remastered video of the orbital view from the International Space Station. Seán Doran took almost 49,000 images from 27 time-lapse sequences captured from the ISS by astronaut Butch Wilmore, repaired, remastered, and interpolated them into this incredible video.</p>
	<blockquote><p>Perspective is lost when the world speeds by. The scale and beauty of our home planet is truly appreciated when observed on an epic 7.5 hour journey from The International Space Station. This ambitious 4k compilation, crafted through months of meticulous restoration, invites you to slow down and experience Earth in real time just as astronauts do.</p></blockquote>
	<p>The video is accompanied by ambient audio recorded on the station by Chris Hadfield. This would be great for a screensaver, but after poking around for a bit, it doesn&#8217;t seem like there&#8217;s a good way to set a YT video as a screensaver on MacOS (without downloading it or having it be a livestream).
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[“Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049847-retrieve-samples-for-retu"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49847</id>
        <published>2026-10-21T13:45:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-21T13:45:00Z</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>&#8220;Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a five-year expedition to land on the largest moon of Mars and <a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/japan-launches-mission-to-bring-home-a-piece-of-the-martian-moon-phobos">retrieve samples for return to Earth</a>.&#8221;
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Find the Place You Love. Then Move There. “The reward...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049830-find-the-place-you-love-t"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49830</id>
        <published>2026-10-21T12:55:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-21T12:55:00Z</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.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/01/what-moving-house-can-do-your-happiness/617667?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ_WVacR_xvGiAsUFKmGKXA8">Find the Place You Love. Then Move There.</a> &#8220;The reward from moving just because you want to is hard to defend logically. Some people will think you are crazy&#8230;&#8221;
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[I remember this 90s TV commercial for 93.7 The Edge, a...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049840-i-remember-this-90s-tv-co"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49840</id>
        <published>2026-10-20T21:36:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-20T21:36:00Z</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.youtube.com/watch?v=X1ROtCS7jWA">I remember this 90s TV commercial for 93.7 The Edge</a>, a Minnesota alternative radio station, very well. It features very non-alternative old people reciting lyrics like &#8220;bow down before the one you serve&#8221; and &#8220;Winona&#8217;s got herself a big brown beaver&#8221;.
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Why Do Some Places Just Feel Right?]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/why-do-some-places-just-feel-right"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49828</id>
        <published>2026-10-20T20:39:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-20T20:39:00Z</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>Gregory Wieber does <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@dreamwieber/videos">these engaging, info-rich videos on tech history</a> — <a href="https://kottke.org/26/03/hypercard-changed-everything">I posted his HyperCard Changed Everything video</a> back in the spring. For one of his latest videos, Wieber goes through a short history of Christopher Alexander&#8217;s landmark book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195019199/ref=nosim/0sil8">A Pattern Language</a> (<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780195019193">Bookshop</a>), which anyone interested in building anything should at least have paged through once in their life,<sup id="fnref:fmvezgc036y5v"><a href="#fn:fmvezgc036y5v" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> and how his work inspired not only object oriented programming and the invention of wikis, but also SimCity and The Sims.</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3A7OUxer4FI" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<ol>
<li class="footnote" id="fn:fmvezgc036y5v"><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195024028/ref=nosim/0sil8">The Timeless Way of Building</a> is shorter, less dense, and perhaps a better introduction to Alexander&#8217;s ideas about patterns. <a href="#fnref:fmvezgc036y5v" title="return to article">↩</a></p></li>
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[New book from James Gleick about the history of the...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049841-new-book-from-james-gleic"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49841</id>
        <published>2026-10-20T19:52:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-20T19:52:00Z</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://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780374618940">New book from James Gleick about the history of the telephone</a>. &#8220;It gave us the party line, the busy signal, dial tones, wiretapping, the late-night DJ, and the booty call. It magnified the possibilities of government, of business, of friendship, of love.&#8221;
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[“Astronomers for the first time have identified a green...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049829-a-green-star"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49829</id>
        <published>2026-10-20T18:46:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-20T18:46:00Z</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>&#8220;Astronomers for the first time have identified <a href="https://www.reuters.com/science/newly-identified-green-star-leaves-astronomers-amazed-2026-10-16">a green star</a>, documenting a dense stellar remnant called a white dwarf that became a ghostly shade of chartreuse after ingesting rocky ​debris from planets that once had orbited it.&#8221;
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300 Million Games]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/the-best-monopoly-strategy-tested-on-300-million-games"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49823</id>
        <published>2026-10-20T17:47:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-20T17:47:00Z</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><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S_2eVAaw1UM" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>Perfect Play <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2eVAaw1UM">ran over 300 million games of Monopoly</a> to determine the best strategy and the most common mistakes players make.</p>
	<blockquote><p>I turned eight classic Monopoly strategies into computer players and made them play 312,898,560 games against each other. At a table of four, the best one won 43% of its games. The worst one won 3%.</p><p>The gap doesn&#8217;t come from one clever trick. It comes from four common mistakes: being picky about what you buy, saving your cash, stopping at three houses, and refusing to trade. Then I let the computer tune every habit at once, to see how far a carefully tuned player can go and which color set is really worth fighting for.</p></blockquote>
	<p>P.S. I don&#8217;t actually play Monopoly anymore — it is the world&#8217;s most maddening game (along with Sorry) and I childishly refer to it as &#8220;Monotony&#8221; — and an aside about 3 minutes into the video is why: &#8220;roughly one game in six never ends&#8221;. Exactly! And you want me to haggle? For fun? No thank you. I imagine there are folks whose idea of a good time is visiting used car dealerships for funsies when they don&#8217;t need a car, but I am not one of them.</p>
	<p>See also <a href="https://kottke.org/16/02/how-to-win-at-monopoly-and-piss-off-your-friends">How to Win at Monopoly and Piss Off Your Friends</a>.
</p>
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049837-protestors-criticized-for"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49837</id>
        <published>2026-10-20T16:41:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-20T16:41:00Z</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/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351">Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First</a>. &#8220;It’s disgusting to put workers at risk by looting. You do it by chipping away at their health benefits and eventually laying them off.&#8221;
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049836-a-very-amateur-astronomer"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49836</id>
        <published>2026-10-20T15:35:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-20T15:35:00Z</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>Using an LLM&#8217;s &#8220;superhuman ability to parse through galactic quantities of data&#8221;, <a href="https://gizmodo.com/did-claude-help-an-amateur-astronomer-discover-a-new-planet-2000824393">a very amateur astronomer has found a possible exoplanet candidate</a>. MIT is going to point <a href="https://tess.mit.edu">their satellite</a> at the candidate planet to collect more data soon.
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/how-japanese-dried-bonito-is-made"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49822</id>
        <published>2026-10-20T14:09:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-20T14:09:00Z</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/HsMbNVEJp9g" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>This workshop founded in 1882 still makes dried bonito <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsMbNVEJp9g">like they did back in the Edo period</a>.</p>
	<blockquote><p>How katsuobushi — Japanese dried bonito, said to be the world&#8217;s hardest food — is made in Nishi-Izu, Japan. Inside Kanesa Katsuobushi Shoten, a workshop founded in 1882, 5th-generation craftsman Yasuhisa Serizawa still uses the 200-year-old &#8220;tebiyama&#8221; hand-fired smoke-drying method that only a few workshops in Japan preserve. Watch fresh bonito being filleted and boiled for 90 minutes, smoke-dried more than 10 times over a hand-tended wood fire, repaired with bonito paste, fermented with koji mold and sun-dried for months — over half a year until the fish becomes as hard as wood and shines like a jewel. From fresh catch to katsuobushi.</p></blockquote>
	<p>Check out <a href="https://www.canesa.net">Kanesa Katsuobushi Shoten&#8217;s website</a> for more info; here&#8217;s what they say about the tebiyama drying/smoking method (Google translation):</p>
	<blockquote><p>This method of making dried bonito flakes has been used in the Tago district of West Izu for a long time, and its history is said to date back about 300 years (to the Edo period). It involves digging a vertical hole about 2 meters deep, burning firewood (raw wood from Izu: oak, sawtooth oak, cherry, etc.) from the bottom of the hole, and smoking and drying the dried bonito flakes with the high temperature of an open flame. This method is called the Tebiyama-shiki smoking method. It is the oldest existing smoking method, and only a few bonito flake manufacturers in the country continue to use this method to make dried bonito flakes, so it is said to be a legendary method. The Tebiyama-shiki smoking method is said to produce dried bonito flakes with a rich flavor because the surface of the bonito is smoked all at once with the high temperature of an open flame, locking in the umami.</p></blockquote>
	<p>(thx, caroline)
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049842-brewster-kahle-argues-aga"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49842</id>
        <published>2026-10-20T12:39:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-20T12:39:00Z</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.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/blocking-internet-archive-will-not-stop-ai/689065?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ1AS4fIdqjHOc9xe3O3gHT8">Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the Internet Archive from archiving their sites</a>. &#8220;Impeding the Wayback Machine’s preservation work will not prevent powerful AI companies from gathering training data.&#8221;
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049820-nprs-planet-money-recentl"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49820</id>
        <published>2026-10-19T21:18:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-19T21:18:00Z</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.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5996901">NPR&#8217;s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds</a> and interviewed <a href="https://www.panic.com">Panic&#8217;s</a> <a href="https://cabel.com">Cabel Sasser</a> about how they decided to refund their <a href="https://play.date">Playdate</a>-buying customers for the tariffs surcharge they paid.
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Do you believe in life after death? This is a great...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049832-do-you-believe-in-life-af"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49832</id>
        <published>2026-10-19T20:28:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-19T20:28:00Z</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://pudding.cool/2026/10/lifeafter">Do you believe in life after death?</a> This is a great interactive piece by <a href="https://alvinschang.com">Alvin Chang</a> about people&#8217;s beliefs about the existence of an afterlife and how those beliefs change over the course of our lifetimes.
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    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[A Tiny 24 FPS E-Ink Game Boy Emulator]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/a-tiny-24-fps-e-ink-game-boy-emulator"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49821</id>
        <published>2026-10-19T19:33:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-19T19:33:00Z</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/XiZmM6hwwAU" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>This is really impressive: a software engineer got a Game Boy emulator running at 30 fps on a tiny e-ink screen.</p>
	<p>If you&#8217;re familiar with e-paper, you know that they normally refresh much slower (2-3 times a second), not nearly quick enough to play even a simple video game. This guy wrote his own display driver that got the refresh rate up to 30 times per second. From the transcript of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiZmM6hwwAU">the video</a> explaining how e-paper works and how he hacked the display to make it play games:</p>
	<blockquote><p>Unlike conventional displays like LCD or OLED, ePaper stores its image physically using charged black and white pigment particles. By changing the electric field, the display moves the pigments towards or away from the surface, which in the end gives us black- or white-looking pixel. And usually a sequence of several electrical pulses called a waveform is needed to move the pigment back and forth, before finally driving it towards the new image. This helps produce a clean result without leaving too much of the previous image behind. But this takes a lot of time.</p></blockquote>
	<p>The project is open source — <a href="https://github.com/kuslota/InkBoy">you can get the plans and code on GitHub</a>. This engineer was inspired by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPbOK90aJEo">Wenting Zhang&#8217;s e-paper Game Boy emulator</a>:</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oPbOK90aJEo" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>Zhang has also made <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbA2-_qzH4">a color e-ink display that runs at 60 fps</a>. Very cool. (via <a href="https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/10/15/this-tiny-e-paper-game-boy-lets-you-play-super-mario-land-at-30-fps-on-a-reading-screen">yanko design</a>)
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049824-a-24-minute-video-tour"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49824</id>
        <published>2026-10-19T18:41:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-19T18:41:00Z</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.youtube.com/watch?v=xtCdl-4HDdk">A 24-minute video tour</a> of the <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/krasner-and-pollock-past-continuous">Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous exhibition</a> at the Met. I hope I make it to NYC to see this before it closes in January.
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049834-towers-of-babble"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49834</id>
        <published>2026-10-19T17:41:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-19T17:41:00Z</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://franklantz.substack.com/p/towers-of-babble">Towers of Babble</a> is a game that mashes up word games and tower defense games. &#8220;Nouns make buildings and other parts of speech make modifiers that you can add to a building to improve its stats.&#8221;
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Hyperland, a Prescient 1990 TV Show by Douglas Adams]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/hyperland-a-prescient-1990-tv-show-by-douglas-adams"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49819</id>
        <published>2026-10-19T16:31:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-19T16:31:00Z</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/5nOXGYxHVFI" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>I&#8217;d never heard of this before: in 1990, the BBC aired a program created by and starring Douglas Adams called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nOXGYxHVFI">Hyperland</a>. It begins with a frustrated Adams throwing his TV out (too linear, too non-interactive) and Tom Baker (from Doctor Who) popping up as an intelligent interactive agent that promises to &#8220;do your every slightest bidding, to fetch and carry for you, to work tirelessly and selflessly on your behalf, always ready, always willing, no job too small or too menial&#8221;.</p>
	<blockquote><p>Circumventing the limitations of &#8216;linear&#8217; broadcast TV, the 50-minute programme imagines a new world in which an AI software &#8216;agent&#8217; - brought to life here by Doctor Who favourite Tom Baker - helps the user (played by Adams) to find and access material of interest in a global world of hyperlinked information - text, images, audio and video. </p><p>Pop-up &#8216;micons&#8217; (moving icons) conveniently link to interviews with leading technologists of the era (among them Ted Nelson, Robert Winter, Robert Abel, Kristina Hooper, Fabrice Forin and Steve Gano).</p><p>Some of this stuff has dated badly - few visions of the future get everything right! - but the programme is nevertheless of considerable historical importance.</p><p>Incredibly, at about the time Hyperland was being broadcast, a young CERN computer scientist by the name of Tim Berners-Lee was beavering away on URLs and HTTP, the foundations of what would become the World Wide Web.</p><p>Even Adams, who foresaw so much, didn&#8217;t anticipate the impact the Web - and the Internet that conveys its data globally - would have on civilisation. Needless to say, the enticing infoworld envisaged in Hyperland was a public-service one of education, art, literature (including nods to Adams&#8217; own works!) and entertainment. There&#8217;s no advertising, hacking, cybercrime, information theft, social-media addicts, unaccountable corporate domination or drug-like dependence on the smartphones that Adams himself predicted. </p><p>And Tom Baker&#8217;s enthusiastic agent isn&#8217;t forever popping up to try and sell you something&#8230;</p></blockquote>
	<p>The YouTube version above is missing a segment, but <a href="https://archive.org/details/Hyperland1990">you can watch (and download) the whole program on the Internet Archive</a>, a project that fits the vision of the future imagined by techno-utopians like Adams.</p>
	<p>I&#8217;m imagining what 16-year-old Jason would have made of this (or HyperCard or hypertext had he had any clue that they existed until 4-5 years later) — his brain probably would have exploded.
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours,...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049831-lane-8-has-released-his-f"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49831</id>
        <published>2026-10-19T15:41:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-19T15:41:00Z</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.youtube.com/watch?v=412AHrISlqg">Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape</a>, 4 hours, recorded live at SF&#8217;s Castro Theatre. This one&#8217;s going straight into the earholes. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/thisneverhappenedlabel/fall2026">Soundcloud</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=412AHrISlqg">YouTube</a>, and <a href="https://tnh.ffm.to/fall26">elsewhere</a>.
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049818-wont-someone-please-stop-"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49818</id>
        <published>2026-10-19T14:53:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-19T14:53:00Z</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.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wont-someone-please-stop-me-dr-frankenstein-from-building-the-creature">Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from Building the Creature?</a> &#8220;These are serious concerns. And I think we should all stop. Me, especially. Can anyone make me stop doing the thing I want to do? Apparently not.&#8221;
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Consequence of Donald Trump]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/ta-nehisi-coates-on-the-consequence-of-donald-trump"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49826</id>
        <published>2026-10-19T13:53:26Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-19T13:53:26Z</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.vanityfair.com/story/donald-the-great">Writing for Vanity Fair</a> (<a href="https://archive.li/Bzimr">archive link</a>), Ta-Nehisi Coates says that Donald Trump is the most visionary politician of his era.</p>
	<blockquote><p>Through a mix of moxie, cynicism, and misanthropy, Trump has made himself into the dominant American of our age. Sometimes a man meets his moment, and Trump met his in the wake of a black presidency and a conservative movement doggedly and patiently pursuing a decades-long counterrevolution. The marriage of Trump’s charisma to a fundamentalist right wing has been bountiful: three Supreme Court justices in four years, the subsequent destruction of national abortion rights, the banishment of affirmative action, the hollowing of the Voting Rights Act.</p></blockquote>
	<p>And the genie may not go back in the bottle:</p>
	<blockquote><p>But some things can’t be unseen. The example that Trump has set, the scope of what is possible should one embrace the dark powers of the White House, will not dissipate. It turns out that you can deploy secret police onto American streets. You can deport immigrants in defiance of the courts. You can have the Justice Department badger your enemies. And you can become very rich while doing it. And some of the most powerful sectors in America, those who most loudly extol their own love of country, will stand around and watch you do it. Asked why he was making deals during his second term, Trump gave a succinct and chillingly accurate summation: “I found out that nobody cared.” And to the extent that there is a genius to Trump, it is in his apprehension of this reality—so very few people who matter care. When you’re president, they let you do it.</p></blockquote>
	<p>Coates recently discussed this piece <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lIIVjF3SVQ">on Vanity Fair&#8217;s podcast</a>.</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_lIIVjF3SVQ" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049816-charles-harley-on-subway-"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49816</id>
        <published>2026-10-16T22:01:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-16T22:01:00Z</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.youtube.com/shorts/H0KGWo3SoXg">Charles Harley on Subway Takes</a>: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think Black people should have to pay for ancestry.com. Why do I have to pay you to figure out where you stole me from?&#8221;
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out....]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049815-illustrator-and-writer-lu"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49815</id>
        <published>2026-10-16T21:18:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-16T21:18:00Z</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.mundomendo.com/books">Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo&#8217;s second book is out</a>. &#8220;The only website that once a year becomes a book.&#8221; I have Book One and it&#8217;s lovely&#8230;
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Chromatic Inkscapes]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/chromatic-inkscapes"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49814</id>
        <published>2026-10-16T20:09:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-16T20:09:00Z</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><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118593-80c5302e.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118593-80c5302e.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118593-80c5302e.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792118750-5a593d26.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118750-5a593d26.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118750-5a593d26.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792118611-f37c59fe.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118611-f37c59fe.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118611-f37c59fe.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792118774-1e113b96.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118774-1e113b96.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118774-1e113b96.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792118722-33ed4542.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118722-33ed4542.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118722-33ed4542.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792119021-d7b44d76.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792119021-d7b44d76.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792119021-d7b44d76.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
	<p>I love <a href="https://adamfuhrer.com">these digital illustrations by Adam Fuhrer</a>; he calls them <a href="https://adamfuhrer.com#t=chromatic%20aberration">chromatic aberrations</a>. It was difficult to narrow them down to the few favorites above. I posted about Fuhrer&#8217;s pen plotted art <a href="https://kottke.org/24/03/warped-bendy-pen-plots">a couple of years ago</a>&#8230;I like the direction he&#8217;s taking this.
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049810-go-ahead-and-ban-my-book"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49810</id>
        <published>2026-10-16T19:13:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-16T19:13:00Z</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>Margaret Atwood in 2023: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-virginia-book-ban-library-removal/673013?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ3-c2_UN_Zj6nztvCkh8h-0">Go Ahead and Ban My Book</a>. &#8220;It’s very hard to control what young people get their hands on, especially if they’re told something is too old for them, or too evil, or too immoral.&#8221;
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Roooobot. Huuuuuman.]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/roooobot-huuuuuman"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49812</id>
        <published>2026-10-16T18:10:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-16T18:10:00Z</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><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EcDJJSKs2o8" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcDJJSKs2o8">This woman</a> does some amazing things with a series of white rings — lots of precision optical illusions.</p>
	<p>It&#8217;s mesmerizing watching people moving like machines — an interesting psychological thing. Like <a href="https://akanekikaku.com/avantgardey">Avantgardey</a>, which if you haven&#8217;t heard of them (just because they show up all the time on my Instagram doesn&#8217;t mean that happens for everyone), you should <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@avantgardey">check them out</a>:</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V6u8MrBvJ3w" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_dgLddv0VBw" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p> (via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@sevlu/117433627240341636">@sevlu</a>)
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[The trailer for Blade Runner 2099, a new limited series...]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049795-the-trailer-for-blade-run"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49795</id>
        <published>2026-10-16T17:00:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-16T17:00:00Z</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.youtube.com/watch?v=AwK5KxoJsvk">The trailer for Blade Runner 2099</a>, a new limited series premiering in late November and starring Michelle Yeoh &#038; Hunter Schafer.
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    <entry>
        <title type="html"><![CDATA[Going 94 MPH on a Skateboard (New World Record)]]></title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/going-94-mph-on-a-skateboard-new-world-record"/>
        <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49813</id>
        <published>2026-10-16T15:32:00Z</published>
        <updated>2026-10-16T15:32:00Z</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/u3ydV2RVJvc" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>Diego Poncelet recently set a new world record for the fastest speed on a skateboard. The old record was 146.7 km/h (91.2 mph) and he hit 151.8 km/h (94.3 mph). There are a couple of parts you can skip, but watching most of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ydV2RVJvc">the video</a> is worth it because you see the process and can compare how truly insanely fast he is moving during the final run — I found myself holding my breath for the last minute or so.</p>
	<p>Also, I cannot believe how closely the camera car is following him — looks like only a few feet away. Bonkers.</p>
	<p>I just found the first time I posted about speed skateboarding on KDO: <a href="https://kottke.org/08/09/speed-skateboarding">this post from 2008</a>. Less aerodynamic, more gonzo, and the cameraman is also on a skateboard going equally fast.
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        <title type="html"><![CDATA[I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care...]]></title>
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        <published>2026-10-16T14:15:00Z</published>
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        <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>I played <a href="https://notsolitaire.com">(not) solitaire</a> for more hands than I would care to admit. &#8220;A multiplayer game where the multiplayer was about companionship, empathy, and comfort, instead of competition or even interaction.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Harry Kane is this year’s men’s winner of the Ballon...]]></title>
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    <published>2026-10-27T00:25:00Z</published>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[A poignant short documentary about a mother who only...]]></title>
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    <published>2026-10-26T21:46:00Z</published>
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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/2026/10/21/opinion/graffiti-mother-son-relationship-sweden.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LVE.0yGh.93xRPpGwBU5S">A poignant short documentary</a> about a mother who only knows her son is alive by the new graffiti tags he leaves around town. Eventually, she started tagging back&#8230;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[From Charles Mann, a quick history of porcelain, which is...]]></title>
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    <published>2026-10-26T20:59:00Z</published>
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    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p>From Charles Mann, <a href="https://worksinprogress.co/issue/everything-rhymes-with-porcelain">a quick history of porcelain</a>, which is basically what his pricey induction stovetop is made from. (Fun fact: I went to grad school for ceramic engineering before dropping out after a semester to teach myself web design.)
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Russian and East European Posters]]></title>
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    <published>2026-10-26T19:59:00Z</published>
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    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919867-486981ee.png" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919867-486981ee.png 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919867-486981ee.png 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//images/posts/01/editor-1792920730-28e1de76.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792920730-28e1de76.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792920730-28e1de76.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792919892-44e93635.png" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919892-44e93635.png 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919892-44e93635.png 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//images/posts/01/editor-1792920742-86debaca.png" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792920742-86debaca.png 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792920742-86debaca.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
	<p>Princeton houses <a href="https://digital-collections.princeton.edu/collections/soviet_posters">a large digital collection of posters from Russia and Eastern Europe</a>, almost 5000 total item spanning 101 years (1904-2004). <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/albums/72057594117941491">This album on Flickr</a> contains nearly 1500 Russian &#038; Soviet posters from 1917-1991 — not sure how much overlap there is between the two.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as...]]></title>
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    <published>2026-10-26T19:11:00Z</published>
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    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/eternal-family-film-project-151026">Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as chosen by Eternal Family</a>. I <a href="https://kottke.org/26/09/0049709-eternal-family">linked to</a> Eternal Family recently and this is a good guide to some of their weirdest stuff.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American...]]></title>
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    <published>2026-10-26T18:16:00Z</published>
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    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/how-tree-rings-challenged-the-myth-of-american-wilderness">How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness</a>. &#8220;When one revisits colonial accounts of North America, one finds a striking amount of evidence that Native Americans set fire to the landscape.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven]]></title>
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    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-26:49871</id>

    <published>2026-10-26T17:22:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-26T17:22:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XaxuV6tsIb4" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>According to NASA, the Perseverance rover has driven just over 28 miles on the surface of Mars, making it the vehicle <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/perseverance-mars-rover/2026/10/12/nasas-perseverance-sets-off-world-record-for-total-distance-driven">that has driven the farthest distance outside of Earth</a>.</p>
	<blockquote><p>On Oct. 11, the rover’s odometer reached 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers), eclipsing the record of 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers) set by NASA’s Opportunity rover, which explored Mars from 2004 to 2018. Perseverance reached the mark on the 2,006th Martian day, or sol, of its mission, covering in five and a half years a distance that took Opportunity almost 15.</p></blockquote>
	<p>For a vehicle <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/resource/how-perseverance-drives-on-mars">whose top speed is 0.1 mph</a> and which stops all the time to do science, 28 miles is quite a distance. The route video is fun to watch&#8230;it resembles a dog&#8217;s path, sniffing out its favorite spots and doubling back along familiar routes.</p>
	<p>BTW, the Guinness World Record for the number of miles driven by one vehicle on Earth is <a href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-vehicle-mileage">3,039,122 miles</a>. (And the guy kept driving it after the record was recorded&#8230;he <a href="https://www.volvocars.com/au/news/electrification/2023-october-one-careful-owner">reached 3,260,257 miles</a> before he died.)
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Simon Willison: “Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded —...]]></title>
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    <published>2026-10-26T16:15:00Z</published>
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    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/20/battledrones">Simon Willison</a>: &#8220;Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded — I’ve reviewed almost none of the code, and it’s built in a language (TypeScript) that I’ve hardly used myself.&#8221; There&#8217;s <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/21/panache">a French steampunk version</a> too.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[This exhibition of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) by Utagawa...]]></title>
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    <published>2026-10-26T15:21:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-26T15:21:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://www.tnm.jp/modules/r_free_page/index.php?id=2759&#038;lang=en">This exhibition of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) by Utagawa Hiroshige at the Tokyo National Museum</a> was great. Awesome to see these prints in person.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026]]></title>
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    <published>2026-10-26T14:29:00Z</published>
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    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917530-d0977975.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917530-d0977975.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917530-d0977975.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792917606-73045d77.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917606-73045d77.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917606-73045d77.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792917806-ccf51c58.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917806-ccf51c58.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917806-ccf51c58.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792917748-172f9206.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917748-172f9206.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917748-172f9206.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792918117-a29307f0.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792918117-a29307f0.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792918117-a29307f0.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
	<p>London&#8217;s Natural History Museum has announced the winners of the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, a competition that has been going since 1965. You can see a gallery of all the winners <a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery?tags=award.ctgrywnnr,award.impactaward,award.wldlfphtgrphrfthyr,award.yngwldlfphtgrphrfthyr&#038;tags=ed.current">on the competition website</a> (and also places like <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2026/oct/14/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2026-winners-in-pictures">The Guardian</a> and <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/2026/10/winners-wildlife-photographer-year-2026/689005?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ_IDWljBk4RsBy6qXZusibY">The Atlantic</a>.)</p>
	<p>Photos above by Kutub Uddin, Amelie Davis, Michał Michalski, James Lewin, and Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64. “Oh, don’t...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049862-how-to-install-an-app-on-" />
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    <published>2026-10-26T13:26:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-26T13:26:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/08/install-an-app-commodore-64">How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64</a>. &#8220;Oh, don’t worry, you’ll just need to type in the code for that program. There’s an article explaining what MLX is, which you can read really quickly on page 93, and then you’ll find the code for it on page 94.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049869-the-tiny-computers-app-le" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-25:49869</id>

    <published>2026-10-25T14:11:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-25T14:11:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <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=6jt_2bIaoxo">The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers on the iPhone Duo</a>. Ten machines included: &#8220;Macintosh, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Amiga 500, Windows 95, ThinkPad, iMac G3, iBook G3, PowerBook G4 and Windows XP.&#8221; XP even crashes sometimes. Love this.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea...]]></title>
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    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-23:49855</id>

    <published>2026-10-23T17:44:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-23T17:44:00Z</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.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/10/restaurant-phone-number-question/688926?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ0tFeAhe7IhdA8vfU9uxDyc">The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants</a>. &#8220;The idea of a restaurant I’d never been to using a dossier on me to decide, say, where I should sit, what I was likely to order, even whether I should be given a reservation at all, gave me chills.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[“US households are paying 62% more for drinking water...]]></title>
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    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-23:49850</id>

    <published>2026-10-23T16:30:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-23T16:30:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p>&#8220;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/06/households-drinking-water-cost-study">US households are paying 62% more for drinking water than they did a decade ago</a> — outpacing inflation, grocery prices and household incomes.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Open Thread #Potato]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/open-thread-potato" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-23:49858</id>

    <published>2026-10-23T11:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-23T11:00:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p>Seems like it&#8217;s a good time for an open thread. I cannot remember what number we&#8217;re up to, so it&#8217;s &#8220;Potato&#8221;. I just had french fries for lunch and ate the longest french fry I have ever seen.<sup id="fnref:fmvkh037xik8n"><a href="#fn:fmvkh037xik8n" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> I should have taken a photo, but I was in consumption mode and not attention mode. My apologies for the oversight.</p>
	<p>Anyhoo, I&#8217;ve been working on the site a lot this week (did you see <a href="https://kottke.org/26/10/meet-prometheus-a-gift-link-search-engine">Prometheus</a>?)<sup id="fnref:fmvkhmyzy6qe2"><a href="#fn:fmvkhmyzy6qe2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup> and have some cool stuff coming up. But I need to take a tiny step back to do some life admin and email<sup id="fnref:fmvkggdgoxeqh"><a href="#fn:fmvkggdgoxeqh" rel="footnote">3</a></sup> today, so the site will be a little slower than usual. A fall summer Friday, if you will.</p>
	<p>What&#8217;s going on in your world? I know the onset of dark &#038; cold in the northern hemisphere makes life challenging for some of you this time of year; I hope you&#8217;re hanging in there. I&#8217;ve been thinking about <a href="https://kottke.org/23/12/where-do-you-call-home">what home means</a>, taking long baths, walking a lot, and <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780593717202">reading</a> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780199536061">three</a> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9781419777172">books</a>, listening to <a href="https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=25361&#038;awinaffid=1677195&#038;ued=https%3A%2F%2Flibro.fm%2Faudiobooks%2F9781501965630">one book</a>, and watching two <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0H4LD7LYS/ref=nosim/0sil8">TV</a> <a href="https://www.netflix.com/tudum/the-diplomat">shows</a>, trying to keep everything straight.</p>
	<p>And here&#8217;s a couple of photos I took of some really cool engravings on a sword at the Tokyo National Museum.</p>
	<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792739809-7d902855.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792739809-7d902855.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792739809-7d902855.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
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<li class="footnote" id="fn:fmvkh037xik8n"><p>How many individual french fries do you think you&#8217;ve seen/eaten in your life? 10,000? 100,000? 1M? (This is a good <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem">Fermi problem</a>.) <a href="#fnref:fmvkh037xik8n" title="return to article">↩</a></p></li>
	<li class="footnote" id="fn:fmvkhmyzy6qe2"><p>Oh, and have you noticed that typos have been much better recently? I built a spellchecker for my post editor, so I&#8217;ve been able to more easily spot them. (Cue incident of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law">Muphry&#8217;s Law</a> in this post&#8230;) <a href="#fnref:fmvkhmyzy6qe2" title="return to article">↩</a></li>
	<li class="footnote" id="fn:fmvkggdgoxeqh"><p>If you&#8217;ve emailed me in the past ~3-4 months and have not gotten a reply, I apologize. I have been preoccupied with other things (moving, Tokyo, website) and my inbox has become a nightmare (I&#8217;m getting 10-20 additional emails <em>per day</em> with people writing in with their new projects, most of them written by AI (You posted X so I thought I&#8217;d send you Y. I&#8217;m proud of this project. Free, no signup, no tracking, no ads. Etc. Etc.) It&#8217;s like spam but sort of not?) I&#8217;ve been largely ignoring it and it&#8217;s time I get more of a handle on it. <a href="#fnref:fmvkggdgoxeqh" title="return to article">↩</a></li>
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        <![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>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[“an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049854-but-its-not-hithealth-poi" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49854</id>

    <published>2026-10-22T21:38:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-22T21:38:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p>&#8220;an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing &#8216;hp&#8217; in the context of &#8216;not being at full hp&#8217; &#8216;applying your full hp to a task&#8217; etc.&#8221; <a href="https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/830127683810836480">But it&#8217;s not hit/health points&#8230;</a>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Flipbook of the Rings]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/the-flipbook-of-the-rings" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49853</id>

    <published>2026-10-22T20:31:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-22T20:31:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p>For more than a year, marshalled by animator <a href="https://www.andymation.com">Andy Bailey</a>, more than 1000 artists collaborated to create a hand-drawn, shot-for-shot, animated, flipbook version of Peter Jackson&#8217;s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The entire three hours. 120,000 individually drawn pages. A couple of months ago, they released <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWtX7nVFrUw">the first 11 minutes</a>:</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lWtX7nVFrUw" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>It&#8217;s pretty amazing. It doesn&#8217;t include the audio or music from the movie, but I bet you could mute the sound on this and simultaneously play the actual movie for the sound. Here&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vCN8EXoCVk">an earlier sneak peek</a> at some of the scenes:</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4vCN8EXoCVk" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>This artist <a href="https://awonderfulsheep.com/2025/08/01/lotr-the-flipbook-of-the-rings">wrote about their participation in the project</a>; they contributed 108 drawings that amounted to roughly 10 seconds of animation (and took 30-40 hours to do):</p>
	<blockquote><p>The first clip I claimed was a pretty iconic scene from the beginning of the movie. I chose to render it in pencil as it’s night time and I felt black and white would be more dramatic. As I worked through the frames, I did worry that the subtle variances in shading would make the clip look disjointed, but I think it adds a cool movement to the scene. There is that rough, quirky imperfection to hand drawing. You can see the final result with comparison below (digitized and compiled by Andy).</p></blockquote>
	<p>Here&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R-vtxh5aVA">a clip of that scene</a>:</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_R-vtxh5aVA" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see the finished product — I hope they&#8217;re able to release it online.
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        <![CDATA[ <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/animation">animation</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/illustration">illustration</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/movies">movies</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/remix">remix</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings">The Lord of the Rings</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/video">video</a></p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049857-an-archive-of-omni-magazi" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49857</id>

    <published>2026-10-22T19:49:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-22T19:49:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/omni-archive">An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995)</a>, courtesy of the Internet Archive. &#8220;Omni was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science, parapsychology, and short works of science fiction and fantasy.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049835-railpass" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49835</id>

    <published>2026-10-22T18:44:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-22T18:44:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://train.samismith.com">Railpass</a> simulates a train ride in your browser window using real video footage. Choose from trains from around the world or add some weather to the mix. Sound on for the best ride.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison....]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049838-this-is-what-its-like-to-" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49838</id>

    <published>2026-10-22T17:49:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-22T17:49:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <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=chpgT_VTEjE">This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison</a>. &#8220;None of us want to be defined solely by the person we were in our youth, or by the worst thing we ever did. The men serving life without parole feel the same way.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Winners of the 2026 International Pano Awards]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/the-winners-of-the-2026-international-pano-awards" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49852</id>

    <published>2026-10-22T16:37:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-22T16:37:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630739-6060dc2b.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630739-6060dc2b.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630739-6060dc2b.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792630761-54efc34a.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630761-54efc34a.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630761-54efc34a.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792631523-bcc8e27d.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631523-bcc8e27d.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631523-bcc8e27d.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792631340-4d90a42e.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631340-4d90a42e.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631340-4d90a42e.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792631054-ade916dc.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631054-ade916dc.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631054-ade916dc.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
	<p><a href="https://thepanoawards.com/2026-winners-gallery">The winners of the 2026 Epson International Pano awards</a> were announced recently, featuring some of the best panoramic photography in the world. Alan Taylor at the Atlantic <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/2026/10/winners-2026-epson-international-pano-awards/689074?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ6WaEKPnt4eHEgYyRVz6VGM">shared some of his favorites</a> and I shared some of mine above. Starting at the top, photos by Xuecheng Liu, Shimon Perlstein, Tomás Sánchez Ruiz, Preeti &#038; Prashant Chacko, and Daniel Viñé Garcia.</p>
	<p>P.S. In case you were wondering about the aspect ratio of panoramic images: <a href="https://thepanoawards.com/preparing-your-images">according to the submission rules</a>, the image&#8217;s longest side needs to be at least twice the length as the shortest side.
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        <![CDATA[ <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/best%20of">best of</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/best%20of%202026">best of 2026</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/photography">photography</a></p>]]>
        
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[“Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049848-demonstrating-that-human-" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49848</id>

    <published>2026-10-22T15:40:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-22T15:40:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p>&#8220;Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the mind-bending goal of creating computers made of brains by <a href="https://www.404media.co/computers-made-of-human-brain-tissue-identify-braille-letters-in-breakthrough">demonstrating that human neural tissue can classify letters of the Braille alphabet</a>.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[The title of this video is The Fastest Downhill Run Ever....]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049825-the-fastest-downhill-run-" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49825</id>

    <published>2026-10-22T14:52:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-22T14:52:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p>The title of this video is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad2IzyWsNUY">The Fastest Downhill Run Ever</a>. I don&#8217;t know if that is true, but oh my god does it look dangerous to go this fast on a mountain bike through the streets of Genoa. (It looks slightly less nuts in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsHd06_IPLI">the non-POV</a>, but not by much.)
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<entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Meet Prometheus, a Gift Link Search Engine]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/meet-prometheus-a-gift-link-search-engine" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49843</id>

    <published>2026-10-22T00:49:03Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-22T00:49:03Z</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>Sometime in the past few years, media sites like Bloomberg, The Economist, The Atlantic, Defector, Talking Points Memo, and the NY Times started offering a way for subscribers to share paywalled articles with friends and followers. These are commonly referred to as gift links.</p>
	<p>Thousands of gift links are shared on websites and social media daily. Some helpful <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/davidsacerdote.bsky.social/feed/aaaixbb5liqbu">aggregated feeds</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/giftlink">hashtags</a> are available, but finding specific information can be difficult. Whenever possible here on KDO, I link to paywalled articles with gift links. To help in that endeavor, I&#8217;ve built a gift link discovery tool called <a href="https://kottke.org/prometheus">Prometheus</a>.</p>
	<blockquote><p>Prometheus collects gift links to paywalled news articles shared by subscribers — from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and more. Links are gathered from Bluesky, Mastodon, and the web throughout the day, and you can search by keyword &#038; URL and filter by publication.</p></blockquote>
	<p>Right now, Prometheus is only available to active <a href="https://kottke.org/members">kottke.org members</a> while I&#8217;m testing and refining it — it&#8217;s definitely a beta tool rn. If you&#8217;re a member, <a href="https://kottke.org/prometheus">check it out</a> and let me know if you&#8217;ve got any feedback or notice any rough edges.</p>
	<p>An informed public is the foundation of a healthy society — and while paywalls aren&#8217;t the only challenge here, they also <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/30/read-all-about-how-paywalls-are-bad-for-democracy-right-behind-this-paywall">aren&#8217;t helping</a>. Big thanks to everyone sharing their gift links online and to these media companies for enabling their subscribers to share their journalism with others.
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<entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[“A SpudCell can grow, copy its DNA, divide in two, and...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049851-but-this-cell-is-made-by-" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49851</id>

    <published>2026-10-21T21:57:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-21T21:57:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p>&#8220;A SpudCell can grow, copy its DNA, divide in two, and start its cell cycle all over again. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/science/spudcell-adamala-biotic.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVE.in7C.avsNc611Xlqh">But this cell is made by people, created from lifeless ingredients.</a>&#8221; Um, what?
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Bastardica is “a foundry for bastard web fonts. Mix,...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049802-bastardica" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49802</id>

    <published>2026-10-21T21:12:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-21T21:12:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://bastardica.mitpit.com">Bastardica</a> is &#8220;a foundry for bastard web fonts. Mix, stretch and/or squish them.&#8221; E.g. Nervous Sans: &#8220;Arial is stacked five times, pseudo-randomly twitching out of line.&#8221; I quite like Impacter.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[How did life on Earth arise? Three of the biggest...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049846-how-did-life-on-earth-ari" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49846</id>

    <published>2026-10-21T20:07:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-21T20:07:00Z</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/2026/10/19/science/evolution-life-earth.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVE.hmnh.mNZL7wVyDP-f">How did life on Earth arise?</a> Three of the biggest inflection points were ~4 billion years ago when life first emerged, ~2 billion years ago when eukaryotic cells appeared, and ~580 million years ago when life got big.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[NYC’s Fastest Bike Messenger (1985)]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/nycs-fastest-bike-messenger-1985" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49827</id>

    <published>2026-10-21T18:54:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-21T18:54:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p>For CBS News in 1985, Charles Kuralt <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMvJ83XpGoI">profiled</a> bike messenger David Leopold.</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xMvJ83XpGoI" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t go slow. I don&#8217;t stop for red lights. I go against traffic. I disobey every traffic law there is.</p></blockquote>
	<p>Great street footage of NYC from 40 years ago. You might think that Leopold ended up as a stain on the pavement. In 2010, CBS News did <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKyt2PWqup8">a follow-up</a> on him:</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QKyt2PWqup8" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>See also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2y4hNuqlTs">Leopold on David Letterman from 1985</a>.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Library Is Closed. Feel Free to Come In. “In...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049849-the-library-is-closed-fee" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49849</id>

    <published>2026-10-21T18:07:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-21T18:07:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://reasonstobecheerful.world/the-library-is-closed-feel-free-to-come-in">The Library Is Closed. Feel Free to Come In.</a> &#8220;In communities where workspaces are scarce, libraries are welcoming visitors outside of staffed hours. All they need is a library card.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Tiny People in a Big World is like a birdwatching guide,...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049845-tiny-people-in-a-big-worl" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49845</id>

    <published>2026-10-21T16:58:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-21T16:58:00Z</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.kickstarter.com/projects/sneakyartist/tiny-people-in-the-big-world">Tiny People in a Big World</a> is like a birdwatching guide, but for people-watching. &#8220;I made this campaign to produce a book that will help you notice and appreciate the tiny people who pass through your big world.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Link Loop is basically a 2D version of Portal. Looks fun!]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049833-link-loop" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49833</id>

    <published>2026-10-21T16:03:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-21T16:03:00Z</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><a href="https://www.playlinkloop.com">Link Loop</a> is basically a 2D version of Portal. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-8hU9XEep8">Looks fun!</a>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Ambient Earth]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/ambient-earth" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49844</id>

    <published>2026-10-21T14:49:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-21T14:49:00Z</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/alJMoaKpV_E" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJMoaKpV_E">Ambient Earth</a> is a 7.5-hour, real-time, 4K, remastered video of the orbital view from the International Space Station. Seán Doran took almost 49,000 images from 27 time-lapse sequences captured from the ISS by astronaut Butch Wilmore, repaired, remastered, and interpolated them into this incredible video.</p>
	<blockquote><p>Perspective is lost when the world speeds by. The scale and beauty of our home planet is truly appreciated when observed on an epic 7.5 hour journey from The International Space Station. This ambitious 4k compilation, crafted through months of meticulous restoration, invites you to slow down and experience Earth in real time just as astronauts do.</p></blockquote>
	<p>The video is accompanied by ambient audio recorded on the station by Chris Hadfield. This would be great for a screensaver, but after poking around for a bit, it doesn&#8217;t seem like there&#8217;s a good way to set a YT video as a screensaver on MacOS (without downloading it or having it be a livestream).
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        <![CDATA[ <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/Earth">Earth</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/iss">iss</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/Sean%20Doran">Sean Doran</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/space">space</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/video">video</a></p>]]>
        
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[“Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049847-retrieve-samples-for-retu" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49847</id>

    <published>2026-10-21T13:45:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-21T13:45:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p>&#8220;Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a five-year expedition to land on the largest moon of Mars and <a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/japan-launches-mission-to-bring-home-a-piece-of-the-martian-moon-phobos">retrieve samples for return to Earth</a>.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Find the Place You Love. Then Move There. “The reward...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049830-find-the-place-you-love-t" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49830</id>

    <published>2026-10-21T12:55:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-21T12:55:00Z</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.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/01/what-moving-house-can-do-your-happiness/617667?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ_WVacR_xvGiAsUFKmGKXA8">Find the Place You Love. Then Move There.</a> &#8220;The reward from moving just because you want to is hard to defend logically. Some people will think you are crazy&#8230;&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[I remember this 90s TV commercial for 93.7 The Edge, a...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049840-i-remember-this-90s-tv-co" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49840</id>

    <published>2026-10-20T21:36:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-20T21:36:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <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=X1ROtCS7jWA">I remember this 90s TV commercial for 93.7 The Edge</a>, a Minnesota alternative radio station, very well. It features very non-alternative old people reciting lyrics like &#8220;bow down before the one you serve&#8221; and &#8220;Winona&#8217;s got herself a big brown beaver&#8221;.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Why Do Some Places Just Feel Right?]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/why-do-some-places-just-feel-right" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49828</id>

    <published>2026-10-20T20:39:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-20T20:39:00Z</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>Gregory Wieber does <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@dreamwieber/videos">these engaging, info-rich videos on tech history</a> — <a href="https://kottke.org/26/03/hypercard-changed-everything">I posted his HyperCard Changed Everything video</a> back in the spring. For one of his latest videos, Wieber goes through a short history of Christopher Alexander&#8217;s landmark book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195019199/ref=nosim/0sil8">A Pattern Language</a> (<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780195019193">Bookshop</a>), which anyone interested in building anything should at least have paged through once in their life,<sup id="fnref:fmvezgc036y5v"><a href="#fn:fmvezgc036y5v" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> and how his work inspired not only object oriented programming and the invention of wikis, but also SimCity and The Sims.</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3A7OUxer4FI" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<ol>
<li class="footnote" id="fn:fmvezgc036y5v"><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195024028/ref=nosim/0sil8">The Timeless Way of Building</a> is shorter, less dense, and perhaps a better introduction to Alexander&#8217;s ideas about patterns. <a href="#fnref:fmvezgc036y5v" title="return to article">↩</a></p></li>
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        <![CDATA[ <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/Gregory%20Wieber">Gregory Wieber</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/simcity">simcity</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/The%20Sims">The Sims</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/video%20games">video games</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/Will%20Wright">Will Wright</a></p>]]>
        
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[New book from James Gleick about the history of the...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049841-new-book-from-james-gleic" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49841</id>

    <published>2026-10-20T19:52:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-20T19:52:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780374618940">New book from James Gleick about the history of the telephone</a>. &#8220;It gave us the party line, the busy signal, dial tones, wiretapping, the late-night DJ, and the booty call. It magnified the possibilities of government, of business, of friendship, of love.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[“Astronomers for the first time have identified a green...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049829-a-green-star" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49829</id>

    <published>2026-10-20T18:46:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-20T18:46:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p>&#8220;Astronomers for the first time have identified <a href="https://www.reuters.com/science/newly-identified-green-star-leaves-astronomers-amazed-2026-10-16">a green star</a>, documenting a dense stellar remnant called a white dwarf that became a ghostly shade of chartreuse after ingesting rocky ​debris from planets that once had orbited it.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300 Million Games]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/the-best-monopoly-strategy-tested-on-300-million-games" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49823</id>

    <published>2026-10-20T17:47:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-20T17:47:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S_2eVAaw1UM" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>Perfect Play <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2eVAaw1UM">ran over 300 million games of Monopoly</a> to determine the best strategy and the most common mistakes players make.</p>
	<blockquote><p>I turned eight classic Monopoly strategies into computer players and made them play 312,898,560 games against each other. At a table of four, the best one won 43% of its games. The worst one won 3%.</p><p>The gap doesn&#8217;t come from one clever trick. It comes from four common mistakes: being picky about what you buy, saving your cash, stopping at three houses, and refusing to trade. Then I let the computer tune every habit at once, to see how far a carefully tuned player can go and which color set is really worth fighting for.</p></blockquote>
	<p>P.S. I don&#8217;t actually play Monopoly anymore — it is the world&#8217;s most maddening game (along with Sorry) and I childishly refer to it as &#8220;Monotony&#8221; — and an aside about 3 minutes into the video is why: &#8220;roughly one game in six never ends&#8221;. Exactly! And you want me to haggle? For fun? No thank you. I imagine there are folks whose idea of a good time is visiting used car dealerships for funsies when they don&#8217;t need a car, but I am not one of them.</p>
	<p>See also <a href="https://kottke.org/16/02/how-to-win-at-monopoly-and-piss-off-your-friends">How to Win at Monopoly and Piss Off Your Friends</a>.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049837-protestors-criticized-for" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49837</id>

    <published>2026-10-20T16:41:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-20T16:41:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351">Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First</a>. &#8220;It’s disgusting to put workers at risk by looting. You do it by chipping away at their health benefits and eventually laying them off.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049836-a-very-amateur-astronomer" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49836</id>

    <published>2026-10-20T15:35:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-20T15:35:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p>Using an LLM&#8217;s &#8220;superhuman ability to parse through galactic quantities of data&#8221;, <a href="https://gizmodo.com/did-claude-help-an-amateur-astronomer-discover-a-new-planet-2000824393">a very amateur astronomer has found a possible exoplanet candidate</a>. MIT is going to point <a href="https://tess.mit.edu">their satellite</a> at the candidate planet to collect more data soon.
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<entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/how-japanese-dried-bonito-is-made" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49822</id>

    <published>2026-10-20T14:09:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-20T14:09:00Z</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/HsMbNVEJp9g" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>This workshop founded in 1882 still makes dried bonito <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsMbNVEJp9g">like they did back in the Edo period</a>.</p>
	<blockquote><p>How katsuobushi — Japanese dried bonito, said to be the world&#8217;s hardest food — is made in Nishi-Izu, Japan. Inside Kanesa Katsuobushi Shoten, a workshop founded in 1882, 5th-generation craftsman Yasuhisa Serizawa still uses the 200-year-old &#8220;tebiyama&#8221; hand-fired smoke-drying method that only a few workshops in Japan preserve. Watch fresh bonito being filleted and boiled for 90 minutes, smoke-dried more than 10 times over a hand-tended wood fire, repaired with bonito paste, fermented with koji mold and sun-dried for months — over half a year until the fish becomes as hard as wood and shines like a jewel. From fresh catch to katsuobushi.</p></blockquote>
	<p>Check out <a href="https://www.canesa.net">Kanesa Katsuobushi Shoten&#8217;s website</a> for more info; here&#8217;s what they say about the tebiyama drying/smoking method (Google translation):</p>
	<blockquote><p>This method of making dried bonito flakes has been used in the Tago district of West Izu for a long time, and its history is said to date back about 300 years (to the Edo period). It involves digging a vertical hole about 2 meters deep, burning firewood (raw wood from Izu: oak, sawtooth oak, cherry, etc.) from the bottom of the hole, and smoking and drying the dried bonito flakes with the high temperature of an open flame. This method is called the Tebiyama-shiki smoking method. It is the oldest existing smoking method, and only a few bonito flake manufacturers in the country continue to use this method to make dried bonito flakes, so it is said to be a legendary method. The Tebiyama-shiki smoking method is said to produce dried bonito flakes with a rich flavor because the surface of the bonito is smoked all at once with the high temperature of an open flame, locking in the umami.</p></blockquote>
	<p>(thx, caroline)
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the...]]></title>
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    <published>2026-10-20T12:39:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-20T12:39:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/blocking-internet-archive-will-not-stop-ai/689065?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ1AS4fIdqjHOc9xe3O3gHT8">Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the Internet Archive from archiving their sites</a>. &#8220;Impeding the Wayback Machine’s preservation work will not prevent powerful AI companies from gathering training data.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049820-nprs-planet-money-recentl" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49820</id>

    <published>2026-10-19T21:18:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-19T21:18:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5996901">NPR&#8217;s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds</a> and interviewed <a href="https://www.panic.com">Panic&#8217;s</a> <a href="https://cabel.com">Cabel Sasser</a> about how they decided to refund their <a href="https://play.date">Playdate</a>-buying customers for the tariffs surcharge they paid.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Do you believe in life after death? This is a great...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049832-do-you-believe-in-life-af" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49832</id>

    <published>2026-10-19T20:28:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-19T20:28:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://pudding.cool/2026/10/lifeafter">Do you believe in life after death?</a> This is a great interactive piece by <a href="https://alvinschang.com">Alvin Chang</a> about people&#8217;s beliefs about the existence of an afterlife and how those beliefs change over the course of our lifetimes.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[A Tiny 24 FPS E-Ink Game Boy Emulator]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/a-tiny-24-fps-e-ink-game-boy-emulator" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49821</id>

    <published>2026-10-19T19:33:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-19T19:33:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XiZmM6hwwAU" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>This is really impressive: a software engineer got a Game Boy emulator running at 30 fps on a tiny e-ink screen.</p>
	<p>If you&#8217;re familiar with e-paper, you know that they normally refresh much slower (2-3 times a second), not nearly quick enough to play even a simple video game. This guy wrote his own display driver that got the refresh rate up to 30 times per second. From the transcript of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiZmM6hwwAU">the video</a> explaining how e-paper works and how he hacked the display to make it play games:</p>
	<blockquote><p>Unlike conventional displays like LCD or OLED, ePaper stores its image physically using charged black and white pigment particles. By changing the electric field, the display moves the pigments towards or away from the surface, which in the end gives us black- or white-looking pixel. And usually a sequence of several electrical pulses called a waveform is needed to move the pigment back and forth, before finally driving it towards the new image. This helps produce a clean result without leaving too much of the previous image behind. But this takes a lot of time.</p></blockquote>
	<p>The project is open source — <a href="https://github.com/kuslota/InkBoy">you can get the plans and code on GitHub</a>. This engineer was inspired by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPbOK90aJEo">Wenting Zhang&#8217;s e-paper Game Boy emulator</a>:</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oPbOK90aJEo" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>Zhang has also made <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbA2-_qzH4">a color e-ink display that runs at 60 fps</a>. Very cool. (via <a href="https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/10/15/this-tiny-e-paper-game-boy-lets-you-play-super-mario-land-at-30-fps-on-a-reading-screen">yanko design</a>)
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        <![CDATA[ <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/Game%20Boy">Game Boy</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/video">video</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/video%20games">video games</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/Wenting%20Zhang">Wenting Zhang</a></p>]]>
        
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049824-a-24-minute-video-tour" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49824</id>

    <published>2026-10-19T18:41:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-19T18:41:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <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=xtCdl-4HDdk">A 24-minute video tour</a> of the <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/krasner-and-pollock-past-continuous">Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous exhibition</a> at the Met. I hope I make it to NYC to see this before it closes in January.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049834-towers-of-babble" />
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    <published>2026-10-19T17:41:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-19T17:41:00Z</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://franklantz.substack.com/p/towers-of-babble">Towers of Babble</a> is a game that mashes up word games and tower defense games. &#8220;Nouns make buildings and other parts of speech make modifiers that you can add to a building to improve its stats.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Hyperland, a Prescient 1990 TV Show by Douglas Adams]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/hyperland-a-prescient-1990-tv-show-by-douglas-adams" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49819</id>

    <published>2026-10-19T16:31:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-19T16:31:00Z</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/5nOXGYxHVFI" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>I&#8217;d never heard of this before: in 1990, the BBC aired a program created by and starring Douglas Adams called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nOXGYxHVFI">Hyperland</a>. It begins with a frustrated Adams throwing his TV out (too linear, too non-interactive) and Tom Baker (from Doctor Who) popping up as an intelligent interactive agent that promises to &#8220;do your every slightest bidding, to fetch and carry for you, to work tirelessly and selflessly on your behalf, always ready, always willing, no job too small or too menial&#8221;.</p>
	<blockquote><p>Circumventing the limitations of &#8216;linear&#8217; broadcast TV, the 50-minute programme imagines a new world in which an AI software &#8216;agent&#8217; - brought to life here by Doctor Who favourite Tom Baker - helps the user (played by Adams) to find and access material of interest in a global world of hyperlinked information - text, images, audio and video. </p><p>Pop-up &#8216;micons&#8217; (moving icons) conveniently link to interviews with leading technologists of the era (among them Ted Nelson, Robert Winter, Robert Abel, Kristina Hooper, Fabrice Forin and Steve Gano).</p><p>Some of this stuff has dated badly - few visions of the future get everything right! - but the programme is nevertheless of considerable historical importance.</p><p>Incredibly, at about the time Hyperland was being broadcast, a young CERN computer scientist by the name of Tim Berners-Lee was beavering away on URLs and HTTP, the foundations of what would become the World Wide Web.</p><p>Even Adams, who foresaw so much, didn&#8217;t anticipate the impact the Web - and the Internet that conveys its data globally - would have on civilisation. Needless to say, the enticing infoworld envisaged in Hyperland was a public-service one of education, art, literature (including nods to Adams&#8217; own works!) and entertainment. There&#8217;s no advertising, hacking, cybercrime, information theft, social-media addicts, unaccountable corporate domination or drug-like dependence on the smartphones that Adams himself predicted. </p><p>And Tom Baker&#8217;s enthusiastic agent isn&#8217;t forever popping up to try and sell you something&#8230;</p></blockquote>
	<p>The YouTube version above is missing a segment, but <a href="https://archive.org/details/Hyperland1990">you can watch (and download) the whole program on the Internet Archive</a>, a project that fits the vision of the future imagined by techno-utopians like Adams.</p>
	<p>I&#8217;m imagining what 16-year-old Jason would have made of this (or HyperCard or hypertext had he had any clue that they existed until 4-5 years later) — his brain probably would have exploded.
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        <![CDATA[ <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/artificial%20intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/Douglas%20Adams">Douglas Adams</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/Tom%20Baker">Tom Baker</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/TV">TV</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/video">video</a></p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours,...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049831-lane-8-has-released-his-f" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49831</id>

    <published>2026-10-19T15:41:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-19T15:41:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <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=412AHrISlqg">Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape</a>, 4 hours, recorded live at SF&#8217;s Castro Theatre. This one&#8217;s going straight into the earholes. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/thisneverhappenedlabel/fall2026">Soundcloud</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=412AHrISlqg">YouTube</a>, and <a href="https://tnh.ffm.to/fall26">elsewhere</a>.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049818-wont-someone-please-stop-" />
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    <published>2026-10-19T14:53:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-19T14:53:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wont-someone-please-stop-me-dr-frankenstein-from-building-the-creature">Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from Building the Creature?</a> &#8220;These are serious concerns. And I think we should all stop. Me, especially. Can anyone make me stop doing the thing I want to do? Apparently not.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Consequence of Donald Trump]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/ta-nehisi-coates-on-the-consequence-of-donald-trump" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49826</id>

    <published>2026-10-19T13:53:26Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-19T13:53:26Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/story/donald-the-great">Writing for Vanity Fair</a> (<a href="https://archive.li/Bzimr">archive link</a>), Ta-Nehisi Coates says that Donald Trump is the most visionary politician of his era.</p>
	<blockquote><p>Through a mix of moxie, cynicism, and misanthropy, Trump has made himself into the dominant American of our age. Sometimes a man meets his moment, and Trump met his in the wake of a black presidency and a conservative movement doggedly and patiently pursuing a decades-long counterrevolution. The marriage of Trump’s charisma to a fundamentalist right wing has been bountiful: three Supreme Court justices in four years, the subsequent destruction of national abortion rights, the banishment of affirmative action, the hollowing of the Voting Rights Act.</p></blockquote>
	<p>And the genie may not go back in the bottle:</p>
	<blockquote><p>But some things can’t be unseen. The example that Trump has set, the scope of what is possible should one embrace the dark powers of the White House, will not dissipate. It turns out that you can deploy secret police onto American streets. You can deport immigrants in defiance of the courts. You can have the Justice Department badger your enemies. And you can become very rich while doing it. And some of the most powerful sectors in America, those who most loudly extol their own love of country, will stand around and watch you do it. Asked why he was making deals during his second term, Trump gave a succinct and chillingly accurate summation: “I found out that nobody cared.” And to the extent that there is a genius to Trump, it is in his apprehension of this reality—so very few people who matter care. When you’re president, they let you do it.</p></blockquote>
	<p>Coates recently discussed this piece <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lIIVjF3SVQ">on Vanity Fair&#8217;s podcast</a>.</p>
	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_lIIVjF3SVQ" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049816-charles-harley-on-subway-" />
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    <published>2026-10-16T22:01:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-16T22:01:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H0KGWo3SoXg">Charles Harley on Subway Takes</a>: &#8220;I don&#8217;t think Black people should have to pay for ancestry.com. Why do I have to pay you to figure out where you stole me from?&#8221;
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<entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out....]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049815-illustrator-and-writer-lu" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49815</id>

    <published>2026-10-16T21:18:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-16T21:18:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://www.mundomendo.com/books">Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo&#8217;s second book is out</a>. &#8220;The only website that once a year becomes a book.&#8221; I have Book One and it&#8217;s lovely&#8230;
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<entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Chromatic Inkscapes]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/chromatic-inkscapes" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49814</id>

    <published>2026-10-16T20:09:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-16T20:09:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><img src="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118593-80c5302e.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118593-80c5302e.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118593-80c5302e.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792118750-5a593d26.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118750-5a593d26.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118750-5a593d26.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792118611-f37c59fe.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118611-f37c59fe.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118611-f37c59fe.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792118774-1e113b96.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118774-1e113b96.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118774-1e113b96.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792118722-33ed4542.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118722-33ed4542.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118722-33ed4542.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792119021-d7b44d76.jpg" srcset="/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792119021-d7b44d76.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792119021-d7b44d76.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px" loading="lazy" /></p>
	<p>I love <a href="https://adamfuhrer.com">these digital illustrations by Adam Fuhrer</a>; he calls them <a href="https://adamfuhrer.com#t=chromatic%20aberration">chromatic aberrations</a>. It was difficult to narrow them down to the few favorites above. I posted about Fuhrer&#8217;s pen plotted art <a href="https://kottke.org/24/03/warped-bendy-pen-plots">a couple of years ago</a>&#8230;I like the direction he&#8217;s taking this.
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        <![CDATA[ <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/Adam%20Fuhrer">Adam Fuhrer</a> · <a href="https://kottke.org/tag/art">art</a></p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s...]]></title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://kottke.org/26/10/0049810-go-ahead-and-ban-my-book" />
    <id>tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49810</id>

    <published>2026-10-16T19:13:00Z</published>
    <updated>2026-10-16T19:13:00Z</updated>

    <author>
        <name>Jason Kottke</name>
        <uri>http://www.kottke.org</uri>    </author>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p>Margaret Atwood in 2023: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-virginia-book-ban-library-removal/673013?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ3-c2_UN_Zj6nztvCkh8h-0">Go Ahead and Ban My Book</a>. &#8220;It’s very hard to control what young people get their hands on, especially if they’re told something is too old for them, or too evil, or too immoral.&#8221;
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Roooobot. Huuuuuman.]]></title>
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    <published>2026-10-16T18:10:00Z</published>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EcDJJSKs2o8" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcDJJSKs2o8">This woman</a> does some amazing things with a series of white rings — lots of precision optical illusions.</p>
	<p>It&#8217;s mesmerizing watching people moving like machines — an interesting psychological thing. Like <a href="https://akanekikaku.com/avantgardey">Avantgardey</a>, which if you haven&#8217;t heard of them (just because they show up all the time on my Instagram doesn&#8217;t mean that happens for everyone), you should <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@avantgardey">check them out</a>:</p>
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	<p> (via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@sevlu/117433627240341636">@sevlu</a>)
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[The trailer for Blade Runner 2099, a new limited series...]]></title>
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    <published>2026-10-16T17:00:00Z</published>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwK5KxoJsvk">The trailer for Blade Runner 2099</a>, a new limited series premiering in late November and starring Michelle Yeoh &#038; Hunter Schafer.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[Going 94 MPH on a Skateboard (New World Record)]]></title>
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    <published>2026-10-16T15:32:00Z</published>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u3ydV2RVJvc" title="YouTube video" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
	<p>Diego Poncelet recently set a new world record for the fastest speed on a skateboard. The old record was 146.7 km/h (91.2 mph) and he hit 151.8 km/h (94.3 mph). There are a couple of parts you can skip, but watching most of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ydV2RVJvc">the video</a> is worth it because you see the process and can compare how truly insanely fast he is moving during the final run — I found myself holding my breath for the last minute or so.</p>
	<p>Also, I cannot believe how closely the camera car is following him — looks like only a few feet away. Bonkers.</p>
	<p>I just found the first time I posted about speed skateboarding on KDO: <a href="https://kottke.org/08/09/speed-skateboarding">this post from 2008</a>. Less aerodynamic, more gonzo, and the cameraman is also on a skateboard going equally fast.
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    <title type="html"><![CDATA[I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care...]]></title>
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    <published>2026-10-16T14:15:00Z</published>
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        <![CDATA[ 	<p>I played <a href="https://notsolitaire.com">(not) solitaire</a> for more hands than I would care to admit. &#8220;A multiplayer game where the multiplayer was about companionship, empathy, and comfort, instead of competition or even interaction.&#8221;
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      "content": "<p>From Charles Mann, <a href=\"https://worksinprogress.co/issue/everything-rhymes-with-porcelain\">a quick history of porcelain</a>, which is basically what his pricey induction stovetop is made from. (Fun fact: I went to grad school for ceramic engineering before dropping out after a semester to teach myself web design.)\n</p>",
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      "content": "<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919867-486981ee.png\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919867-486981ee.png 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919867-486981ee.png 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//images/posts/01/editor-1792920730-28e1de76.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792920730-28e1de76.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792920730-28e1de76.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792919892-44e93635.png\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919892-44e93635.png 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792919892-44e93635.png 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//images/posts/01/editor-1792920742-86debaca.png\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792920742-86debaca.png 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792920742-86debaca.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<p>Princeton houses <a href=\"https://digital-collections.princeton.edu/collections/soviet_posters\">a large digital collection of posters from Russia and Eastern Europe</a>, almost 5000 total item spanning 101 years (1904-2004). <a href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/bpx/albums/72057594117941491\">This album on Flickr</a> contains nearly 1500 Russian & Soviet posters from 1917-1991 — not sure how much overlap there is between the two.\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/design\">design</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/propaganda\">propaganda</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Russia\">Russia</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Soviet%20Union\">Soviet Union</a></p>",
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      "title": "NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven",
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      "title": "Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026",
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      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/winners-of-the-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2026",
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      "updated": "2026-10-26T14:29:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917530-d0977975.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917530-d0977975.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917530-d0977975.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792917606-73045d77.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917606-73045d77.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917606-73045d77.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792917806-ccf51c58.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917806-ccf51c58.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917806-ccf51c58.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792917748-172f9206.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917748-172f9206.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792917748-172f9206.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792918117-a29307f0.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792918117-a29307f0.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792918117-a29307f0.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<p>London’s Natural History Museum has announced the winners of the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, a competition that has been going since 1965. You can see a gallery of all the winners <a href=\"https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery?tags=award.ctgrywnnr,award.impactaward,award.wldlfphtgrphrfthyr,award.yngwldlfphtgrphrfthyr&tags=ed.current\">on the competition website</a> (and also places like <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2026/oct/14/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2026-winners-in-pictures\">The Guardian</a> and <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/2026/10/winners-wildlife-photographer-year-2026/689005?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ_IDWljBk4RsBy6qXZusibY\">The Atlantic</a>.)</p>\n\t<p>Photos above by Kutub Uddin, Amelie Davis, Michał Michalski, James Lewin, and Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas.\n</p>\n \n\n        \n         <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/best%20of\">best of</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/best%20of%202026\">best of 2026</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/photography\">photography</a></p>",
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      "title": "How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64. “Oh, don’t...",
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      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049862-how-to-install-an-app-on-",
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      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/08/install-an-app-commodore-64\">How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64</a>. “Oh, don’t worry, you’ll just need to type in the code for that program. There’s an article explaining what MLX is, which you can read really quickly on page 93, and then you’ll find the code for it on page 94.”\n</p>",
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-25:49869",
      "title": "The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049869-the-tiny-computers-app-le",
      "published": "2026-10-25T14:11:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-25T14:11:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jt_2bIaoxo\">The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers on the iPhone Duo</a>. Ten machines included: “Macintosh, Commodore 64, IBM PC, Amiga 500, Windows 95, ThinkPad, iMac G3, iBook G3, PowerBook G4 and Windows XP.” XP even crashes sometimes. Love this.\n</p>",
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          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-23:49855",
      "title": "The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049855-the-one-question-i-cant-s",
      "published": "2026-10-23T17:44:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-23T17:44:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/10/restaurant-phone-number-question/688926?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ0tFeAhe7IhdA8vfU9uxDyc\">The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants</a>. “The idea of a restaurant I’d never been to using a dossier on me to decide, say, where I should sit, what I was likely to order, even whether I should be given a reservation at all, gave me chills.”\n</p>",
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      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-23:49850",
      "title": "“US households are paying 62% more for drinking water...",
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      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049850-us-households-are-paying-",
      "published": "2026-10-23T16:30:00.000Z",
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      "content": "<p>“<a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/06/households-drinking-water-cost-study\">US households are paying 62% more for drinking water than they did a decade ago</a> — outpacing inflation, grocery prices and household incomes.”\n</p>",
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      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-23:49858",
      "title": "Open Thread #Potato",
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      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/open-thread-potato",
      "published": "2026-10-23T11:00:00.000Z",
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      "content": "<p>Seems like it’s a good time for an open thread. I cannot remember what number we’re up to, so it’s “Potato”. I just had french fries for lunch and ate the longest french fry I have ever seen.<sup id=\"fnref:fmvkh037xik8n\"><a href=\"#fn:fmvkh037xik8n\" rel=\"footnote\">1</a></sup> I should have taken a photo, but I was in consumption mode and not attention mode. My apologies for the oversight.</p>\n\t<p>Anyhoo, I’ve been working on the site a lot this week (did you see <a href=\"https://kottke.org/26/10/meet-prometheus-a-gift-link-search-engine\">Prometheus</a>?)<sup id=\"fnref:fmvkhmyzy6qe2\"><a href=\"#fn:fmvkhmyzy6qe2\" rel=\"footnote\">2</a></sup> and have some cool stuff coming up. But I need to take a tiny step back to do some life admin and email<sup id=\"fnref:fmvkggdgoxeqh\"><a href=\"#fn:fmvkggdgoxeqh\" rel=\"footnote\">3</a></sup> today, so the site will be a little slower than usual. A fall summer Friday, if you will.</p>\n\t<p>What’s going on in your world? I know the onset of dark & cold in the northern hemisphere makes life challenging for some of you this time of year; I hope you’re hanging in there. I’ve been thinking about <a href=\"https://kottke.org/23/12/where-do-you-call-home\">what home means</a>, taking long baths, walking a lot, and <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780593717202\">reading</a> <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780199536061\">three</a> <a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9781419777172\">books</a>, listening to <a href=\"https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=25361&awinaffid=1677195&ued=https%3A%2F%2Flibro.fm%2Faudiobooks%2F9781501965630\">one book</a>, and watching two <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0H4LD7LYS/ref=nosim/0sil8\">TV</a> <a href=\"https://www.netflix.com/tudum/the-diplomat\">shows</a>, trying to keep everything straight.</p>\n\t<p>And here’s a couple of photos I took of some really cool engravings on a sword at the Tokyo National Museum.</p>\n\t<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792739809-7d902855.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792739809-7d902855.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792739809-7d902855.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<ol>\n<li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:fmvkh037xik8n\"><p>How many individual french fries do you think you’ve seen/eaten in your life? 10,000? 100,000? 1M? (This is a good <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem\">Fermi problem</a>.) <a href=\"#fnref:fmvkh037xik8n\" title=\"return to article\">↩</a></p></li>\n\t<li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:fmvkhmyzy6qe2\"><p>Oh, and have you noticed that typos have been much better recently? I built a spellchecker for my post editor, so I’ve been able to more easily spot them. (Cue incident of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law\">Muphry’s Law</a> in this post…) <a href=\"#fnref:fmvkhmyzy6qe2\" title=\"return to article\">↩</a></li>\n\t<li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:fmvkggdgoxeqh\"><p>If you’ve emailed me in the past ~3-4 months and have not gotten a reply, I apologize. I have been preoccupied with other things (moving, Tokyo, website) and my inbox has become a nightmare (I’m getting 10-20 additional emails <em>per day</em> with people writing in with their new projects, most of them written by AI (You posted X so I thought I’d send you Y. I’m proud of this project. Free, no signup, no tracking, no ads. Etc. Etc.) It’s like spam but sort of not?) I’ve been largely ignoring it and it’s time I get more of a handle on it. <a href=\"#fnref:fmvkggdgoxeqh\" title=\"return to article\">↩</a></li>\n</ol>\n \n\n        \n         <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>",
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      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49854",
      "title": "“an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049854-but-its-not-hithealth-poi",
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      "updated": "2026-10-22T21:38:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p>“an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing ‘hp’ in the context of ‘not being at full hp’ ‘applying your full hp to a task’ etc.” <a href=\"https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/830127683810836480\">But it’s not hit/health points…</a>\n</p>",
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          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49853",
      "title": "The Flipbook of the Rings",
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      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/the-flipbook-of-the-rings",
      "published": "2026-10-22T20:31:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-22T20:31:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p>For more than a year, marshalled by animator <a href=\"https://www.andymation.com\">Andy Bailey</a>, more than 1000 artists collaborated to create a hand-drawn, shot-for-shot, animated, flipbook version of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The entire three hours. 120,000 individually drawn pages. A couple of months ago, they released <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWtX7nVFrUw\">the first 11 minutes</a>:</p>\n\t<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/lWtX7nVFrUw\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p>It’s pretty amazing. It doesn’t include the audio or music from the movie, but I bet you could mute the sound on this and simultaneously play the actual movie for the sound. Here’s <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vCN8EXoCVk\">an earlier sneak peek</a> at some of the scenes:</p>\n\t<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/4vCN8EXoCVk\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p>This artist <a href=\"https://awonderfulsheep.com/2025/08/01/lotr-the-flipbook-of-the-rings\">wrote about their participation in the project</a>; they contributed 108 drawings that amounted to roughly 10 seconds of animation (and took 30-40 hours to do):</p>\n\t<blockquote><p>The first clip I claimed was a pretty iconic scene from the beginning of the movie. I chose to render it in pencil as it’s night time and I felt black and white would be more dramatic. As I worked through the frames, I did worry that the subtle variances in shading would make the clip look disjointed, but I think it adds a cool movement to the scene. There is that rough, quirky imperfection to hand drawing. You can see the final result with comparison below (digitized and compiled by Andy).</p></blockquote>\n\t<p>Here’s <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R-vtxh5aVA\">a clip of that scene</a>:</p>\n\t<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/_R-vtxh5aVA\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p>I can’t wait to see the finished product — I hope they’re able to release it online.\n</p>\n \n\n        \n         <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/animation\">animation</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/illustration\">illustration</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/movies\">movies</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/remix\">remix</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings\">The Lord of the Rings</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/video\">video</a></p>",
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      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49857",
      "title": "An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049857-an-archive-of-omni-magazi",
      "published": "2026-10-22T19:49:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-22T19:49:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://archive.org/details/omni-archive\">An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995)</a>, courtesy of the Internet Archive. “Omni was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science, parapsychology, and short works of science fiction and fantasy.”\n</p>",
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          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49835",
      "title": "Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049835-railpass",
      "published": "2026-10-22T18:44:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-22T18:44:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://train.samismith.com\">Railpass</a> simulates a train ride in your browser window using real video footage. Choose from trains from around the world or add some weather to the mix. Sound on for the best ride.\n</p>",
      "image": null,
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      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      ],
      "categories": []
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49838",
      "title": "This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison....",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049838-this-is-what-its-like-to-",
      "published": "2026-10-22T17:49:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-22T17:49:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chpgT_VTEjE\">This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison</a>. “None of us want to be defined solely by the person we were in our youth, or by the worst thing we ever did. The men serving life without parole feel the same way.”\n</p>",
      "image": null,
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      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49852",
      "title": "The Winners of the 2026 International Pano Awards",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/the-winners-of-the-2026-international-pano-awards",
      "published": "2026-10-22T16:37:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-22T16:37:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630739-6060dc2b.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630739-6060dc2b.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630739-6060dc2b.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792630761-54efc34a.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630761-54efc34a.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792630761-54efc34a.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792631523-bcc8e27d.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631523-bcc8e27d.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631523-bcc8e27d.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792631340-4d90a42e.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631340-4d90a42e.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631340-4d90a42e.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792631054-ade916dc.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631054-ade916dc.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792631054-ade916dc.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://thepanoawards.com/2026-winners-gallery\">The winners of the 2026 Epson International Pano awards</a> were announced recently, featuring some of the best panoramic photography in the world. Alan Taylor at the Atlantic <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/2026/10/winners-2026-epson-international-pano-awards/689074?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ6WaEKPnt4eHEgYyRVz6VGM\">shared some of his favorites</a> and I shared some of mine above. Starting at the top, photos by Xuecheng Liu, Shimon Perlstein, Tomás Sánchez Ruiz, Preeti & Prashant Chacko, and Daniel Viñé Garcia.</p>\n\t<p>P.S. In case you were wondering about the aspect ratio of panoramic images: <a href=\"https://thepanoawards.com/preparing-your-images\">according to the submission rules</a>, the image’s longest side needs to be at least twice the length as the shortest side.\n</p>\n \n\n        \n         <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/best%20of\">best of</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/best%20of%202026\">best of 2026</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/photography\">photography</a></p>",
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          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49848",
      "title": "“Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049848-demonstrating-that-human-",
      "published": "2026-10-22T15:40:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-22T15:40:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p>“Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the mind-bending goal of creating computers made of brains by <a href=\"https://www.404media.co/computers-made-of-human-brain-tissue-identify-braille-letters-in-breakthrough\">demonstrating that human neural tissue can classify letters of the Braille alphabet</a>.”\n</p>",
      "image": null,
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      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Kottke",
          "email": null,
          "url": "http://www.kottke.org/"
        }
      ],
      "categories": []
    },
    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-22:49825",
      "title": "The title of this video is The Fastest Downhill Run Ever....",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049825-the-fastest-downhill-run-",
      "published": "2026-10-22T14:52:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-22T14:52:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p>The title of this video is <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad2IzyWsNUY\">The Fastest Downhill Run Ever</a>. I don’t know if that is true, but oh my god does it look dangerous to go this fast on a mountain bike through the streets of Genoa. (It looks slightly less nuts in <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsHd06_IPLI\">the non-POV</a>, but not by much.)\n</p>",
      "image": null,
      "media": [],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Kottke",
          "email": null,
          "url": "http://www.kottke.org/"
        }
      ],
      "categories": []
    },
    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49843",
      "title": "Meet Prometheus, a Gift Link Search Engine",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/meet-prometheus-a-gift-link-search-engine",
      "published": "2026-10-22T00:49:03.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-22T00:49:03.000Z",
      "content": "<p>Sometime in the past few years, media sites like Bloomberg, The Economist, The Atlantic, Defector, Talking Points Memo, and the NY Times started offering a way for subscribers to share paywalled articles with friends and followers. These are commonly referred to as gift links.</p>\n\t<p>Thousands of gift links are shared on websites and social media daily. Some helpful <a href=\"https://bsky.app/profile/davidsacerdote.bsky.social/feed/aaaixbb5liqbu\">aggregated feeds</a> and <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/giftlink\">hashtags</a> are available, but finding specific information can be difficult. Whenever possible here on KDO, I link to paywalled articles with gift links. To help in that endeavor, I’ve built a gift link discovery tool called <a href=\"https://kottke.org/prometheus\">Prometheus</a>.</p>\n\t<blockquote><p>Prometheus collects gift links to paywalled news articles shared by subscribers — from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and more. Links are gathered from Bluesky, Mastodon, and the web throughout the day, and you can search by keyword & URL and filter by publication.</p></blockquote>\n\t<p>Right now, Prometheus is only available to active <a href=\"https://kottke.org/members\">kottke.org members</a> while I’m testing and refining it — it’s definitely a beta tool rn. If you’re a member, <a href=\"https://kottke.org/prometheus\">check it out</a> and let me know if you’ve got any feedback or notice any rough edges.</p>\n\t<p>An informed public is the foundation of a healthy society — and while paywalls aren’t the only challenge here, they also <a href=\"https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/30/read-all-about-how-paywalls-are-bad-for-democracy-right-behind-this-paywall\">aren’t helping</a>. Big thanks to everyone sharing their gift links online and to these media companies for enabling their subscribers to share their journalism with others.\n</p>\n \n\n        \n         <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/journalism\">journalism</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/kottke.org\">kottke.org</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Prometheus%20%28search%29\">Prometheus (search)</a></p>",
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          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49851",
      "title": "“A SpudCell can grow, copy its DNA, divide in two, and...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049851-but-this-cell-is-made-by-",
      "published": "2026-10-21T21:57:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-21T21:57:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p>“A SpudCell can grow, copy its DNA, divide in two, and start its cell cycle all over again. <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/science/spudcell-adamala-biotic.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVE.in7C.avsNc611Xlqh\">But this cell is made by people, created from lifeless ingredients.</a>” Um, what?\n</p>",
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      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      ],
      "categories": []
    },
    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49802",
      "title": "Bastardica is “a foundry for bastard web fonts. Mix,...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049802-bastardica",
      "published": "2026-10-21T21:12:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-21T21:12:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://bastardica.mitpit.com\">Bastardica</a> is “a foundry for bastard web fonts. Mix, stretch and/or squish them.” E.g. Nervous Sans: “Arial is stacked five times, pseudo-randomly twitching out of line.” I quite like Impacter.\n</p>",
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      "media": [],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      ],
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49846",
      "title": "How did life on Earth arise? Three of the biggest...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049846-how-did-life-on-earth-ari",
      "published": "2026-10-21T20:07:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-21T20:07:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/science/evolution-life-earth.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVE.hmnh.mNZL7wVyDP-f\">How did life on Earth arise?</a> Three of the biggest inflection points were ~4 billion years ago when life first emerged, ~2 billion years ago when eukaryotic cells appeared, and ~580 million years ago when life got big.\n</p>",
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      "media": [],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49827",
      "title": "NYC’s Fastest Bike Messenger (1985)",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/nycs-fastest-bike-messenger-1985",
      "published": "2026-10-21T18:54:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-21T18:54:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p>For CBS News in 1985, Charles Kuralt <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMvJ83XpGoI\">profiled</a> bike messenger David Leopold.</p>\n\t<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/xMvJ83XpGoI\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<blockquote><p>I don’t go slow. I don’t stop for red lights. I go against traffic. I disobey every traffic law there is.</p></blockquote>\n\t<p>Great street footage of NYC from 40 years ago. You might think that Leopold ended up as a stain on the pavement. In 2010, CBS News did <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKyt2PWqup8\">a follow-up</a> on him:</p>\n\t<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/QKyt2PWqup8\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p>See also <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2y4hNuqlTs\">Leopold on David Letterman from 1985</a>.\n</p>\n \n\n        \n         <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Charles%20Kuralt\">Charles Kuralt</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/cycling\">cycling</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/NYC\">NYC</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/video\">video</a></p>",
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      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49849",
      "title": "The Library Is Closed. Feel Free to Come In. “In...",
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      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049849-the-library-is-closed-fee",
      "published": "2026-10-21T18:07:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-21T18:07:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://reasonstobecheerful.world/the-library-is-closed-feel-free-to-come-in\">The Library Is Closed. Feel Free to Come In.</a> “In communities where workspaces are scarce, libraries are welcoming visitors outside of staffed hours. All they need is a library card.”\n</p>",
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      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49845",
      "title": "Tiny People in a Big World is like a birdwatching guide,...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049845-tiny-people-in-a-big-worl",
      "published": "2026-10-21T16:58:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-21T16:58:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sneakyartist/tiny-people-in-the-big-world\">Tiny People in a Big World</a> is like a birdwatching guide, but for people-watching. “I made this campaign to produce a book that will help you notice and appreciate the tiny people who pass through your big world.”\n</p>",
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      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49833",
      "title": "Link Loop is basically a 2D version of Portal. Looks fun!",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049833-link-loop",
      "published": "2026-10-21T16:03:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-21T16:03:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.playlinkloop.com\">Link Loop</a> is basically a 2D version of Portal. <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-8hU9XEep8\">Looks fun!</a>\n</p>",
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      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49844",
      "title": "Ambient Earth",
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      "published": "2026-10-21T14:49:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-21T14:49:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/alJMoaKpV_E\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJMoaKpV_E\">Ambient Earth</a> is a 7.5-hour, real-time, 4K, remastered video of the orbital view from the International Space Station. Seán Doran took almost 49,000 images from 27 time-lapse sequences captured from the ISS by astronaut Butch Wilmore, repaired, remastered, and interpolated them into this incredible video.</p>\n\t<blockquote><p>Perspective is lost when the world speeds by. The scale and beauty of our home planet is truly appreciated when observed on an epic 7.5 hour journey from The International Space Station. This ambitious 4k compilation, crafted through months of meticulous restoration, invites you to slow down and experience Earth in real time just as astronauts do.</p></blockquote>\n\t<p>The video is accompanied by ambient audio recorded on the station by Chris Hadfield. This would be great for a screensaver, but after poking around for a bit, it doesn’t seem like there’s a good way to set a YT video as a screensaver on MacOS (without downloading it or having it be a livestream).\n</p>\n \n\n        \n         <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Earth\">Earth</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/iss\">iss</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Sean%20Doran\">Sean Doran</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/space\">space</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/video\">video</a></p>",
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      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49847",
      "title": "“Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049847-retrieve-samples-for-retu",
      "published": "2026-10-21T13:45:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-21T13:45:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p>“Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a five-year expedition to land on the largest moon of Mars and <a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/japan-launches-mission-to-bring-home-a-piece-of-the-martian-moon-phobos\">retrieve samples for return to Earth</a>.”\n</p>",
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-21:49830",
      "title": "Find the Place You Love. Then Move There. “The reward...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049830-find-the-place-you-love-t",
      "published": "2026-10-21T12:55:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-21T12:55:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/01/what-moving-house-can-do-your-happiness/617667?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ_WVacR_xvGiAsUFKmGKXA8\">Find the Place You Love. Then Move There.</a> “The reward from moving just because you want to is hard to defend logically. Some people will think you are crazy…”\n</p>",
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      "authors": [
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          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      ],
      "categories": []
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49840",
      "title": "I remember this 90s TV commercial for 93.7 The Edge, a...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049840-i-remember-this-90s-tv-co",
      "published": "2026-10-20T21:36:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-20T21:36:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1ROtCS7jWA\">I remember this 90s TV commercial for 93.7 The Edge</a>, a Minnesota alternative radio station, very well. It features very non-alternative old people reciting lyrics like “bow down before the one you serve” and “Winona’s got herself a big brown beaver”.\n</p>",
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      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49828",
      "title": "Why Do Some Places Just Feel Right?",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/why-do-some-places-just-feel-right",
      "published": "2026-10-20T20:39:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-20T20:39:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p>Gregory Wieber does <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/@dreamwieber/videos\">these engaging, info-rich videos on tech history</a> — <a href=\"https://kottke.org/26/03/hypercard-changed-everything\">I posted his HyperCard Changed Everything video</a> back in the spring. For one of his latest videos, Wieber goes through a short history of Christopher Alexander’s landmark book, <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195019199/ref=nosim/0sil8\">A Pattern Language</a> (<a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780195019193\">Bookshop</a>), which anyone interested in building anything should at least have paged through once in their life,<sup id=\"fnref:fmvezgc036y5v\"><a href=\"#fn:fmvezgc036y5v\" rel=\"footnote\">1</a></sup> and how his work inspired not only object oriented programming and the invention of wikis, but also SimCity and The Sims.</p>\n\t<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/3A7OUxer4FI\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<ol>\n<li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:fmvezgc036y5v\"><p><a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195024028/ref=nosim/0sil8\">The Timeless Way of Building</a> is shorter, less dense, and perhaps a better introduction to Alexander’s ideas about patterns. <a href=\"#fnref:fmvezgc036y5v\" title=\"return to article\">↩</a></p></li>\n</ol>\n \n\n        \n         <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Gregory%20Wieber\">Gregory Wieber</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/simcity\">simcity</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/The%20Sims\">The Sims</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/video%20games\">video games</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Will%20Wright\">Will Wright</a></p>",
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      ],
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49841",
      "title": "New book from James Gleick about the history of the...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049841-new-book-from-james-gleic",
      "published": "2026-10-20T19:52:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-20T19:52:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://bookshop.org/a/2966/9780374618940\">New book from James Gleick about the history of the telephone</a>. “It gave us the party line, the busy signal, dial tones, wiretapping, the late-night DJ, and the booty call. It magnified the possibilities of government, of business, of friendship, of love.”\n</p>",
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        {
          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      ],
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49829",
      "title": "“Astronomers for the first time have identified a green...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049829-a-green-star",
      "published": "2026-10-20T18:46:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-20T18:46:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p>“Astronomers for the first time have identified <a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/science/newly-identified-green-star-leaves-astronomers-amazed-2026-10-16\">a green star</a>, documenting a dense stellar remnant called a white dwarf that became a ghostly shade of chartreuse after ingesting rocky ​debris from planets that once had orbited it.”\n</p>",
      "image": null,
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      "authors": [
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          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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        }
      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49823",
      "title": "The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300 Million Games",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/the-best-monopoly-strategy-tested-on-300-million-games",
      "published": "2026-10-20T17:47:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-20T17:47:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/S_2eVAaw1UM\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p>Perfect Play <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2eVAaw1UM\">ran over 300 million games of Monopoly</a> to determine the best strategy and the most common mistakes players make.</p>\n\t<blockquote><p>I turned eight classic Monopoly strategies into computer players and made them play 312,898,560 games against each other. At a table of four, the best one won 43% of its games. The worst one won 3%.</p><p>The gap doesn’t come from one clever trick. It comes from four common mistakes: being picky about what you buy, saving your cash, stopping at three houses, and refusing to trade. Then I let the computer tune every habit at once, to see how far a carefully tuned player can go and which color set is really worth fighting for.</p></blockquote>\n\t<p>P.S. I don’t actually play Monopoly anymore — it is the world’s most maddening game (along with Sorry) and I childishly refer to it as “Monotony” — and an aside about 3 minutes into the video is why: “roughly one game in six never ends”. Exactly! And you want me to haggle? For fun? No thank you. I imagine there are folks whose idea of a good time is visiting used car dealerships for funsies when they don’t need a car, but I am not one of them.</p>\n\t<p>See also <a href=\"https://kottke.org/16/02/how-to-win-at-monopoly-and-piss-off-your-friends\">How to Win at Monopoly and Piss Off Your Friends</a>.\n</p>\n \n\n        \n         <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/games\">games</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Monopoly\">Monopoly</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/video\">video</a></p>",
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49837",
      "title": "Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049837-protestors-criticized-for",
      "published": "2026-10-20T16:41:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-20T16:41:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351\">Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First</a>. “It’s disgusting to put workers at risk by looting. You do it by chipping away at their health benefits and eventually laying them off.”\n</p>",
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        {
          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      ],
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49836",
      "title": "Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049836-a-very-amateur-astronomer",
      "published": "2026-10-20T15:35:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-20T15:35:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p>Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through galactic quantities of data”, <a href=\"https://gizmodo.com/did-claude-help-an-amateur-astronomer-discover-a-new-planet-2000824393\">a very amateur astronomer has found a possible exoplanet candidate</a>. MIT is going to point <a href=\"https://tess.mit.edu\">their satellite</a> at the candidate planet to collect more data soon.\n</p>",
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        {
          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      ],
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49822",
      "title": "How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/how-japanese-dried-bonito-is-made",
      "published": "2026-10-20T14:09:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-20T14:09:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/HsMbNVEJp9g\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p>This workshop founded in 1882 still makes dried bonito <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsMbNVEJp9g\">like they did back in the Edo period</a>.</p>\n\t<blockquote><p>How katsuobushi — Japanese dried bonito, said to be the world’s hardest food — is made in Nishi-Izu, Japan. Inside Kanesa Katsuobushi Shoten, a workshop founded in 1882, 5th-generation craftsman Yasuhisa Serizawa still uses the 200-year-old “tebiyama” hand-fired smoke-drying method that only a few workshops in Japan preserve. Watch fresh bonito being filleted and boiled for 90 minutes, smoke-dried more than 10 times over a hand-tended wood fire, repaired with bonito paste, fermented with koji mold and sun-dried for months — over half a year until the fish becomes as hard as wood and shines like a jewel. From fresh catch to katsuobushi.</p></blockquote>\n\t<p>Check out <a href=\"https://www.canesa.net\">Kanesa Katsuobushi Shoten’s website</a> for more info; here’s what they say about the tebiyama drying/smoking method (Google translation):</p>\n\t<blockquote><p>This method of making dried bonito flakes has been used in the Tago district of West Izu for a long time, and its history is said to date back about 300 years (to the Edo period). It involves digging a vertical hole about 2 meters deep, burning firewood (raw wood from Izu: oak, sawtooth oak, cherry, etc.) from the bottom of the hole, and smoking and drying the dried bonito flakes with the high temperature of an open flame. This method is called the Tebiyama-shiki smoking method. It is the oldest existing smoking method, and only a few bonito flake manufacturers in the country continue to use this method to make dried bonito flakes, so it is said to be a legendary method. The Tebiyama-shiki smoking method is said to produce dried bonito flakes with a rich flavor because the surface of the bonito is smoked all at once with the high temperature of an open flame, locking in the umami.</p></blockquote>\n\t<p>(thx, caroline)\n</p>\n \n\n        \n         <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/fish\">fish</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/food\">food</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/how%20to\">how to</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Japan\">Japan</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/video\">video</a></p>",
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      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-20:49842",
      "title": "Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049842-brewster-kahle-argues-aga",
      "published": "2026-10-20T12:39:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-20T12:39:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/blocking-internet-archive-will-not-stop-ai/689065?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ1AS4fIdqjHOc9xe3O3gHT8\">Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the Internet Archive from archiving their sites</a>. “Impeding the Wayback Machine’s preservation work will not prevent powerful AI companies from gathering training data.”\n</p>",
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49820",
      "title": "NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049820-nprs-planet-money-recentl",
      "published": "2026-10-19T21:18:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-19T21:18:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5996901\">NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds</a> and interviewed <a href=\"https://www.panic.com\">Panic’s</a> <a href=\"https://cabel.com\">Cabel Sasser</a> about how they decided to refund their <a href=\"https://play.date\">Playdate</a>-buying customers for the tariffs surcharge they paid.\n</p>",
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49832",
      "title": "Do you believe in life after death? This is a great...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049832-do-you-believe-in-life-af",
      "published": "2026-10-19T20:28:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-19T20:28:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://pudding.cool/2026/10/lifeafter\">Do you believe in life after death?</a> This is a great interactive piece by <a href=\"https://alvinschang.com\">Alvin Chang</a> about people’s beliefs about the existence of an afterlife and how those beliefs change over the course of our lifetimes.\n</p>",
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          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      ],
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49821",
      "title": "A Tiny 24 FPS E-Ink Game Boy Emulator",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/a-tiny-24-fps-e-ink-game-boy-emulator",
      "published": "2026-10-19T19:33:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-19T19:33:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/XiZmM6hwwAU\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p>This is really impressive: a software engineer got a Game Boy emulator running at 30 fps on a tiny e-ink screen.</p>\n\t<p>If you’re familiar with e-paper, you know that they normally refresh much slower (2-3 times a second), not nearly quick enough to play even a simple video game. This guy wrote his own display driver that got the refresh rate up to 30 times per second. From the transcript of <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiZmM6hwwAU\">the video</a> explaining how e-paper works and how he hacked the display to make it play games:</p>\n\t<blockquote><p>Unlike conventional displays like LCD or OLED, ePaper stores its image physically using charged black and white pigment particles. By changing the electric field, the display moves the pigments towards or away from the surface, which in the end gives us black- or white-looking pixel. And usually a sequence of several electrical pulses called a waveform is needed to move the pigment back and forth, before finally driving it towards the new image. This helps produce a clean result without leaving too much of the previous image behind. But this takes a lot of time.</p></blockquote>\n\t<p>The project is open source — <a href=\"https://github.com/kuslota/InkBoy\">you can get the plans and code on GitHub</a>. This engineer was inspired by <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPbOK90aJEo\">Wenting Zhang’s e-paper Game Boy emulator</a>:</p>\n\t<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/oPbOK90aJEo\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p>Zhang has also made <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHbA2-_qzH4\">a color e-ink display that runs at 60 fps</a>. Very cool. (via <a href=\"https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/10/15/this-tiny-e-paper-game-boy-lets-you-play-super-mario-land-at-30-fps-on-a-reading-screen\">yanko design</a>)\n</p>\n \n\n        \n         <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Game%20Boy\">Game Boy</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/video\">video</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/video%20games\">video games</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Wenting%20Zhang\">Wenting Zhang</a></p>",
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49824",
      "title": "A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049824-a-24-minute-video-tour",
      "published": "2026-10-19T18:41:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-19T18:41:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtCdl-4HDdk\">A 24-minute video tour</a> of the <a href=\"https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/krasner-and-pollock-past-continuous\">Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous exhibition</a> at the Met. I hope I make it to NYC to see this before it closes in January.\n</p>",
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49834",
      "title": "Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049834-towers-of-babble",
      "published": "2026-10-19T17:41:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-19T17:41:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://franklantz.substack.com/p/towers-of-babble\">Towers of Babble</a> is a game that mashes up word games and tower defense games. “Nouns make buildings and other parts of speech make modifiers that you can add to a building to improve its stats.”\n</p>",
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      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49819",
      "title": "Hyperland, a Prescient 1990 TV Show by Douglas Adams",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/hyperland-a-prescient-1990-tv-show-by-douglas-adams",
      "published": "2026-10-19T16:31:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-19T16:31:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/5nOXGYxHVFI\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p>I’d never heard of this before: in 1990, the BBC aired a program created by and starring Douglas Adams called <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nOXGYxHVFI\">Hyperland</a>. It begins with a frustrated Adams throwing his TV out (too linear, too non-interactive) and Tom Baker (from Doctor Who) popping up as an intelligent interactive agent that promises to “do your every slightest bidding, to fetch and carry for you, to work tirelessly and selflessly on your behalf, always ready, always willing, no job too small or too menial”.</p>\n\t<blockquote><p>Circumventing the limitations of ‘linear’ broadcast TV, the 50-minute programme imagines a new world in which an AI software ‘agent’ - brought to life here by Doctor Who favourite Tom Baker - helps the user (played by Adams) to find and access material of interest in a global world of hyperlinked information - text, images, audio and video. </p><p>Pop-up ‘micons’ (moving icons) conveniently link to interviews with leading technologists of the era (among them Ted Nelson, Robert Winter, Robert Abel, Kristina Hooper, Fabrice Forin and Steve Gano).</p><p>Some of this stuff has dated badly - few visions of the future get everything right! - but the programme is nevertheless of considerable historical importance.</p><p>Incredibly, at about the time Hyperland was being broadcast, a young CERN computer scientist by the name of Tim Berners-Lee was beavering away on URLs and HTTP, the foundations of what would become the World Wide Web.</p><p>Even Adams, who foresaw so much, didn’t anticipate the impact the Web - and the Internet that conveys its data globally - would have on civilisation. Needless to say, the enticing infoworld envisaged in Hyperland was a public-service one of education, art, literature (including nods to Adams’ own works!) and entertainment. There’s no advertising, hacking, cybercrime, information theft, social-media addicts, unaccountable corporate domination or drug-like dependence on the smartphones that Adams himself predicted. </p><p>And Tom Baker’s enthusiastic agent isn’t forever popping up to try and sell you something…</p></blockquote>\n\t<p>The YouTube version above is missing a segment, but <a href=\"https://archive.org/details/Hyperland1990\">you can watch (and download) the whole program on the Internet Archive</a>, a project that fits the vision of the future imagined by techno-utopians like Adams.</p>\n\t<p>I’m imagining what 16-year-old Jason would have made of this (or HyperCard or hypertext had he had any clue that they existed until 4-5 years later) — his brain probably would have exploded.\n</p>\n \n\n        \n         <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/artificial%20intelligence\">artificial intelligence</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Douglas%20Adams\">Douglas Adams</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Tom%20Baker\">Tom Baker</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/TV\">TV</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/video\">video</a></p>",
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49831",
      "title": "Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours,...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049831-lane-8-has-released-his-f",
      "published": "2026-10-19T15:41:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-19T15:41:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=412AHrISlqg\">Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape</a>, 4 hours, recorded live at SF’s Castro Theatre. This one’s going straight into the earholes. <a href=\"https://soundcloud.com/thisneverhappenedlabel/fall2026\">Soundcloud</a>, <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=412AHrISlqg\">YouTube</a>, and <a href=\"https://tnh.ffm.to/fall26\">elsewhere</a>.\n</p>",
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49818",
      "title": "Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049818-wont-someone-please-stop-",
      "published": "2026-10-19T14:53:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-19T14:53:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wont-someone-please-stop-me-dr-frankenstein-from-building-the-creature\">Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from Building the Creature?</a> “These are serious concerns. And I think we should all stop. Me, especially. Can anyone make me stop doing the thing I want to do? Apparently not.”\n</p>",
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          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-19:49826",
      "title": "Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Consequence of Donald Trump",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/ta-nehisi-coates-on-the-consequence-of-donald-trump",
      "published": "2026-10-19T13:53:26.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-19T13:53:26.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/story/donald-the-great\">Writing for Vanity Fair</a> (<a href=\"https://archive.li/Bzimr\">archive link</a>), Ta-Nehisi Coates says that Donald Trump is the most visionary politician of his era.</p>\n\t<blockquote><p>Through a mix of moxie, cynicism, and misanthropy, Trump has made himself into the dominant American of our age. Sometimes a man meets his moment, and Trump met his in the wake of a black presidency and a conservative movement doggedly and patiently pursuing a decades-long counterrevolution. The marriage of Trump’s charisma to a fundamentalist right wing has been bountiful: three Supreme Court justices in four years, the subsequent destruction of national abortion rights, the banishment of affirmative action, the hollowing of the Voting Rights Act.</p></blockquote>\n\t<p>And the genie may not go back in the bottle:</p>\n\t<blockquote><p>But some things can’t be unseen. The example that Trump has set, the scope of what is possible should one embrace the dark powers of the White House, will not dissipate. It turns out that you can deploy secret police onto American streets. You can deport immigrants in defiance of the courts. You can have the Justice Department badger your enemies. And you can become very rich while doing it. And some of the most powerful sectors in America, those who most loudly extol their own love of country, will stand around and watch you do it. Asked why he was making deals during his second term, Trump gave a succinct and chillingly accurate summation: “I found out that nobody cared.” And to the extent that there is a genius to Trump, it is in his apprehension of this reality—so very few people who matter care. When you’re president, they let you do it.</p></blockquote>\n\t<p>Coates recently discussed this piece <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lIIVjF3SVQ\">on Vanity Fair’s podcast</a>.</p>\n\t<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/_lIIVjF3SVQ\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n</p>\n \n\n        \n         <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Donald%20Trump\">Donald Trump</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/politics\">politics</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Ta-Nehisi%20Coates\">Ta-Nehisi Coates</a></p>",
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      ],
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49816",
      "title": "Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049816-charles-harley-on-subway-",
      "published": "2026-10-16T22:01:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-16T22:01:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H0KGWo3SoXg\">Charles Harley on Subway Takes</a>: “I don’t think Black people should have to pay for ancestry.com. Why do I have to pay you to figure out where you stole me from?”\n</p>",
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          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      ],
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49815",
      "title": "Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out....",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049815-illustrator-and-writer-lu",
      "published": "2026-10-16T21:18:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-16T21:18:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.mundomendo.com/books\">Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out</a>. “The only website that once a year becomes a book.” I have Book One and it’s lovely…\n</p>",
      "image": null,
      "media": [],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Kottke",
          "email": null,
          "url": "http://www.kottke.org/"
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      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49814",
      "title": "Chromatic Inkscapes",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/chromatic-inkscapes",
      "published": "2026-10-16T20:09:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-16T20:09:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p><img src=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118593-80c5302e.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118593-80c5302e.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118593-80c5302e.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792118750-5a593d26.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118750-5a593d26.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118750-5a593d26.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792118611-f37c59fe.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118611-f37c59fe.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118611-f37c59fe.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792118774-1e113b96.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118774-1e113b96.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118774-1e113b96.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792118722-33ed4542.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118722-33ed4542.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792118722-33ed4542.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//images/posts/01/editor-1792119021-d7b44d76.jpg\" srcset=\"/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=500,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792119021-d7b44d76.jpg 500w, /cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,fit=scale-down,width=1200,metadata=none//images/posts/01/editor-1792119021-d7b44d76.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 500px, 1200px\" loading=\"lazy\" /></p>\n\t<p>I love <a href=\"https://adamfuhrer.com\">these digital illustrations by Adam Fuhrer</a>; he calls them <a href=\"https://adamfuhrer.com#t=chromatic%20aberration\">chromatic aberrations</a>. It was difficult to narrow them down to the few favorites above. I posted about Fuhrer’s pen plotted art <a href=\"https://kottke.org/24/03/warped-bendy-pen-plots\">a couple of years ago</a>…I like the direction he’s taking this.\n</p>\n \n\n        \n         <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Adam%20Fuhrer\">Adam Fuhrer</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/art\">art</a></p>",
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      "authors": [
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49810",
      "title": "Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s...",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/0049810-go-ahead-and-ban-my-book",
      "published": "2026-10-16T19:13:00.000Z",
      "updated": "2026-10-16T19:13:00.000Z",
      "content": "<p>Margaret Atwood in 2023: <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-virginia-book-ban-library-removal/673013?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ3-c2_UN_Zj6nztvCkh8h-0\">Go Ahead and Ban My Book</a>. “It’s very hard to control what young people get their hands on, especially if they’re told something is too old for them, or too evil, or too immoral.”\n</p>",
      "image": null,
      "media": [],
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Jason Kottke",
          "email": null,
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      ],
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    {
      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49812",
      "title": "Roooobot. Huuuuuman.",
      "description": null,
      "url": "https://kottke.org/26/10/roooobot-huuuuuman",
      "published": "2026-10-16T18:10:00.000Z",
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      "title": "The trailer for Blade Runner 2099, a new limited series...",
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      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwK5KxoJsvk\">The trailer for Blade Runner 2099</a>, a new limited series premiering in late November and starring Michelle Yeoh & Hunter Schafer.\n</p>",
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          "name": "Jason Kottke",
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      "id": "tag:kottke.org,2026-10-16:49813",
      "title": "Going 94 MPH on a Skateboard (New World Record)",
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      "published": "2026-10-16T15:32:00.000Z",
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      "content": "<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/u3ydV2RVJvc\" title=\"YouTube video\" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>\n\t<p>Diego Poncelet recently set a new world record for the fastest speed on a skateboard. The old record was 146.7 km/h (91.2 mph) and he hit 151.8 km/h (94.3 mph). There are a couple of parts you can skip, but watching most of <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ydV2RVJvc\">the video</a> is worth it because you see the process and can compare how truly insanely fast he is moving during the final run — I found myself holding my breath for the last minute or so.</p>\n\t<p>Also, I cannot believe how closely the camera car is following him — looks like only a few feet away. Bonkers.</p>\n\t<p>I just found the first time I posted about speed skateboarding on KDO: <a href=\"https://kottke.org/08/09/speed-skateboarding\">this post from 2008</a>. Less aerodynamic, more gonzo, and the cameraman is also on a skateboard going equally fast.\n</p>\n \n\n        \n         <p><strong>Tags:</strong> <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/Diego%20Poncelet\">Diego Poncelet</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/skateboarding\">skateboarding</a> · <a href=\"https://kottke.org/tag/video\">video</a></p>",
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      "title": "I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care...",
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      "content": "<p>I played <a href=\"https://notsolitaire.com\">(not) solitaire</a> for more hands than I would care to admit. “A multiplayer game where the multiplayer was about companionship, empathy, and comfort, instead of competition or even interaction.”\n</p>",
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