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The Worst Way To Get To Space.

I 100% love this video of every time someone says a percentage on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

My friend Matt was recently here for a week in Tokyo and wrote up his experience and observations.

Crossword Clues Where It’s Clear the Puzzle’s Creator Got Themselves into a Jam Letter-wise.

Unseen Places: Rediscovering the Art of Observation by Anna Kodé.

This video from Practical Engineering was very illuminating to me, a naive person who thought there were only three types of electrical outlets used in the US — the two-prong, the three-prong, and the 240V — and not the real number, which is more than 35…

Japanese book rave.

Weball allows you to roll up websites into a Katamari ball.

It might be that this text-only quiz game from 1993 is the most challenging F1 video game of all time.

In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US, blogging about it all before “blog” was even a word.

Agustín Ferrando Trenchi became a little obsessed with the moon as a kid.

Abolish Frat Culture.

Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some point in human history and tells you about what their life was like.

Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again.

Late in his life, the prominent English mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell was subject to an attempt in the early 1960s by Oswald Mosley to provoke him into a debate about the merits of fascism.

The Global Rise of Electoral Dictatorships.

A short (too short?)

Just wanted to dip in here to say that Amazon is running another one of their sales for Prime members, which can be a great opportunity to upgrade some tech items at lower prices, especially with the price increases we’ve seen recently.

“Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass.

Where in the world are typefaces being designed?

Laika is the stop-motion animation studio that made Coraline & Kubo and the Two Strings.

AI-generated images don’t have to look like AI-generated images…they can be any style you want.

In 2005, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory calculated that the water stored by China’s huge Three Gorges Dam is enough to increase the length of a day by 0.06 microseconds and move the North pole by 0.8 inches.

To go along with my recent post about control rooms, here’s the Control Panels group on Flickr, containing almost 3000 photos of control interfaces for all kinds of things.

The Job Trail, a web game about making it through 52 weeks as a laid-off creative worker.

BBC Earth is returning to the ocean. 25 years after the first installment, the legendary naturalist, presenter, and centenarian David Attenborough narrates Blue Planet III.

118 Things to Do Instead of Doomscrolling.

From a tongue-in-cheek Google Japan, a conveyor belt keyboard, where the keys move and your hand stays still while typing.

Silent Friend is a historical drama written and directed by Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi.

Things That Are Good to Do.

The Ku Klux Klan is rebranding itself as The Knights Party, centered on “family and faith” along with proud & open white supremacy

Back in ~2008, right on the cusp of stardom, Lady Gaga did a crate-digging video in a London record shop and named Radiohead’s set at Bonnaroo 2006 as her favorite show she’s ever been to.

An interesting long profile of Mark Zuckerberg.

YouTuber Rob Martinez travelled to Columbus, Ohio to tell the story of what he calls the best sandwich shop in America, Wario’s Beef and Pork.

Richard Linklater is directing a film adaptation of the Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along.

Mapsnap is a program designed to take old Sanborn insurance maps (block-by-block maps of every US city from 1870-1960) and aligning them with modern maps.

JumpStar is the world’s strongest Chinese Checkers AI engine.

Random TV Time: watch old TV pulled from the Internet Archive. 17 channels to surf, including cartoons, 1960s TV, and one that’s only old commercials.

Designer Giorgia Lupi: In Defense of the Detour.

Stalin Boys is a short documentary about a Joseph Stalin-obsessed middle-schooler from a tiny Texas town who writes a play about the Soviet dictator and enlists his three friends to stage it for the Texas State History Fair.

Nappy is a site offering free stock photos of Black and brown people.

O Superman by artist Laurie Anderson from 1981.

Mapping Tariffs explores “the potential impacts of tariffs on jobs and businesses across Canadian cities and communities at the neighbourhood and city level”.

After working hard taking away the civil rights of people and granting more powers to our Mob Boss President, Chief Justice John Roberts retreats to a Maine island for the summer.

The Comedy Wildlife Awards have announced the finalists for the 2026 competition and, well, these awards never miss.

Is American Culture Simply Bad Now?

Back in 2005, a group of restorers established a hidden workshop in Paris’s Panthéon and snuck into the building for a whole year to repair an antique clock.

OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home.

Last week, the NY Times dropped a list of The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century, as picked by a panel of “more than 500 influential stars, showrunners and other notable names in the world of TV”.

Don’t Cook That: a collection of real recipes that you shouldn’t make.