We've established that I'm a huge fan of Cookie Monster, the most orally challenged but also the most literarily adept muppet. B | Continue reading
On his 32nd birthday, February 7, 2006, J Dilla (born James Dewitt Yancey, in Detroit, MI) released an unusual instrumental albu | Continue reading
In this video, Wired's Robbie Gonzalez talks to world record stone skipper Kurt Steiner, who achieved 88 skips with a stone in 2 | Continue reading
Beth Skwarecki has written the perfect Lifehacker post with the perfect headline (so perfect I had to use it for my aggregation | Continue reading
Cignature Films is showing the first episode of Mad Men in its entirety but with all of the cigarettes replaced with kazoos. Here' | Continue reading
Punk music seems like one of those things that sprang, fully-formed, out of nowhere. But in this video, Trash Theory traces the | Continue reading
I've followed the work of world champion free diver Guillaume Néry for several years now and this video might be his | Continue reading
In this time lapse filmed by Jan van IJken, the embryo of a salamander is shown transforming into a hatched tadpole, from a sing | Continue reading
Design historian Steven Heller collects vintage letterheads and shares some examples at Design Observer.The design of blogs | Continue reading
A new paper from researchers at University College London argues that the genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americans after Co | Continue reading
In 1971, director Sam Weiss released this short animated parable narrated by Orson Welles.Concentrating on an area of growing | Continue reading
A recent series of discoveries have upended the widely accepted story of the history of pizza in America and have the NYC food wor | Continue reading
Randall Munroe, proprietor of the excellent XKCD and author of What If? and Thing Explainer, is coming out with a new book in a | Continue reading
The Atlas of Endangered Alphabets is a collection of "indigenous and minority writing systems", gathered together in t | Continue reading
Using screenwriter Danny Rubin's book How To Write Groundhog Day as a guide, Lessons from the Screenplay examines how the protag | Continue reading
In her series "opsec and beauty", artist Addie Wagenknecht efficiently combines two YouTube genres into one, giving tips | Continue reading
Merle Hazard bills himself as "America's foremost country singer/economist". In this delightful performance, he sings ab | Continue reading
Purl, directed by Kristen Lester, is an animated short from Pixar about a ball of yarn that starts a new job at B.R.O. Capital a | Continue reading
Time lapse video tours of big cities are a common sight on YouTube -- see this Dubai hyperlapse or this Paris time lapse -- and | Continue reading
For the past few years, visual artist Threadstories has been making these amazing masks and posting selfies of her wearing them | Continue reading
At the World Economic Forum held in Switzerland at the end of January, Mohammed Hassan Mohamud, a refugee in Kenya for the past 20 | Continue reading
One post last week that y'all loved was The Evolution of the Alphabet. I loved it too; anything breaking down the history of wri | Continue reading
Back in 2015, I wanted to write an essay for The Message (where I was working at the time) about James Baldwin. At that time, it | Continue reading
Back in 2015, I wanted to write an essay for The Message (where I was working at the time) about James Baldwin. At that time, it | Continue reading
My friend Amanda Meyncke (who's been a guest on Kottke before, talking about musician Bill Callahan) has a new(ish) podcast, cal | Continue reading
The USPS will release a set of stamps in 2019 honoring the artist Ellsworth Kelly. Some art works better on stamps than others...K | Continue reading
National Geographic sent illustrator Christoph Niemann to Cambodia and Vietnam and he returned with this series of drawings and | Continue reading
In the first couple of minutes of this video, Roald Dahl introduces us to the writing hut behind his house that he used to write a | Continue reading
Ever since the Huffington Post struck SEO gold in 2011 with their post about what time the Super Bowl started, pretty much every o | Continue reading
At the end of a long day in March 1936, Dorothea Lange stopped in a migrant workers camp in California for just 10 minutes and too | Continue reading
As part of their YouTube series on how the Saturday Night Live sausage is made, this short video details how the cue cards that | Continue reading
These are photographs by Edward Burtynsky from The Anthropocene Project, a multimedia undertaking that showcases the effect hu | Continue reading
In this video, Vox takes a look at how El Chapo leveraged his use of tunnels for transporting drugs into the United States and b | Continue reading
I *love* these simple visualizations of how different kinds of relationships change over time by writer and cartoonist Olivia de R | Continue reading
In what is now an annual tradition, when the temperatures in some part of the US plunge below zero degrees on the Fahrenheit scale | Continue reading
Queueing theory is the scientific study of waiting in line. It can apply to familiar lines like those at the grocery store or bank | Continue reading
These visualizations of the speed of light I posted last week somehow demonstrate both how fast light speed is and how slow it is | Continue reading
The "Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth" exhibition at NYC's Morgan Library & Museum is "the most extensive public | Continue reading
One of the most popular recurring features on Gothamist is Jake Dobkin's "Ask A Native New Yorker" column (which I've me | Continue reading
For this video, freelance animator Nick Murray Willis took the audio from football commentators and made these little animated v | Continue reading
Meet the spider-tailed horned viper, native to western Iran. As the name suggests, the snake has a tail that, when moved about in | Continue reading
My pal and collaborator Tim Carmody is launching a newsletter all about Amazon called Amazon Chronicles. You can subscribe here an | Continue reading
Kashmir Hill is a remarkable and inventive reporter. She came up with a great concept called "Goodbye Big Five": one by | Continue reading
Spike Lee's first film, She's Gotta Have It, came out in 1986, but the writer/director/actor's best film, the one that made him | Continue reading
Roald Dahl's oldest daughter Olivia died from the measles when she was seven years old. She died because there wasn't a reliable m | Continue reading
Buying vintage and collectible sneakers online has become so complicated that a secondary industry has sprung up. Programmers cr | Continue reading
Light is fast! In a recent series of animations, planetary scientist James O'Donoghue demonstrates just how fast light is...and al | Continue reading
Since 1976, Robert Caro has been writing a multi-volume biography of former US President Lyndon B. Johnson -- the first volume is | Continue reading