My favorite scene in Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs is the sushi-making scene. It's a pure showcase of stop motion animation goodness | Continue reading
From directors Molly Brass and Stephen Tyler, this is a really lovely & poignant short film about Chess Forum and its owner, | Continue reading
My favorite end-of-the-year review of movies is always David Ehrlich's video countdown of the top 25 best films. In this year's | Continue reading
As I've done for the last five years, I've spent the past few weeks scouring the internet for the best 2018 gift guides and pull | Continue reading
For this month's issue of Topic, palliative care doctor Nathan Gray wrote & illustrated a comic about What Doctors Know About | Continue reading
David Attenborough's new nature series, Dynasties, is already airing in the UK and Canada (we have to wait until January 19 in t | Continue reading
Every time there's a new social media app or network that breaks out, someone writes an article about how this new network encoura | Continue reading
In part 2 of Earworm's series on jazz, Estelle Caswell talks to producer Michael Cuscuna about the iconic album covers of Blue N | Continue reading
Tavi Gevinson started Rookie in 2011 when she was 15 years old and late last week announced that the online magazine was ceasing p | Continue reading
From Neil Cicierega, who you may remember from this hilarious recap of J.R.P.G. Torkelson's Lorne of the Rings trilogy, comes th | Continue reading
At Vulture, my father* Abraham Riesman scored an interview with Olivia Jaimes, a mysterious young (?) cartoonist who's resurrect | Continue reading
This week's edition of Noticing, the Kottke.org newsletter, features the return of Doctor Time, the world's only metaphysical ad | Continue reading
This link comes from Zito Madu, who knows what I like. An interview with Jorge Luis Borges from 1981.On the meaning of life:I | Continue reading
Book trailers are already such a thing that there's whole weekly columns devoted to them, a whole slew of tips and tricks; a verit | Continue reading
To make food look appetizing in advertisements, food stylists use a bunch of tricks that may not even involve edible objects. For | Continue reading
I'm certain the pen community has a lot to say about this New York Magazine list of the 100 best pens, but for the rest of us just | Continue reading
Sacha Goldberger made a series of portraits of characters from Star Wars and superhero comics as if they were the subjects o | Continue reading
Officially, according to the Italian government and the EU, parmesan cheese (or more formally, Parmigiano-Reggiano) can only be | Continue reading
Earlier this year, I wrote that director Peter Jackson was working on a documentary about WWI that would feature film footage cl | Continue reading
Remember Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity? A missile strike on a satellite causes a chain reaction, which ends up destroying | Continue reading
From illustrator Michelle Rial, a Venn diagram of some advice for when you're sad, angry, stressed, or hurt in the form of Beatl | Continue reading
While I am not a big fan of shifting to an economic argument for things that are already plenty bad for other better reasons (see | Continue reading
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first module of the International Space Station being put into orbit, ESA astronaut Ale | Continue reading
On Twitter this morning, Margaret Atwood revealed that she's writing a sequel to her 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale, i | Continue reading
This is probably the craziest and most unlikely table tennis shot you will ever see. Just watch. The guy who pulls it off is Chr | Continue reading
Peter Gorman is creating dozens of minimalist maps that he's rolling up into a book that will be ready late next year (hopefully). | Continue reading
My pals Aaron Cohen and illustrator Chris Piascik, both of whom have contributed to kottke.org for years now, have produced a ch | Continue reading
Using 3D rendering software, Yeti Dynamics made this video that shows what our sky would look like if several of our solar syste | Continue reading
When he was six years old, Cody Sheehy got lost in the woods near his home in Oregon. Rather than panic or hunkering down to await | Continue reading
After a seven-month journey covering over 300 million miles, NASA's InSight probe will land on the surface of Mars today around | Continue reading
Retailers love invented holidays and so do shoppers looking for a bargain. The term "Cyber Monday" was coined fairly rec | Continue reading
In an article for MIT Technology Review, Antonio Regalado reports that researchers in Shenzhen, led by He Jiankui, are recruiting | Continue reading
Ricky Jay died yesterday, aged 72. He was a master magician with a deck of cards, an actor, writer, and historian. The definitive | Continue reading
In this short gem of an article for Wired, Virginia Heffernan connects the ecological transformation of the pre-human Americas by | Continue reading
For a cultural program to accompany the 2012 Olympics in London, artist Sue Austin created a video of herself exploring a coral | Continue reading
How old were you when you learned that the Moon in the Southern Hemisphere is upside down? I was today years old...this is my head | Continue reading
This is pretty straightforward and hilarious: using a high-speed setup, Christian Vieler photographs dogs catching treats. The | Continue reading
The last time I posted a video by Vladimir Tomin I struggled to describe what it was about, eventually punting with "just g | Continue reading
In this video, a pair of scientists talk about their work in studying the communication patterns of humpback whales to learn mor | Continue reading
From XKCD, a reminder that human spaceflight is older than we might think and human flight is more recent.I am a sucker for th | Continue reading
Lately I've been noticing that more and more authors seem to be adapting their adult nonfiction books for younger readers (typic | Continue reading
Tungrus and the Chicken from Hell is a short film by Rishi Chandna about an Indian family who inexplicably have a pet rooster wh | Continue reading
After hearing that the PBS series based on his bestselling book, How We Got to Now, was being watched by grade schoolers at home | Continue reading
In the Washington Post, Henry Farrell interviews Yochai Benkler, whose recent book with co-authors Rob Faris and Hal Robert, Netwo | Continue reading
Film & design legend Pablo Ferro died this weekend at the age of 83. Ferro was known for designing the iconic opening title se | Continue reading
At Nieman Lab, Laura Hazard Owen checks in on whether and how people are consuming news on smart speakers and smart displays. It | Continue reading
For some reason, the only YouTube channels I subscribe to are about hip-hop (with one or two dead design vlogs thrown in), and m | Continue reading
A surprising number of lottery winners will later tell you that winning the lottery was the worst thing that ever happened to th | Continue reading