Today's playlist is The 100 Best One-Hit Wonder Songs:You can read the rationale behind all 100 picks on Consequence of Sound. | Continue reading
Given the recent Netflix-driven Cambrian explosion in television shows, there is no Best Show On TV™ anymore. But over t | Continue reading
This 1985 catalog for engineers contains hundreds and hundreds of tech logos from the 70s and 80s. They are glorious.Marcin Wi | Continue reading
From the Atlantic, a quick visual history of human-created light sources over the past ~400,000 years, from wood fires to candle | Continue reading
BBC Culture recently polled authors, journalists, and other literary types from 35 different countries and asked them "to nom | Continue reading
For this year's 36 Days of Type project, Ben Huynh submitted this 3D animation of the alphabet from A to Z. You can see animatio | Continue reading
In 1923, Inkwell Studios1 released a 20-minute animated explanation of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, perhaps one of th | Continue reading
Chantel Tattoli's piece for The Paris Review, The Surprising History (and Future) of Fingerprints, is interesting throughout, bu | Continue reading
Professor of philosophy Daniel DeNicola on the right of people to believe what they want to believe.Unfortunately, many people t | Continue reading
Artist Lydia Ricci collects scraps (of paper, cardboard, etc.) and sculpts them into everyday objects.I love these...and | Continue reading
(A version of this story is an excerpt from this week's Noticing newsletter. You can read more about Noticing here.) In a rare i | Continue reading
Monica Heisey was recently stuck on an airplane without much to do. Luckily, she made an essay out of it. "Being Bored Is Fun | Continue reading
Science writer Carl Zimmer has a new book on genetics and heredity called She Has Her Mother's Laugh. The New York Times published | Continue reading
On the heels of Texas's lieutenant governor blaming school shootings on "too many entrances and too many exits" in build | Continue reading
When commissioned to create some artwork for a London music duo, Tim Easley spent 80 hours making this model circuit board out | Continue reading
I've been keeping track of every media thing I "consume", so here are quick reviews of some things I've read, seen, hear | Continue reading
Hasbro has come out with an official "Cheaters Edition" of Monopoly (available at Amazon) where popular game cheats li | Continue reading
Using simple graphic representations of annual temperatures (like this one posted by climate scientist Ed Hawkins), people are kni | Continue reading
Sopan Deb recently sat down with some of the cast of Arrested Development (Jeffrey Tambor, Tony Hale, Jason Bateman, Alia Shawkat, | Continue reading
Ama is a short film that was written, directed, and performed by freediver Julie Gautier.Ama is a silent film. It tells a stor | Continue reading
As he does every year, voracious reader Bill Gates has recommended five books worth reading this summer. Gates' recommendations of | Continue reading
Back at the end of 2010, Ben Greenman created a playlist for the New Yorker's holiday party that featured one song from each year | Continue reading
This is a blooper reel from Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, a 1977 TV special produced by The Jim Henson Company. Take after t | Continue reading
Everyday Arcade, which is responsible for The GOP Arcade (sample game titles include The Voter Suppression Trail and Thoughts &a | Continue reading
Phil Holland shot some aerial footage of NYC that he stitched together into a video with a resolution of 12K. That's a 100-megap | Continue reading
In this short video, Art House Politics goes through all of the characters in Mario Kart 8 and describes their political alignment | Continue reading
Hello, it is I, once and future Kottke.org guest editor Aaron Cohen. In the years since my objectively wonderful and technically p | Continue reading
In an Atlantic piece titled The World Still Spins Around Male Genius, Megan Garber writes:The notion that the women's stories ab | Continue reading
From legendary designer Raymond Loewy, a chart published in 1934 that shows the evolution in design of items such as cars, telep | Continue reading
Illustrator Richard Wilkinson is drawing a series of insects inspired by Star Wars and other pop cultural items.This proje | Continue reading
I've been thinking about Trump's presidency in terms of a coup to come, but Rebecca Solnit makes a compelling case for that event | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of the Yanny/Laurel audio illusion, many people shared other illusions that are just as weird and fun.The McGur | Continue reading
Like many of you, I read the news of a single person killing at least 10 people in Santa Fe, Texas today. While this is an outrage | Continue reading
Each week (more or less), I write a newsletter for Kottke.org called Noticing that summarizes the previous week, looks for deeper | Continue reading
It's a common and (on its face) rhetorical move: take something that's happening now and map it onto the past. Better yet, take so | Continue reading
A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzes deep ice cores in Greenland for traces of lead | Continue reading
Degrees of Uncertainty is an upcoming documentary by Neil Halloran that "uses data-driven animation to explore the topic of | Continue reading
Speaking of great magazine covers, for their issue on plastic, National Geographic put artist Jorge Gamboa's arresting plastic b | Continue reading
In April 2015, Autistic Annie wrote on their Tumblr about how people mistakenly conflate two distinct definitions of "respect | Continue reading
I laughed for a minute straight at the cover of GQ's comedy issue. Nicely played. (via taffy brodesser-akner) | Continue reading
I've never watched a single second of the reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians but I found Rachel Tashjian's When a Mod | Continue reading
In the NY Times, architect and urban designer John Massengale discusses how four European cities (London, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Co | Continue reading
I've written before about the Shepard scale and its use by Hans Zimmer in the soundtrack for Dunkirk.Zimmer and Dunkirk director | Continue reading
For the Universe in Verse 2018 poetry event, Kelli Anderson created this wonderful papercraft stop motion animation to accompany | Continue reading
Black Panther animation supervisor Daryl Sawchuk goes through some of the digital visual effects from the film, with an emphasis | Continue reading
Take a listen to this short audio clip of a computerized voice speaking a single word repeated twice:Do you hear it saying &qu | Continue reading
I'm currently reading Emily Wilson's recent translation of The Odyssey, but until I looked at this map of Odysseus' journey, I h | Continue reading
The New York Review is reissuing five of legendary illustrator Maira Kalman's books for children that were originally published | Continue reading