One of my favourite Twitter thread style or topic in recent months has been the "history walk." People picking somethi | Continue reading
Dutch art gallery Cook & Becker is releasing a series of high quality art prints taken from the very Studio Ghibli-like game | Continue reading
[Hello there, everyone. I am off this week (taking two kids to The Wizarding World in Orlando, pray for me, the butterbeer is alco | Continue reading
Your periodic reminder that Christoph Niemann is an unimaginatively imaginative visual storyteller. This image is one of a serie | Continue reading
A suspect in the Golden State Killer murders has been arrested, based largely on DNA evidence that was apparently obtained in part | Continue reading
Wesley Morris unsurprisingly has written a very good essay about Bill Cosby -- specifically, the ways in which Cosby created and b | Continue reading
Helen Rosner writes in praise of monosodium glutamate, an umami-rich flavor additive that's been vilified for all the wrong reason | Continue reading
In a 2013 piece, Christie Aschwanden suggested a test in the spirit of the Bechdel test for avoiding gender bias in profiles writt | Continue reading
This summer for the 50th anniversary of the film, Warner Bros. is releasing a 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey made from the or | Continue reading
The editors of GQ have compiled a list of 20 notable books that you don't actually have to read, despite their inclusion on variou | Continue reading
Filmmaker Errol Morris has made a pair of videos for AT&T's It Can Wait campaign against distracted driving, which "kills | Continue reading
As I said recently in the newsletter and in my media diet post for March, I've been listening to the audiobook of Consider the Lob | Continue reading
This video, and the paper it's based on, is called "Image Inpainting for Irregular Holes Using Partial Convolutions" b | Continue reading
As part of a larger anthology film called Paris Je T'aime, the Coen brothers directed a short film about a character played by S | Continue reading
I know it's almost May of 2018, but I missed Art of the Title's Top 10 Title Sequences of 2017 when it came out back in January, s | Continue reading
From a collection of drawings and paintings done by David Bowie, here are a couple of self-portraits...there are more if you c | Continue reading
Proto-YouTuber Ze Frank momentarily steps down from his executive perch at Buzzfeed to get back on the mic for the humorous natu | Continue reading
Nestled amongst hundreds of stunning shots of the aurora borealis taken by Finnish photographer Jani Ylinampa is a series of fou | Continue reading
Design? Parenting? Playgrounds? iPads? Architecture? Toys? Probably Lego? Alexandra Lange's upcoming book about "how childr | Continue reading
From CGP Grey, an animated version of philosopher Nick Bostrom's The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant.Seeing that defeating the tyra | Continue reading
I enjoyed reading Lolade Fadulu's interview with Philip Glass about the composer's early life and how he made a living in NYC befo | Continue reading
I know many photographers have taken similar photos, but August Östberg's Lover in Disguise is a particularly good inst | Continue reading
Audiobooks for both of the bestselling Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls books will be out in June: book one, book two. The bedti | Continue reading
Two men attending the same college in the early 80s kept getting mistaken for each other and when they met, they realized that t | Continue reading
Well, this is a thing I didn't know about black holes before watching this video. Because some black holes spin, it's possible t | Continue reading
For the past few years, because of my interest in The Great Span of human history, I've been tracking the last remaining people wh | Continue reading
The New Yorker has some genuinely exciting early aerial photographs, taken by birds. They're excerpts from a new book, The Pigeo | Continue reading
Do you ever read something that feels like it was written just for you? That's how I feel whenever Craig Mod writes about digita | Continue reading
io9 has a solid interview with Dan Gearino, author of a new book called Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us A New Geek Cu | Continue reading
In a practice that started in 1865 and still continues today, lectores (storytellers) in Cuban cigar factories read to the worke | Continue reading
Fittingly using only off-the-shelf components, a team of researchers in Singapore built a robot capable of assembling a Stefan c | Continue reading
Watson is IBM's AI platform. This afternoon I tried out IBM Watson's Personality Insights Demo. The service "derives insight | Continue reading
A report called What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap was released this month by a group of economists and researc | Continue reading
Steven Johnson, the author of the recent Wonderland and a whole gaggle of other books in the kottke.org wheelhouse,1 is coming out | Continue reading
Yesterday, hip hop legend Lauryn Hill announced The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill 20th Anniversary Tour 2018.This summer marks the | Continue reading
This morning I ran across news from two different studies about reducing deaths from opioid overdoses and they both had the same s | Continue reading
The proprietor of the @brutsinlego account and his/her children build simple Brutalist structures out of Lego and post the r | Continue reading
The use of satellite imagery has revolutionized many areas of science and research, from archaeology to tracking human rights abus | Continue reading
In this short film, animator and director Ainslie Henderson talks about how he designs puppets for his stop motion animations, c | Continue reading
Yesterday a Southwest flight from NYC to Dallas experienced an in-flight engine explosion and had to make an emergency landing in | Continue reading
Computer scientist, mathematician, and all-around supergenius Alan Turing, who played a pivotal role in breaking secret German c | Continue reading
Photographer Pelle Cass has been constructing composite photos of groups of people for some time now, photoshopping the acti | Continue reading
John Corcoran was slow to talk as a child and then when he got to school, he didn't learn to read right away. Or in the years foll | Continue reading
In an interview published in Collier's magazine in 1926, Nikola Tesla, then in the twilight of his career, made some predictions | Continue reading
kottke.org is 20 years old today. Holy shit! On March 14, 1998, I launched a new episode of 0sil8 called "Notes". 0sil | Continue reading