TFW when your outfit perfectly matches land, sea, and sky

I know many photographers have taken similar photos, but August Östberg's Lover in Disguise is a particularly good inst | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls in audio format

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


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Three Identical Strangers

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


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

How to harvest nearly infinite energy from a spinning black hole

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


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

The last living human link to the 19th century is gone

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


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

The Pigeon Photographer: Aerial photographs from the turn of the century

The New Yorker has some genuinely exciting early aerial photographs, taken by birds. They're excerpts from a new book, The Pigeo | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Building a better Kindle (or, Why Buttons Matter)

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


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Behind the scenes at comic book stores

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


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

The storytellers who read aloud to Cuban cigar rollers

In a practice that started in 1865 and still continues today, lectores (storytellers) in Cuban cigar factories read to the worke | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Robot successfully assembles an Ikea chair

Fittingly using only off-the-shelf components, a team of researchers in Singapore built a robot capable of assembling a Stefan c | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Your personality, according to IBM Watson

Watson is IBM's AI platform. This afternoon I tried out IBM Watson's Personality Insights Demo. The service "derives insight | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Closing the racial wealth gap: debunking 10 common myths

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


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most

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


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

20 Years of Lauryn Hill

Yesterday, hip hop legend Lauryn Hill announced The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill 20th Anniversary Tour 2018.This summer marks the | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

How to reduce opioid addiction

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


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Brutalist architecture built with Lego

The proprietor of the @brutsinlego account and his/her children build simple Brutalist structures out of Lego and post the r | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

“What do census tracts with highest concentrations of particular populations look like?”

The use of satellite imagery has revolutionized many areas of science and research, from archaeology to tracking human rights abus | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

A lovely ode to stop motion animation

In this short film, animator and director Ainslie Henderson talks about how he designs puppets for his stop motion animations, c | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

The calmness of airplane pilots

Yesterday a Southwest flight from NYC to Dallas experienced an in-flight engine explosion and had to make an emergency landing in | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Alan Turing was an excellent runner

Computer scientist, mathematician, and all-around supergenius Alan Turing, who played a pivotal role in breaking secret German c | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Sporting events compressed into single composite photos

Photographer Pelle Cass has been constructing composite photos of groups of people for some time now, photoshopping the acti | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

The illiterate teacher

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


@kottke.org | 6 years ago

Nikola Tesla Predicted the Smartphone in 1926

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 | 6 years ago

Kottke.org turns 20

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


@kottke.org | 6 years ago