During a recent show, Jerry Seinfeld seemed to tease the return of Seinfeld: "something is going to happen that has to do with that ending". | Continue reading
Nothing is faster than the speed of light. But compared to the unimaginable size of the Universe, light is actually extremely slow. This video is 45 minutes long and during that time, a photon emitted from the Sun1 will only travel through a portion of our solar system. In our t … | Continue reading
Prada is helping design the spacesuits the astronauts will wear on NASA's Artemis III mission that's schedule to land on the Moon in 2025. | Continue reading
Prada is helping design the spacesuits the astronauts will wear on NASA's Artemis III mission that's schedule to land on the Moon in 2025. | Continue reading
From the Milwaukee Public Library's meme-tacular Instagram account: trying to read as a kid in America. | Continue reading
From the Milwaukee Public Library’s meme-tacular Instagram account: trying to read as a kid in America. | Continue reading
Photographer Reuben Wu was commissioned by Apple to take some of his wonderful light-painted photos with Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max in a project called The Inner Landscape. So proud to be one of the first photographers to reveal a new series of images captured on the Apple iPhone 15 … | Continue reading
'What Is Broken in American Politics Is the Republican Party'. "A grown-up Republican Party — even a deeply conservative one — would accept the rule of law, the norms of liberal democracy, and the legitimacy of the opposing party." | Continue reading
'What Is Broken in American Politics Is the Republican Party'. "A grown-up Republican Party — even a deeply conservative one — would accept the rule of law, the norms of liberal democracy, and the legitimacy of the opposing party." | Continue reading
Amazon has a bunch of stuff on sale today & tomorrow for an "event" they're calling Prime Big Deal Days. I'm not going to do a big roundup here, but here are a few things you might be interested in if you're an Amazon shopper: Apple AirPods Pro (2nd Gen) with Lightning connector … | Continue reading
Scholastic Under Fire for Allowing Schools to Opt Out of 'Diverse Books' for Book Fairs. "Why is it appropriate for Scholastic to have an easy censorship option?" | Continue reading
Scholastic Under Fire for Allowing Schools to Opt Out of 'Diverse Books' for Book Fairs. "Why is it appropriate for Scholastic to have an easy censorship option?" | Continue reading
Planet Earth III will begin airing later this year on BBC and, presumably, at some later time in the US. The latest installment in the legendary series, 17 years after the first one was released, will once again be presented by Sir David Attenborough, now 97 years old and still a … | Continue reading
An Epidemic of Chronic Illness Is Killing Us Too Soon. "The United States is failing at a fundamental mission — keeping people alive." | Continue reading
An Epidemic of Chronic Illness Is Killing Us Too Soon. "The United States is failing at a fundamental mission — keeping people alive." | Continue reading
Michael Lewis finds himself under the microscope. "What happens when a writer who is used to rapturous reception, with a knack for shaping stories, collides with an active public drama he doesn't control?" | Continue reading
Michael Lewis finds himself under the microscope. "What happens when a writer who is used to rapturous reception, with a knack for shaping stories, collides with an active public drama he doesn't control?" | Continue reading
Errol Morris Did Not Like This Q&A About His le Carré Film. "Properly considered, no one should ever under any circumstances talk to anybody else." | Continue reading
Errol Morris Did Not Like This Q&A About His le Carré Film. "Properly considered, no one should ever under any circumstances talk to anybody else." | Continue reading
Kelvin Kiptum shatters marathon world record with run of just over two hours. Wow, 2:00:35. "As the 23-year-old ran the final few hundred metres along Columbus Drive, he even had time to blow kisses and wave to the crowd." | Continue reading
Kelvin Kiptum shatters marathon world record with run of just over two hours. Wow, 2:00:35. "As the 23-year-old ran the final few hundred metres along Columbus Drive, he even had time to blow kisses and wave to the crowd." | Continue reading
This is like CSI for geography dorks: you're plopped into a random location on Google Street View and you have to guess where in the world you are. So much fun...you get to say "wait, zoom in, enhance, whoa, back up" to yourself while playing. My top score is 14103...what'd you g … | Continue reading
If you need a small window of peaceful beauty today, here you are. [This was originally posted on July 15, 2016.] Tags:Norway time lapse video | Continue reading
One could several hours delving into the Manuals Showcase over at the Internet Archive. Among the collection of handbooks, manuals, and guides, you'll find gems like the IBM Model B Electric Typewriter User Manual 1954, The Care and Training of Your Pet Rock, CIA Simple Sabotage … | Continue reading
From The Economist on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their work that led to the development of the Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, a lovely short appreciation of vaccines. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that vac … | Continue reading
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research recently conducted a poll asking Americans about their religious beliefs and found that about 30% of American adults are non-religious (which they refer to as "the nones", presumably after the book by Ryan Burge). The d … | Continue reading
This video from Practical Engineering offers a brief explanation of dozens of different types of railcars, from passenger train cars like the dining car & sleeper car to freight cars like the boxcar, tank car, and hopper cars (for hauling things like sand or grain) to specialized … | Continue reading
Erik Wernquist made his short film One Revolution Per Minute to explore his "fascination with artificial gravity in space". The film shows what it would be like to travel on a large, circular space station, 900 meters (0.56 miles) in diameter that rotates a 1 rpm. Even at that sl … | Continue reading
Fall always brings brisker days, earlier sunsets, and a whole raft of new books that are impossible to find the time to read. Add this memoir by Patrick Stewart to the pile next to your bed: Making It So (bookshop.org). The Hollywood Reporter has a great video excerpt with audio … | Continue reading
Shortly before his retirement at 60, Tatsuo Horiuchi picked up a copy of Microsoft Excel and started making art with it. His art does not look anything like you'd expect Excel art to look: Update: Here's a short video on Horiuchi and his art: [This was originally posted on Ju … | Continue reading
This is a treat: almost 25 minutes of legendary director Martin Scorsese talking about how he made his most iconic movies, from Mean Streets and Raging Bull to Gangs of New York and The Irishman. You have to laugh at the number of times he says, "Well, I didn't want to make this … | Continue reading
You really have to applaud the effort here: YouTuber Todd in the Shadows made a 33-minutes supercut of every song he could find that stops, even momentarily, on the word "stop". Here are the ground rules: If there was even the briefest of stops, I counted it. It's okay if the ban … | Continue reading
Megan Gray on a disturbing piece of information that was revealed in the antitrust case against Google: their search engine replaces some search queries with others that generate more commercial results (and therefore more money for the company). Here's how it works: Google likel … | Continue reading
Designed by architect Thomas Randall-Page, the Cody Dock rolling footbridge opens with a "surprising and playful motion" to let boats pass through by simply rolling out of the way. The bridge rolls on undulating rails cast into the concrete abutments on either bank. Ballast fills … | Continue reading
Wow, Nicholas Rougeux has restored John Gould’s A Monograph of the Trochilidæ, or Family of Humming-Birds, which was published between 1848 & 1887 and contains hand-colored lithographic depictions of almost every single hummingbird species known to exist at the time. From Roug … | Continue reading
Perhaps the most prominent part of the most well-known painting of Henry VIII (a now-lost work by Hans Holbein the Younger) is the giant codpiece poking through the male-heirless king's tunic. Evan Puschak analyzes the painting and fills us in on what makes this a particularly ef … | Continue reading
These days, instead of writing down lyrics and bringing them to the studio to record, many rappers are using the improvisational "punch-in method" to craft songs during the recording session. Is this good for the music? The jury is out, even within hip-hop. But in this behind-the … | Continue reading
Danielle Currie creates these amazing hand-embroidered artworks of satellite views of Earth. Danielle Currie's intricate hand embroidered pieces capture the beauty of Earth from a satellite view. Each piece is named with the latitude and longitude coordinates, providing observers … | Continue reading
50 unknown facts about Star Wars, many gleaned from How Star Wars Conquered the Universe. I've heard some of these before, but not many...the list doesn't include low-hanging fruit like Harrison Ford's carpentry. Favorite facts: 1. Early on, Luke Skywalker's nickname was "Wormy". … | Continue reading
I cannot get enough of Dan Coe's high-resolution images of rivers and river deltas constructed from lidar data. So swirly, swoopy, fractally, and squiggly! Many of these images are time machines, showing the various meanders these rivers took hundreds and thousands of years ago. … | Continue reading
Santiago Borja is an airline pilot who takes stunning photos of storms and clouds from the flight deck of his 767. Definitely offers up a different perspective than the typical storm chaser photography. You can find his work on his website, on Instagram, and in book form. Tags: … | Continue reading
From over 23,000 entered images, the judges in the Bird Photographer of the Year competition for 2023 have selected their winners and runners-up. I selected a few of my favorite images above; the photographers from top to bottom: Nicolas Reusens, Henley Spiers, and Gianni Maitan. … | Continue reading
Hey folks. Just wanted to check in with how The Process Tee is going. We've sold quite of a few of them so far, and I've just sent off the first of hopefully many donations to the National Network of Abortion Funds to the tune of $1288 to support their mission of working towards … | Continue reading
The Atlantic has an adapted excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson's new book, Democracy Awakening: The Origins of the Socialist Slur. It begins: For years after World War II, the "liberal consensus" — the New Deal idea that the federal government had a role to play in regulating bu … | Continue reading
Today is Jason's 50th birthday. Ten years ago, Aaron Cohen and I surprised Jason by rounding up as many Kottke.org guest hosts as we could find and taking over the site for the day. If I'd planned further ahead, I would have done something similarly spectacular, like all of us ( … | Continue reading
In a nice example of accidental occupational surnames, land artist Nikola Faller travelled to a pair of European parks (in Croatia and Hungary) to rake fallen leaves into a variety of patterns. You can check out more of Faller's work, including the sand art he's most well-known f … | Continue reading
Prince covered Radiohead's Creep at the Coachella music festival in 2008. The video got yanked due to copyright infringement but it's back up. For the moment anyway and perhaps forever...Prince's Twitter account linked to it. (via @anildash (who else??)) [This was originally po … | Continue reading
Heather Cox Richardson, author of the excellent Letters from an American newsletter, has a new book out today about the health of American democracy: Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. From Virginia Heffernan's review of the book in the Washington Post: She has a … | Continue reading