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Hello, thanks for this fantastic software.

I subscribe to kottke.org and noticed this issue in the iOS app:

[visualcapitalist.com] is showing up as [visualcapitalist.com.-com]

Same with [wired.com]

I checked the feed for today Jan 12, 2021 and it looks to be correct there: [visualcapitalist.com]

http://feeds.kottke.org/main

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            <![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-accumulation-of-human-made-mass-on-earth/" target="_blank">For the first time in history in 2020, the weight of things produced by humans (concrete, metals, plastic) was greater than the weight of the global living biomass.</a> [visualcapitalist.com]</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-physics-of-wile-e-coyotes-10-billion-volt-electromagnet/" target="_blank">The Physics of Wile E. Coyote's 10 Billion-Volt Electromagnet. I am here for any vigorous fact-checking of cartoon physics.</a> [wired.com]</p><p>---</p><p>Note: Quick Links are pushed to this RSS feed twice a day. For more immediate service, check out <a href="https://kottke.org">the front page of kottke.org</a>, <a href="https://kottke.org/quick-links">the Quick Links archive</a>, or <a href="https://twitter.com/kottke">the @kottke Twitter feed</a>.</p>]]>
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tag:kottke.org,2009-08-11:05118 2022-01-12T18:29:12Z Jason Kottke's weblog, home of fine hypertext products Movable Type 4.2 tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40520 2022-01-12T18:29:12Z 2022-01-12T18:29:12Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

Perhaps intuiting our shared love and fond remembrance of school engineering competitions (egg drop! toothpick bridge!), Spencer Wright alerted me to the latest issue of The Prepared, specifically this bit about a competition to design toothpick towers that can withstand simulated earthquakes. Wright writes:

I’m a big fan of egg drop contests, in which teams make some kind of contraption that lets a raw egg fall — and not break — from a high height. Well, Sojo University’s Department of Architecture holds a seismic loading competition, in which teams of high schoolers build toothpick towers that stay standing when shaken by a simulated earthquake. The towers fail in delightful ways — some lean slowly, some topple all at once, some twist up over a period of minutes before collapsing on themselves. The full 2021 competition (which was live streamed!) can be seen in this video, though highlights of the 2010 competition are perhaps more fun to watch.

I’ve embedded the 2010 competition highlight video above…it’s a fun watch. (via the prepared)

]]> Tags:video]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://4656506 2022-01-12T17:52:01Z 2022-01-12T17:52:01Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org For the first time in history in 2020, the weight of things produced by humans (concrete, metals, plastic) was greater than the weight of the global living biomass. [visualcapitalist.com]

The Physics of Wile E. Coyote's 10 Billion-Volt Electromagnet. I am here for any vigorous fact-checking of cartoon physics. [wired.com]

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]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40507 2022-01-12T15:45:42Z 2022-01-12T15:45:42Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

In this clever simulation, bouncing balls obeying the laws of physics somehow arrange themselves, mid-chaos, into neat patterns. This is immensely satisfying.

Spoiler: the trick here is a pair of simulations stitched together, like a physics Texas Switch: “Each sequence is obtained by joining two simulations, both starting from the time in which the balls are arranged regularly. One simulates forward in time, one backwards.”

]]> Tags:physics   science   video]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://1738317 2022-01-11T22:52:01Z 2022-01-11T22:52:01Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org A list of lesser-known attachment styles, e.g. caffeine attachment, dance-battle attachment, and psychoanalyzing attachment ("you read that one book about attachment styles and now can't stop psychoanalyzing everything and everyone"). [newyorker.com]

"Maybe crypto is only for people who like playing with money, its mechanics and rules. That's not all there is to the software or to the web. And that's not for me." [seldo.com]

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]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40517 2022-01-11T19:59:14Z 2022-01-11T19:59:14Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org In a convocation address delivered at Howard University in March 1995, Toni Morrison noted that before fascist movements arrive at a “final solution” (the euphemism used by Nazi leaders to refer to the mass murder of Jews), there are preceding steps that they use to advance their agenda. From an excerpt of that speech published in The Journal of Negro Education:

Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another.

Morrison then continued, listing the pathway to fascism in ten steps:

1. Construct an internal enemy, as both focus and diversion.
2. Isolate and demonize that enemy by unleashing and protecting the utterance of overt and coded name-calling and verbal abuse. Employ ad hominem attacks as legitimate charges against that enemy.
3. Enlist and create sources and distributors of information who are willing to reinforce the demonizing process because it is profitable, because it grants power and because it works.
4. Palisade all art forms; monitor, discredit or expel those that challenge or destabilize processes of demonization and deification.
5. Subvert and malign all representatives of and sympathizers with this constructed enemy.
6. Solicit, from among the enemy, collaborators who agree with and can sanitize the dispossession process.
7. Pathologize the enemy in scholarly and popular mediums; recycle, for example, scientific racism and the myths of racial superiority in order to naturalize the pathology.
8. Criminalize the enemy. Then prepare, budget for and rationalize the building of holding arenas for the enemy — especially its males and absolutely its children.
9. Reward mindlessness and apathy with monumentalized entertainments and with little pleasures, tiny seductions, a few minutes on television, a few lines in the press, a little pseudo-success, the illusion of power and influence, a little fun, a little style, a little consequence.
10. Maintain, at all costs, silence.

As I have said before, you can see many of these steps playing out right now in America, orchestrated by a revitalized and emboldened right-wing movement that has captured the Republican Party. Jason Stanley, a scholar of fascism, recently wrote of Morrison’s speech:

Morrison’s interest was not in fascist demagogues or fascist regimes. It was rather in “forces interested in fascist solutions to national problems”. The procedures she described were methods to normalize such solutions, to “construct an internal enemy”, isolate, demonize and criminalize it and sympathizers to its ideology and their allies, and, using the media, provide the illusion of power and influence to one’s supporters.

Morrison saw, in the history of US racism, fascist practices — ones that could enable a fascist social and political movement in the United States.

Writing in the era of the “super-predator” myth (a Newsweek headline the next year read, “Superpredators: Should we cage the new breed of vicious kids?”), Morrison unflinchingly read fascism into the practices of US racism. Twenty-five years later, those “forces interested in fascist solutions to national problems” are closer than ever to winning a multi-decade national fight.

See also Umberto Eco’s 14 Features of Eternal Fascism and Fighting Authoritarianism: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century. (via jason stanley)

]]> Tags:lists   politics   racism   Toni Morrison   USA]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://8520872 2022-01-11T17:52:01Z 2022-01-11T17:52:01Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org Forget Wordle, Letterle is the new hotness. [edjefferson.com]

For the first time, water has been detected directly on the surface of the Moon, by the Chang'e 5 lunar lander. [phys.org]

Movies whose opening titles don't finish until well into the movie (The Fugitive: 15 min, No Time to Die: 27 min, Drive My Car: 42 min, The Departed: 20 min). [twitter.com]

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]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40518 2022-01-11T17:39:31Z 2022-01-11T17:39:31Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

The US Mint has started shipping a quarter featuring poet & activist Maya Angelou on it.

A writer, poet, performer, social activist, and teacher, Angelou rose to international prominence as an author after the publication of her groundbreaking autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Angelou’s published works of verse, non-fiction, and fiction include more than 30 bestselling titles. Her remarkable career encompasses dance, theater, journalism, and social activism.

The front of the Angelou quarter features a portrait of George Washington (a slaveowner, I feel it is important to note) that is different from the usual image on regular quarters. The new image was sculpted by Laura Gardin Fraser in 1931:

In 1931, Congress held a competition to design a coin to honor the 200th anniversary of George Washington’s birth. The original competition called for the obverse of the coin to feature a portrait of George Washington, based on the famed life-mask bust by French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. The reverse was to feature a design that was to be “national” in nature.

Laura Gardin Fraser submitted a design that features a right-facing portrait of George Washington on the obverse, while the reverse shows an eagle with wings spread wide. In a 1932 letter to recommend Fraser’s design, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) wrote to (then) Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon:

“This bust is regarded by artists who have studied it as the most authentic likeness of Washington. Such was the skill of the artist in making this life-mask that it embodies those high qualities of the man’s character which have given him a place among the great of the world…Simplicity, directness, and nobility characterize it. The design has style and elegance…The Commission believes that this design would present to the people of this country the Washington whom they revere.”

While her design was popular, it was not chosen. Instead, Secretary Mellon ultimately selected the left-facing John Flannigan design, which has appeared on the quarter’s obverse since 1932.

The Angelou quarter is the first in a series of quarters featuring notable American women:

Beginning in 2022 and continuing through 2025, the Mint will issue five quarters in each of these years. The ethnically, racially, and geographically diverse group of individuals honored through this program reflects a wide range of accomplishments and fields, including suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space, and the arts. The additional honorees in 2022 are physicist and first woman astronaut Dr. Sally Ride; Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation and an activist for Native American and women’s rights; Nina Otero-Warren, a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first female superintendent of Santa Fe public schools; and Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, who achieved international success despite racism and discrimination.

The Angelou quarter will start circulating later this month and early next month — look for it in your change soon!

]]> Tags:art   currency   Laura Gardin Fraser   Maya Angelou   money   USA]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40509 2022-01-11T15:35:57Z 2022-01-11T15:35:57Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

Artist Sarah Ross’s project Archisuits draws attention to architecture in LA that is specifically designed to prohibit people from sitting on it. Each suit is produced to fit into a specific hostile architectural element so that the wearer can sit or lie comfortably on it.

]]> Tags:art   fashion   Sarah Ross]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40515 2022-01-10T20:34:05Z 2022-01-10T20:34:05Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, writes about the recent revitalization of the long tradition in the United States of fascist movements using race & racism as tools to move towards their goals. And now with attacks on the courts, education, voting rights, and women’s rights, America is now in fascism’s legal phase.

According to the International Center for Not for Profit Law, 45 states have considered 230 bills criminalizing protest, with the threat of violent leftist and Black rebellion being used to justify them. That this is happening at the same time that multiple electoral bills enabling a Republican state legislature majority to overturn their state’s election have been enacted suggests that the true aim of bills criminalizing protest is to have a response in place to expected protests against the stealing of a future election (as a reminder of fascism’s historical connection to big business, some of these laws criminalize protest near gas and oil lines).

The Nazis used Judeo-Bolshevism as their constructed enemy. The fascist movement in the Republican party has turned to critical race theory instead. Fascism feeds off a narrative of supposed national humiliation by internal enemies. Defending a fictional glorious and virtuous national past, and presenting its enemies as deviously maligning the nation to its children, is a classic fascist strategy to stoke fury and resentment. Using the bogeyman of critical race theory, 29 states have introduced bills to restrict teaching about racism and sexism in schools, and 13 states have enacted such bans.

Something I was disappointed about on last week’s anniversary of the terrorist attack on Congress was too much emphasis on Trump’s role in what happened on that day, as if focusing on him somehow makes it possible that the rest of the Republican Party can jettison this bad seed at some point without losing face and American politics can get back to the bipartisan business as usual. This is a total fiction, and as Stanley correctly notes, this shift towards fascism is a party-wide effort that preceded Trump and will outlive him.

]]> Tags:Donald Trump   Jason Stanley   politics   racism   USA]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40513 2022-01-10T18:17:39Z 2022-01-10T18:17:39Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

Three years ago, cinematographer and director Morgan Cooper uploaded a fan-made trailer for a gritty reboot/retelling of the 90s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. It caught the attention of Will Smith, who decided to give Cooper the go-ahead to develop his idea into a series. And now the first trailer of that series, Bel-Air, has dropped. Looks great…I’m going to watch.

]]> Tags:Bel-Air   Morgan Cooper   The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air   trailers   TV   video   Will Smith]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://2779357 2022-01-10T17:52:02Z 2022-01-10T17:52:02Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org Let's Settle This. "Internet debates have raged for too long. It's time to settle the big questions so we can move on." Marvel or DC? Is a hog dog a sandwich? Could Jack have fit on the door in Titanic? [neal.fun]

An important point related to the transition between epidemic and endemic Covid: if society is still experiencing significant disruptions, we're still in the epidemic phase. [twitter.com]

The Insurrection Index is a database of "individuals and organizations in positions of public trust who were involved in the deadly attack on the Capitol" on Jan 6, including elected officials, law enforcement, etc. [insurrectionindex.org]

Wes Anderson will adapt Roald Dahl's short story collection The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More for Netflix (the company bought Dahl's entire catalog last year). [hollywoodreporter.com]

An interesting collection of threads from web gem Ask MetaFilter, compiled by Phil Gyford (also a web gem), e.g. "Easy reads with literary flourishes", "Ikea, but like, the *good* Ikea", and "Nurses! What’s on your feet?" [gyford.com]

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]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40510 2022-01-10T16:28:04Z 2022-01-10T16:28:04Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

I look forward to this every year: David Ehrlich’s video countdown of the 25 best films of 2021. It’s like a trailer for an entire year’s worth of movies, lovingly constructed by a movie fan, critic, and editor, chock full of vivid imagery, memorable moments, and homages to great films of the past. I want to take the rest of the day off and just watch all of these…

]]> Tags:best of   best of 2021   David Ehrlich   lists   movies   video]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40505 2022-01-10T14:16:44Z 2022-01-10T14:16:44Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

Astronaut Scott Kelly arranged to have a gorilla suit sent up to him during his year spent on the International Space Station. One day, near the end of the mission in 2016, he put it on, stowed away in a large storage container, and then escaped and went on a “rampage”.

]]> Tags:ISS   NASA   Scott Kelly   space   video]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40493 2022-01-07T22:04:22Z 2022-01-07T22:04:22Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

I am in deep like with this image of neatly arranged eggshells by Kristen Meyer. And her saltine arrangement is still extremely satisfying. You can check out more of her work on her website and at Instagram. Ok wait, I really like this one too:

(via colossal)

]]> Tags:art   design   Kristen Meyer]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40499 2022-01-07T20:23:28Z 2022-01-07T20:23:28Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

A Chinese man who was abducted from his family when he was four years old recently found his mother by drawing a map of his village from memory and posting it online. From The Guardian:

Thirty years ago, when Li Jingwei was four years old, a neighbour abducted him from his home village in China’s Yunnan province and sold him to a child trafficking ring.

Now he has been reunited with his mother after drawing a map of his home village from his memories of three decades ago and sharing it on a popular video-sharing app in the hope that someone might be able to identify it.

“I’m a child who’s looking for his home,” Li said in the video. Unable to recall the name of his village or his address, Li’s recollection and reconstruction of the village’s key features - including a school, a bamboo forest and a pond - proved crucial.

“I knew the trees, stones, cows and even which roads turn and where the water flows,” Li said in an interview with the Paper, a Chinese media outlet.

When I first read this story, I was interested in the incredible drawn-from-memory map but now I’m wondering about what kind of relationship Li has with the people who arranged to have him abducted (which the article calls his “adoptive parents”??!?) (via the morning news)

]]> Tags:crime   kidnapping   maps]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5129763 2022-01-07T17:52:01Z 2022-01-07T17:52:01Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org Interesting thoughts from an indigenous person about The Book of Boba Fett and its portrayal of the Tuskens. [twitter.com]

From I Love Typography, the Year in Type for 2021. [ilovetypography.com]

Novelist Emma Straub loved working in her neighborhood bookstore and it eventually inspired her to open her own. This is a lovely piece about books, bookstores, neighborhoods, and book lovers. [lithub.com]

Rick Rubin: The Invisibility of Hip Hop's Greatest Producer. "It's still difficult to explain the legacy of a man who doesn't appear to do much while doing everything at the same time." [youtube.com]

A Note of Reassurance from Your School District Regarding Our Updated Omicron Policies. 1. "Your child's classroom will have no teachers." 2. "Your child should report to school no matter what." [mcsweeneys.net]

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]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40502 2022-01-07T17:39:28Z 2022-01-07T17:39:28Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

Brazilian photographer Luisa Dörr travelled to Bolivia and photographed the members of ImillaSkate, a group of Aymara and Quechua women who skateboard, often in traditional cholita clothing. From a slideshow of photos by Dörr in El Pais (translated from Spanish by Google):

I traveled to Cochabamba in September and was struck by the strong prejudice that exists in Bolivian society against indigenous people. There are medical cholitas or lawyers there who radically change their way of dressing if they go to the city and you hardly see young cholitas. It is a culture that is being lost. However, these women, beyond emboldening girls with sport, show their pride in being cholitas.

Here’s a short documentary about ImillaSkate with English subtitles and you can follow more of Dörr’s work on Instagram. See also the Girls of Guanabara.

]]> Tags:Bolivia   ImillaSkate   Luisa Dorr   photography   skateboarding   sports]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40497 2022-01-07T15:39:53Z 2022-01-07T15:39:53Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

I only read ebooks these days and don’t make it to the one decent bookstore within a 60-minute drive from my house that often, but I still love love book covers. As I do every year, I’ve perused the end-of-year lists of the best covers and pulled out some favorites, which I’ve embedded above.

From top to bottom: Outlawed by Anna North, designed by Rachel Willey; Dead Souls by Sam Riviere, designed by Jamie Keenan; Foucault in Warsaw by Remigiusz Ryzinski, designed by Daniel Benneworth-Gray; Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit, designed by Gray318; Laserwriter II by Tamara Shopsin, designed by Tamara Shopsin;¹Pure Gold by John Patrick McHugh, designed by Jack Smyth; and Nectarine by Chad Campbell, designed by by Dave Drummond.

You can find many more great covers in these lists: The 50 Best Book Covers of 2021 (Print), The Best Book Covers of 2021 (NY Times), The 101 Best Book Covers of 2021 (Literary Hub), Notable Book Covers of 2021 (The Casual Optimist), 8 of the Best Book Covers of 2021 (AIGA Eye on Design), The best book covers of the year 2021 (Creative Review), and The Best Book Covers of 2021 (Book Riot).

See also my lists from past years: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2014, and 2013.

1. This is awesome. If I ever write a book with a traditional publisher, I’m going to fight (probably unsuccessfully) to design the cover.↩

]]> Tags:best of   best of 2021   book covers   books   design   lists]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://1778961 2022-01-06T22:52:01Z 2022-01-06T22:52:01Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org Afghanistan Has Become the World's Largest Humanitarian Crisis. Four months after the Taliban resumed control of the country, "more than twenty million Afghans are on the brink of famine". [newyorker.com]

With their Housing First policy, Finland is making great progress in reducing their unhoused population by giving everyone a home, unconditionally. "A home should be the secure foundation that makes it easier to solve your problems." [theguardian.com]

A visualization of mass shootings in the US since 2014. More than once a day on average, there's a shooting in which four people are injured or killed by guns. [theguardian.com]

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]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://6630131 2022-01-06T17:52:01Z 2022-01-06T17:52:01Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org Margaret Sullivan: news organizations need to make "democracy-under-siege a central focus of the work they present to the public". [washingtonpost.com]

Jimmy Carter: I Fear for Our Democracy. "Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy." [nytimes.com]

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]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://7065632 2022-01-06T01:52:02Z 2022-01-06T01:52:02Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org Every James Bond Movie, Ranked. [vulture.com]

A list of everything Steven Soderbergh read or saw in 2021. [extension765.com]

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]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40486 2022-01-05T20:07:34Z 2022-01-05T20:07:34Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org Craig Ward has been creating letterforms using Lego bricks and posting the results to Instagram. The ones I really love are the anti-aliased letters — reminds me of zooming all the way in to do detail work in Photoshop back when I was a web designer.

There is just something so satisfying about meticulously rendering digital artifacts in a physical medium like Lego.

]]> Tags:Craig Ward   design   Lego   remix   typography]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40473 2022-01-05T17:58:01Z 2022-01-05T17:58:01Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

Activist and educator Mariame Kaba has created a walking tour of NYC (alternate versiondigitized by Claire Goldberg, Anna Wu, and Fatima Koli) that focuses on activities around slavery and resistance from 1626 to 1865.

The Atlantic Slave Trade was the largest forced migration in world history. Twelve million Africans were captured and enslaved in the Americas. More than 90 per day for 400 years. Over 40,000 ships brought enslaved Africans across the ocean. Though New York Passed an act to gradually abolish slavery in 1799 and manumitted the last enslaved people in 1827, it remained an intrinsic part of city life until after the civil war, as businesspeople continued to profit off of the products of the slave trade like sugar and molasses imported from the Caribbean.

I’m doing this walk the next time I’m back in NYC. I’ve been to some of the places on the tour before, but haven’t considered them through the lens of slavery.

]]> Tags:Anna Wu   Claire Goldberg   Fatima Koli   maps   Mariame Kaba   NYC   slavery]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://8216211 2022-01-05T17:52:01Z 2022-01-05T17:52:01Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org In a small 5-year study of basic income in Hudson, NY, "employment among the participants went from 29% to 63%" and they reported better health and personal relationships with others. [fastcompany.com]

"This is a short story about what happened to the U.S. economy since the end of World War II." How debt, inequality, and expectations got us to where we are now. [collaborativefund.com]

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Charles and Ray Eames’ 1977 short film Powers of Ten is one of the best bits of science communication ever created…and a personal favorite of mine. Here’s a description of the original film:

Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only a s a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward — into the hand of the sleeping picnicker — with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell.

As an homage, the BBC and particle physicist Brian Cox have created an updated version that reflects what we’ve learned about the universe in the 45 years since Powers of Ten was made. The new video zooms out to the limits of our current observational powers, to about 100 billion light years away, 1000X wider than in the original. (I wish they would have done the zoom in part of the video too, but maybe next year!)

And if you’d like to explore the scales of the universe for yourself, check out the Universe in a Nutshell app from Tim Urban and Kurzgesagt — you can zoom in and out as far as you want and interact with and learn about objects along the way.

]]> Tags:astronomy   Brian Cox   Charles and Ray Eames   long zoom   movies   physics   Powers of Ten   science   space   video]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://1087621 2022-01-04T22:52:01Z 2022-01-04T22:52:01Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org From the Morning News, a number of journalists, writers, and thinkers weigh in on the most and least important things that happened in 2021. [themorningnews.org]

On the "large grey area between an Offensive Stereotype and 'thing that can be misconstrued as a stereotype if one uses a particularly reductive lens of interpretation that the text itself is not endorsing'". [rnorningstars.tumblr.com]

Queens of Infamy, a series of entertaining biographies of "badass world-historical women of centuries past" written by Anne Thériault. [longreads.com]

"Chevrolet's ad for the 2015 Colorado has claimed the title of America's Most Toxic Car Ad." [usa.streetsblog.org]

Covid-19 cases reported in the US for January 3: over 1 million. [nbcnews.com]

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]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40480 2022-01-04T19:45:57Z 2022-01-04T19:45:57Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

Over a period of 50 years, legendary Dutch designer Ootje Oxenaar drew replacement book cover spines for the books in his library. A selection of his spine replacements are collected in a book called Ootje Oxenaar Spines.

Although renowned for his designs for Dutch banknotes and postage stamps, Oxenaar was a prolific designer of book spines. This wasn’t done for commercial publishers, but for books in his own library. When he didn’t care for what he saw poking out from a shelf (or when he needed to procrastinate) he would make his own spine for a book. The result is a fantastic and fantastical mosaic made of tall-and-skinny strips, hand-lettered and drawn with great skill and great whimsy.

Check out Steven Heller’s post at Print for more examples. (via i love typography)

]]> Tags:books   design   Ootje Oxenaar   remix]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://4754298 2022-01-04T17:52:01Z 2022-01-04T17:52:01Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org The cinematographers of 29 of this year's Oscar contenders detail the cameras and lenses they used to shoot their films (and why they chose them). [indiewire.com]

On the secondary effects of getting vaccinated. "We estimate that COVID-19 vaccination reduces anxiety and depression symptoms by nearly 30%." [nber.org]

Readers of the NY Times Book Review pick the best book published in the past 125 years. Is it 1984? The Fellowship of the Ring? To Kill a Mockingbird? Beloved? [nytimes.com]

What went right in 2021: the top 26 good news stories of the year. [positive.news]

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]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40468 2022-01-04T17:37:37Z 2022-01-04T17:37:37Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

Among Brazilian artist Rafael Silveira’s surrealist work are these portraits of people with landscape faces. I loved what he said about them in brief remarks to Colossal:

From inside, we are a strange mix of dreams, thoughts, feelings, and human meat. I think these portraits are not persons but moods.

(via colossal)

]]> Tags:art   Rafael Silveira]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40462 2022-01-04T15:29:47Z 2022-01-04T15:29:47Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org From The Guardian, a list of 100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying. Some notables:

12. Sharpen your knives.

15. Keep your children’s drawings and paintings. Put the best ones in frames.

25. Look closely.

27. If possible, take the stairs.

35. Eat salted butter (life’s too short for unsalted).

47. Take out your headphones when walking — listen to the world.

75. Keep your keys in the same place.

89. Politely decline invitations if you don’t want to go.

As usual, the last item on any such list should be “Don’t listen to any of this.”

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Using a composite of 25 different shots done over a period of 12 minutes in his backyard, amateur astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy created this stunning image of Comet Leonard. From PetaPixel:

Processing comet images is a challenge because even in the span of 12 minutes, the comet drifts across the frame relative to the background stars,” McCarthy tells PetaPixel. “Due to the comet’s motion, it has to be stacked differently. I tell the software to stack the images based on the comet position and star positions separately, which is then combined together to produce an image with the comet and stars both sharp.

See also this image of Leonard and McCarthy’s colorful photo of a full moon.

]]> Tags:Andrew McCarthy   astronomy   Comet Leonard   photography   space]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://2408267 2022-01-03T22:52:01Z 2022-01-03T22:52:01Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org Among the works that entered the public domain in the US on 1/1/22 are Winnie-the-Pooh, The Sun Also Rises, a ton of early blues and jazz music, and movies starring Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. [web.law.duke.edu]

If, like me, you woke up this morning wondering where the James Webb Telescope is currently located, you can check out this tracker to satisfy your curiosity. [jwst.nasa.gov]

Solid thread about Matrix Resurrections and its "lack of subtlety". How would you "react if the worst stupidest people DID make an entire fascist movement off your campy-cyberpunk action-philosophy franchise"? [twitter.com]

Superheroes create cultural acceptance for popular oligarchy. "What does the current popularity of comic book superheroes, in culture, do? It reinforces the idea of a hierarchy of human, with the ubermensch as its apex." [interconnected.org]

2021, The Year in Questions. "Can psychedelics cure us? Did George Floyd get justice? Is it too late to buy Bitcoin? Should we get rid of the SAT? Is there a reality crisis?" [nytimes.com]

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]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40458 2022-01-03T18:35:18Z 2022-01-03T18:35:18Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org For the last few years, I’ve been a fan of Tom Whitwell’s annual list of 52 things he learned during the past year — here’s his list for 2021. This year, I kept track of my own list, presented here in no particular order:

1. “In Fargo, Carl says ‘30 minutes, Jerry, we wrap this thing up’ when there are exactly 30 minutes of the movie remaining.”
2. There’s a Boeing 727 cargo plane that’s used exclusively for horse transportation nicknamed Air Horse One.
3. In March 2020, the Covid-19 testing capacity for all of NYC was 120 tests per day.
4. “The last time ships got stuck in the Suez Canal [in 1967], they were there for eight years and developed a separate society with its own Olympic Games.”
5. The pronunciation of the last name of the man who lent his name to Mount Everest (over his objections) is different than the pronunciation of the mountain.
6. While recording the audiobook version of Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White needed 17 takes to read Charlotte’s death scene because he kept crying.
7. America’s anti-democratic Senate, in one number. “Once Warnock and Ossoff take their seats, the Democratic half of the Senate will represent 41,549,808 more people than the Republican half.”
8. The first rap video shown on MTV was Rapture by Blondie.
9. As of 2019, only 54% of Americans accept the theory of evolution.
10. When CBD is taken orally (as in a pill, food, or beverage), as little as 5% of it enters your bloodstream. “If you’re at the coffee shop and like ‘oh, yeah, give me a CBD,’ you’re just wasting $3.”
11. The size of FedEx boxes is proprietary. “The size of an official FedEx box, not just its design, is proprietary; it is a volume of space which is a property exclusive to FedEx.”
12. In golf, finishing four strokes under par on a single hole is called a condor.
13. A commemorative press plate is given to authors and photographers who have made the front page of the NY Times for the first time.
14. A button installed at the behest of the previous President summoned a Diet Coke to the Oval Office when pressed.
15. The number of people born in Antarctica (11) is fewer than the number of people who have walked on the Moon (12).
16. The market for table saws is $200-400 million but they cause almost $4 billion in damage annually. Power tools companies aren’t liable for the damage, which is borne by individual users, workers comp, and the health system.
17. Disney animators occasionally“recycle” scenes from older films, keeping the motion and choreography while redrawing the characters.
18. In the past 45 years, the top 1% of Americans have taken $50 trillion from the bottom 90%.
19. People age at different speeds. “People varied widely in biological aging: The slowest ager gained only 0.4 ‘biological years’ for each chronological year in age; in contrast, the fastest-aging participant gained nearly 2.5 biological years for every chronological year.”
20. The Six Flags amusement parks were named after the flags of the six countries that represented Texas throughout its history, including the Confederacy. The last Confederate flags flying outside Six Flags’ locations were removed only in 2017.
21. Humans have evolved to out-drink other mammals. “Many species have enzymes that break alcohol down and allow the body to excrete it, avoiding death by poisoning. But about 10 million years ago, a genetic mutation left our ancestors with a souped-up enzyme that increased alcohol metabolism 40-fold.”
22. “It takes about 200 hours of investment in the space of a few months to move a stranger into being a good friend.”
23. There are only 25 blimps in the whole world.
24. In 2016, a fourth division Spanish football club renamed itself Flat Earth FC.
25. “What exactly is meant by the term ‘Holocaust’? It means that the global Jewish population in 2019 (~15 million) is still lower than it was in 1939 (16.6 million). So many Jews were murdered that we still haven’t recovered demographically after 80 years.”
26. Cannabis delivery isn’t legal in Maine, so this enterprising online shop employs “psychics” to “find a wide selection of your lost weed and drop it off at your home”.
27. How algorithms radicalize the users of social media platforms. “Facebook’s own research revealed that 64 percent of the time a person joins an extremist Facebook Group, they do so because the platform recommended it.”
28. Andre Agassi learned to break Boris Becker’s fierce serve by noting the position of Becker’s tongue right before he served.
29. In emergencies, mammals can breathe through their anus.
30. There are chess positions that humans players can understand easily that the most powerful chess engines can’t.
31. As of May 2021, “Republicans and white people have actually become less supportive of Black Lives Matter than they were before the death of George Floyd.”
32. Build-A-Bear over-purchased yellow fabric to make Minions plushies, so the company released a number of yellow stuffed animals made of the surplus “minion skin”.
33. Scientists didn’t discover that the cause of the 1918 influenza pandemic was a virus until 1933. “At the time most microbiologists believed that influenza was caused by a bacteria.”
34. Skinny bike tires are not faster than wider tires. “The increased vibrations of the narrower tires caused energy losses that canceled out the gains from the reduced flex.”
35. The first RV was made out of a fallen redwood tree and was called “Travel Log”.
36. “In the last four years, Costa Rica has generated 98.53% of its electricity from renewable sources.”
37. Disney Imagineers use smaller bricks at the top of buildings to make them seem bigger and taller than they are.
38. “Dogs tend to poop aligned north-south.”
39. There are three different types of fun. “Type 2 fun is miserable while it’s happening, but fun in retrospect.”
40. Babylonians were using Pythagorean calculations for the dimensions of right triangles 1000 years before Pythagoras was born.
41. Galileo didn’t invent the telescope and wasn’t even the first to use it for astronomical purposes.
42. By counting excess deaths from Jan 2020 to Sept 2021, the Economist estimates that more than 15 million people have died of Covid-19 worldwide, more than 3 times the official death toll of ~4.6 million.
43. Michael K. Williams choreographed the dancing in the music video for Crystal Waters’ 100% Pure Love.
44. Gas stations don’t make much money selling gasoline. The goods inside gas station stores “only account for ~30% of the average gas station’s revenue, yet bring in 70% of the profit”.
45. Solastalgia “is the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediate assault” (e.g. by climate change).
46. The Beishan Broadcasting Wall in Kinmen, Taiwan was a massive three-story speaker system built in 1967 to broadcast anti-Communist messages to China.
47. Before he became a famous actor, Timothée Chalamet had a small YouTube channel where he showed off his custom-painted Xbox 360 controllers.
48. “China is planning at least 150 new [nuclear] reactors in the next 15 years, more than the rest of the world has built in the past 35.”
49. Earlier this fall, a bar-tailed godwit set the world record for the longest continual flight by a land bird: about 8100 miles and “flapping its wings for 239 hours without rest”.
50. “About one in five health-care workers [in the US] has left medicine since the pandemic started.”
51. The Chevy Suburban has been in production under that same name since 1935, “making it the longest continuously used automobile nameplate in production”.
52. The ubiquitous Chinese food takeout container was originally invented for carrying oysters.

]]> Tags:lists]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://6233160 2022-01-03T17:52:01Z 2022-01-03T17:52:01Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org Atari is releasing three new games for the Atari 2600 game console. [atarixp.com]

Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now. "The Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy and has shown that it is willing to use violence to achieve its ends." [nytimes.com]

The FDA has approved a third dose of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine for children aged 12-15. [reuters.com]

Quetzalcoatlus was the biggest flying animal to ever live – 12-feet tall with a 40-foot wingspan. [news.berkeley.edu]

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]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40422 2022-01-03T16:21:00Z 2022-01-03T16:21:00Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

A group of activists called Slavers Of New York is working to educate people about the prominent New Yorkers who lent their names to the city’s geography (Nostrand, Bergen, Rivington, Stuyvesant, Lefferts, Boerum) and were also slave owners or traffickers. From the NY Times:

Just a few months before, while scrolling through social media, Mx. Waithe had stumbled upon records from the nation’s first census in 1790, which listed well-known New York families like the Leffertses, the Boerums and the Nostrands. To the right of those names was another category: “slaves.”

According to the census, the Lefferts family enslaved 87 Black people throughout New York City (Prospect Lefferts Gardens and an avenue in that Brooklyn neighborhood were named after them). The Boerums owned 14 slaves (the neighborhood Boerum Hill is named for them). And the Nostrands (of the eight-mile-long Nostrand Avenue), enslaved 23 people (this number would nearly double by the beginning of the 19th century).

The discovery sparked Slavers of New York, a sticker campaign and education initiative dedicated to calling out — and eventually mapping — the history of slavery in New York City.

The group detailed how they started where the project is headed in an interview in Guernica:

Mainly, our goal is to just educate people about the legacy of slavery and how it persists in the present day. We don’t advocate for changing the names in any way. We hope that, if people feel so inclined to change names, they create their own groups and engage in political action. I definitely think there should be more context available in public places. When Maria and I went to Stuyvesant Square in Manhattan, a statue of Peter Stuyvesant was there in the middle of the park, glorified, and there’s no information about his slave-owning history.

What’s really interesting is that some of the naming of places for slavers happened more recently than you would imagine. Boerum Hill wasn’t called “Boerum Hill” until 1964 or so, when that name was resurrected as part of the gentrification of Brooklyn. You can see, directly, the entanglement of the history of slavery and gentrification. Bringing this man’s name back into the neighborhood is a symbol of violence. The persistence of these names and links carry this space through history.

You can keep up with the group’s efforts on Twitter and Instagram and support their mission on GoFundMe. (Map above courtesy of The Decolonial Atlas.)

]]> Tags:language   maps   NYC   slavery]]> tag:kottke.org,2022://5.40459 2022-01-03T13:46:02Z 2022-01-03T13:46:02Z Jason Kottke http://www.kottke.org

Vaccines, reunions, coups, climate crisis, shortages, resignations, crypto, strikes, protests, conspiracy thinking, inequality, exploration, breaking down barriers…these are just some of the things that we experienced and turned our focus on in 2021.

See also the AP’s Year in Review, the UN’s 2021 Year in Review, and 100 Things We Learned in 2021 from Mental Floss.

]]> Tags:video]]> tag:kottke.org,2021://6962872 2021-12-31T22:52:01Z 2021-12-31T22:52:01Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org The legendary Betty White has died just a few weeks short of her 100th birthday. [tmz.com]

The FDA is set to approve third doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds. [nytimes.com]

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For a few years now, I’ve been keeping track of all the stuff I read, watch, listen to, and experience — I call it my media diet. As 2021 comes to a close, I’m sharing some of my favorite things from a year that was somehow even weirder than last year.

The French Dispatch. I saw this twice and loved it. Maybe my favorite Wes Anderson movie since Tenenbaums? (That feels crazy to say but also might be true?)

Making Sense — The Boundaries of Self. This podcast conversation with poet David Whyte felt like a turning point in my year.

Strava. I first tried mountain biking in the fall of 2020 and this year it blossomed into a favorite hobby. Despite a lot of other responsibilities and engagements, I got out on the bike once or twice a week during the spring, summer, and fall and missed it when I couldn’t manage a ride. I recorded all of my rides with Strava and was gratified to see progress and to try and beat my personal bests.

Handshake Speakeasy. Post-vaccination (and pre-Delta and Omicron) I was able to travel a bit. This new-ish bar in Mexico City had some of the coolest, tasty, and unique cocktails I’ve ever had. (Handshake was named the 25th best bar in the world earlier this month.) Baltra Bar was also quite good. Restaurant-wise, Quintonil was amazing. But just walking around the city, eating street food, going to museums, ducking into bookstores, and wandering through markets was such a fantastic experience after a difficult 16 months.

Fleabag (season two). I rewatched this when I was deep in the emotional weeds this summer and I think it might be the best season of television ever made. I laughed like a maniac and cried like a baby. The final scene is absolute perfection.

The Great British Bake-Off. My kids got me into this over the summer and it is, as many of you discovered in early 2020, the perfect low-stakes entertainment for getting one’s mind off of current events for 60 minutes at a time.

Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT162b2) and Moderna (mRNA-1273) Covid-19 Vaccines. Getting vaccinated (full three-series) and seeing my kids & friends (and their kids) get fully vaccinated was the absolute best thing that happened to me this year. Getting back to some semblance of normalcy, at least in certain situations at certain times with certain people, while being protected against severe disease and death, felt incredible.

The Premier League. I’ve watched a lot of football this year, mostly the Premier League but also the occasional PSG, Dortmund, Bayern, and Barca matches. Oh, and the Euros and Copa America. I don’t have a favorite team, I just like watching the best players in the world play football at a high level. I know this particular way of being a sports fan is often offensive to Real Sports Fans™ because you need to have a team and get upset and rend your garments when they lose and beat up the other teams’ fans, but my parents didn’t happen to live within 20 miles of an English soccer stadium when I was born, so I can do what I like.

You’re Wrong About. For the second year in a row, my favorite podcast. I couldn’t wait for the new episodes to drop on Monday. However. Michael Hobbes left the show in October and while I’ve been giving the show’s new format the benefit of the doubt, I’m not sure about it. Both Hobbes and co-host Sarah Marshall are individually wonderful but it was their combination that made the show marvelous and that bit is missing now.

Succession (season 3). My interest waned at times in the middle of the season, but I thought the last two episodes were outstanding. Plus, in preparation for this season, I watched season two’s finale and got to see this scene again.

The ocean. This should be on the list every year. Visiting the ocean nourishes my soul like little else and I was able to make that happen several times this year.

The Painter and the Thief. Remarkable documentary and maybe the best film I saw this year.

L.L. Bean fleece-lined hoodie. I lived in this thing for most of the year — so comfortable.

Dune. I can’t even put my finger on why I enjoyed this movie so much.

Donda. Ugh, I know. I continue to hate how much I love parts of this album.

The pandemic scribes. Even if you’re not a conspiracy theorist in thrall to religion, fascist media, or “wellness”, it’s been difficult to find steady, non-hysterical information, analysis, and opinion about the pandemic. I’m grateful to Zeynep Tufekci, Eric Topol, Ed Yong, Katelyn Jetelina, Jodi Ettenberg, Carl Zimmer, and others for keeping me informed.

NYC. I missed this place immensely: the restaurants, the bars, the museums, the people, the subway, the bookstores, the architecture, the crowds, the culture, the walkability. Keep all the outdoor seating and space reclaimed from cars please!

Wandavision. I was extremely charmed by this wonderful love letter to television.

I also enjoyed Mare of Easttown, Nixon at War, Summer of Soul, Black Art: In the Absence of Light, The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, Ted Lasso (season two), Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney, Soul (+ the soundtrack), and Laserwriter II by Tamara Shopsin but don’t have anything specific to say about them, for secret reasons. I’ll see you in 2022.

]]> Tags:books   media diet   movies   podcasts   restaurants   travel   TV]]> tag:kottke.org,2021://1919609 2021-12-25T13:52:01Z 2021-12-25T13:52:01Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org Reminder: after 20 years of work, the James Webb Space Telescope is set to launch into orbit today. Liftoff is at about 7:20 AM ET; watch live here. [youtu.be]

The tragedy of Johnson & Johnson's Covid vaccine. "The company was bested by one of the central facts of drug development: Biology is unfair, and, besides, you can’t be smart enough to beat bad luck." [statnews.com]

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]]> tag:kottke.org,2021://7988271 2021-12-23T22:52:01Z 2021-12-23T22:52:01Z Jason Kottke https://www.kottke.org "Inclusive Design is a methodology, born out of digital environments, that enables and draws on the full range of human diversity. Most importantly, this means including and learning from people with a range of perspectives." [microsoft.com]

The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum has been collecting items related to the pandemic, climate crisis, and fight for social justice, including Naomi Osaka's face mask and a gerrymandered font. [cooperhewitt.org]

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I wonder, is this an issue in the app?

[brentsimmons]

What type of account? On My iPhone, Feedly, iCloud, etc.?

[dkhamsing]

It was Feedly.

I deleted it.

I created a new Local (On My iPhone) account called New.

Same issue

iOS 6.0.2 build 610

[Wevah]

This is probably a result of auto-hyphenation in WebKit.

[teddybradford]

Is there a way to disable auto-hyphenation?

[Wevah]

Now that NNW supports themes, you could duplicate the default theme and set body { -webkit-hyphens: none; } in the CSS, and then use that theme. Maybe not an optimal solution for many people though.

[dkhamsing]

No longer an issue in iOS 15.4.1 🙏