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Johnny Cash Covers Personal Jesus
While not nearly as popular as his amazing rendition of NIN’s Hurt, Johnny Cash’s stripped-down cover of Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus is fantastic. Both songs are from Cash’s sixty-seventh studio...
In the wake of Alex Ovechkin surpassing Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record,...
In the wake of Alex Ovechkin surpassing Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record, here are a selection of other seemingly unbreakable sports records, from LeBron’s career points to Flo-Jo’s 100 meters...
Wonderful photos of Broadway legends reprising their most memorable roles, including Idina...
Wonderful photos of Broadway legends reprising their most memorable roles, including Idina Menzel (Rent), Matthew Broderick (Brighton Beach Memoirs), Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl), and Dick Van Dyke (Bye Bye Birdie)....
The Goalkeeper Who Got Lost in the Fog
This is a fun story about Sam Bartram, a goalkeeper who was accidentally left on the field when a 1937 game was called off during the second half due to...
Stephen King used to “grant permission to students and aspiring filmmakers to...
Stephen King used to “grant permission to students and aspiring filmmakers to adapt one of his short stories for $1”. He called them his Dollar Babies. Frank Darabont made one...
Don’t Let the Days Go By…
This is a lovely cover of Bush’s Glycerine by Allison Lorenzen and Midwife, set to a poignant series of very short videos of everyday life. Give this 20 seconds of...
300 people in a small Michigan town formed a book brigade to...
300 people in a small Michigan town formed a book brigade to move books to a local bookstore’s new location from its old one. The move took ~2 hours and...
‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A...
‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers. “I have had some truly wild conversations about AI in a...
Contemporary Oil Paintings by Sebas Velasco
Spanish artist Sebas Velasco does these cool oil paintings that seem more like snapshots than conventional portraiture, still life, or landscape. They’re captured from the height & distance of a...
Good god, the official US government website for Covid (covid[dot]gov) now redirects...
Good god, the official US government website for Covid (covid[dot]gov) now redirects to a page on the White House site called “Lab Leak, The True Origins of Covid-19”. Our country...
Yesterday’s Manchester United vs Lyon Europa League quarterfinal match was absolutely and...
Yesterday’s Manchester United vs Lyon Europa League quarterfinal match was absolutely and completely bonkers. Check out the highlights. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
The next Star Wars film will be called Star Wars: Starfighter, stars...
The next Star Wars film will be called Star Wars: Starfighter, stars Ryan Gosling, will be out in mid-2027, and “will not be a prequel or a sequel, but a...
The Supreme Court Knows Trump Isn’t Listening Anymore. “If the justices wanted...
The Supreme Court Knows Trump Isn’t Listening Anymore. “If the justices wanted the president to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, they know what words to use. They didn’t use them.”
Timeless Tips for “Simple Sabotage” From the CIA
In 1944, the OSS (the precursor to the CIA) produced a document called the Simple Sabotage Field Manual (PDF). It was designed to be used by agents in the field...
I love this interactive visualization by The Pudding of the shared DNA...
I love this interactive visualization by The Pudding of the shared DNA of music (i.e. how “borrowed beats, loaned lyrics, and multipurpose melodies” are passed down through generations of music,...
Olympic Gold Medalist Dominates the 100m at Her Kid’s Sports Day Event
If you’re one of those people who watches the Olympics and wishes they’d put a normal person in the competition so we can see how fast the athletes really are,...
The Rise of the Infinite Fringe. “It used to be easy to...
The Rise of the Infinite Fringe. “It used to be easy to kill a conspiracy theory. But the internet has made them immortal — and politically powerful.”
Matt Webb’s interesting observations on running his first marathon. “There are new...
Matt Webb’s interesting observations on running his first marathon. “There are new experiences to be found, when you go past your limits, which aren’t like the old ones scaled up....
So You Want to Be a Dissident? For many, the US has...
So You Want to Be a Dissident? For many, the US has “crossed into a new & unfamiliar realm — one in which the consequences of challenging the state seem...
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society....
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society. “The more pedantic one’s reasoning for a facility not fully satisfying the criteria for a true concentration camp,...