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Purged gov’t employees, while scrambling to find work & health insurance, face...
Purged gov’t employees, while scrambling to find work & health insurance, face MAGA relatives who are cheering their firing. “Some members of her mostly conservative family have unfriended her on...
I woke up Saturday wondering how observers of Ramadan time their fasting...
I woke up Saturday wondering how observers of Ramadan time their fasting in polar regions, where sunrise & sunset don’t exist for months on end. “Muslims in the Arctic are...
A forthcoming novel from Patricia Lockwood: Will There Ever Be Another You....
A forthcoming novel from Patricia Lockwood: Will There Ever Be Another You. Really looking forward to this one — her No One Is Talking About This is a favorite of...
A game called “It is as if you were on your phone”...
A game called “It is as if you were on your phone” is designed to make you look like you’re on your phone. “You’re just pretending to be on your...
A collection of movie clips containing inaccurate binocular shots, “(i.e., two overlapping...
A collection of movie clips containing inaccurate binocular shots, “(i.e., two overlapping circles instead of one, as you would see in real life)” — including Rushmore, Das Boot, Ronin, Chinatown,...
From Ben Fry, a visualization of the 5,000+ covers of the New...
From Ben Fry, a visualization of the 5,000+ covers of the New Yorker from the past 100 years. “The horizontal line/artifact comes from the way that they re-run their first...
Star Trek: TNG Opening Credits, But the Theme Music Is Coming From the Enterprise
This is the dumbest thing but it had me rolling in the aisles this morning: Star Trek TNG Theme but the theme music is coming from the Enterprise-D. It takes...
This is fantastic and very much worth your time: Marcin Wichary’s deep...
This is fantastic and very much worth your time: Marcin Wichary’s deep dive into a staunchly utilitarian font called Gorton, which you see almost everywhere in American cities, especially NYC....
I Took My Work Outside Every Day for a Month This Winter....
I Took My Work Outside Every Day for a Month This Winter. (“My work” = typing on a laptop.) “Even though I’m not perfectly warm, it lifts my mood to...
The 100 Greatest TV Performances of the 21st Century (one per show...
The 100 Greatest TV Performances of the 21st Century (one per show & actor). Ian McShane (Deadwood), Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag), Anna Sawai (ShĹŤgun), Maggie Smith (Downton...
Watch Eagle Chicks Hatching on the Eagle Cam
High up in a pine tree in California’s Big Bear Valley, a pair of eagles guard their nest…and we can watch them live on YouTube. The nest is located in...
Some graphs showing how people’s Letterboxd ratings of the Star Wars films...
Some graphs showing how people’s Letterboxd ratings of the Star Wars films have changed over the past few years. The prequels’ rankings have increased while the Rey/Ren movies have fallen....
Watch Blue Ghost Land On The Moon in HD
A few days ago, on March 2, the first lunar lander operated by a private company landed successfully on the Moon. The video of the landing is really something —...
Dolly Parton has released a new song called If You Hadn’t Been...
Dolly Parton has released a new song called If You Hadn’t Been There as a tribute to her late husband, Carl Dean. “If you hadn’t been there / Well, who...
After 54 years, the organizers of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (which celebrates...
After 54 years, the organizers of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (which celebrates bad opening lines to novels) have brought an end to the contest. So bummed…a friend and I had...
The Museum of All Things. “Every exhibit in the museum corresponds to...
The Museum of All Things. “Every exhibit in the museum corresponds to a Wikipedia article. The walls of the exhibit are covered in images and text from the article, and...
How Are You?
Hey folks. I’m gonna take a break from KDO for the rest the day today (unless we invade Canada this afternoon or something) — I worked for much of last...
Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country. “According to a new report...
Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country. “According to a new report published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, you live in a deeply embarrassing and barely functional country.” Evergreen...
Yesterday’s letter from Heather Cox Richardson is a good one, drawing a...
Yesterday’s letter from Heather Cox Richardson is a good one, drawing a line from the Cold War to Putin’s rise in Russia (through “virtual politics”) to Russian interference in the...
Glass Onion
I recently rewatched Glass Onion and had a couple thoughts about it. 1. Before settling in to watch, I’d remembered that Edward Norton’s mega-billionaire character Miles Bron bore some resemblance...