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David Lynch’s estate auction, including cameras, clothes, books, memorabilia, megaphones, scripts, vinyl,...
David Lynch’s estate auction, including cameras, clothes, books, memorabilia, megaphones, scripts, vinyl, furniture, coffee makers & grinders, art supplies, musical instruments, etc. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Beautiful Drone Footage of an Alaskan Salmon Migration
If you can stop gawping at Alaska’s gorgeous scenery long enough, you can witness drone footage of a whole lot of salmon migrating upstream from Lake Iliamna1 to spawn. (via...
I like this song (Lifelike’s So Electric) and I like this video...
I like this song (Lifelike’s So Electric) and I like this video (footage of Olivia Newton John in the movie Xanadu set to Lifelike’s So Electric). 💬 Join the discussion...
Two interesting things about the rock paper scissors game: 1. scissors were...
Two interesting things about the rock paper scissors game: 1. scissors were actually invented before paper, and 2. an early Japanese variant was frog slug snake (frog beats slug, slug...
A supercut of every point scored by Kobe Bryant in his 81-point...
A supercut of every point scored by Kobe Bryant in his 81-point game in 2006. He only had 26 at the half and his team needed the points…they were losing...
The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years
The Criterion Collection is releasing a new boxset of Wes Anderson films, The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years. Wes Anderson’s first ten features represent twenty-five years of irrepressible...
The actor Patrick Stewart exists in the Star Trek universe and “Jean-Luc...
The actor Patrick Stewart exists in the Star Trek universe and “Jean-Luc Picard is aware of him” and other little-known Star Trek facts. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
28 slightly rude notes on writing. “Most writing is bad because it’s...
28 slightly rude notes on writing. “Most writing is bad because it’s missing a motive. It feels dead because it hasn’t found its reason to live.” 💬 Join the discussion...
Grammar movies: Apostrophes Now, Rebel Without a Clause, Gerund Brockovich, Alien vs...
Grammar movies: Apostrophes Now, Rebel Without a Clause, Gerund Brockovich, Alien vs Predicator, Indicative Jones and the Last Clause, Silence of the iambs, etc. đź’¬ Join the discussion on kottke.org...
“All three of the country’s largest carriers (American Airlines, United Airlines, and...
“All three of the country’s largest carriers (American Airlines, United Airlines, and Delta) are penalizing solo travelers with higher ticket prices than you can book when traveling with a group.”...
ESA’s Proba-3 is planning on creating an artificial eclipse to study the...
ESA’s Proba-3 is planning on creating an artificial eclipse to study the sun’s corona. The two halves of the solar probe recently achieved “millimetre precision” while flying autonomously in formation...
Caine’s Arcade
Caine is nine years old, lives in LA, and built his own arcade out of cardboard boxes in the back of his father’s auto parts store. You’ve go to watch...
Don’t mind me, I’m just watching old episodes of The Great Space...
Don’t mind me, I’m just watching old episodes of The Great Space Coaster on YouTube (Does anyone else remember this show? I watched it as a kid along with 3-2-1...
I Want No One Else to Succeed
In this video, a writer named Hannah shares an experiment her Intro to Psychology professor ran on her class. Here’s a transcript: It’s 11 years ago, I’m in a massive...
The 100 best sports moments of the 21st century (so far). Hmm....
The 100 best sports moments of the 21st century (so far). Hmm. That’s all I’m going to say about this list. Hmm. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Re: SpaceX rockets that keep exploding: You Can’t Make an Omelette Without...
Re: SpaceX rockets that keep exploding: You Can’t Make an Omelette Without Exploding Several Billion Dollars Worth of Eggs. “Look, things explode. It’s just part of nature. Cybertrucks explode, and...
Alexandra Petri has some advice for the 2025 Harvard grad who will...
Alexandra Petri has some advice for the 2025 Harvard grad who will become ludicrously rich: “After the cataclysmic Event happens that unravels society and sends me scurrying to my luxury...
Shifting Baselines and the New Normal of the Trump Era
Among a number of things I’ve read online that I think about all the time is David Roberts’ 2020 piece for Vox about shifting baselines. Humans often don’t remember what...
Pediatrician Dr. Annie Andrews is running against Lindsey Graham for one of...
Pediatrician Dr. Annie Andrews is running against Lindsey Graham for one of South Carolina’s Senate seats. Based on the commercial launching her campaign, I kinda want to move to SC...
Harvard student: “I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in...
Harvard student: “I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in a televised cage match, the winner of which gets $2.7 billion in federal grants and the power to...