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    1 Nov 2016

    If you're a regular reader, please consider supporting with an annual membership

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  2. 11 hours ago

    On the design of key art graphics, i.e. the images Netflix shows you in their interface. Like the best movie posters and book covers, they're bold and simple promotional signifiers of a larger piece of media.

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  3. 13 hours ago

    The Perseverance team at NASA shares some audio the rover has recorded on Mars, including the sound of the Ingenuity helicopter flying around. (!!)

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  4. 13 hours ago

    Today on the Kottke Ride Home: 🗺 The weird, wide world of micronations 🚀 AstroAccess completed their first Zero-G flight with their disability ambassadors 💀 The scammers ghosting fans of the 12 Foot Home Depot Skeleton

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  5. 15 hours ago

    A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting is a collection of artifacts related to the climate crisis – sea level rise, desertification, glacial melting, erosion, etc. And they're actively seeking contributions.

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  6. 17 hours ago

    These swirling sculptures made by Alisa Lariushkina from air-dry clay are like 3-D van Gogh paintings. Lovely.

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  7. 20 hours ago

    The Calm Line. "A new hotline in Bogotá takes calls from men struggling with jealousy, control and fear – and challenges long-held assumptions about masculinity."

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  8. Oct 18

    Some of the oddest and most interesting electric vehicles for sale on Alibaba, including a fake Lamborghini, a 60mph standing scooter (of death!), a duck boat, a mobile house, and a submarine. (via )

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  9. Oct 18

    Today on the Kottke Ride Home: 🚀 How the search for life on exoplanets has led to some of the tech in the latest smartphones ⁉️ What do your punctuation choices say about you? Let this cool web tool show you. 🔭 Walruses from space!

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  10. Oct 18

    Formats Unpacked is a weekly newsletter that takes a close look at different ways to tell stories and package content (e.g. Humans of New York, the singles chart, breaking news memes). Really interesting.

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  11. Oct 18

    A fully vaccinated Colin Powell, who had blood cancer, has died of Covid-19. "Powell's death doesn't illustrate the futility of vaccines...but the importance of everyone getting vaccinated to protect society's most vulnerable."

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  12. Oct 18

    William Shatner went to space and came back with more than a touch of the Overview Effect. "I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now... I don't want to lose it."

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  13. Oct 18

    Ibram X. Kendi on The Second Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ever since his death, King's work has been twisted into justifying actions and agendas he strongly opposed.

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  14. Oct 18

    Delicate & detailed portraits of convenience stores from around Korea by Me Kyeoung Lee.

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  15. Oct 18

    The Slow Moving Coup – how Trump and the Republicans will take back the White House in 2024 (the same way they tried to steal the election last time except this time they will succeed).

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  16. Oct 15

    Google's Self-Driving Car Gyre. A bunch of Waymo cars are getting stuck in a dead-end street in SF. "I awoke to a strange hum and I thought there was a spacecraft outside my bedroom window."

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  17. Oct 15

    Today on the Kottke Ride Home: 💡 Approach the uncertainty of the pandemic like an engineer 🛰 The latest findings from the Mars Perseverance Rover 🍜 Product placements inserted into the text of novels by publishers 🩸 Heinz releases a Halloween line

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  18. Oct 15

    Impressionist oil paintings of scenes from Star Wars. Happy little X-Wings and fluffy little cloud cities.

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  19. Oct 15

    The 200 Best Albums of the Last 25 Years, According to Pitchfork Readers. Radiohead, Kanye, Kendrick, Lorde, LCD Soundsystem, Wilco, and Fiona Apple are all in the top 25.

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  20. Oct 15

    This 2-hour HD walking tour of the Giza Pyramids in Egypt is about as close as you can get to the real thing without actually getting on a plane.

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  21. Oct 15

    A series of simulations that show how tiny differences in how women are undervalued in the workplace result in huge disparities in executive representation. It's basically the idea of compounding interest working against them.

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