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  • Links of the moment

    An ongoing series Tia Keobounpheng’s really cool and colorful weavings inspired by geometry and Finnish/Sami heritage. I want this 1961 National Library Week poster. Want to de-junkify your Google search results? Just add &udm14 to the URL. A handy tool to compare the true size of countries.

    Apr 30, 2025
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  • Media of the moment

    An ongoing series Black Bag. Felt great to see an honest-to-god movie in the theater with a delightfully twisty plot and inspired casting that made me feel as warm and fuzzy as the film’s lighting. Wouldn’t be surprised to find this on my best-of-2025 list.  The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson. Turns out there was…

    Apr 5, 2025
    # books, film, media of the moment, movies, television
  • Links of the moment

    An ongoing series This Lonely Island musical medley is a thing of deranged beauty. Another winner from Beautiful Public Data: Cold War military slides. Didn’t realize the “junk journaling” I do was a thing. A gorgeous longread on the “hardest working font in Manhattan.”

    Feb 28, 2025
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  • Tools of the moment

    An ongoing series Not Xwitter. I already stopped using the platform but only recently did the full delete. Grateful to the new ownership for making it easy to kick the habit after 15 years. Not Goodreads. Did the full delete of my Goodreads account as well. This might seem counterintuitive for a librarian and bookish…

    Feb 24, 2025
    # Goodreads, Letterboxd, logbook, social media, technology, Twitter
  • Links of the moment

    An ongoing series What the next Beatles album could have looked like if they hadn’t broken up. Title design of Best Picture winners and 20th century sci-fi. Behind the scenes of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Behold the sight and sound of a meteorite strike. These videos of a landscaper mowing overgrown lawns are…

    Jan 31, 2025
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  • Links of the moment

    An ongoing series Uncovering the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris. The chilling sound of the Aztec death whistle. [Trigger warning: it’s creepy AF!] One dad’s collection of hundreds of VHS tapes with beautifully hand-drawn labels. Looney Tunes but just the backgrounds. A nice interactive history of Notre-Dame cathedral in honor of its post-fire restoration. French archaeologists discovered a…

    Dec 31, 2024
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  • My sons’ media of the moment

    A spinoff of an ongoing series Yotos and Tonies. All day every day. Seriously great screen-free stories, learning, and music for the 5 year old, and something to hold and play with for the 18 month old. Great holiday gifts too for the parents/kids in your life. Card games. The 5 year old has gotten…

    Dec 6, 2024
    # AAC, books, IPC, media of the moment
  • Links of the moment

    An ongoing series How the Pulp Fiction poster became a dorm room staple. The first Zoom meeting happened in 1916. Humanity’s first interstellar transmission turns 50. Find the net elevation—i.e. the height difference between their birth and death place—of dead people. Memento Movi is a cinematic progress bar for your life.

    Nov 30, 2024
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  • Links of the moment

    An ongoing series Reimagined ‘80s logos of popular brands. Restoring a 1,200-year-old psalter discovered in an Irish bog. How did you find accurate information before the internet? Librarians, of course. Where did our 2004 photos go? An interview with Saturday Night Live’s early ‘90s graphic designer of sketch titles, parodies, and props.

    Oct 31, 2024
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  • Media of the moment

    An ongoing series Midnight Mass. Loved this Netflix limited series for the same reason I love Darren Aronofsky’s Noah: it takes literally all the Bible’s very goth elements (“drink my blood”, the terror of angels, etc.) and transposes it into a deeply human modern story. Didi. This coming-of-age story set in 2008 featuring a teenager…

    Oct 28, 2024
    # books, film, media of the moment, movies, television
  • Links of the moment

    An ongoing series In praise of reference books. Your name in LANDSAT. America must free itself from the tyranny of the penny.

    Sep 30, 2024
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  • Links of the moment

    An ongoing series Sun vs. Moon — fight! Kind of Bloop is an 8-bit reinterpretation tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. A collection of old Swedish packaging. Ranking every summer Olympic sport based on how terrible it would be for the average person.

    Aug 31, 2024
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  • Links of the moment

    An ongoing series I’ve read 13 of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. How about you? How does the Library of Congress decide what to keep? When exactly did Neil Armstrong step on the moon? Ranking 100 of the greatest READ posters. (A series that is still running and available for purchase, by the way.…

    Jul 31, 2024
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  • Media of the moment

    An ongoing series The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson. Another brilliant narrative nonfiction saga from Steven Johnson that weaves multiple historical threads together to tell the riveting story of how dynamite, fingerprinting, anarchism, information science and other seemingly disparate forces all conspired…

    Jul 15, 2024
    # books, film, media of the moment, movies, Steven Johnson, television
  • Links of the moment

    An ongoing series Turn your writing into jazz. “Always go to the footnotes.” A delight listening to The Devil in the White City author Erik Larson on Armchair Expert. Boys get everything, except the thing that’s most worth having. Super Mario Bros., typewriter edition.

    Jun 30, 2024
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  • Tools of the moment

    An ongoing series Not YouTube watch history. When you turn off the watch history for your YouTube account (manage it here), your homepage becomes gloriously blank rather than cluttered with garbage served up by their algorithm. Not WorkFlowy. One day I decided I was tired of splitting my personal and professional note-taking, task management, and…

    Jun 25, 2024
    # Apple, technology, tools of the moment, WorkFlowy, YouTube
  • Links of the moment

    An ongoing series Long live the home page. The Millennial CAPTCHA is just spot-on. Some pretty great bumper stickers for your phone. A quick and entertaining primer on how not to get screwed buying a used car. The fascinating saga of a forged Apple employee badge on eBay. A camera that turns pictures into AI-generated poetry.

    May 31, 2024
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  • Links of the moment

    An ongoing series Rejoice! For Kristen Wiig’s Aunt Linda returned to SNL. (As did Ryan Gosling for Papyrus 2.) A museum of old coffee makers.  The wonderfully arcane world of trademark design codes. What is both an amazing astronomical phenomenon and a righteous band name? The Vela Supernova Remnant. Have fun browsing “five hundred years of the vulgar tongue” in Green’s Dictionary…

    Apr 30, 2024
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