An ongoing series Several of my interests in one: Steven Spielberg on The Rewatchables talking 2001: A Space Odyssey. Wikipedia as a Windows XP desktop. Shoutout to the Night Witches, (unfortunately) not an awesome band but an all-female Soviet bomber regiment who attacked the Nazis during World War II.
An ongoing series This Is A Gardening Show. Heard about this new Zach Galifianakis limited series on Netflix from friends, and it’s a delight. Funny, informative, family- friendly. Great hang. Project Hail Mary. Saw this with some dad friends, which felt appropriate since it’s both very dad-coded but also widely appealing as its box office…
An ongoing series Love this deep dive on the color theory behind why so many control rooms were seafoam green. What happened to movie taglines? I cannot believe the leaf sheep slug is a real animal. What a world. The Extrapolated Futures Archive maps real-world scenarios to the sci-fi stories that explore them. A clock that displays…
A spinoff of an ongoing series A Real Bug’s Life. This National Geographic miniseries on Disney+ uses macrophotography to capture tiny insects in dramatized settings, supplemented by Awkwafina’s affable narration. Monsters, Inc. Before ever even seeing the movie, the two year old got absolutely transfixed by a figurine of Mike Wazowski (or as he calls…
An ongoing series Love this deep dive on the origins of The Beatles’ “I Feel Fine”. Certified musical legend Alan Mencken breaks down his ‘90s Disney movie hits. Lots of fun and goofy designs in this 1956 Fun With Your Typewriter book. Really cool online tool to generate slipcovers for VHS, Blockbuster cases, and other…
An ongoing series Been loving Marcin Winchary’s thoughtful design takes lately, like Flickr’s inspiring URL scheme and the software versions of molly guards and Moylan Arrows. Times New Resistance is a Times New Roman impersonator font that “autocorrects the autocrats.” These 11th-century paper flowers, sealed in a Chinese cave, are a marvel of preservation. Speaking…
An ongoing series Make something heavy. Pop songs in Renaissance and Baroque style. Great longread from Bilge Ebiri on Terrence Malick and his influential filmmaking style. “What if you held a tree long enough for it to grow around your hand?” You know I’m here for a Tangible Media Collection. Which HTML element are you?
An ongoing series Size of Life is another banger from Neal.fun, one of the best places on the internet. Shoutout to ROMAN and other obscure Excel functions. Unfortunately, I have to side with Marco Rubio in the Times New Roman/Calibri font war. In praise of the prescient and “punishing digitopia” of Spielberg’s Minority Report. The…
An ongoing series Christmas music. ‘Tis the season! Some newer albums I’ve been enjoying: Happy Golden Days by The Arcadian Wild, Sleigher by Ben Folds, and Family Christmas Album Vol. II by The Oh Hellos. Homestar Runner. I didn’t realize this web series was still around, but browsing the website was a blast from my…
An ongoing series How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner. How Marlon Brando changed acting. Red sprites FTW. How to fix a typewriter and your life.
An ongoing series As a Class of 2010 graduate, I can confirm: the best time to be in college was 2006-2010. Approaching our work as art can change our worlds. Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke is an “incredible informational product that is 100% EXEMPT FROM DONALD TRUMP’S STUPID TARIFFS!” A dad turned his favorite…
A spinoff of an ongoing series A Minecraft Movie. We watched this a few weeks ago as a special treat and the Minecraft-obsessed six year old was completely locked in. (To be clear, he’s never played the actual game but has absorbed a lot about it from books and his friends.) Books. The two year…
An ongoing series The Naked Gun (2025). Cheers to a movie that knows exactly what it is and how to be that for just the right amount of time. Still giggling about random bits from this days later. Weapons. I’m typically a matinee guy but I stayed up past my bedtime to go see this…
An ongoing series I think I might have found the most Chad thing on the internet: a database of the most obscure words in movies. This is hardcore but also admirable: “I deleted my second brain.” Shoutout to these guys who hated Comcast so much they built their own ISP. Can’t wait for this iceberg-based Arrival sequel. Happy 30th anniversary to…
In what’s becoming an accidental yearly tradition, here’s a selection of creatures big and small I’ve captured. A tree frog: A milkweed tiger moth: An oriental beetle: A zebra spider: An ovenbird just chillin’ on our front porch: A great blue heron:
An ongoing series Dug this history of album art. Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” sung by 331 different movies. TFW you go fishing and find a 152-year-old shipwreck.
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.
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…
