Tag: links of the moment
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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.”
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series A lovely ode to the Voyager 1 spacecraft’s long life and imminent death. There’s something deeply touching about 18,000 strangers around the world singing Toto’s “Africa” together. A visual deep-dive on title drops in movies. A look back at photos from 100 years ago. Find the exact opposite place of anywhere on earth with the Antipodes Map.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day feed is a treasure trove of amazing photos. Thanks to science for being able to read ancient papyri. Yay for rewilding old golf courses! All the ways Mount Everest can kill you.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series The best ingredient in The Bear is tenderness. Photographing the triple-alignment of a cathedral, a mountain, and the moon. How Google “perfected” the web. A photographer photoshopped himself into his own childhood photos.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Typewriters in films. A cool localized night sky calendar. A collection of eggnog cartons.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Finalists for the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. Government comic books. Words that deserve wider use.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series A cool collection of manuals. Hank Williams sings “Straight Outta Compton” with some help from AI. Regular holes vs. black holes. The museum of internet artifacts.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series A fascinating (to me) longread of a guy investigating a pedestrian bridge. Demo of AI-assisted language translation, including mouth movements. Long live Martin Scorsese. Gorgeous high-res Lidar images of rivers and deltas.