Tag: links of the moment
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series The Internet Archive has a collection of digital calculator emulators. Why Jack Black’s performance in School of Rock is uniquely excellent. A taxonomy of tooth acting.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Find your mouse pointer. Chicago still has a few wooden alleys. Jerry Seinfeld deep-faked into Pulp Fiction. Guess the year of historical photos.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series The opening of Top Gun: Maverick as a perfect pop song. Power to the Ukrainian librarians. Amazing photos from NASA’s Artemis I mission to the moon. A short history of the Avatar Papyrus logo and the amazing SNL sketch that mocked it. No more very.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series The latest annual Vanity Fair/Billie Eilish interview is out. How Peter Jackson’s AI is remixing The Beatles. An ode to the “prescient obsolescence” of cassette tapes. Ban TikTok.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series A coder recreated the “digital rain” from The Matrix. A flautist playing Lord of the Rings music in a giant tunnel. Folding clothes is a scam.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Why Chicago’s skyline is so well designed. In praise of microhistories. Hark, Mr. Autumn Man has returned! Well hello Neptune, you big, beautiful, ringed ice giant.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series A photographer defends his photos people think are fakes but aren’t. Get what you want by saying the subtext aloud. How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting. Old maps online. Nobody wants to work anymore?
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series How to show up for your friends with and without kids. The story of the Minnesota man who invented water skiing 100 years ago. Meet the Texas man keeping Blockbuster alive. Beautiful landscape art made by laser data.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Clippy is back in this fun WordArt generator. Build your own ocean town with Townscaper. Every morning I do Framed and Actorle. Props to The Ringer for all their Pixar Week content.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Reading a 2000-year-old postcard. 3-D scans revealed gigantic Native American cave art in Alabama. Get Google search results in reverse-order to see the oldest webpages first. The White House has an official record collection thanks to Jimmy Carter. A breakdown of “the most insane comeback” in Classic Tetris history.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series A digital clock assembled from Google Earth views that resemble numbers. NYPL has started digitizing its collection of early 1900s wax cylinder recordings. Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid. My new favorite movie-based Wordle spinoff: Moviedle.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Abraham Lincoln and the telegraph (which he called “lightning messages”). Cruise around Google Maps with Driving Simulator. Framed is Wordle for movies. 100 easy ways to slightly improve your life.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Mister Rogers and typewriters. A short history of the ballpoint pen. The Interstate Highway’s forgotten codes. What if Titanic but with a cat?