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Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.
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- Great Art Explained: Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio....
- The top 10 paintings of Judith beheading Holofernes. “I...
- Three-Body Orbits
- James Bridle on making chairs with LLMs. “What we have...
- In a late-stage trial, personalized mRNA vaccines for...
- Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Site Search!
- Listen to a Long-Lost Daft Punk Mix From 1997
- Rest In Peace, Patrick Stewart (1940-2026)
- An Italian farmer planted some decades-old seeds he found...
- Star Wars: The Radio Drama
- Dumpster Archeology. “Lew Blink’s passion for dumpster...
- What’s the largest tweetable number? You’ve got 280...
- Rolling Stone: The 200 Greatest Rock Songs of the 21st...
- The Remarkable Serbian Election
- The NY Times recently asked readers “what they can no...
- Old Newspaper Headlines About the Name Doppelgängers of Current Celebrities
- I made a small tweak to Prometheus (gift link discovery...
- Errol Morris shot ads for Theranos and recently revealed...
- Remember the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game? Turns out:...
- A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive...
- The Moving Image Archive
- It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical. “It was disappointing how...
- Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we...
- Paleovirology: How HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed
- They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A...
- Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for...
- Have We Confused Having Good Taste With Being Creative?
- “Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half...
- John Oliver on the Republican Party and the Far Right...
- Once Upon a Time in Harlem
- Apple Music’s 404 page features a fully functional iPod...
- Short video teasing an new collab between Daft Punk and...
- The American Divide on Empathy
- OMG, the height of these waves hitting a seawall in...
- Michael Pollan reflects on what has and hasn’t changed in...
- Matt Webb is bunkering down, bracing for more LLM-driven...
- Harry Kane is this year’s men’s winner of the Ballon...
- A poignant short documentary about a mother who only...
- From Charles Mann, a quick history of porcelain, which is...
- Russian and East European Posters
- Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as...
- How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American...
- NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven
- Simon Willison: “Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded —...
- This exhibition of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) by Utagawa...
- Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026
- How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64. “Oh, don’t...
- The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers...
- The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea...
- “US households are paying 62% more for drinking water...
- Open Thread #Potato
- “an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this...
- The Flipbook of the Rings
- An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the...
- Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window...
- This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison....
- The Winners of the 2026 International Pano Awards
- “Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the...
- The title of this video is The Fastest Downhill Run Ever....
- Meet Prometheus, a Gift Link Search Engine
- “A SpudCell can grow, copy its DNA, divide in two, and...
- Bastardica is “a foundry for bastard web fonts. Mix,...
- How did life on Earth arise? Three of the biggest...
- NYC’s Fastest Bike Messenger (1985)
- The Library Is Closed. Feel Free to Come In. “In...
- Tiny People in a Big World is like a birdwatching guide,...
- Link Loop is basically a 2D version of Portal. Looks fun!
- Ambient Earth
- “Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a...
- Find the Place You Love. Then Move There. “The reward...
- I remember this 90s TV commercial for 93.7 The Edge, a...
- Why Do Some Places Just Feel Right?
- New book from James Gleick about the history of the...
- “Astronomers for the first time have identified a green...
- The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300 Million Games
- Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without...
- Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through...
- How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made
- Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the...
- NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds...
- Do you believe in life after death? This is a great...
- A Tiny 24 FPS E-Ink Game Boy Emulator
- A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past...
- Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and...
- Hyperland, a Prescient 1990 TV Show by Douglas Adams
- Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours,...
- Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from...
- Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Consequence of Donald Trump
- Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black...
- Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out....
- Chromatic Inkscapes
- Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s...
- Roooobot. Huuuuuman.
- The trailer for Blade Runner 2099, a new limited series...
- Going 94 MPH on a Skateboard (New World Record)
- I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care...
- Good headline: Nine Inch Snails.
- Beautiful Seamless Ride
- Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element...
- Fishdraw is a single JavaScript file that generates...
- How Hunting Owls Use Sound to “See” Under the Snow
- How many shots are in the average movie? How does it...
- Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World. “The epic...
- Where You Should Live: Five Factors to Keep in Mind
- Teaser trailer for season three of The Lord of The Rings:...
- Tiny Little Office is “an office suite with no accounts...
- The Muffled Thud of Fire in the Hole
- It’s time to de-privatize the US government. “The problem...
- Q: “An AI tool with all your passwords or a bear in the...
- May Peace Prevail on Earth
- “‘Digger’ has a lot of haters. Here’s why they’re wrong.”...
- Anthropic says that, as of Sept ‘26, they were merging...
- Whoa, the Lion Nebula!
- The Case for Quitting: The Surprising Benefits of Opting...
- “If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields...
- The first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The...
- Girls is coming back to HBO for a 5-episode run. Lena...
- So Many Different Mes
- ArtCraft is building open source versions of what looks...
- Reelizer: A Trove of Movie Art
- Thing I am going to make time for in the next few days:...
- The People Holding Up the Internet. Amazing to see how...
- Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net...
- “I’m forced to admit that these AI-decompiled web browser...
- Improving Conversation on KDO
- Prompting as Self-Portrait. “We need the blank page and...
- Nearly 4M Records of Enslaved People in 20 Former British...
- Why I Did Not Leave Nazi Germany in Time. “Many of us...
- The Worst Way To Get To Space. I’d never heard the story...
- All the Percents on Star Trek: TNG
- My friend Matt was recently here for a week in Tokyo and...
- Crossword Clues Where It’s Clear the Puzzle’s Creator Got...
- Unseen Places: Rediscovering the Art of Observation by...
- Every US Electrical Outlet Explained
- Japanese book rave. A club in Tokyo spread carpets on the...
- Weball allows you to roll up websites into a Katamari...
- Destroy Any Website
- Is This Weird Quiz Game the Toughest F1 Video Game Ever?
- I just went down a rabbit hole of incense seals. So cool.
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- Chasing a Plane Across the Moon
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- Bertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to Debate
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- Great Deals on Apple Stuff Today
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- Wildwood
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- Lots and Lots and Lots of Control Panels
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- Blue Planet III
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- Silent Friend
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- Watch One of Radiohead’s Best Live Shows: Bonnaroo 2006
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- The Best Sandwich Shop in America?
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- O Superman, Laurie Anderson
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- The 2026 Comedy Wildlife Awards Finalists
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- The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
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- my recent post about control rooms
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- Prince Was One of the First Players of The Oregon Trail
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- Map of the Lighthouses of the World
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- Ominous Thunderstorm Rolling Across the Fields
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- The “Insane” Cinematography of Pride and Prejudice
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- On The Joy Of Ownership
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- Kim Tschang-Yeul, Water Drops
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- What’s On Your To-Do List?
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- The MN Stolen Neighbors Quilt
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