MSF pulls out of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince after attacks on staff. Also: US approves supply of antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine, why olive oil prices are plummeting and tennis bids adios to Rafael Nadal.
Rafael Nadal has officially retired from professional tennis. One of the greatest...
Rafael Nadal has officially retired from professional tennis. One of the greatest to ever do it. “I’m not tired of playing tennis but my body doesn’t want to play anymore and you have to accept that.”
🎬 Blink Twice
I liked how this looked. And I think the story had potential. But towards the end it gets more and more bonkers and I’m less and less convinced by plot and performances. Was ok.
Arizona Chess
‘Can You Take a Photo of Us?’
Delightfully clever sketch from Tiny Idea.
Link: youtu.be/SOKSqLOKaEU
‘Inside the Rather Bizarre Relaunch of Jaguar’
James Baggott, writing for Car Dealer Magazine:
Jaguar unveiled a new look, logo and direction for its cars at
what was quite possibly the most bizarre automotive media launch
I’ve ever attended — here’s what happened.
Embargoed until today, the event felt like a halluc...
For the love of god, quit calling your newsletter “my Substack”. “You...
For the love of god, quit calling your newsletter “my Substack”. “You can talk about your work as *your work*. It’s your newsletter, or your email, or your blog. Or just your writing. But it sure as hell isn’t ‘your Substack.’”
★ Dr. Oz
The Hollywood Reporter, which of course is where one now goes to find news of incoming Executive Branch appointments and nominations, “Trump Nominates Dr. Mehmet Oz to Run Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services”:
“America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may ...
Doomsday Fish
The oarfish is a very long fish people don’t normally see on account of it living deep, deep in the deep water, though three have washed up on the shores of Southern California in the last 3 months. The oarfish is referred to as the Doomsday Fish (a very cool name for a fish imo), because Japanese mythology considers seeing one of these fish, which can grow to be 30 feet, an omen of tsunamis or earthquakes. 12 washed up on the shores of Japan before the earthquake in 2011.
Don’t worry though because scientists looked into it and decided “the spatiotemporal relationship between deep‐sea fish appearances and earthquakes was hardly found.” Honestly, it’s a weird way to say “no the fish don’t mean an earthquake,” but it’s all we’ve got.
Tags: fish
25 years after the much maligned DK Rap premiered to scorn in...
25 years after the much maligned DK Rap premiered to scorn in Nintendo’s Donkey Kong 64, the composer, Grant Kirkhope, has released a remix with the rapper Substantial that whips.
Every day, people go out and do the kind of stuff you’ve...
Every day, people go out and do the kind of stuff you’ve never imagined being possible, but they imagined it, and that’s what’s important.
You still have a couple of days left to back Kelli Anderson’s...
You still have a couple of days left to back Kelli Anderson’s pop-up book about typography on Kickstarter. It looks incredible.
Texas Education Board to Vote on Bible-Infused Lessons in Public Schools
Troy Closson, reporting for The New York Times (gift link):
The optional curriculum, one of most sweeping efforts in recent
years to bring a Christian perspective to more students, would
test the limits of religious instruction in public education.
It could also become ...
Purple Isn’t Real
So we all know the color purple has always been associated with royalty because the dye used to make it was extremely limited because you could only get it from the Phoenician city of Tyre where a tiny snail lived. Dye makers had to “crack open the snail’s shell, extract a p...
Airport — A Typeface Revival
Lukas Schneider:
On 13 November 1961, the Oceanic building at London Airport opened
to handle long-haul flight departure. In 1979, German publisher
Ravensburger brought out a game designed to help children learn to
count. Around Christmas 2023, I stumbled across a copy o...
Android Authority: ‘Google Is Transforming ChromeOS Into Android’
Mishaal Rahman, reporting for Android Authority:
While both Android and ChromeOS have seen huge success in
different markets, they’ve struggled to compete in one product
category where they overlap: tablets. The high-end tablet market
is dominated by the Apple iPad, and ...
Asheville, NC has lifted it’s boil water notice after 53 days. Hurricane...
Asheville, NC has lifted it’s boil water notice after 53 days. Hurricane Helene left high sediment levels contaminating 80% of the city’s drinking water.
Emoji Rain is a visualization of emoji use on Bluesky. “Emojis from...
Emoji Rain is a visualization of emoji use on Bluesky. “Emojis from longer messages fall more slowly!” 🦋 💧 🌧️ ☔️ 🌈 🦄
How to Survive Our Authoritarian Post-Truth Era
For The Observer, Carole Cadwalladr published a list of pointers on how to survive in Trumpist America, inspired by Timothy Snyder’s Fighting Authoritarianism: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century that was published in the wake of the 2016 election. Some of these are excellent...
Inside ISIS’s Graphic Design Team
404media.co/graphic-design-for-isis-is-his-passion-fbi-alleges-in-filing/
Jason Koebler, writing for 404 Media:
According to the filing, which was first reported by our
friends at Court Watch, Said was an aspiring ISIS
graphic designer who was working with ISIS’s second-in-command
graphic designer. That person told Said that ISIS’s chief
desig...