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Jason Kottke

Musical Skiers

Musical Skiers

Icelandic photographer Haukur Sigurdsson captured this aerial image of Nordic skiers looking like musical notes on a staff. Someone on YouTube played the tune:

Sigurdsson’s photo is available as a print.

Tags: Haukur Sigurdsson · music · skiing · sports · video

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The Talk Show: ‘A Good Duck Butt’

daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/12/02/ep-415

Special guest Allen Pike joins the show to talk about the state of generative AI and how Apple Intelligence measures up (so far). Also: some speculation on Apple’s pending acquisition of the ever-difficult-to-pronounce Pixelmator.

Sponsored by:

  • WorkOS: The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS — free up to 1 million monthly active users.

Link: daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/12/02/ep-415

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Jason Kottke

My friend Youngna is a wonderful writer and observer and I loved...

My friend Youngna is a wonderful writer and observer and I loved these vignettes about “how kids understand power, social dynamics, hierarchy, control, and influence, all topics that swirl around whose voices are dominant voices in our world”.

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Jason Kottke

When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk. The Vera Rubin Observatory is...

When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk. The Vera Rubin Observatory is a new telescope that the US built in Chile and they had to jump through some hoops to ensure it’s not going to see anything top secret (like US spy satellites).

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John Gruber

Steep Discounts on M3 MacBook Air Models at Amazon

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Amazon is running a holiday discount on M3 MacBook Airs, but it’s tricky — you need to click around through various color choices and watch the prices and ship dates. My main link on this post goes to the config that looks like their best deal for price-conscious gift buyers...

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Jason Kottke

Playing Music With Barcode Scanners

A Japanese group called Electronicos Fantasticos! figured out that by connecting a supermarket barcode scanner to a powered speaker and rhythmically scanning barcode-like patterns with it, you can make music. This is so fun!

Tags: Electronicos Fantasticos · music · remix · video

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John Gruber

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Retires; Bloomberg Reports He Was Forced Out by Board

bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-02/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-retires-amid-chipmaker-s-turnaround-plan

Ian King, Liana Baker, and Ryan Gould, reporting for Bloomberg:* Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger was forced out after the board lost confidence in his plans to turn around the iconic chipmaker, adding to turmoil at one of the pioneers of the technology ...

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Jason Kottke

Madeleine Riffaud, hero of the French Resistance, has died at the age...

Madeleine Riffaud, hero of the French Resistance, has died at the age of 100. “The essential was not to give in. When you resisted, you were already a victor. You had already won.”

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Jason Kottke

(Metaphorical) lessons learned from building wood fires, including “the most important ingredient...

(Metaphorical) lessons learned from building wood fires, including “the most important ingredient is invisible” and “you’re designing an airflow system with fuel attached”.

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Jason Kottke

After 37 years, the 80s fashion trend of wearing salmon as hats...

After 37 years, the 80s fashion trend of wearing salmon as hats is back in style among orcas. “Maybe it’s less of a salmon hat trend, and more a case of using their head as a lunchbox.”

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Jason Kottke

Always Interesting: “52 Things I Learned in 2024”

Tom Whitwell just sent along his annual list of the 52 things he’s learned in the past year. As usual, there’s lots of fascinating things in there…here are some of my favorites: 3. There are just 16 trademarked scents in the US, including Crayola crayons, Playdoh, an oce...

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Jason Kottke

Best TV Shows of 2024. Shogun, My Brilliant Friend, The Day of...

Best TV Shows of 2024. Shogun, My Brilliant Friend, The Day of the Jackal, and What We Do in the Shadows all make the list. (Shogun would be my top pick.)

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Advent Calendar Advent Calendar

The growth rate of items per day may may seem absurd, but it's actually much less than the acceleration in the 12 Days of Christmas song.

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John Gruber

Streaks and Little Streaks

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My thanks to Crunchy Bagel — the company of developer Quentin Zervaas — for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed to promote Streaks, their excellent app for iPhone and Apple Watch. Streaks is a to-do list that helps you form good habits. The point is to motivate you to tackle ...

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‘Building LLMs Is Probably Not Going to Be a Brilliant Business’

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Cal Paterson: Large language models (LLMs) like Chat-GPT and Claude.ai are whizzy and cool. A lot of people think that they are going to be The Future. Maybe they are — but that doesn’t mean that building them is going to be a profitable business. In the 1960s, airlines...

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Jason Kottke

I am still working on my gift guide for this year, but...

I am still working on my gift guide for this year, but in the meantime The 2023 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide is full of cool stuff for all the great people in your life.

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This summer, Taiwanese barista Xie Yi-chen won the 2024 World Coffee Championships...

This summer, Taiwanese barista Xie Yi-chen won the 2024 World Coffee Championships with patterns of a whale, a moose, and a dragon. “To prepare for the competition, Xie practiced latte art on around 10,000 cups in just three months.”

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John Gruber

Welcome to Aperture 3

apple.com/welcomescreen/aperture3/#gettingstarted

Kind of wild that this entire sub-site is still standing on Apple.com, including working video. (Fingers crossed that my linking to it doesn’t bring it to the attention of someone who decides to 404 it.)

Link: apple.com/welcomescreen/aperture3/#gettingstarted

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John Gruber

Nathan Edwards Reviews the iMac M4 for The Verge

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From Nathan Edwards’s 6/10 review of the M4 iMac for The Verge: I also do not love that the stand has no height adjustment, and you can’t swap it for a more ergonomic option without buying an entirely different computer. Apple sells a version of the iMac with a VESA moun...