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• Jason Kottke

The 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide

Since 2013, I’ve done a holiday gift guide that’s basically a curated roundup of stuff from the best gift guides I can find. I always do it a little bit differently from year to year, and this year I’m going with a simple list. It’s gonna be dense…let’s go! 1. Charitable gi...

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• Jason Kottke

Bloomberg Businessweek’s Jealousy List for 2024, “We’ve asked our editors & contributors...

Bloomberg Businessweek’s Jealousy List for 2024, “We’ve asked our editors & contributors to identify that one story in 2024 that filled them with the kind of indescribable resentment that theologians once thought was a dangerous gateway to other sins.”

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• Jason Kottke

A universal “Plug and Charge” framework for EV charging is rolling out...

A universal “Plug and Charge” framework for EV charging is rolling out next year. The goal is this: “You just go anywhere you want, boom, you plug in, it accounts for everything in the cloud, charges your card, and you walk away.”

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Infinite Armada Chess

Stockfish 16 suggests the unconventional opening 1. RuntimeError: Out of bounds memory access

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• John Gruber

Andy Grove in 2000: ‘What I’ve Learned’

esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a1449/learned-andy-grove-0500/

A few nuggets of wisdom from Andy Grove, in an interview with Esquire after he retired as Intel’s CEO, but still served as chairman: Profits are the lifeblood of enterprise. Don’t let anyone tell you different. You must understand your mistakes. Study the hell out of th...

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[Sponsor] 1Password: You Want to Charge How Much for SSO?

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Imagine if you went to the movies and they charged $8000 for popcorn. Or, imagine you got on a plane and they told you that seatbelts were only available in first class. Your sense of outraged injustice would probably be something like what IT and security professionals fe...

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• John Gruber

★ Andy Grove Was Right

The Verge’s Sean Hollister penned an excellent high-level summary of Pat Gelsinger’s ignominious ouster from Intel, under the headline “What Happened to Intel?” A wee bit of pussyfooting here, though, caught my eye: Just how bad was it before Gelsinger took the top job? ...

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• Jason Kottke

Trippy Extreme Close-Ups of Everyday Objects

It is difficult to categorize the kinds of videos that Posy makes — they are part science demo and part visual art. His latest video, Household Objects (But Extremely Close), uses a powerful macro lens to look at everyday objects like toothbrushes, sponges, and pencils, turning them into swirling abstract films. His music is lovely too — you can find it on Bandcamp.

See also Motion Extraction.

Tags: music · Posy · video

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• Jason Kottke

How to Win Connect 4 Every Time. “Ever thought Connect 4 was...

How to Win Connect 4 Every Time. “Ever thought Connect 4 was a simple game of luck and chance? I will explain why Connect 4 is way harder than you think.”

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• John Gruber

The Verge Launches a Subscription

theverge.com/2024/12/3/24306571/verge-subscription-launch-fewer-ads-unlimited-access-full-text-rss

Nilay Patel: So many of you like The Verge that we’ve actually gotten a shocking number of notes from people asking how they can pay to support our work. It’s no secret that lots of great websites and publications have gone under over the past few years as the open web f...

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• Jason Kottke

Werner Herzog’s Nihilist Penguin

In this clip from my favorite Werner Herzog film, Encounters at the End of the World, the director muses about the mental health of penguins and observes a lone penguin heading in the wrong direction. From an appreciation of this penguin scene written by Tim Cooke for Litt...

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• Jason Kottke

Roku offers a PBS Retro channel where you can watch old episodes...

Roku offers a PBS Retro channel where you can watch old episodes of shows like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Reading Rainbow, and Thomas & Friends.

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• Jason Kottke

Here’s how the Sun will end all life on Earth. “Let me...

Here’s how the Sun will end all life on Earth. “Let me start by reassuring you that the Sun isn’t going to explode.” The Sun, Earth’s ultimate frenemy.

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• Jason Kottke

The Best Goals in Football for 2024

bicycle kick goal by Alejandro Garnacho

I just spent my lunch hour watching the 22 nominated goals for the 2024 Puskas & Marta Awards, given to the most spectacular goals scored by men’s & women’s footballers last season.

The Marta Award is new this year; here’s a playlist of the 11 nominees. Fun fact: one of the nominees is Brazilian legend Marta, after whom the award is named. She was 37 when she fizzed this goal in against Jamaica.

Here’s a playlist of the nominees for the Puskas Award. Generally, I prefer goals with a bit of buildup to bicycle kicks or rockets from outside the 18-yard box, but these were all fun to watch.

Tags: best of · best of 2024 · soccer · sports · video

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• Jason Kottke

On Standby is a piece of sound art “based on data collected...

On Standby is a piece of sound art “based on data collected by seven different people in Malmö, Sweden. Each of those people used a smart plug to collect data on the energy consumption of a device in their home over the course of a single night”.

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• Jason Kottke

Maybe you’d like to read Patricia Lockwood on the X-Files? “So then...

Maybe you’d like to read Patricia Lockwood on the X-Files? “So then the show becomes about something else, something deep and dark as water, it is carried rapidly past all other unsolved mysteries to ask: what if a woman were irreplaceable?”

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• Jason Kottke

Does Every Species Get a Billion Heartbeats Per Lifetime?

There’s an assumption that because of the relationship between metabolic rates, volume, and surface area, animals get an average of one billion heartbeats out of their bodies before they expire. Turns out there’s some truth to it. As animals get bigger, from tiny shrew t...

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• Jason Kottke

Merve Emre converses with Sally Rooney about novels, Intermezzo, games, and religion....

Merve Emre converses with Sally Rooney about novels, Intermezzo, games, and religion. “Throughout my work, rather than writing about characters, I write about dynamics.” (That’s why I love her books.)

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• John Gruber

Google Search Is Already in Decline

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Christopher Mims, writing for The Wall Street Journal (News+): The company’s core business is under siege. People are increasingly getting answers from artificial intelligence. Younger generations are using other platforms to gather information. And the quality of the re...

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• Jason Kottke

Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department. “Although the community would do better to...

Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department. “Although the community would do better to rely on an efficient, free-market fire-fighting service…”

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