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The Amazing Kreskin Dies at 89

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The New York Times: George J. Kresge, who as the entertainer the Amazing Kreskin used mentalist tricks to dazzle audiences as he rose to fame on late-night television in the 1970s, died on Tuesday in Wayne, N.J. He was 89. A close friend, Meir Yedid, said the death, at a...

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Jason Kottke

Aerial Foodscapes

For his book Feed the Planet: A Photographic Journey to the World’s Food (Bookshop), George Steinmetz travelled the world with his drone, spending “a decade documenting food production in more than 36 countries on 6 continents, 24 US states, and 5 oceans”. In strik...

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Jason Kottke

I missed this back in August: the excellent Art of the Title...

I missed this back in August: the excellent Art of the Title site is on hiatus due to lack of funds (in part due to a skyrocketing Vimeo bill). Join me in supporting them? And can anyone at Vimeo help w/ their video hosting?

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Jason Kottke

Tressie McMillan Cottom: “Whether you call it crony capitalism or just an...

Tressie McMillan Cottom: “Whether you call it crony capitalism or just an unfair economy, the market sets the rules for which lives matter. We have set up a system of interlocking ninth circles of hell for all of our basic needs.”

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Jason Kottke

Great Casey Johnston piece on how chronic pain & capitalism intersect in...

Great Casey Johnston piece on how chronic pain & capitalism intersect in contemporary America. “The safety net they were promised would back up their commitment not only isn’t there, but is actually more like a spider’s web that will entangle them…”

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Jason Kottke

“The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the...

“The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought.” A new analysis of Voyager 2 data suggests a powerful solar storm distorted the previous analysis.

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Global News Podcast

Biden in largest single-day act of clemency

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US president commutes around 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people. Also: inside Syria's abandoned presidential palace, recreational use of cannabis banned in Japan, and the secret to being happy at work.

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🔗 August 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal

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The latest photojournal entry has been out for a few days.

Zoe's first day at school. I went photographing with Florian at Zeche Zollverein in Essen. It was my mum's birthday. Saw Gatecreeper and Converge live in Dortmund with Bernd and Fred. We went to a horse race. And Bernd and I went on a multiday hike in Austria, where I broke my arm.

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John Gruber

Daring Fireball T-Shirts and Hoodies

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Photo of a Daring Fireball logo hoodie.

In addition to two choices for t-shirts, the new DF Paraphernalia store also has the above hoodies, which are pretty nice, I have to say. I particularly like the drawstrings, which are much more substantial, almost rope-like, than the shoelace-like strings on most hoodies. I wear mine a lot, especially in the winter, as an extra layer. You’d look good in one.

Here’s the thing. The store will not be open year-round. We’re taking orders now, printing to meet demand, and then we’re going to close it down. Order tonight or tomorrow, and if you’re in the U.S., yours should arrive before Christmas. International orders — even those ordered by our good neighbors in Canada — most likely will not.

Link: store.daringfireball.net/

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John Gruber

★ The Information Suggests, in an Aside, That Apple Scrapped Work on a Quad-Max/Double-Ultra M-Series Chip

Wayne Ma and Qianer Liu, in a piece today for The Information (paywalled up the wazoo, sadly), “Apple Is Working on AI Chip With Broadcom”: Apple is developing its first server chip specially designed for artificial intelligence, according to three people with direct kno...

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John Gruber

‘Letterman TV’ Launching on Samsung TV Plus

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Erik Hayden, reporting for The Hollywood Reporter: For his next move, David Letterman is jumping in to the increasingly crowded free, ad-supported TV channel (FAST) space. The late-night great’s production company Worldwide Pants has inked a deal with Samsung TV Plus to...

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Jason Kottke

I just updated the 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide, including some gifts...

I just updated the 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide, including some gifts for people you hate (ugly decanters, Baby Yoda s&p shakers). Years ago, a work colleague received a *turtle* as a wedding gift. What’s the worst gift you’ve ever given or received?

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Aaron Cohen

Now Serving: Drinkable Mayonnaise

Lawson’s, a convenience store in Japan, has begun selling Nomu, a drinkable mayonnaise forgetting the important adage: all mayo is drinkable if you believe in yourself. The only catch for pedantic mayonnaise lovers is that the label clarifies that Nomu mayo is a “mayonnaise...

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Jason Kottke

Holiday Terms & Conditions (A Christmas Album). Lyrics include: “It’s beginning to...

Holiday Terms & Conditions (A Christmas Album). Lyrics include: “It’s beginning to look a lot like lawsuits, everywhere you scroll…” and “I don’t want a lot for Christmas, just my intellectual property rights…”

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Jason Kottke

Bryan Cranston Reads From Robert Caro’s The Power Broker

At an event last month marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker, actor Bryan Cranston read a passage from the book (it’s about 13 minutes long): From Literary Hub: After some loving jabs at the devotion this book inspires and its ...

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Jason Kottke

Recently found: a message in a bottle at an archaeological dig left...

Recently found: a message in a bottle at an archaeological dig left there in 1825 by an archaeologist. “It was an absolutely magic moment. We knew there had been excavations here in the past, but to find this message from 200 years ago…”

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John Gruber

MacOS Sequoia 15.2 Includes References to Next Year’s M4 MacBook Air Models

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Juli Clover at MacRumors: Apple today made a mistake with its macOS Sequoia 15.2 update, releasing the software for two Macs that have yet to be launched. There is a software file for “Mac16,12” and “Mac16,13,” which are upcoming MacBook Air models. The leaked software ...

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Jason Kottke

Racing’s Deadliest Day. After the 1955 Le Mans disaster, “it would be...

Racing’s Deadliest Day. After the 1955 Le Mans disaster, “it would be another 40 years before Mercedes got back into racing”. (In the meantime, they pioneered “anti-lock brakes, anti-collision radar systems, and other consumer safety technologies”.)

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Jason Kottke

Monument Valley 3 is out today on iOS & Android and is...

Monument Valley 3 is out today on iOS & Android and is free to play with a Netflix subscription.

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Jason Kottke

The Origin of Delay, Deny, Defend

In the wake of the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, a book published in 2010 by Rutgers Law professor Jay Feinman has hit the bestseller charts: Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It. The book’s title is a reference to an...