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In 1964, legendary jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie ran for President as a write-in candidate. Some of the more interesting details about his campaign: If elected, he’d rename the White House to the Blues House. Running mate was slated to be Phyllis Diller. “She seems to h...

Ski Jumping Pairs is my favorite Winter Olympics event. (Video by Riichiro Mashima.)

From designer Beth Mathews, a free “Private Property! No ICE” sign you can print out for your shop or restaurant.

What movies can you brag about seeing during their original run in the theater? Not big movies, more culty ones. I’ve got Iron Giant, American Movie, Run Lola Run, Hands on a Hardbody, and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. 😂

This is the story of the United Space Ship Enterprise. Assigned a five year patrol of our galaxy, the giant starship visits Earth colonies, regulates commerce, and explores strange new worlds and civilizations. These are its voyages... and its adventures.

— ROUGH DRAFT 8/2/66, before the Star Trek opening narration reached its final form

Tags: screen-writing, science-fiction

From a draft of the opening narration of Star Trek: “Assigned a five year patrol of our galaxy, the giant starship visits Earth colonies, regulates commerce, and explores strange new worlds…” I’m glad they punched it up.

First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day First chick of the 2026 breeding season! Kākāpō Yasmine hatched an egg fostered from kākāpō Tīwhiri on Valentine's Day, bringing the total number of kākāpō to 237 – though it won’t be officially added to the popula...

But the intellectually interesting part for me is something else. I now have something close to a magic box where I throw in a question and a first answer comes back basically for free, in terms of human effort. Before this, the way I'd explore a new idea is to either clums...

Given the threat of cognitive debt brought on by AI-accelerated software development leading to more projects and less deep understanding of how they work and what they actually do, it's interesting to consider artifacts that might be able to help. Nathan Baschez on Twitter:...

We go to Tallahassee and learn the incredible civil rights history of Florida's capital city.  

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Half of everything is luck, the other half is The Rewatchables. The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey revisit the first James Bond film with Pierce Brosnan in ‘GoldenEye’ also starting Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, and Famke Janssen.

Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic
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Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents Alibaba's Qwen just released the first two models in the Qwen 3.5 series - one open weights, one proprietary. Both are multi-modal for vision input. The open weight one is a Mixture of Experts model called Qwen3.5-397B-A17B. Interest...

I introduced Showboat a week ago - my CLI tool that helps coding agents create Markdown documents that demonstrate the code that they have created. I've been finding new ways to use it on a daily basis, and I've just released two new tools to help get the best out of the Sho...

Learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user experience in your iOS app. This on-demand session covers how to:

• Set up Sentry to surface high-priority mobile issues without alert fatigue.
• Use Logs and Breadcrumbs to reconstruct what happened with a crash.
• Find what’s behind a performance bottleneck using Tracing.
• Monitor and reduce the size of your iOS app using Size Analysis.

Watch it here.

Link: sentry.io/resources/ios-workshop-jan-2026/?utm_source…

I'm a very heavy user of Claude Code on the web, Anthropic's excellent but poorly named cloud version of Claude Code where everything runs in a container environment managed by them, greatly reducing the risk of anything bad happening to a computer I care about. I don't use ...

Pre-show: Marco beach… and app… cleanup results Instagram reel that John found Due YoLink Water Leak Starter Kit We’re recording ✨from the future✨. Follow-up: Should Casey look at a used Lucid Air for ~$50k? Marco’s defection move to Chrome (via Sarvagnan) ...

Polio was nearly eradicated. But immunity gaps allow the virus to resurface. The fight isn’t over, and one case can spark an outbreak. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #polioawareness #polioeradication #poliofree Sources & fu...

We asked you to send us stories about the places where you’ve stayed the night – some of you had some interesting experiences that live in your head forever. 

Plus, we want to hear your stories about your unforgettable spring break travel stories. Where did you go? What made this trip so memorable? Did everything go as planned? Or did things go wrong? We want to hear it all. 

Give us a call at (315) 992-7902 and leave a message telling us your name and story. Or you can record a voice memo and give it to us. At hello@atlasobscura.com.

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The AI Vampire Steve Yegge's take on agent fatigue, and its relationship to burnout. Let's pretend you're the only person at your company using AI. In Scenario A, you decide you're going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it ...