"Even in a boom time for games, the decidedly old-fashioned puzzles are more popular than ever. I went to the best place on Earth to understand why."
Longreads
• Krista Stevens
Longreads
• Krista Stevens
"Even in a boom time for games, the decidedly old-fashioned puzzles are more popular than ever. I went to the best place on Earth to understand why."
Brexit vote: 10 years on. “‘Absolute nightmare, shambles, and still is to this day,’ says Tony Rutherford a decade after he voted leave to save the British fishing industry.”
I love this playable 3D-rendered reel-to-reel player made by Dunstan Orchard and Kristina Dutton. Despite their virtuality, the buttons are delightfully clicky and the attention to detail is impressive.
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
The new book from David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka of Zupagrafika highlights a wide range of futuristic arenas.
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Step into a virtual Criterion Closet. “A walk-in closet of 1,327 real Criterion editions, shelved in spine-number order — exactly as a true collector keeps them. Look around, read the spines, and pull any one off the shelf to inspect the case.”
Longreads
• Lisa Bubert

The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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Kelly McEvers has visited all 50 states. But not on purpose.
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From Hell Month continues with a trip to Southport, Maryland, to attend the wedding of Rick Barnes and Susan Morrison in the 2001 thriller ‘Domestic Disturbance,’ starring John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Steve Buscemi, and Teri Polo.
Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic
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Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Scientists have found evidence of mass death due to the plague 5000 years ago, which goes against the prevailing theory that plague wasn’t that deadly until more recently.
A long oral history of Steven Spielberg and his career. “He’s a terrific collaborator. He himself is a continuous lightbulb flickering on and off with one idea after another, but he’s not terribly protective of an idea.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
30-disc set includes:
- 4K restorations of Kubrick’s thirteen features and three shorts, with their original soundtracks alongside the 5.1 mixes, restored and remastered
- Over twenty-five hours of interviews, documentaries, and behind-the-scenes materials
- Kubrick’s international version of The Shining
- A new 4K restoration of Vivian Kubrick’s behind-the-scenes documentary Making “The Shining”
- Newly recorded commentary tracks featuring filmmaker Lee Unkrich (editor of the book Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”) and author Michael Benson (Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece)
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
I appreciate what 2K/DENMARK’s Klaus Krogh says about their ambitions when he and his wife started the company:
When I started this company together with my wife, I said we got to become a very very small company. Why? Because we are going to put so much effort into each and every assignment that nobody’s going to pay for it. So we are not going to grow any. Now almost 40 years later, we have the very best customers. We have customers in 43 countries. We do typesetting in Chinese and Japanese. Why? Well, because we take care. We do our very best every time.
Tags: 2K/DENMARK · design · Klaus Krogh · typography
The trailer for Klara and the Sun, directed by Taika Waititi and based on the bestseller by Kazuo Ishiguro.