15.06.2026
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Apple's Big Price Hike
New prices across the board for everything.
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
A Visual Cacophony of People, Places, and Things Fill Chris Millar’s Mixed-Media Paintings
Millar's meticulous mixed-media works conjure enigmatic contraptions and look-and-find books.
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Apple Just Raised Prices. But Deals Are Still Available.
Apple raised their prices on their laptops, iMacs, and iPads today due to the high cost of memory (driven by AI demand). The Macbook Neo’s price went up $100 with most other machines getting a $200-500 bump.
But those prices have yet to take effect at Amazon, where Apple computers are still cheaper than the old prices. Macbook Neo for $590, MacBook Air M5 for $1150, and the M4 iMac for $1150. You can check other models (MacBook Pros, etc.) and their pricing here. Not sure when RAM costs are going to come down…these might be the lowest prices you see on Apple machines for quite awhile.
2000-Year-Old Roman Amphitheatre Hosts World Cup Watch Party
Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. I don’t know whether Roman rulers, builders, and architects envisioned their works would remain standing & useful millennia after their construction, but longevity is certainly not a priority these days.
Here’s a video of Jordan fans watching their opener vs Austria in the amphitheater:
Tags: Jordan · soccer · sports · video · World Cup 2026
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Mars Delusion
"Establishing a human colony on Mars is fraught with risk. Why are so many people obsessed with achieving it?"
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
Secrets of the Magus
"Ricky Jay does closeup magic that flouts reality."
Longreads
• Longreads
Curiosity as Compassion: A Conversation with Susan Orlean
Baryon Asymmetry
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
The Minnesota-Shaped Forest (Classic)
We follow one man’s journey down an internet rabbit hole that becomes a search for a one-of-a-kind forest and its mysterious creator.
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simonw/browser-compat-db
simonw/browser-compat-db
Inspired by Mozilla's new MDN MCP service - source code here - I decided to try converting their comprehensive mdn/browser-compat-data repository full of browser compatibility data into a SQLite database.
This new GitHub Repo includes a Claude Code f...
Mars For The Rest of Us
• Maciej Cegłowski
A Diner's Guide to Mars
To the Michelin stars by hard ways
Good headline from the NYT for a change: President...
Good headline from the NYT for a change: President Narcissus and the Fetid Reflecting Pool.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
WebKit Always Enables the Copy Menu Item in Every App
Jeff Johnson:
Several weeks ago, John Gruber of Daring Fireball asked me
whether I could reproduce an issue he was seeing in Safari: when a
web page is focused, the Copy menu item in the main menu is always
enabled, regardless of whether there’s anything selected in the
...
Top 5 Android 17 Features: I Swear It's New!
Android 17 Cinnamon bun. We're bringing the dessert names back.
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Dominic Miller on playing in front of 80,000 people #guitar #sting #shorts
Mentioned this in passing a few months ago, but wanted to...
Mentioned this in passing a few months ago, but wanted to remind you that The Art of Star Wars: Andor is coming out in about a week. Looks great.
Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice?...
Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated. Halley’s Comet came around in 1066 and it’s likely Eilmer of Malmesbury saw a different comet in 1018, not Halley’s in 989.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
WebKit in Safari 27 Beta
webkit.org/blog/17967/news-from-wwdc26-webkit-in-safari-27-beta/
The WebKit blog (back during WWDC):
If you look through the lists of features and fixes in Safari 27,
you’ll notice that, although there are 58 brand-new features and
525 fixes — the largest pile of fixes in any Safari release in
recent memory — most of what is released ...