Media Matters: “ABC, CBS, and NBC aired a combined 194 segments about the three major heat events” that hit the US this summer and not a single one of them mentioned climate change. Not one!
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
The Winners of the 2026 Pure Street Photography Awards Invoke Happenstance and Commotion
Eight winners were selected from nearly 1,600 entries submitted by photographers in 50 countries.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article The Winners of the 2026 Pure Street Photography Awards Invoke Happenstance and Commotion appeared first on Colossal.
Fun little review by Marcin Wichary of a 1984 flying...
Fun little review by Marcin Wichary of a 1984 flying video game called Sopwith, which was never supposed to be released to the public (an event that the game’s creator didn’t learn about until years later).
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never linked to the interview from my own blog!
It includes my answers to the following questions:
Why did you start blogging – ...
datasette 1.0a38
Release: datasette 1.0a38
This release fixes a SQL injection security issue that affects Datasette instances that serve a mixture of public and private tables in the same database, with access configured using the Datasette permissions system.
Site administrators wh...
datasette 0.65.3
I love this little video of burbling pasta sauces...
I love this little video of burbling pasta sauces (sound on). Wish there was a 10-hour YT version for work background noise…
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
How War Has Redefined Marriage in Gaza
"Celebrating the bond between two lives is a declaration that life itself, however diminished, is still worth living."
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never linked to the interview from my own blog!
It includes my answers to the following questions:
Why did you start blogging – ...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Add a Shortcut to Control Center to Open the Current App’s Preferences in the Settings App
Regarding my earlier complaint about it being a slog to open Safari’s preferences in the Settings app on iOS, a few readers pointed me to this tweet last year from Quinn Nelson, showing how to build (or download from iCloud) a simple Shortcuts shortcut that you can add to Control Center to open the current app’s preferences in Settings. Works great.
Update: Stephen Robles:
I made a few riffs off that one as well:
I’d Be Lead Harpooner on the Pequod If It Wasn’t for...
I’d Be Lead Harpooner on the Pequod If It Wasn’t for These DEI Hires. “I’m just telling you that it’s getting hard out there for us blue-collar Nantucket lads when all the ships’ owners are catching the Abolitionist Mind Virus.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
BMW Executive in 2023: No Plans to Sell in-Vehicle Ads
mediapost.com/publications/article/391876/bmw-exec-no-plans-to-sell-in-vehicle-ads.html
Tanya Gazdik, reporting for MediaPost back in December 2023:
Despite the ever-expanding screens in its vehicles, including an
available 31-inch backseat theatre screen, BMW has no plans to
sell advertising on any of them. Radio commercials are intrusive
enough, says Step...
25 things that explain America , including personal...
25 things that explain America, including personal injury lawyer advertisements, Crest Whitestrips, Costco rotisserie chicken, and the Pizza Hut lamp. “The T-shirt cannon merges three American obsessions: guns, sports and freebie giveaways.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
StopTheScript Is a Dickover Killer
Back in March I sung the praises of Jeff Johnson’s StopTheScript and StopTheMadness Safari extensions. I want to re-link to StopTheScript in particular. I wrote last week about ad-blocking content blockers, and I’ve gotten a slew of wonderful feedback from readers about that...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
BMW Has Put a Spider-Man Ad on the Dashboard Display of Owners’ Cars
hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/bmw-spider-man-brand-new-day-ads-1236665172/
James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter:
BMW owners are taking to social media to express outrage that the
automaker suddenly started pushing ads for Spider-Man: Brand New
Day onto their dashboards.
The ads began appearing last week on newer-model vehicles and some
driver...
How Does an Enigma Machine Work?
This is a completely fantastic look at how the Enigma Machine works. Jared Owen constructed a 3D model of the German cipher device and clearly walks the viewer through how the electricity flows through the machine to scramble and unscramble secret messages.
When electric...
How Wildfire Smoke Is Reshaping Childhood ....
How Wildfire Smoke Is Reshaping Childhood. “Repeated smoke events are changing children’s daily routines, limiting opportunities for outdoor play and social interaction and reshaping how many families experience summer.”
This guy hooked his hamster’s wheel up to Strava —...
This guy hooked his hamster’s wheel up to Strava — Mollie is logging 5-6 miles per day.
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
A Short Film Sheds Light on the Garfield Phones Washing Up on a French Beach Since the ’80s
Breton coastal residents grew up collecting parts of a 1984 Garfield-themed plastic telephone on the beach—and still do.
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Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
What Would It Mean to See a New Color?
"Olo can be described as the 'greenest green,' though it can never be captured by a camera. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision."