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Text • Brendan Fitzgerald

My Two Front Teeth

"Reflections on a lifetime of dental drama."

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Text • John Gruber

‘Prepare to Ship’ Is a Clever Software Solution That Allows iPhone 18 Pro Max to Ship With a Battery That Would Otherwise Exceed International Shipping Regulations

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Apple Support: iPhone 18 Pro Max offers a huge increase in battery life, in part due to increasing the battery capacity to over 20 watt-hours (Wh). Devices with a single-cell battery over 20 Wh have additional shipping requirements in most countries and regions. To addre...

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Text • Jason Kottke

When’s the Last Time You Cried?

For New York magazine, Emily Gould writes about her quest to cry again: I Miss My Tears (archive). I looked over at my husband, Keith, whose eyes were red, and felt … nothing. Not a clench in my chest, not a pang, not an incipient burning behind my eye sockets. It wasn’t t...

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Text • Jason Kottke

Chimpanzees use tools to collect food and deliberately...

Chimpanzees use tools to collect food and deliberately teach other chimps (often their offspring) to use them for ant dipping, algae fishing, and termite fishing.

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Text • John Gruber

App Store Scam of the Week: ‘Update My Phone & Apps: Guide’ by Tair Olzhasev

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“Update My Phone & Apps: Guide” is an iOS app from developer Tair Olzhasev. By default, the only thing it does for free is give you a “Check for Updates” button that launches the system Settings app. It doesn’t even take you to the General → Software Update screen. It ju...

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Woodland Creatures Inhabit an Imaginary World in Kanako Abe’s Intricate Paper Cuts

Woodland Creatures Inhabit an Imaginary World in Kanako Abe’s Intricate Paper CutsAbe imagines dreamlike scenes reminiscent of childhood narratives and folk tales.

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 Woodland Creatures Inhabit an Imaginary World in Kanako Abe’s Intricate Paper Cuts appeared first on Colossal.

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Text • John Gruber

★ AppZapper 3000

Back in the mid-2000s there was a golden era of exuberantly designed Mac apps. Paul Kafasis coined it “The Delicious Generation”, a perfect name. The delicious was both a reference to Wil Shipley and Mike Matas’s Delicious Library — a personal media library management app th...

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Text • Jason Kottke

Some advice on giving good advice. “Not every situation...

Some advice on giving good advice. “Not every situation warrants advice. Sometimes, the person just wants to gauge a reaction or to share.”

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(comic) Worked hard last week

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Text • Kate Mothes

John Wilson’s ‘The History of Concrete’ Is Anything But Mundane

John Wilson’s ‘The History of Concrete’ Is Anything But MundaneWilson's movie debut is primed for absurdity, delving into something that's immanently mundane yet fundamental to the way we live.

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 John Wilson’s ‘The History of Concrete’ Is Anything But Mundane appeared first on Colossal.

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Text • Jason Kottke

The Earth in the Sky

I love these black & white photos of Devils Tower by Zac Henderson. A butte of a rare kind of volcanic rock that formed a mile underground 50 million years ago, Devil’s Tower is visible now thanks to erosion of sedimentary rock. The tower features the world’s large...

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Text • John Gruber

Super Intelligence, Indeed

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President Donald Trump, in a prepared speech before the United Nations General Assembly yesterday (one-minute video clip from Aaron Rupar, posted on Bluesky): The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial...

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Text • Jason Kottke

TIL they can do wing replacements on injured...

TIL they can do wing replacements on injured butterflies…just take a look at this repair video.

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Text • Jason Kottke

Engaging read on how the Bugs Bunny cartoon What’s Opera,...

Engaging read on how the Bugs Bunny cartoon What’s Opera, Doc? was made. “To get the extra work done, Jones and his crew secretly shaved a couple weeks off other, easier films and faked their time cards. It was something they did on occasion.”

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Olivia Rodrigo - The Cure

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Olivia Rodrigo is a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter. In June 2026, she released her third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. The day it came out, it broke streaming records on Spotify and Amazon Music, and it debuted at number one on the Billboard Charts. I talked to Olivia Rodrigo here in my studio, and I also visited her long-time producer and co-writer Dan Nigro at his studio. Dan Nigro won the Grammy for Producer of the Year in 2025, in part for his work with Olivia Rodrigo. For this episode, the two of them told me the story of making Olivia’s song “The Cure,” from the original voice memo to the final version.

For more info, visit songexploder.net/olivia-rodrigo.

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Text • Jason Kottke

The 25 Photos That Changed Fashion Forever. “It didn’t...

The 25 Photos That Changed Fashion Forever. “It didn’t matter if an image was meant as a fashion photograph, so long as the picture later inspired a designer, collection or trend, or it changed how we might think about style.”

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Text • Seyward Darby

He Was One of the World’s Most Wanted Men. So He Bought a West African Country.

"How Jos Leijdekkers turned Sierra Leone into a drug-dealer’s paradise."

Dan’s Polaroids
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21.09.2026

A group of men posing in front of a wooden hut.
Bye, mountains!

Dan’s Polaroids
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18.09.2026

A mountain in the background and the top of a roof of a house in the lower front.
Hello, mountains!

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The Seed Huntress

Dive into the invisible world of seeds, Sefra Alexandra, the self-titled “Seed Huntress.” She tells us about her global mission to preserve our planet's diverse seeds and protect our future food security by uncovering the stories of culinary and cultural significance rooted in these tiny powerhouses.


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