Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Practical Engineering: Are beavers actually good at building dams? (A: Yes, duh.)
Colossal
• Grace Ebert
Taehyoung Maria Jeon reimagines the plants cohabitating in her apartment, beginning with leaves and stems before venturing into surreal terrain.
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 Fantastic Plants Spring from Taehyoung Maria Jeon’s Digital Illustrations appeared first on Colossal.
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. Brad Pitt returns as Booth, the character he played in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but 8 years later. Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, directed by David Fincher.
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
"Drug gangs have moved off Britain’s streets and into vulnerable people’s homes. Addicts like my friend are easy targets, but the reality can be more complicated than it seems."
Trace is a daily puzzle game where you build a “recipe” of up to 4 steps to turn a starting set of numbers into another set of numbers.
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
"From a certain height, the problem becomes one of knowledge itself: Do you believe what you hear, or do you hear what you believe?"
The lessons four Islamic polymaths — al-Biruni, Alhazen, Avicenna and al-Khwarizmi — hold for students today: “breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way”.
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple Newsroom:
Apple today announced the opening of Apple Music Hall, a brand-new state-of-the-art live music venue in London’s storied Battersea Power Station, designed to connect artists and fans through bespoke, intimate performances unlike anywhere else.
Apple might be the most interesting architecture company in the world this century. They have a core look and feel they apply to their own facilities built from the ground up (e.g., Apple Park, certain flagship retail stores), but they also have tremendous respect for historic buildings they take over.
The balconies in Apple Music Hall are bronze, but the lighting (at least in Apple’s photos) is so warm that the balconies look a little like giant Mac Minis.
Link: apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-opens-apple-music-hall-a…
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
50 Songs That Explain America. “The songs were chosen on the basis that they told me something, sonically or lyrically or emotionally or vibrationally, about America and the idea of America.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Supple mountains cradled by lakes and forests are tinged with magical realism.
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How to rescue an orphaned baby elephant. “The baby elephant needs a mother to run to. And the fact is that the mother is a 30-year-old Nigerian man right now.”
Robert Eggers is doing Romeo & Juliet. “When it comes to dialogue, sources say that this adaptation will feature actors speaking in Elizabethan English (aka early modern English), with lines straight from the play.”
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