Momentum Demonstration
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
Tishomingo Burn Ban
"An encounter in the Christ-haunted South."
Longreads
• Longreads
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Highlighting stories by Melanie Challenger, Eve Livingston, M.R. O’Connor, Gordon Peake, and Blair Braverman.
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
• SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
Spooky Szn: Witch Cakes
On Fridays this October, we're surfacing strange, incredible and sometimes spooky stories. This episode centers on cakes with a particular ingredient that some believe protected them from witchery - and sparked one of the best-known witch hunts in United States history.
READ MORE IN THE ATLAS:https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-witch-cakes
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Chasing the International Space Station
Explanation: Blasting into the predawn sky on Tuesday, October 13, a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft are headed for low Earth orbit in this stunning timelapse video captured from Indian Harbour Beach, Florida. Starting with a launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
★ Initial Thoughts on This Week’s New Apple TV 4K (4th Generation) and HomePod Mini 2
Apple Newsroom, Tuesday morning:
The new Apple TV 4K features three far-field microphones, letting
users control what they’re watching and discover new shows
completely hands-free. Advanced echo cancellation intelligently
isolates a user’s voice from background sound to ...
sparqlite: SPARQL 1.1 inside SQLite, written in Rust
Research: sparqlite: SPARQL 1.1 inside SQLite, written in Rust
This research task is really an experiment in running Claude Code for web in "Ultracode" mode, as described in Orchestrate subagents at scale with dynamic workflows in the Claude Code documentation.
With ...
Did Hollywood Copy THIS Video?
In this episode I compare a scene from the movie Tuner (2026) to my first viral video, and the similarities are striking to say the least.
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Dylan's Original Perfect Pitch Videos:
https://youtu.be/t3Cb1qwCUvI?si...
Beautiful Seamless Ride
A lovely little mountain biking video with some incredible locations and cinematography. The drone piloting is A+. Also available on Vimeo. (via alastair humphreys)
Chirp Pong
Tool: Chirp Pong
Another game experiment - I wanted to see if it was feasible to have a two player game on two separate phones running in static HTML where the networking code uses chirps sent via the microphone. It seems to work!
Build a two player competitive pong like game where two players use their phones close to each other and the game state is sent via audio noises which the web microphone API can interpret - but add graphical and gameplay twists to make it a lot more fun and intertwine than pong
Claude Opus 5.5 Extra in Claude Code.
Tags: game-design, ai, generative-ai, llms, claude-code
Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element...
Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element left in iOS?
713: I Have Medium Hopes
Apple’s New Home-Related Products
HomeView
Newsroom
iMac G4
Intro video
TV commercial
Schneider press release
Wired’s review
WWDC 2026: Rev Up Your CarPlay App
Developer agreement
“HomeView” & “homeOS”
Apple TV 4K gen 4
Nvidia Shield TV
Newsroom
Intro video
Ma...
Fishdraw is a single JavaScript file that generates...
Fishdraw is a single JavaScript file that generates drawings of fish. There’s an option to slow the animation down so you can watch it draw the fish line-by-line.
How Hunting Owls Use Sound to “See” Under the Snow
The great grey owl basically has a sound cone for a face, which helps it hunt down voles burrowing through snow in the winter.
The owl’s large facial ruff, formed of dense feathers, helps amplify sound and funnel it towards his ears. Through half a meter of snow, the soun...
How many shots are in the average movie? How does it...
How many shots are in the average movie? How does it compare to the past? “You might expect the editor to be the most important factor in the number of shots, but in fact, knowing who directed a film accounts for 70% of the variation in its cutting pace.”
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Secret Documents Reveal Donors Behind $330 Million for Trump’s Ballroom — Apple and Nvidia Top the List at $25 Million Each
Jonathan O’Connell, Sarah Blaskey, and Aaron Schaffer, reporting for The Washington Post (News+ link; Archive.today link):
A list obtained by The Washington Post reveals all the major
donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project,
including previously u...
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 Winners Showcase Nature’s Power and Vulnerability
"This year's winning photographs demonstrate the extraordinary power of wildlife photography to help us see nature differently," says Dr. Doug Gurr, Director of the Natural History Museum.
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 Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 Winners Showcase Nature’s Power and Vulnerability appeared first on Colossal.
Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World. “The epic...
Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World. “The epic story of how a handful of surprisingly simple mathematical ideas have sparked today’s technological breakthroughs — from Netflix’s recommendation algorithm to medical imaging to AI…” Interesting!
Longreads
• Carolyn Wells
What Happens When Your Abuser Kills Himself?
"These women's abusive partners died by suicide. They felt both relief and grief. The NHS didn't know what to do with them."
Longreads
• Brendan Fitzgerald
Supplemental Journey
"Fishing for trouble in the Antarctic."