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Explanation: This is an unusual rainbow. For one thing, the rainbow is not complete, appearing only in a sunlit fan -- but that by itself is not very unusual. What is most unusual is the fake location of the Sun. The Sun appears to be toward the front, ju...

Kelly, Jerome, and Amanda answer some questions from a very autumnal mailbag – from visiting the LA version of a classic pumpkin patch (80 degrees, full sun, in a parking lot) to the best ways to get some chills and thrills ahead of Halloween.

Places mentioned in this episode:

• The LA Natural History Museum Spider Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA
• Paranormal Activity on Broadway, NYC 
• Loved To Death Oddities, San Francisco, CA
• The Griswold Inn, Essex, CT 

If you have a question for our next one, give us a call, 315-992-7902, and leave a message. You can also record a voice memo and email it to us at hello@atlasobscura.com or email us your question!

 

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Bill, Chris, and Jo wake up handcuffed to a wheelchair and must rewatch the 2014 horror classic ‘It Follows’ before the entity finds them. 

Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic

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My obituary for programming Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you could imagine. You got paid to work on tricky little log...

Barack Obama, in a 430-word essay: It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoma...

Back in 2022, I quoted from an interesting post by Ben Schlappig at One Mile at a Time, where he wrote: I’ve had the opportunity to interact with quite a few senior airline executives over the years, and I find that their knowledge about competitors is typically one extr...

Greg Joswiak, on X:

Can’t wait to pro and tell next week.

Juli Clover, MacRumors:

Rumors suggest Apple is planning to debut the new MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen display, an M6 entry-level MacBook Pro, an M6 iMac, an iPad mini with an OLED display.

Link: x.com/gregjoz/status/2112212372182249831

Yesterday I posted the same question to my followers on X, Threads, and Mastodon:1 Poll, only for people who have pre-ordered a Duo. When is your delivery/pickup date? October November December January The results were interesting; I’m glad I asked. X Threads...

NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds and interviewed Panic’s Cabel Sasser about how they decided to refund their Playdate-buying customers for the tariffs surcharge they paid.

Anthony D’Alessandro, reporting for Deadline: Dan Lin is out as film boss at Netflix in a move that has been largely speculated for weeks. Insiders at the streamer have denied that Lin and even Bela Bajaria were on the chopping block, but here we are. Lin is meeting wit...

Do you believe in life after death? This is a great interactive piece by Alvin Chang about people’s beliefs about the existence of an afterlife and how those beliefs change over the course of our lifetimes.

Merchant's fable-like narratives tap into our anxieties around the environment by conjuring instead a kind of utopia.

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 Rithika Merchant Summons Ancient Mythology and Mysticism in ‘The Dreaming Realm’ appeared first on Colossal.

This is really impressive: a software engineer got a Game Boy emulator running at 30 fps on a tiny e-ink screen. If you’re familiar with e-paper, you know that they normally refresh much slower (2-3 times a second), not nearly quick enough to play even a simple video game...

A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous exhibition at the Met. I hope I make it to NYC to see this before it closes in January.

In this interview, songwriter Bernie Taupin gives me insights into his unique creative process. We discuss his career trajectory from his initial meeting with Elton John, to their massive global success and collaboration that has lasted nearly 60 years. Check out Bernie's ...

Fred Potter, on LinkedIn:

So if you ever meet someone who tells you, “At Apple, I’m the one who did this,” take it with a grain of salt. They were probably part of the team that made it happen, and that’s already something to be proud of.

Sometimes, when the final product finally comes out, you can recognize a few of the personal touches you contributed along the way. And that, in itself, is immensely rewarding.

Wishing HomeView every success!

Potter’s LinkedIn bio lists his time at Apple as July 2021 through June 2024, and describes it only as “Worked on HomeView”. (Via Christophe Laporte at iGeneration.)

Link: linkedin.com/posts/frpotter_tonight-im-looking-back-through…

Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and tower defense games. “Nouns make buildings and other parts of speech make modifiers that you can add to a building to improve its stats.”