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Álvaro Urbano presents an homage to the innovations of Casa Cueva, an icon of modernist Mexican architecture.

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I remember this 90s TV commercial for 93.7 The Edge, a Minnesota alternative radio station, very well. It features very non-alternative old people reciting lyrics like “bow down before the one you serve” and “Winona’s got herself a big brown beaver”.

Gregory Wieber does these engaging, info-rich videos on tech history — I posted his HyperCard Changed Everything video back in the spring. For one of his latest videos, Wieber goes through a short history of Christopher Alexander’s landmark book, A Pattern Language (Bookshop), which anyone interested in building anything should at least have paged through once in their life,¹ and how his work inspired not only object oriented programming and the invention of wikis, but also SimCity and The Sims.

1. The Timeless Way of Building is shorter, less dense, and perhaps a better introduction to Alexander’s ideas about patterns. ↩

Tags: Gregory Wieber · simcity · The Sims · video games · Will Wright

New book from James Gleick about the history of the telephone. “It gave us the party line, the busy signal, dial tones, wiretapping, the late-night DJ, and the booty call. It magnified the possibilities of government, of business, of friendship, of love.”

My latest vibe coded game experiment is a Command & Conquer style RTS (Real Time Strategy) game called Battle Drones (play it here). Unlike my previous experiments, this one is actually fun to play. I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I got there by telling Claude to ...

“Astronomers for the first time have identified a green star, documenting a dense stellar remnant called a white dwarf that became a ghostly shade of chartreuse after ingesting rocky ​debris from planets that once had orbited it.”

Wyatt Hersey, Melissa Lakey, Esther Pearl Watson, and Anna Valdez joined Joy Machine at Camp Wandawega for five days of arctic magic.

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Perfect Play ran over 300 million games of Monopoly to determine the best strategy and the most common mistakes players make. I turned eight classic Monopoly strategies into computer players and made them play 312,898,560 games against each other. At a table of four, the...

"The works of the British art critic John Berger offer the antidote to our age of infinite scrolling."

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First. “It’s disgusting to put workers at risk by looting. You do it by chipping away at their health benefits and eventually laying them off.”

Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through galactic quantities of data”, a very amateur astronomer has found a possible exoplanet candidate. MIT is going to point their satellite at the candidate planet to collect more data soon.

'Six Themes' at Paula Cooper Gallery celebrates the artist's seminal sculptures.

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This workshop founded in 1882 still makes dried bonito like they did back in the Edo period. How katsuobushi — Japanese dried bonito, said to be the world’s hardest food — is made in Nishi-Izu, Japan. Inside Kanesa Katsuobushi Shoten, a workshop founded in 1882, 5th-gener...

Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the Internet Archive from archiving their sites. “Impeding the Wayback Machine’s preservation work will not prevent powerful AI companies from gathering training data.”

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"Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States."

He wrote the book on how the military shapes masculine identity. He'll also tell you about Disney adults, Pharaoh Sanders, and his favorite spot for a burger and negroni.