Savory Rice Krispies treats? “Savory chicken fat and fried onions push Rice...
Savory Rice Krispies treats? “Savory chicken fat and fried onions push Rice Krispies Treats into gloriously salty-sweet territory.”
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In 2023, seismologists detected a “global hum” originating in Greenland that lasted...
In 2023, seismologists detected a “global hum” originating in Greenland that lasted for 9 days. A rockslide triggered a 200m-high tsunami that sloshed back & forth in a fjord every 90 seconds, slamming into the fjord’s walls “like a beating heart”.
Forks Out: A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery
For years now, the people have wanted only one thing: for Daniel Craig’s chicken-fried detective Benoit Blanc to feature in a Muppet movie (with Craig as the only human). Earlier this year, Netflix picked up the streaming rights for Sesame Street. That partnership has borne ...
Prepare to lose a few hours to these: Andy Baio’s top 10...
Prepare to lose a few hours to these: Andy Baio’s top 10 free browser games of 2025.
Just dropped: Lane 8’s Winter 2025 Mixtape....
Just dropped: Lane 8’s Winter 2025 Mixtape.
This AI Vending Machine Was Tricked Into Giving Away Everything
Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine in the WSJ office. The LLM, named Claudius, was responsible for autonomously purchasing inventory from wholesalers, setting prices, tracking inventory, and generating a profit. The newsroom’s journalists could chat with Cla...
“Docs said I’d never walk, but I ran a marathon.” Logan Knowles...
“Docs said I’d never walk, but I ran a marathon.” Logan Knowles was born with cerebral palsy. This fall, he ran & completed the NYC marathon, his body fighting him the whole way. What a story.
Making your own amaro at home. “…so long as the plants are...
Making your own amaro at home. “…so long as the plants are edible and the flavors appeal, a variety of contrasting and complementary elements will ultimately result in something complex and intriguing.”
Entirely Too Many Thoughts About Wake Up Dead Man. An excellent, long...
Entirely Too Many Thoughts About Wake Up Dead Man. An excellent, long & close read of Wake Up Dead Man, particularly its focus on “religion, faith, and grace”.
On Kindness, Power, and Hypocrisy
Earlier this week, Vanity Fair published a two-part story about the Trump regime’s “inner circle”, including extensive interviews with his chief of staff, who was openly critical of the people that she works with, from Trump on down. The story caused a stir and so did the ...
A group of journalism students was able to track probable Russian spy...
A group of journalism students was able to track probable Russian spy drones launched from cargo ships to surveil European military bases. They even flew a drone of their own over one of the cargo ships: “we droned back”.
We’re getting down to the wire for gifts to be shipped in...
We’re getting down to the wire for gifts to be shipped in time for Xmas. Take a look at the 2025 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide if you still need to shop for your fam & friends.
“On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the...
“On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.” Includes Betty Boop, Blondie & Dagwood, and works by William Faulkner, Agatha Christie, and the Marx Brothers.
Machine With Concrete
Arthur Ganson is a kinetic sculptor who builds “Rube Goldberg machines with existential themes”. One of his works is called Machine with Concrete, which demonstrates the magic of gear ratios
According to a piece in Make, the input shaft spins at 200 rpm, which is reduced by gearing down to 1 revolution every 2 trillion years by the time you reach the gear on the end…which is so slow that even embedding the final gear in concrete doesn’t make any difference to the machine’s operation. (via interconnected)
[This is a vintage post originally from Feb 2015.]
Tags: art · Arthur Ganson · timeless posts · video
Chef Saves 78-Year-Old Man’s Life After He Stopped Showing Up for His...
Chef Saves 78-Year-Old Man’s Life After He Stopped Showing Up for His Daily Dinners at Local Restaurant. “Mr. Hicks don’t miss no days. I knew, then, something was wrong.”
[Trailer] The Muppet Show is returning! It’s a one-time event, hosted by...
[Trailer] The Muppet Show is returning! It’s a one-time event, hosted by Sabrina Carpenter, to celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary. “It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights…”
Nature: The Best Science Images of 2025
Nature magazine has chosen its favorite science images of the year. I’ve featured a few of these on the site already — Skydiving the Sun, red sprites in the New Zealand sky — so I picked a couple of other favorites to share:
The first was taken by Francisco Negroni of the Villarrica volcano in Chile (check out his site for more amazing photos of volcanos & lightning). The second is by 13-year-old Grayson Bell of two green frogs fighting; Bell named his photo “Baptism of the Unwilling Convert”.
Tags: best of · best of 2025 · photography · science
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Astronomy Picture of the Day for Dec 12: a red fox beneath...
Astronomy Picture of the Day for Dec 12: a red fox beneath a swirling aurora. “In a Finnish myth, when an arctic fox runs so fast that its bushy tail brushes the mountains, flaming sparks are cast into the heavens creating the northern lights.”
The Devil You Know is an 8-part podcast series from the CBC...
The Devil You Know is an 8-part podcast series from the CBC and Sarah Marshall (host of You’re Wrong About…) about the Satanic Panic. “These thousands of alleged Satanists were nowhere to be found…”
The Lies and Falsifications of Oliver Sacks
In a recent bombshell piece for the New Yorker, Rachel Aviv explored the personal journals of the celebrated neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks. What she found was shocking: he had fabricated and embellished some of his most well-known work — like Awakenings and The Man Who...
The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025. “Historians will study how bad...
The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025. “Historians will study how bad this book is. English teachers will hold this book aloft at their students to remind them that literally anyone can write a book.”
Planning to Visit the US? Take It From This American Citizen –...
Planning to Visit the US? Take It From This American Citizen – Don’t. “If I were a tourist, though, I’d pick a less totalitarian place to travel.”
Matt Webb reports on going to algoraves. “There are special browser-based programming...
Matt Webb reports on going to algoraves. “There are special browser-based programming languages like strudel where you type code to define the beats and the sound, like mod synth in code, and it plays in a loop even while you’re coding.”
Ragú Unveils Sensory Deprivation Marinara Tank. “The detoxifying marinara is slowly simmered...
Ragú Unveils Sensory Deprivation Marinara Tank. “The detoxifying marinara is slowly simmered to the exact temperature of the user’s body, allowing the mind to drift freely into a meditative gravy state, just like Nonna used to make.”
Disclosure Day
Over his storied career, Steven Spielberg has made only four studio films about aliens: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET, War of the Worlds, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull — the outsized influence of the first two gives the impression that he’s made many more.
Over the past 20 years, Spielberg has favored more realistic fare (Lincoln, Munich, The Fabelmans) but this summer he’s back with an alien movie, Disclosure Day, based on an original story no less. Very excited for this! In theaters on June 12, 2026.
Tags: Disclosure Day · movies · Steven Spielberg · trailers · video
Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now. “1. Enact...
Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now. “1. Enact a statutory right to vote for every eligible citizen. This may surprise you, but there is no general federal constitutional right to vote.”
The Hit Hollywood Didn’t Want. “Sinners is a threat to a business...
The Hit Hollywood Didn’t Want. “Sinners is a threat to a business model built only on regurgitation, on endless return trips to Jurassic World, on more Toy Stories and feature-length toy commercials.”
If we were all Japanese pond frogs, we’d have nothing to fear...
If we were all Japanese pond frogs, we’d have nothing to fear from murder hornets. “When I watched the recorded videos in slow motion, the frogs were clearly stung multiple times yet showed no apparent injury or mortality.”
New Animated Version of Animal Farm?
Hmm, I really don’t know about this one: an animated adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm as a sort of Ice Age-ish comedy adventure? One commenter on YouTube says, “This movie is 100% gonna end with a random dance party scene with the pigs and humans dancing to someth...
“The Trump administration’s vision for the United States is one of a...
“The Trump administration’s vision for the United States is one of a white Christian nation. And the path to accomplish it is through the exclusion and removal of all who do not fit that vision — in other words, through ethnic cleansing.”