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Coulou’s Vinyl Cafe (No. 1)
This is not some AI-generated to-study-to jazz video; it’s a guy who really likes jazz playing a bunch of records from his extensive collection.
over the years i’ve built a small but reallllly incredible and meaningful record collection, spanning from jazz, classical, a ...
Defiant nuns flee care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps....
Defiant nuns flee care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps. “‘Before I die in that old people’s home, I would rather go to a meadow and enter eternity that way,’ said Sister Bernadette.” (Someone get a screenplay going on this…)
Karen Attiah: “The Washington Post Fired Me”
Former Washington Post opinion columnist Karen Attiah this morning on Bluesky: “I’ve been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.” Until the Post’s relatively recent shift towards the right, Attiah had been a pivotal figure at the paper:...
Radical Neighbouring. “The food from this place has been offered as a...
Radical Neighbouring. “The food from this place has been offered as a gift to the neighbours and strangers who find their way here. Welcome to the farm where nothing is for sale.”
How to Navigate a City Without Street Addresses
Direcciones is a short documentary about how giving directions works in Costa Rica, where “a centralized system for street addresses does not exist”. Instead, people use landmarks as reference points when giving directions. Here’s a postal worker talking about how some sen...
How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism. “As a...
How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism. “As a target of anti-Semitism…the Jewish scientist was well aware of the harm that discrimination inflicts, and sought to use his platform to speak out against the mistreatment of others.”
David Friedman on how he created a fun little game called Doomscroll....
David Friedman on how he created a fun little game called Doomscroll. “I’m not a coder, but I enjoy how vibe coding lets me turn an idea into something real. So naturally, I turned to vibe coding for this. It didn’t work.”
The Hive Architect: Saving Britain’s Wild Bees
The Hive Architect is a short documentary about honey bee conservationist Matt Somerville and the log hives he builds to house wild bees.
There is a widely held theory that our British honey bee couldn’t exist without being domesticated by beekeepers. However, for bee co...
A collection of newspaper front pages from around the world. (See also...
This YouTube channel has a bunch of 40-60 minute DJ mixes of...
This YouTube channel has a bunch of 40-60 minute DJ mixes of jazz vinyl. The videos have names like “Jazz Kissa”, “Velvet Night”, “Elegant Morning”, and “Breezy Noon”.
Enjoyed these thoughts from food critics about what they’d like to see...
Enjoyed these thoughts from food critics about what they’d like to see more of (“simple foods broken down and made perfect”) and less of (“caviar, truffles, Wagyu and uni in the wrong places”) in restaurants.
Rogue Rattlesnake Removed from Grand Isle. This is such a Vermont story...
Rogue Rattlesnake Removed from Grand Isle. This is such a Vermont story — the woman who found the snake “sat for 30 minutes, until these rangers arrived, doing my loving-kindness meditation, trying to just send peace to this snake”.
I Planted a Forest Four Years Ago
Four years ago, Beau Miles planted 1440 trees in 24 hours. Recently, he went back to see how they were doing; those trees are a bonafide forest now.
In 2021 I planted a tree a minute, for 24 hours, on my mates farm. It was freakin hard work, but also one of the coolest, m...
Watching the highlights of the recent GeoGuessr world championships is wild; competitors...
Watching the highlights of the recent GeoGuessr world championships is wild; competitors nailing the exact coordinates of Street View locations in a matter of 30-60 seconds is just bonkers.
Tycho’s Burning Man Sunrise Set for 2025
I needed some new bouncy/chill music today and Tycho’s sunrise DJ set from this year’s Burning Man is doing the trick. I also ran across this playlist with 190 DJ sets from Burning Man this year containing 305 hours of music.
(via @mikeakers.bsky.social)
A new book from photographer Sally Mann: Art Work: On the Creative...
A new book from photographer Sally Mann: Art Work: On the Creative Life. I really enjoyed Mann’s previous book, Hold Still.
The Amazing Art of the Video Game Marquee
Dan Sinker recently visited an arcade full of old school vintage arcade games and documented some of the wonderful typography and design of the game cabinet marquees.
After a while though, I became captivated not by the games themselves but by the incredible art on th...
Defector is celebrating its fifth anniversary. “This is a website run by...
Defector is celebrating its fifth anniversary. “This is a website run by people who want to speak — plainly, honestly, passionately — to an audience that we acknowledge as people rather than metrics.” 🎉
Aubrey Hirsch is an eternal optimist. In her latest comic, she writes/draws...
Aubrey Hirsch is an eternal optimist. In her latest comic, she writes/draws about “freaking the hell out” about the current political situation and the limits of optimism.
You Need to Be Bored. Here’s Why.
Here’s a short video by Arthur Brooks (that you are probably watching on your phone) about why you should log off, put your phone down, and let yourself be bored.
You need to be bored. You will have less meaning and you will be more depressed if you never are bored. I mean, it couldn’t be clearer.
See also In Praise of Boredom, In Defense of Boredom, and “Boredom: the great engine of creativity”.
Tags: Arthur C. Brooks · video
“A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead...
“A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems.” Is Covid-19 to blame for “the global surge in non-covid infections”?
Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
I haven’t watched it yet, but I have seen so many recommendations for this gonzo birdwatching documentary called Listers over the past few days that I wanted to share it with you.
Two brothers travel across the United States in a used minivan on a mission to find as many bird species as they can in a single year.
Yeah, not your typical birdwatching fare…the vibe of the brothers’ quest is more like a surf or skate video. Here’s the trailer:
And the whole 2-hour movie is available on YouTube as well:
I’ve hoping to make some time to watch it this weekend; it looks great. The two brothers have also released a companion book, Field Guide of All the Birds We Found One Year in the United States.
An interview with Rebecca Solnit. “It feels like part of this horrible...
An interview with Rebecca Solnit. “It feels like part of this horrible new culture where you can have any truth you want — as if history began and ended yesterday. Everything’s infinitely revisable, and there’s no accountability.”
Colorful Surf
Todd Weaver uses analog & in-camera experimental techniques to achieve subtly geometric and colorful surfing photographs. Of one of his photos, Weaver says:
This one was taken on my half-frame camera at my favourite place to surf, First Point in Malibu. The colour is a one of a kind. I don’t think I could repeat it in a thousand tries. The stripe is an artefact of my pre-exposing process.
You can find more of Weaver’s work on his website and Instagram. If you like these surf photos, you might be interested in getting a copy of Dream Weaver Journal Volume 2.
Tags: photography · sports · surfing · Todd Weaver
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Without looking it up, what’s the longest single-syllable English word you can...
Without looking it up, what’s the longest single-syllable English word you can think of? (Here are the answers.)
It’s getting to be that time again: The 2025 Fall Foliage Prediction...
It’s getting to be that time again: The 2025 Fall Foliage Prediction Map.
This is what could happen to a child who doesn’t get vaccinated....
This is what could happen to a child who doesn’t get vaccinated. “Pneumonia struck first. Then tonsillitis spiraled into sepsis. Malaria battered him next, and after treatment, the other illnesses flared back up again.”
Drunk Jeff Goldblum
One of my favorite “memes” of all time is Drunk Jeff Goldblum. The first video, a slowed-down ad for Apple from 1999, is still the best. “In ter net?! I’d say In ter net.”
But this new one about PayPal is pretty great too.
“Buying a chair… while sitting in a chair…” (via ★interesting)
[This is a vintage post originally from Oct 2012.]
Tags: Apple · Jeff Goldblum · remix · timeless posts · video
A clicker game where the click reloads the page in your browser....
A clicker game where the click reloads the page in your browser. (Let’s see if we can crash the server?)