Irrigation Ditch with Mature Willow, 1902 #pietmondrian #impressionism
The Daily
• The New York Times
Elizabeth Holmes and Nathan Fielder Keep Us Guessing
This is why we need to reboot the original web, as opposed to the VC ersatz version of the web.
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Seth's Blog
• Seth Godin
Anticipating confusion
I know that you know that taking this exit will get us to Sheridan Drive, but the person who’s likely to be driving down this road in a few minutes has no idea. Let’s agree that most street signs are for folks who know where they’re going. We would label things differently if we were […]
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
October 17, 2026
Around the United States of America and the world, people gathered today at more than 3,000 No Kings: Vote Early events to encourage Americans to vote in the November 3 midterm elections.
Landscape, 1904 #jeanmetzinger #metzinger
AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed
• Aram Zucker-Scharff
HTML Can Do That
HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.
AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed
• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Katie Zacharia’s brief White House stint included a rebuke from the Auschwitz Memorial
forward.com/news/856373/katie-zacharia-white-house-press-secretary-mifepristone-abortion-pill/
The ousted press secretary claimed ‘the abortion pill has the same chemicals' as the poison gas Nazis used in concentration camps
AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed
• Aram Zucker-Scharff
TikTok “Permanently Bans” the ‘Musk’ Film Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive)
hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/musk-movie-tiktok-banned-theaters-showtimes-1236734308/
Move comes just as Alex Gibney doc film expands to nearly 500 screens. Distributor Bleecker Street says it is appealing.
AramZS's Amplify RSS Feed
• Aram Zucker-Scharff
Wendy’s Is Trading on Millennial Nostalgia With Emo
Wendy's released an EP, 'Songs to Listen to in a Wendy’s Parking Lot,' with a slew of emo heavy-hitters. It hopes to cash in on your memories of eating a Frosty after you were dumped.
Scripting News for email
• Dave Winer
Scripting News: Saturday, October 17, 2026
Young Slave, 1523 #highrenaissance #michelangelo
Natural disaster, 1517 #davinci #highrenaissance
I always read your blog and you know I made sure RSS was fully supported as I rebuilt.
My license plate says WEBNERD for a reason and there are lots of us working on making the web excellent.
The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake was one of the Bay Area’s most damaging quakes in modern history. https://ow.ly/kOyL50ZYGoI
Louis Gray an old time blogger who went to Google, used their AI to resurrect his old blog which had disappeared from the web. Maybe he can convince Google to stop fucking with my blog.
Young Slave, 1523 #highrenaissance #michelangelo
A win for our forests and a reminder to keep fighting. Judge Vince Chhabria has temporarily blocked the Forest Service’s planned headquarters move from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City, Utah.
The San Francisco Standard
• Jane Kenny
Ugly, gritty, and up 1-0: How the Valkyries came back to steal Game 1
Natalie Nakase’s team has won with defense all season. It held the Atlanta Dream scoreless for the final 3:12 to win the first Finals game in franchise history.
It’s amazing how angry MAGA is about today’s No Kings events, where people showed up and encouraged others to vote.