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Open Culture
Download 1,600+ Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Books, Guides, Magazines & More Many of us in these past few generations first heard of the Metropolitan Museum of Art while reading...
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Many of us in these past few generations first heard of the Metropolitan Museum of Art while reading E. L. Konigsburg’s novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. More than a few of us also fantasized about running away to live in that vast cultural institution...
Seth's Blog
A thoughtful review Thanks to Francis Wade for emailing me this review of THIS IS STRATEGY. Francis works in strategy,...
10 months ago
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Thanks to Francis Wade for emailing me this review of THIS IS STRATEGY. Francis works in strategy, and I’m so delighted the book resonated the way it did. Case: You are a corporate strategic planner – someone immersed in defining a future for your organization. But lately, you...
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Getting Closure on React Hooks Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
over a year ago
Open Culture
Wes Anderson Directs & Stars in an Ad Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Montblanc’s Signature Pen One hardly has to be an expert on the films of Wes Anderson to imagine that the man writes with a...
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a year ago
One hardly has to be an expert on the films of Wes Anderson to imagine that the man writes with a fountain pen. Maybe back in the early nineteen-nineties, when he was shooting the black-and-white short that would become Bottle Rocket on the streets of Austin, he had to settle for...
Construction Physics
The Rise and Fall of the Mail-Order Home In the early 20th century, a new business model appeared: the mail-order home. Companies would mail...
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In the early 20th century, a new business model appeared: the mail-order home. Companies would mail out catalogs containing several dozen different home options, buyers would send in their orders, and the company would send the necessary materials – pre-cut lumber, roofing,...
A Day In The Life...
Go maps vs switches Go maps vs switches
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Escheresque I’ll probably talk about this project more in the future, but seeing that it just started, I’m going...
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I’ll probably talk about this project more in the future, but seeing that it just started, I’m going to have a movie-style trailer consisting of a single photo: That’s roof framing at the Hopewell Furnace, an early-1800s ironworks in Pennsylvania. (Note that this is a...
Wait But Why
A Short History of My Last Six Years On June 18, 2016, I slipped and fell down a deep, deep hole. The post A Short History of My Last Six...
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On June 18, 2016, I slipped and fell down a deep, deep hole. The post A Short History of My Last Six Years appeared first on Wait But Why.
Artificial Ignorance
Two years of Artificial Ignorance A belated 2024 year in review.
7 months ago
99% Invisible
The White Castle System of Eating Houses [EPISODE] White Castle has its own take on fast food hamburgers. For starters, the patties are square, with...
a year ago
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White Castle has its own take on fast food hamburgers. For starters, the patties are square, with five holes in each patty. And they’re small, too –- two-and-a-half inch sliders. Just big enough to fit into the palm of your hand. And since they’re steamed on a bed of onions,...
Beautiful Public...
The Pillbox Database The National Library of Medicine's Pillbox dataset contained 8,693 photographs of pills, with an...
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The National Library of Medicine's Pillbox dataset contained 8,693 photographs of pills, with an accompanying database of drug information. It was built to help with the identification of unknown pills.
devonzuegel.com
Urban sprawl is a tragedy of the commons We tend to choose larger homes than we want our neighbors to choose. The result: sprawling...
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over a year ago
We tend to choose larger homes than we want our neighbors to choose. The result: sprawling development that doesn't match what people actually want from their communities. People aim to maximize access and space when deciding where to live. All things equal, most people like...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece Andrew Parker had a great post a few years ago where he sketched out all the startups going after...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Andrew Parker had a great post a few years ago where he sketched out all the startups going after pieces of Craigslist: Startups that have…
xkcd.com
Chasing
a year ago
diamond geezer
South Croxted Road bus shelter This may be the heritage-nerdiest bus stop in London. It's the bus stop at the end of South...
4 months ago
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This may be the heritage-nerdiest bus stop in London. It's the bus stop at the end of South Croxted Road, close to the foot of Gipsy Hill. It's very old, it's locally listed and it's served by buses on route 3. More to the point it has an incredibly detailed information board...
Robert Caro
A Peek Inside Robert Caro’s Home Library, Hidden Shelves and All THE WASHINGTON POST takes us inside Robert Caro’s literary collection, and shows us the most...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
THE WASHINGTON POST takes us inside Robert Caro’s literary collection, and shows us the most precious volumes in his home library.
Ben Borgers
Make sure your university events are actually interesting
6 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Symbols Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Friend of Wigner is actually private slang in...
5 days ago
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5 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Friend of Wigner is actually private slang in physics, which means 'willing to talk about Quantum Foundations' Today's News:
Joel Gascoigne
4 short stories of our attempts to be lean at our startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s no secret...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s no secret that I’ve personally been hugely impacted by Eric Ries’ [https://twitter.com/ericries] work and the Lean Startup [http://theleanstartup.com/] movement. Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]...
Londonist
25 Cheap Ways For Young People To See Culture In London All the best discounts.
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Challenge Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later bean guy makes a fortune selling cans of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later bean guy makes a fortune selling cans of beans with his label on them. People who hate him are 60% of his audience. He goes on to a university position in media studies. Today's News:
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.07.30 - Cheated New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Test Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You are hereby banished from the Internet. Today's...
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Beating the Averages
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Estimate Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Deeply regretting I am not currently selling a...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Deeply regretting I am not currently selling a dazzle camo shirt in the store. Today's News:
wadertales
When mates behave differently Iceland’s 40,000 Oystercatchers are an interesting mix of resident birds and migrants, providing an...
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Iceland’s 40,000 Oystercatchers are an interesting mix of resident birds and migrants, providing an ideal system in which to study the costs and benefits of the two options, and to try to work out what influences whether an individual becomes a ‘resident’ or a ‘migrant’. I’ve...
The History of the...
The Analog Web On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The...
a year ago
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a year ago
On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The Analog Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
OH8HUB’s Substack
Eliminating Radio Interference from Apple charger Apple's product design teams should do a better job eliminating unwanted radio frequency emissions...
over a year ago
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Apple's product design teams should do a better job eliminating unwanted radio frequency emissions from their product!
IEEE Spectrum
The Saga of AD-X2, the Battery Additive That Roiled the NBS Senate hearings, a post office ban, the resignation of the director of the National Bureau of...
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Senate hearings, a post office ban, the resignation of the director of the National Bureau of Standards, and his reinstatement after more than 400 scientists threatened to resign. Who knew a little box of salt could stir up such drama? What was AD-X2? It all started in 1947 when...
Joel Gascoigne
Buffer's product journey, and our next step to hire a VP of Product Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. We've been building Buffer for coming up to ten...
over a year ago
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Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. We've been building Buffer for coming up to ten years now. We’re currently a 90-person fully remote team with over 70,000 paying customers and $20M in annual revenue. We’re proud to be a leader
Irrational...
Eng-Strategy-Book
a year ago
alexwlchan
Going through my old school papers I left school in 2011, and I graduated from university in 2014. When I was done, I had six plastic...
over a year ago
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I left school in 2011, and I graduated from university in 2014. When I was done, I had six plastic crates full of paper – exercise books, worksheets, school newsletters – everything I’d accumulated over nearly two decades of education. It was a lot. 🤯 I’m trying to reduce this...
Maps Mania
Draining the Planet
a month ago
Classical Wisdom
Empress Theodora Saint or Sinner?
11 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
White Stained Oak Cabinets Paired With Cool White Marble Creates A Soft Aesthetic Inside This Home Andrea Rodman Interiors has shared photos of a home in Vancouver, Canada, that they completed for...
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Andrea Rodman Interiors has shared photos of a home in Vancouver, Canada, that they completed for their clients that wanted a minimalistic interior. Throughout the home, the interior was inspired by Japanese design, its simplicity, and maple wood tones. One area that stood out in...
xkcd.com
Date Line
a year ago
Evan Hahn's blog
Notes from "Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology" Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman. In the book,...
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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology is a book of essays by Ellen Ullman. In the book, Ullman laments the bad parts of computers and the internet. These systems eroded privacy, deepened income inequality, and enabled the rise of modern fascism. And they were built by a...
Old Structures...
A Deservedly Unknown Truss There’s a street bridge over the Hudson Line (the former main line of the New York Central Railroad)...
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There’s a street bridge over the Hudson Line (the former main line of the New York Central Railroad) tracks just south of the Dobbs Ferry Station: For now, ignore the big white pipe at the bottom of the side truss: it’s a utility line, not part of the truss. That leaves us with...
Steve Klabnik
Docember
over a year ago
The Ruffian
27 Takes On What It Means To Be a Serious Person Plus a rattle bag of goodies
a year ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Unofficial Map: Tramways in Gdańsk, Poland by Arsen Mosiichuk, 2024 Submitted by Arsen, who says: Hello, this summer I with Sergey Steblina as art-director designed a...
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Submitted by Arsen, who says: Hello, this summer I with Sergey Steblina as art-director designed a transit map of Gdańsk trams. I am very interested what Transit Maps think about this. Transit Maps says: Overall, this is very solid and clean work – very much in the style of...
diamond geezer
Seven Sisters 2025 Every two years I walk the best walk in southeast England, which is over the Seven Sisters and...
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Every two years I walk the best walk in southeast England, which is over the Seven Sisters and across the top of Beachy Head. I did it again yesterday. [14 photos] This time I walked west to east, starting by the River Cuckmere in Exceat and finishing at Eastbourne Pier. This...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 15, 2024 Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a...
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Hey folks, Fireside this week! For the musing this week, I want to talk about, at least for a humanities field, what ‘research support’ from a university means and why it is valuable, but before we get to that, I just want to make a note going forward. In particular, there have...
Marcus on AI
Hype, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, the podcasters who love him — and how the New York Times’ commentary... Real journalists do due diligence
6 months ago
The Codist
Learn Something New Every Day You can't stay relevant for over 40 years without learning new things. In my first job in the early...
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You can't stay relevant for over 40 years without learning new things. In my first job in the early 80s, learning new things was a fundamental requirement to being a programmer—almost everything you did was new, both to you and often to everyone else. I started
diamond geezer
Local bus news In local Bow bus news, the D8 is being downgraded this morning from high-frequency to low-frequency....
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In local Bow bus news, the D8 is being downgraded this morning from high-frequency to low-frequency. Until yesterday it ran every 12 minutes during the daytime but from today it only runs every 15. So that's bad. TDS Busman: Actually I think you'll find the D8 ran every 15...
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes? Are standards elevating or elitist?
a year ago
Platformer
Extremely Hardcore: Our New York magazine cover story Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive ranting billionaires —...
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Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive ranting billionaires — then one made himself the CEO
Tony Dinh's...
My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.
a year ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Perfect Match Some gangsters in a car, running from The Shadow: A circa 1920 view of the Broad Street roman-temple...
a year ago
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Some gangsters in a car, running from The Shadow: A circa 1920 view of the Broad Street roman-temple facade of the New York Stock Exchange, with the Wilks Building immediately to its right and Federal Hall, with George Washington standing out front, on the far right. I don’t know...