The books I read in 2023

Not too much much to say about 2023's list other than that, once again, I'm disappointed with my throughput. In my defense, the last quarter of 2023 was the most difficult three months of my life (and is bleeding well into 2024), and frankly, I just

Posted on: 6 February 2024 | 8:12 pm

Quick Links for Wednesday, January 3

Turkish photographer Uğur İkizler composited all of the photos here to create this incredible image. Social Internet Is Dead. Get Over It. “The internet, as we have known it, has evolved from a quaint, quirky place to a social utopia, and then to an algorithmic reality.

Posted on: 3 January 2024 | 7:00 pm

Quick Links for Saturday, October 7

Spacesuit from 2001: A Space Odyssey up for auction!!! My kingdom for this fucking thing. Actually, I want only the helmet, and would donate the rest. Current high bid: $82,500. Using an inverse pendulum, this robot can go 37mph and carry up to 100kg. This is, without question, one

Posted on: 7 October 2023 | 9:02 pm

Quick Links for Sunday, September 10

This boss had a corner office on every floor, because his office was an elevator. Now this shit is next(/previous)-level. See what I did there? Making a medieval book, the complete process from start to finish. This is incredible. Dennis, a self-taught bookbinder, creates a book using

Posted on: 10 September 2023 | 9:06 am

Quick Links for Saturday, August 26

› Finished Michio Kaku’s Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything (✭✭✭✫✫) Photographer captures rare rainbow contrails pumping out of an airplane. Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way. “Powerful magnetic pulses applied to the scalp

Posted on: 26 August 2023 | 8:54 pm

Quick Links for Wednesday, August 23

The moment TV went from black-and-white to color for the first time. “Resurfaced footage has emerged of the historical moment a television channel in the U.S. switched from its black-and-white programming to color for the very first time. On April 14, 1967, WMT-TV

Posted on: 23 August 2023 | 2:27 am

Quick Links for Friday, August 11

› Finished Robert Wright’s Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (✭✭✭✭✫) Don’t miss the new Icon of the Seas cruise ship—the largest ever—launching in 2024. It’s unreal. A floating city. More and more info. › Speaking

Posted on: 11 August 2023 | 1:58 pm

Quick Links for Tuesday, August 8

Elliot McGucken captures a full Moon through the North Window Arch at Arches National Park in Utah. › Reminds me a bit of this. My small, no-name company has completely lost its mind with AI. › You just know this shit is happening everywhere with every middle-manager through

Posted on: 8 August 2023 | 4:43 pm

Quick Links for Sunday, August 6

Imaginative LEGO campaigns. These are just awesome. Dolphins and whales will never evolve back into land animals. › If you’ve any interest in hominins’ evolution from fish to two-legged mammals, you absolutely cannot miss Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.

Posted on: 6 August 2023 | 4:29 pm

Quick Links for Sunday, July 9

››› Please find me on Threads here. Relatedly, I’ve a thought piece re Threads coming out later this week. Mo'cycle's airbag jeans inflate to protect the lower body from motorcycle accidents. › Which celebrity will wear these first around town, fully inflated?

Posted on: 9 July 2023 | 11:03 pm

Quick Links for Friday, July 7

Scientists make best-yet map of solar system’s interstellar boundaries. › The heliosphere is a plasma bubble surrounding our solar system, filled with ionized gas that flows along magnetic field lines tied to the sun's rotation. A recent study used Voyager missions' data and satellite

Posted on: 7 July 2023 | 3:43 am

Quick Links for Tuesday, June 20

How to steal a masterpiece: advice from the world’s greatest art thief. “To master frame removal, Breitwieser became an expert at putting frames on by apprenticing in a high-quality frame shop. To comprehend the degree to which museum guards actually pay attention, he worked as a

Posted on: 20 June 2023 | 9:40 pm

Quick Links for Monday, June 12

New sea star species with countless arms discovered in Africa. The fuck? The advice for writers is straightforward: Make things easy for your readers, and they will find you brilliant. The first part makes sense, but not sure the second part is a fait accompli guaranteed. (SEE WHAT I DID

Posted on: 12 June 2023 | 9:14 pm

Quick Links for Sunday, June 11

Photographer captures Christ the Redeemer holding the moon. Wow. A day in the life of a woke third-grade teacher, as imagined by a far-right politician. Absolutely fucking brilliant. “We end the day with five minutes of mindfulness, a.k.a. a nod to New Age Wiccan Pagan

Posted on: 11 June 2023 | 6:54 am

Quick Links for Sunday, June 4

Most aliens may be artificial intelligence. I wrote about this very thing six years ago: Are most alien intelligences “artificial?” Paragraphica is a “context-to-image camera that uses location data and artificial intelligence to visualize a "photo" of a specific place and moment. The

Posted on: 4 June 2023 | 11:34 pm