JJ

here comes summer! (in the real world, not in these links necessarily) some fun Wikipedia pages:  • Preserved Fish  • definitely not what you think this page is going to be  • Wan Hu • love a guy whose page links to "List of inventors killed by their own invention" • Thomas (goose)  • happy early Pride month to Thomas the goose! • Thinking about the immortality of the crab  food:  • “How an unappetizing shrub became dozens of different vegetables” by Alex Wakeman  • Brassica forever!!  • “I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America” by Caity Weaver and Hugo Yu  • i will follow Caity Weaver wherever she goes. in this case she goes to Lambert’s Cafe, which also has a phenomenal website with an equally good URL  • “Calicornication: Postcards of Giant Produce (1909)” by Thea Applebaum Licht  • worth it just for the pun in the title but the postcards are also really good  animals and nature:  • Bodega Cats of New York: The Archive  • “Japanese Aquarium Drops 2026 Version of Flowchart Illustrating Their Penguin Relationships. This Year There’s an English Version.” by Johnny Waldman  • this is like at least 30% more insane than you think it's going to be  • “Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026” by Alan Taylor  • “Barry Webb Documents a Marvelous, Macro Array of Colorful Slime Molds” by Kate Mothes  • special woodcock / Robert Francis section:  • “More than the latest "It Bird”” by Robert Francis  • also obsessed with the videos of New Yorkers thronging to see a single woodcock • “The Tragic Tale of Woodcock Dick” by Robert Francis  • “The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time” by Robert Francis  • spoiler: no woodcock :(  • “Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears” by Andrew Paul  web and design-y stuff: • the html review: issue 05, spring 2026  • Charcuterie by David Aerne  • “The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock” by Ryan Bateman  • Digital Museum of Plugs and Sockets  • “Unsolicited” book cover designs by Jenny Volvovski  • personal favorites (& books I've read): Rejection, The Circle, The City & The City, Swamplandia!, Outliers, Exit West • ambivalent: Klara and the Sun, The Factory, Annihilation, Borne, World War Z  • least favorites: The Martian, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Dune (why the cocaine vibe…) • also her Published and Unused pages are also very good - personal favorites are Motherland (great book!) and We Computers sports and games: • “The Biggest Tournament In Collegiate Table Tennis Is Underdog Utopia” by E.Y. Zhao  • the header photo is amazing in this one  • “Double Jump” by Joseph Swide  • 1D-Chess by Rowan Monk  • Unruly Play  • “Is ChatGPT a Scrabble Genius, or a Scrabble Disaster?” by @Will Anderson on YouTube • skip to 6:44 to get to the very good dramatic reading  • “The Secret to Winning on Jeopardy” by Drew Goins  people: • “He Rode an Elephant Costume Into Colombia’s Senate” by Genevieve Glatsky and Esteban Vanegas  • “Local Guide (Toronto, Canada)” by Stefan  • “The Car-Crash Conspiracy” by Patrick Radden Keefe (unpaywalled)  • “Father and Son” by Valery Poshtarov  explainers and histories: • “How The Heck Does Shazam Work?” by Shri Khalpada  • “Engineering the disposable diaper” by Virginia Postrel  • “The Disappearance of the Public Bench” by Gabrielle Bruney  • “The creation of instant coffee” by Oscar Sykes and Benjamin Stubbing  • “Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise” by Russell Samora and Shelly Tan  and finally, one useful website and one useless website:   • One Flavor Candy   • exactly what it suggests on the tin, if anyone needs a very specific gift  • crouton2.net  • :) • also kinda reminiscent of guthib.com