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worth reading: march 15-april 16, 2025
JJ
April 16, 2025
how are we hanging in there?
art, design, architecture, stationery:
“Windows on Washington”
by Shannon Mattern
“One Painting Got Me Through Winter”
by Jason Farago
“The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967”
by Carson Monetti
“Digression 2: From MANUALS to YOUTUBE (with a detour) - Two Assault Rifles”
by Stewart Brand
don't take the title at face value--this piece is excellent!
“The Original Beaver Map & Its Legacy”
by Swann Auction Galleries
“What’s Your Type? A Reading List on Typefaces with Wild Tales to Tell”
by Kanya Kanchana
variously slimy and/or wet creatures:
“100+ pictures of this eel”
by @heyitspoppymae
a fellow moray eel enjoyer??!
“Octopus jumps shark and goes for a ride on its back”
by Marina Dunbar
Leech.com
content warning for photos of leeches (lol) but please click on "Ask a Leech Question" on the left sidebar and scroll to your heart's content. Also scroll to the bottom of the page--truly, No One Does it Better than Leech.com!
“Colossal squid captured on video in deep sea for first time”
by Frances Vinall
huge news!!!
also, yes,
this is
that
Eric Schmidt
lol.
Owls in Towels
travel:
Hamilton Nolan’s travel writing:
“Among the Junketeers: 90 Hours in Vegas, Selling Out Hard”
“Hell Is Empty And All the Hedge Fund Managers Are At The Bellagio”
“Cuba Welcomes You, Yankee Imperialists!”
“My Kasual Kountry Weekend With the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan”
“My Failed Attempt to Suck the Walmart-Flavored Blood of Real America”
“My 10-Day Crash Course on Surviving the Apocalypse”
by J Wortham
“Our Giant Travel Reading List”
by Alex Postman
food:
“Apple Rankings”
by Brian Frange
if you've never seen this page--a delight! although I think he's wrong about the Pazazz.
Jenny G. Zhang’s
Regular Food Reviews
special endorsement for
Scallion Pancake with Egg
:)
good longform stuff (these are all great):
“The Free-Living Bureaucrat”
by Michael Lewis
“The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row”
by Lawrence Wright (
archived
)
“High-School Band Contests Turn Marching into a Sport and an Art"
by Burkhard Bilger and Brian Finke (
archived
)
“Does Luck Exist?”
by Eric Boodman
“Angles of Approach”
by Sally Rooney (
archived
)
tech:
“An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1”
by Jeremy Reimer
“Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today”
by Chris Person
“Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?”
by Radek Sienkiewicz
many people are asking this.
work and the things people do at work:
“The Ford Executive Who Kept Score of Colleagues’ Verbal Flubs”
by Mike Colias (
archived
)
“Going Soft”
by Lily Scherlis
big misc category:
“Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits”
by Jules Roscoe
“Why Did the Government Declare War on My Adorable Tiny Truck?”
by Dan Albert
“Hi, I’m a Four-and-a-Half Year Old at the Rick Owens Show”
by Yves
This thread of vintage transportation report covers
by Rachel Cole
that first one!
368 Chickens
“On the Best (Worst) Best Man Speech Ever (at My Super Mario-Themed Wedding)”
by Mike Drucker
“Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town”
by Ynes Sarah Filleul
“Tropical tree in Panama has evolved to kill its 'enemies' with lightning”
by Jacklin Kwan
if only the rest of us could be so lucky.
“Zombies on TV: A Dead Serious Quiz”
by Meghan Morris and Tala Safie
“Resurrector: “Like a G6””
by Chris Gayomali
a surprisingly hard karaoke song.
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