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worth reading: march 15-april 16, 2025
how are we hanging in there?
art, design, architecture, stationery:
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
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“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:
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“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
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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!
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“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:
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“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
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“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
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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
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“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
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“Resurrector: “Like a G6”” by Chris Gayomali
- a surprisingly hard karaoke song.