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There is a new @lowtheband record out today. Therefore, I will be listening to the new @lowtheband record today. lowtheband.bandcamp.com/album/double-n…
I love love love this peek at some of the visual inspiration for @ustwogames’s stunning Monument Valley games. milanote.com/the-work/the-s…
PSA: URLs aren’t broken. Shitty implementations of them are, junked up with database gobbledygook, UTM codes, etc. Design URLS for users. twitter.com/wired/status/1…
Somehow missed the new @s_davachi record when it came out a few months ago. It is speaking my language. sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/let-nigh…
See also this great @ProPublicaIL piece on verifying anonymous sources. propublica.org/article/ask-pr…
It’s a good week to brush up on media literacy. Here’s a handy guide to approaching journalism with unnamed sources. fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-…
“Google is just a doorman, not the destination. Yet [they believe] that they should dictate how the web evolves.” polemicdigital.com/google-amp-go-…
ISPs are inventing fun new terminology to use in place of “selective throttling.” See? Killing net neutrality has spurred innovation! twitter.com/business/statu…
“What happened to make a rich white man the vox populi? […] How are the winners still insisting they are losers?” cjr.org/the_profile/tu…
“What I want for him, and for all boys, is for the process of becoming men to be expansive, not reductive.” theatlantic.com/family/archive…
“He asked her again if she was okay, and she said, ‘I remember.’
“Everyone froze.
“She said, ‘I remember what that nun did to me.’” twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/s…
Links: August 2018
Hello, dear reader!
August is gone, but its links remain.
My site was quiet in August, as I’ve been heads-down on a project I’m pretty excited about. Its release is just one facet of the ambitious September I have planned, so if all goes well, there will be much to report in next month’s newsletter.
My alter-ego Windhammer recently returned to the competitive air guitar stage for his 10th anniversary, tying for second in the… See more →
“Head, torso, balls, legs. No matter how you dunk a body in water the balls can’t be the last in.” thecut.com/2018/08/are-ba…
After a lifetime of sporting feats and fanaticism, I’ve finally made it into Sports Illustrated. si.com/more-sports/20…
“You know what pro-life policies actually look like? Universal health care […]” theatlantic.com/family/archive…
I either totally missed or somehow forgot about this crazy story of over a decade of McDonald’s Monopoly fraud. Wow. thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-…
“[Jaws] remains a glistening example of an American filmmaker turning pulp fiction into pop art.” newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
“[P]erhaps the 20th century will strike future historians as an aberration, with […] its conflation of income with self-worth.” twitter.com/TheAtlantic/st…
“How and whether to cover a story must also hinge on what the story might do, and whose interests it will ultimately serve.” twitter.com/wphillips49/st…
Links: July 2018
Hello, dear reader!
July is gone, but its links remain.
Apart from brief musings on films I saw recently, my lone post in July was a recap of my vacation in Brighton, from which I was reluctant to return. The ensuing extended brain vacation kept me from doing as much internetting as usual, so the collection of links is a bit thinner this month, but hopefully you can find something below worth scraping across your… See more →
I already have tickets to see @lowtheband three times this fall, but they just added another Brooklyn show… 🤔 nationalsawdust.org/event/adhoc-pr…
This whole @LastWeekTonight segment is good, but don’t miss the interview with Anita Hill at 17:30. youtu.be/dHiAls8loz4
This fun @TYPOBER talk by @Tosche_E examines many of the 8×8 pixel fonts developed for old arcade games. typotalks.com/videos/8-pixel…
I pride myself on being a glutton for punishment when it comes to this sort of thing, but this is beyond the pale. twitter.com/SPIN/status/10…
I struggle to understand Japan, and this @BananaKarenina piece on its rent-a-family industry helps, but still, 😐. newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
please stop the ride i want to get off twitter.com/AP_Politics/st…
Links: June 2018
Hello, dear reader!
June is gone, but its links remain.
It was a relatively busy month on my site! I had an unexpected reason to revisit an animated student film I made 20 years ago, wrote about designing better concert listings, chronicled my experience learning about the future of typography at the Ampersand conference, and offered middling reviews of the year’s most celebrated horror films, A Quiet Place and Hereditary.
This month’s links are the sort… See more →
“‘Your right to throw punches ends at the tip of my nose.’ […] where is the tip of our nose, exactly?” newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…
So many fascinating details in this delightful architectural tour of Grand Central Terminal. youtube.com/watch?v=_b4XQU…
“By embracing the cumbersome, painfully slow nature of my workflow, I was in a way trying to commune with my computer graphics forefathers.” twitter.com/kottke/status/…
I always wondered why the political spectrum is termed left–right. It began in the 18th century French legislature. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left–righ…
“The federal departments involved in dealing with separated families have institutional agendas that diverge.” newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
Not gonna pretend I’m not onboard with the Degrassi TNG reunion in the new Drake video. youtu.be/rIhx2wZ8jnA
“Look what you made me do.” newyorker.com/culture/cultur…
Did the internet weaken critical thinking, or merely enable more efficient exploitation of an existing weakness? newyorker.com/science/elemen…
“He is testing to the breaking point relationships that there was never any reason to test in the first place.” theatlantic.com/international/…
This proposal to replace the NYC subway with autonomous vehicles is excessively optimistic but still compelling. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
“There is no deal to make with people like this, because there is no limit to what they want.” deadspin.com/the-nfl-is-too…
I didn’t follow Bourdain closely. But I so admired that he could eat anything and find something to enjoy in it. A worthy aspiration. RIP.
“Send and move on. Be pleasantly surprised if you hear anything back.” Advice for asking for advice. lifehacker.com/how-to-ask-for…
“Does alternative history need to be challenged beyond the merits of its own grotesque imagination?” kotaku.com/the-struggle-o…
The video game speed run explainer genre is not something I would have anticipated drawing me in, yet here we are. youtu.be/Y99Wj-NStok
“Complexity is good for convincing people they could not possibly do your job. Simplicity is good for everything else.” twitter.com/alistapart/sta…
Links: May 2018
Hello, dear reader!
May is gone, but its links remain.
The only thing I published on my site this month was a brief, snarky review of a 69-year-old movie (nice), but if all goes well in June, I’ll have a couple of substantial posts about creative projects (new and old) coming your way.
The links below include some meaty reporting on politics and a triptych of opinion pieces on our culture wars’ state of discourse.… See more →
Make some time for this month’s @TheAtlantic cover story on how America’s growing inequality is akin to aristocracy. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
“The internet is a utility world for me now. It is efficient and all-encompassing. It is not very much fun.” nymag.com/selectall/2018…
I don’t really believe in awards, but I’ll happily take this as evidence that justice still exists. @OfficialJLD is a national treasure. twitter.com/washingtonpost…