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Spotify really started something, didn’t they? Everyone has a “Wrapped” this year; I even got an email one from the cruise line on which I took a trip this summer. Like, “Congratulations! You went on {1} cruise for {7} days!” — and then nothing else. Two stats. So I thought for
Nancy Friedman: 52 Things I Learned in 2025 . Incl. “Seventy-one percent of people in Iceland are Costco members” and “In Sweden, the largest size of Hellmann’s mayonnaise — 600 grams — is called “American size”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Kent Hendricks: 52 Things I Learned in 2025 . Incl. “Birders in the United States spend $107 billion per year, including $93B on binoculars, feeders, cameras, and other equipment; and $14B on travel. That’s more than the GDP of New Hampshire.” 💬 Join the discussion on
There are few career paths where a professional mishap leads to great success, but Cecilia Giménez found one. The Spanish artist, who died this week at the age of 94, rose to fame and notoriety in the 2010s for her delightful “restoration” of “Ecce Homo,
"The noise between the world in which we had known each other and the world I occupied now went silent, or maybe only hushed."
If you buy an Ikea table, you’ll need 8 bolts to put it together. 7 is not enough. This is a functional sort of ‘enough.’ It can be critical to our survival. “I have enough medication to last through this illness.” “We have enough food to feed our family.” But this isn’t the
It wouldn’t surprise us to come across a Japanese person in Venice. Indeed, given the global touristic appeal of the place, we could hardly imagine a day there without a visitor from the Land of the Rising Sun. But things were different in 1873, just five years after the end of
A Canadian TV show about gay hockey romance unexpectedly became a moment of tender (but sexy) relief in an increasingly unfair world.
Yesterday I linked to a Windows 3.x NYT crossword puzzle app from 1992 that you can play directly on the Internet Archive. I was a Windows user back in the day (my conversion to Apple didn’t happen until the early 00s) and so of course I had to see what other Win3.x games they
The singer and rapper posted a photo of himself with his hand on a carved stone stele at the National Museum of Anthropology.
A wildlife photographer “discovered thousands of dinosaur footprints preserved in the vertical face of a mountainside” in the Italian Alps dating back 200M years. “This is now really one of the most important places for Triassic dinosaur footprints.” 💬 Join the discussion on
The Spanish artist delighted the world with her intervention on a church fresco lovingly dubbed “Beast Jesus.”
The Spanish artist and conservator delighted the world and gained a cult following thanks to her intervention on a church fresco lovingly dubbed “Beast Jesus.”
Each year, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center awards a $20,000 grant to an artist based anywhere in the world working in the spirit of BMC.
Toby Buckle for the New Republic: The Americans Who Saw All This Coming — But Were Ignored and Maligned . This is not that far from the position many ordinary Americans found themselves in at the start of the Trump era. They weren’t time travelers but saw what was coming