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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Distinctions
Divide and —? Axios: "The nation is splitting into three distinct economic realities: the Have-Nots (stalling) … the Haves (coasting) … and the Have-Lots (rocketing to greater wealth)…This shift, if it holds, will rattle economics, politics and AI throughout 2026 and bey…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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“I feel stuck and sad and I don’t know what else to...
“I feel stuck and sad and I don’t know what else to do.” Yeah, same.
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An Optical Compass Inspired by Bee Vision
Bees use polarized sunlight scattered by the atmosphere in order to navigate; they always know where the sun is, even if it’s cloudy or behind a mountain. Then they waggle dance to inform their hive-mates about food source locations. So if a bee wants to fly straight toward…
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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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The Publication That Doesn’t Answer to the Big Camera Brands
Real talk: if everyone who came to the site was charged $1, I’d have enough money in under a week to fund the website for the entire year without banner ads. Trust me, if I could get rid of banner ads, I would. But the truth is that they help the staff get paid, the …
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Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection. “This page contains a collection of small...
Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection. “This page contains a collection of small computer programs which implement one-player puzzle games.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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Out of the 1000 most-discussed books on Hacker News, it looks like...
Out of the 1000 most-discussed books on Hacker News, it looks like around 50 of them were written by women.
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Has OM System Discontinued Its Popular Camera?
OM System has introduced some iconic cameras over the years. The company launched the OM3, OM1, and Pen F, each of which remains important even today. While OM System is expanding its lineup, there are often instances where some cameras are discontinued. This is also true in the…
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A Logistical Matter
Just wanted to drop a quick note to say that kottke.org moved servers over the weekend. You shouldn’t have noticed anything, except perhaps that the site is faster now. There was a small issue with the RSS feed after the migration, but that’s been resolved. If you notice any…
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Train Wreck
A wreck on the Lehigh Valley trackage in South Somerville, NJ circa 1918. (via shorpy) Tags: this is a metaphor for something · trains
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I loved watching this quick video recap of how Penguin designer Elisha...
I loved watching this quick video recap of how Penguin designer Elisha Zepeda made the book covers for 10 books that came out in 2025. Zepeda has a much longer look at his process on YT. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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Using lidar, scientists discovered a 400-foot-long wall composed of “60 massive granite...
Using lidar, scientists discovered a 400-foot-long wall composed of “60 massive granite monoliths, set directly onto the bedrock in pairs at regular intervals”. The wall is 30 feet underwater and was built 7000+ years ago. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.or…
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Pixless Camera Mk 1 Turns Fewer Pixels into True Works of Art
When was the last time you thought to yourself, “What if my next camera had fewer pixels?” Sure, it sounds silly on its face but that’s exactly what the Pixless Camera mk 1 by Andreini Imaging offers and then takes it to the extreme – the max resolution of this camera is…
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Adactio: Journal (Feed)
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3 + 4
Toward the end of 2021, I wrote about working a four-day week. It really suited me. So much so that I’ve gone one further. For the past year or so I’ve been working a three-day week. I work on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. From Friday to Monday, my days are my own. Thi…
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It’s Time for Pentax to Do Something Weird Again
Do you remember the Pentax MX1? It was a brass point-and-shoot camera that was beloved by many. It returned in popularity two years ago, and in many ways, it represents a time when cameras were just so much different. Truly, I wish that Pentax would make it again -- but without…
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The Only Two Top-of-the-Line Sony Cameras
Sony is one of the few companies to pivot from DSLR to mirrorless camera way before any of the big companies chose to see the trend. In many ways, this worked in their favour, making Sony the only one to offer exceptional lenses and superb autofocus that was ahead of its time. I…
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Why Modern Photography Sucks, and We’re So Obsessed With the Past
I ran into a quote that I absolutely feel deep down into my soul: the fetishization of realism kills art. This is the ideal that so many Japanese lens manufacturers have embraced. When this is combined with the fact that photographers are copying other visual media all the time…
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Securing the right to be let alone
In What destroyed ‘the right to be let alone’, Tiffany Jenkins in the Washington Post argues that demolition of personal privacy began in the postwar years and became normative in 1973. That was when PBS ran An American Family: a cinéma verité exposure of the Loud family i…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: No you WILL create an account! Thanks @robinmetral for the video #Substack #Login #Signup #Popup #Modal
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