Remember the “scroll lock” key on your...

Remember the “scroll lock” key on your keyboard? What the heck was it for? And why is the same scrolling mechanic showing up in streaming service interfaces?

New Rembrandt Painting Discovered

A painting from 1633 called Vision of Zacharias in the Temple has been newly identified by Rijksmuseum researchers as an authentic Rembrandt van Rijn. It had been decades since the painting was examined — art historians have access to all kinds of new techniques and informa…

Toes Day

Seriously. Read them both. Connect these dots— Jordan Klemperer:  Moltbook's alleged AI civilization is just a massive void of bloated bot traffic. Tim O'Reilly: A Conversation About What I Lack or: Why AI Needs You. Moving on Jeffrey Epstein is a black hole topic: a gravity…

Bolt Hunter Promises To Help You Freeze Lightning In Better Ways

You might have the fastest fingers in your photography circle, but if there's one thing every photographer struggles with capturing, it's photos of lightning. Aiming to simplify this challenge for you is the new Bolt Hunter trigger by photographer Jeff Boyce.

Can You Draw All 50 States From Memory?

Per Betteridge’s law of headlines and also the map above, my answer is clearly no. You can try it yourself here…you draw them one at a time and it adds them to the map automagically. I’m going to blame my trackpad use a little, but I’m not sure I would have done much…

Recent advances in science have revolutionized our...

Recent advances in science have revolutionized our understanding of the Maya, e.g. there’s evidence that “more people lived in the classic-era Maya lowlands than on the Italian peninsula during the peak of the Roman empire…”

Better News

ABC7NY: A small plane landed (watered?) on the Hudson near Beacon, NY. I heard (saw?) about it from a notification on my laptop that said the story was from WNYC. So I went there. Found nothing. Then I went to Google News and searched for plane+hudson. Wanting to give some linkl…

Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood

Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This knocked me for six when I read it back in 2022: It’s like a slow-building sucker punch. Like my other favourite book of that year—A Ghost In The Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa—it’s hard to classify. I think it’s…

The state of State Of The Browser

I went to State Of The Browser in London on the weekend. It was great! I mean, it’s always great but this year the standard felt really high. All the talks were top quality. I’ve been at events with ticket prices a literal order of magnitude greater but with quality nowhere…

Must-Have Bird Photography Lenses For Fujifilm X Series Shooters

Fujifilm APS-C cameras have been in a league of their own. Not only do they offer compact, retro design, but also nice film simulations that make editing a bit easier. Like the cameras, their X-series lenses offer a nice focal range, including optics designed for long-distance s…

“ Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with...

“Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with meaning. Recognizing this makes the feeling more endurable.”

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nikitonsky: Success is hard Thanks Márton for the picture #OneNote #Error

The Elinchrom Transmitter Pro X is an Unexpected Upgrade

It's been a while since we've reviewed anything from Elinchrom. After announcing the Elinchrom One, Three, and Five in the past six years, we were wondering when a new light of some sort would be coming. And today, we're instead getting a new transmitter -- which has me scratchi…

Zeiss 50mm f1.4 Otus ML Review: Don’t Believe the Influencers

A lot has changed in those 13 years since the Otus was first introduced. For starters, f1.4 aperture lenses are far more common and available at various price points, meaning there’s more competition than ever before. After spending a few weeks with Zeiss Otus ML 1.4/50, we se…

Analog Photographers Will Enjoy The New Capture One Update

With the new Capture One update, film photographers have something to be happy about. There are new tabs dedicated specifically to aid you in scanning film and converting film negatives to digital positive images. With more and more photographers embracing the analog side of the…

Electric Vehicles

Status Go vs. Status Quo

MyTerms is Status Go toward markets based on full personal agency. Adtech is a $trillion Status Quo based on full agency by corporate entities alone and full subordination of the persons who depend on them: a one-sided power asymmetry manifest in every cookie notice. But, while…

When lit up at night, this badminton academy in...

When lit up at night, this badminton academy in Bhubaneswar, India looks like a shuttlecock.

“Supercharged” solar activity and the equinox...

“Supercharged” solar activity and the equinox effect, which “doubles the chance of auroral activity around the spring and fall equinoxes”, could make March 2026 the best month for the northern lights until the mid-2030s.

Flashback 35 V2 Prices are Going Up Despite One Big Problem

If you've been enjoying the current trend of retro digital cameras and digicams, then you've probably heard of the Flashback 35 V2. We reviewed it a while back and consider it to be one of our favorites. And now, the price of the camera is going up by 10%. Despite that, there's…

Nine Inch Nails Releases Tron: Ares Remix Album

Last week, Nine Inch Nails released an album of remixes and unreleased session music from their Tron: Ares score called Tron Ares: Divergence. I’m listening to it now; pretty good so far. Tags: movies · music · Nine Inch Nails · Tron · video

“ A long dive into the features that make my ideal...

“A long dive into the features that make my ideal music app, and why nothing currently fulfills the brief.”

Four-legged pedestrians

Here in Bloomington, Indiana, we have a lot of these large-eyed, big-eared roaming free-range cattle that seem not to care much about the two-legged kind and are mindful of traffic. For example, I was headed east on Howe the other day, approaching Euclid, and spotted these two g…

The CP+ 2026 Lens Roundup: Viltrox May Have Bested Sony

After the closure of Photokina, the CP+ tradeshow in Japan became the central hub for photographers and manufacturers from around the world. This year, we saw some incredible innovations, but the spotlight was stolen by third-party lens manufacturers, who showcased a range of up…

This is the most 2026 thing I’ve ever heard:...

This is the most 2026 thing I’ve ever heard: Sigmund Freud’s great-granddaughter Bella Freud has a video podcast on YouTube where she interviews people (Cate Blanchette, Lorde, Graydon Carter) while they lie on a psychiatrist’s couch.

A Boston man discovered a document passed down through...

A Boston man discovered a document passed down through his family: his ancestor’s freedom papers. “When he touched that paper he was touching the same place his relative touched in 1834.”

Lumière, Le Cinema!

Lumière, Le Cinema! is a new documentary film by Thierry Frémaux about Auguste & Louis Lumière and the early days of motion pictures — and includes 100+ newly restored films. It’s playing at MoMA at the end of this month; here’s their description: Witness the birth…

Weekstart

An on-point Marketoonist cartoon. Eve Maler has a book on identity coming out. It'll be great. Eve is an IIW veteran who has earned many battle ribbons in the Identity Wars.

Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi proposes sending a tiny...

Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi proposes sending a tiny spacecraft to study nearby black holes. “Earth-based lasers would blast the [light] sail with photons, accelerating the craft to a third of the speed of light.”

“ Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of...

“Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the [company] unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken…without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical advancements…”

Megadap Just Built the World’s First Leica M to Canon RF Autofocus Adapter

Lens adapters have done a wonderful job of allowing people to take their favourite optics to their current system. Those who prefer Leica M lenses, however, can use them only on Leica's own cameras. With little option to adapt them to the mirrorless system, one may give up on th…

Why Attack Iran?

There are many possible and plausible answers to this simple question. Timothy Snyder offers a useful perspective in helping answer it: How do [we] understand the war with Iran? We must get away from the propaganda and ask why this might be happening, in light of the facts tha…

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There are So Many Good New Compact Cameras. Which One Should You Get?

If I were to look at the compact camera market today on a big photography retailer's website, I'd think that there aren't all that many compact cameras. But that would be wrong. Instead, they're all small businesses and working on little profits. These are labors of love, not ma…

Want Sharper Photos? Our Presets Can Do That!

If you use Lightroom or Capture One, you'll want to see what our presets can do for you. Not only are they affordable, but they're specially designed to make images in a variety of both studio and natural lighting scenes stand out. This works for street photography, landscapes,…