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kottke.org (Feed)
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words.zip is “an infinite collaborative word search where anyone can find and...
words.zip is “an infinite collaborative word search where anyone can find and submit words — no account required.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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This Week in the IndieWeb (Feed)
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This Week in the IndieWeb
January 2-9, 2026 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Pacific Wednesday, January 7 at 6:00pm Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, January 7 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club - Philadelphia Sunday, January 4 at 6:00pm PHILADELPHI…
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There’s a shark called the cookiecutter shark because it leaves bite marks...
There’s a shark called the cookiecutter shark because it leaves bite marks the shape of “neat, circular holes resembling the cut of a cookie cutter”. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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The Best Cameras for Portrait Photography. Only Two Matter
Portrait photography is an exciting genre that allows one to view their sitters in a distinctive way. If you are someone who wants to photograph people but needs a device that can keep up with their demands, then here are the two best offerings for you. They may be expensive, bu…
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Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans...
Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person. “I dug a fire pit in my backyard and burned my complete set of hardcover Harry Potters.”
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A soaring US vs a stagnant EU? “Europeans benefit from more leisure...
A soaring US vs a stagnant EU? “Europeans benefit from more leisure time than Americans, higher life expectancy & lower inequality levels, all w/ comparable productivity rates. However one looks at it, this is a considerably better economic performance.” 💬…
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Interconnected (Feed)
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Real like ghosts or real like celebrities?
This chart from the back of Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home lives forever in my head: Always Coming Home is a collection of texts from the Kesh, a society in far future Northern California which is also, I guess, a utopian new Bronze Age I suppose? A beautiful book. T…
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Oatmeal (Feed)
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no beautiful things
There’s this line in The Hobbit that haunts me. For one thing, it is part of a wider problematic habit running throughout all of Tolkien that, moving in the mythopoetic space, leads to these sweeping statements that define or collapse an entire culture into a single stroke. It…
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The New Aesthetic (Feed)
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Russian Troops Strap Starlink Terminals to Horses as Russian Cavalry Makes ‘Historic’ Return - Kyiv…
Russian Troops Strap Starlink Terminals to Horses as Russian Cavalry Makes ‘Historic’ Return - Kyiv Post
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The 3 Best 16MP Digital Fujifilm Cameras For Analog Quality
Fujifilm cameras are ideal for many young creators. They offer a perfect blend of features and budget, and a dash of great design. However, if you are someone looking for a camera that offers more than this, then you should take a look at these devices. The Fujifilm devices are…
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Alexandra Petri: I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go...
Alexandra Petri: I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well. “I have just driven six and a half hours to Ohio in order to forecast my own weather. From a hot-air balloon.” She also inspects milk & does lawn work on National Park land.
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What You’re Watching Isn’t What You’re Really Watching. “You think you’re watching...
What You’re Watching Isn’t What You’re Really Watching. “You think you’re watching an innocent woman being shot and killed in cold blood by the federal government, but what you’re really watching is the death of the United States of America.”
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Paths
Also, Gemini failed. I still don't know who she was. I think we could have powered two cities with the work Gemini just did, thinking slowly to help me identify the actress that my old pal Drew Youngs sings about in his video (and musical composition) Betty the Bloop. In an unr…
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Nikon Z 600mm f6.3 Review: A Top-Notch, Affordable Super Telephoto
When you hear "600mm", your brain immediately expects a lens that you'd have to haul on your back to events, helping substitute your bicep curls routine at the gym for a few hours of photography using it. So I have to admit that the first thing that really surprised me about the…
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Chinese Lenses Aren’t Cheap. We’re Just Used to Overpaying
When I first started shooting photographs and getting into camera gear, the way of the world is that you often bought a camera and first-party lenses. The third-party stuff just wasn't all that good in terms of performance overall. Then the third-party Japanese lenses started to…
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How the Past Models the Future
That’s a PageXray of Craigslist.org. I ran it after reading Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet? by Jennifer Swann in Wired. It shows Craigslist doing no tracking at all. Nice! Craigslist also doesn’t interrupt your experience with a cookie notice, because it d…
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Why You Shouldn’t Buy the Kodak Charmera
The following is a 100% true human-made account that is being retold to the best of my flawed human ability. And it has to do with my purchase of the Kodak Charmera from Freestyle Photographic. Like every other millennial that's getting older and looking at what the younger gene…
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The Two Best Mid-Range Cameras From Nikon
Nikon cameras are renowned for their exceptional features, which appeal to many serious enthusiasts. It can range from better colors to a perfect hybrid camera; Nikon creates systems that work across genres. However, there have been instances where some costs over $2000, which c…
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