The Fossil Present

The Web isn’t dying, but it is being removed from our experience. As a place to seek knowledge and connections, it is being replaced for many (including me) by AI chatbots that harvest findings from it, rewrite and summarize what they find, and—as gravy on that steak—point…

Forms of Water

You Don’t Need Every Frame. You Need the Right One.

Modern cameras can fire off dozens of frames a second, which makes it tempting to just hold the shutter down and sort it out later. There's a real argument for doing the opposite.

This Week in the IndieWeb

October 16-23, 2026 Recent EventsFrom events.indieweb.org/archive: Homebrew Website Club - Eastern Wednesday, October 21 at 6:00pm Online! Zoom! Homebrew Website Club Europe/London Wednesday, October 21 at 7:00pm Homebrew Website Club - Asia Pacific Wednesday, October 21 a…

Friday Tab Clearance Sale

Stormy Whether GDPR services is a market we shouldn't need at all, but it's growing like a thundercloud. (Source: Mordor Intelligence) Toward Agentic VRM vCon is "A new IETF open standard defining how conversation data — audio, video, text, and metadata — is structured, sig…

The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon

This is an infuriating book. So much so that I didn’t finish it. Don’t get me wrong; I love the idea of The Pirate Queen. Telling the life story of Gráinne Ní Mháille is an excellent premise for some rip-roaring historical fiction. It’s even got an interesting structur…

The New Artizlab Classic-M 50mm f1.4 is Based on a Cult Classic

Artizlab, the same company behind FunLeader, is today announcing their new Artizlab Classic-M 50mm f1.4. Designed as an ode to the classic Leica E43 Summilux 50mm f1.4, it's bound to be something really special for the droves of us who prefer classic lenses. In fact, with the wa…

The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea...

The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea of a restaurant I’d never been to using a dossier on me to decide, say, where I should sit, what I was likely to order, even whether I should be given a reservation at all, gave me chills.”

“US households are paying 62% more for drinking water...

“US households are paying 62% more for drinking water than they did a decade ago — outpacing inflation, grocery prices and household incomes.”

Fujifilm X-T6 Reportedly Will Fix the X-T5’s Biggest Problem

Fujifilm introduced the X-T series, keeping in mind the needs of street photography, travel, and hybrid content creation. The X-T5 was launched in 2022, and since, it has been four years, with photographers waiting to see what's next. It now appears that the Fujifilm X-T6 is sup…

Open Thread #Potato

Seems like it’s a good time for an open thread. I cannot remember what number we’re up to, so it’s “Potato”. I just had french fries for lunch and ate the longest french fry I have ever seen.1 I should have taken a photo, but I was in consumption mode and not attention…

Dear Canon: We Need a Real Pancake Lens

Canon lenses are pretty incredible. Models like the 70-200mm, the 24-70mm, and the 15-30mm are some good additions and examples. While the EF lens range had some pancake lenses, the RF range has only one such option. Keeping the need for such lenses in mind, we believe that panc…

Sigma FP2 Review: This Wasn’t Made for Photographers

The Sigma FP2 is the upgrade to the original Sigma FP, and back in 2020 I called it the camera that no one asked for. At a presentation for the press and media (because there is a difference) in NYC, Sigma called up a few content creators to talk about their experiences — none…

The Sigma FP2 is Bound to Confuse Photographers

Reports of the launch of a new Sigma camera have surfaced online a while back, and today the company is announcing the new Sigma FP2. The new Sigma FP2 is a full-frame, compact L-mount camera, which is aimed at those who create hybrid content. Most of all, it really just bring i…

This Weekend: Get Your Free Tickets to the 5 Boro Foto Fest

This is the last reminder before it actually happens: the 5 Boro Foto Fest is this Sunday, October 25th, from 11am to 6pm, at Culture Lab LIC in Long Island City. If you haven't grabbed your free ticket yet, now's the time.

“an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this...

“an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing ‘hp’ in the context of ‘not being at full hp’ ‘applying your full hp to a task’ etc.” But it’s not hit/health points…

The Flipbook of the Rings

For more than a year, marshalled by animator Andy Bailey, more than 1000 artists collaborated to create a hand-drawn, shot-for-shot, animated, flipbook version of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The entire three hours. 120,000 individually dr…

An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the...

An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the Internet Archive. “Omni was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science, parapsychology, and short works of science fiction and fantasy.”

Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window...

Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window using real video footage. Choose from trains from around the world or add some weather to the mix. Sound on for the best ride.