TV Appearance of Lincoln Assassination Witness

In 1956, 96-year-old Samuel Seymour appeared on a game show called I’ve Got A Secret…his secret was that he saw Lincoln’s assassination when he was five years old. Mind-blowing…the Civil War & Lincoln’s assassination directly linked to something as modern as a TV…

What Training My Chaotic Dog Taught Me About Power,...

What Training My Chaotic Dog Taught Me About Power, Control — and Human Beings. “As any parent of a toddler knows, being morally liable for something that is incapable of moral liability is a fraught and stressful business.”

Building a World Map With Only 500 Bytes .

Building a World Map With Only 500 Bytes.

How Are Memories Stored Inside Your Brain?

This video from Kurzgesagt is a great little primer on how the human brain stores memories. Memory is one of the strangest abilities you possess. Your brain uses an incredibly complex biological system to preserve moments from your past that no longer exist, allowing you to…

Heatday

It's 96° here in Baltimore, where the air quality sucks thanks to fires in Canada and Minnesota. But write on I shall. And your mone Ed Zitron's long read on the coming AI crash is worth your time. Seriously In paleoenshittification and a path to adoption for MyTerms, Don Mart…

From the Brooklyn Public Library, a list of “the...

From the Brooklyn Public Library, a list of “the 250 most influential books in United States history”. Incl. Neuromancer, The Fire Next Time, Nickel and Dimed, The Power Broker, and The Snowy Day.

New-to-me podcast that looks really interesting: Time...

New-to-me podcast that looks really interesting: Time Sensitive, “a podcast featuring candid, revealing long-form conversations with leading minds about their life and work through the lens of time”.

This Method of Making Portraits Could Become Your Favorite

Lots of photographers that don't like to or know how to work with a flash often go for natural light when it comes to portraiture. The most common method of shooting involves using an area with lots of shadows or overcast. But one of the coolest ways to create an image that you'…

Amazing Newspaper Ad Highlighting Period Poverty

To draw attention to the millions of girls who cannot afford period products, the MENstruation Foundation ran a unique advertisement in three major South African newspapers. Readers of The Star, The Mercury and Cape Times opened their newspapers this week to find somethi…

Uncovered , a site for judging books by their first...

Uncovered, a site for judging books by their first pages. “No cover. No bestseller sticker, no celebrity book club, no BookTok trend. You read the opening of a real book, blind, and answer the only question that matters: would you keep reading?”

The Resonant Computing Manifesto . “We can now build...

The Resonant Computing Manifesto. “We can now build technology that adaptively shapes itself in service of our individual and collective aspirations. We can build resonant environments that bring out the best in every human who inhabits them.”

What would a rainbow look like if we had two suns (like...

What would a rainbow look like if we had two suns (like on Tatooine)?

Hasselblad Extends Its Mobile Workflow for Android

Hasselblad makes some of the cameras in the world. The company has created models such as X1D and X1D II 50C, amongst other models, that can make things better. To help photographers, Hasselblad has made the perfect software, which now comes to Android. Here's what to expect.

This Nikon Z9 Photo From Lunar Orbit Reveals New Secrets About the Sun

Nikon made history by being the first to push its cameras into space. After the success of Artemis II, it appears that Nikon's Z9 has made another discovery that will help us understand our universe a bit better. In a photograph revealed by NASA, we have now learned that our Sun…

The Secrets to Soft Light in Portrait Photography

Soft light is arguably peak light. Everyone looks good in it no matter what. But do you even understand what soft light is? Well, we're going to educate you on everything you need to know as a portrait photographer.

Our Retro Digital Presets are One of Our Best Buys

The Retro Digital Presets are insanely affordable. On the staff, we tend to rotate through a variety of presets. 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 i…

The Canon EOS R in 2026: Are 30-Megapixels Still Enough?

Going back to a much simpler time, the year was 2018 and towards the end of that year, Canon did what felt unthinkable; they finally released their first true, mirrorless camera – the Canon EOS R.

Time Change

A few highlights from a collection of lovely...

A few highlights from a collection of lovely woodblock-printed sugoroku game boards from Japan. “The gameboards use stories and maps to teach children history and geography.”

The Naturalist’s Library (1833-43)

Nicholas Rougeux, whose work I have featured here before, has published a complete digital edition of William Jardine’s 40-volume book series on natural history published in the early-to-mid 19th-century. As part of the project, Rougeux restored each of the more than 1300 illu…

Image to text

At The Web You Want event in Amsterdam last month, Léonie gave an absolutely fantastic talk. You can now read the whole thing: Accessibility is resistance! She makes the very good point that generative tools are a necessary accessibility recourse when humans have failed to do…

The New Lomography Half-Frame Camera Has a Strange Feature

Today, Lomography announced two variants of a brand new camera: it's called the Half-frame simple use reloadable film camera. This follows on some of the success that the Pentax 17 and the Kodak Ektar H35 have. In fact, the medium is so popular that we even wrote a recommended l…

Legibility of effort in the LLM age . “What...

Legibility of effort in the LLM age. “What software (and writing, to an extent) is missing now is legibility of effort - the ability to tell at a glance whether something took a human meaningful work.”

Lionel Messi Bathing a Baby Lamine Yamal

These have to be some of the most remarkable sports photos of all time: a 20-year-old Lionel Messi bathing a five-month-old Lamine Yamal. Two of the best football players in the world, one a Barcelona legend and another a Barca legend in the making. Both came up throu…

Ted Gioia : “Works like the Odyssey are...

Ted Gioia: “Works like the Odyssey are ritualistic and trance-inducing. They are propelled by music and driven by rhythm. They cross a border beyond literature, and enter something more transcendent and metaphysical.”

Good interview with Craig Mod about how he uses LLMs :...

Good interview with Craig Mod about how he uses LLMs: “using AI as a research assistant, why he keeps a tech-free zone in the mornings for deep thinking, and why he’s resisting the pull of the ‘mainlining’ AI era”.

We’re Taking a Stand Against AI. Join Us

We're here to put art lovers in front of real photographers. No algorithms. No generative AI. Just humans. And today, we are announcing the 5 Boro Foto Fest: A space for real photographers to sell their printed art in a world of algorithms and too many screens. And best of all,…

The Moist Towelette Online Museum . Live moist and...

The Moist Towelette Online Museum. Live moist and prosper. 🖖💦

The Types of People to Keep Around

Molly Burford, author of Moments to Hold Close, writes list poetry (is that a thing?) about the kinds of people that you want in your life. From Types Of People You Need To Hang On To: The friend who helps you clean your room. Those who are kind to those who can do nothing for…

Viltrox 26mm F2.8 EVO Review: It Turned My Nikon Z7 II Into an EDC Camera

The Viltrox 26mm F2.8 EVO pancake lens provides simplicity and flexibility that can transform your bulkiest camera into an everyday carry camera.

Satellite Eyes 2.0

Back in 2012, which can't be more than 5 or 6 years ago, I made an app called Satellite Eyes. It sets your desktop wallpaper to the satellite view of your current location. It's quite popular - lots of people tell me it's the first thing they install on a new machine, which is l…

An inconvenient talk

For the last few years I’ve been helping run Edinburgh Gravel Cycling Club, a large ish community for folks into gravel cycling. It’s been a lot of fun, very rewarding and I’ve made many, many wonderful friends through it. I was asked if I’d like speak about it at a mon…

Lego Set Checklist

If you have too much Lego, then you might want to sell some of it so it can go to a better home. But if you have it all jumbled up in some massive boxes, then you’ve got a long few days ahead of you. By you, I mean my children. To make this a tiny bit easier, I got Claude (th…

100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online ....

100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online. “Let’s discuss topics without feeling the need to win a non-existent argument. Hot takes? No. Engage with nuance. Show the grace you would extend offline to those you meet on these virtual streets.”