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Adactio: Journal (Feed)
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Lake Of Souls by Ann Leckie
In some ways, the short story is the ideal format for science fiction. If science fiction is all about ideas, a short story is a way to take an idea and play it out without any obligation to build a bigger world around it. But short stories can work the other way too. If you ha…
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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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Roberto Cavazzuti Uses a Rare Technique for the Rhythmic Ghosts
As a high-functioning blind man, I'm truly in love with the work that photographer Roberto Cavazzuti does. He takes the beginner's concept of making everything super sharp and detailed and throws that into the wind in the embrace of art. And a lot of his work embraces this idea…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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Weball allows you to roll up websites into a Katamari...
Weball allows you to roll up websites into a Katamari ball. You can even roll up KDO. This is too much fun. See also Destroy Any Website.
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Is This Weird Quiz Game the Toughest F1 Video Game Ever?
It might be that this text-only quiz game from 1993 is the most challenging F1 video game of all time. Here are a couple of the 23 questions from Gerhard Berger’s Formula 1 Quiz: 3. Which team was the best in the 80’s? Statistically, it’s McLaren, but that’s not a corr…
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I just went down a rabbit hole of incense seals. So cool.
I just went down a rabbit hole of incense seals. So cool.
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Bill McKibben: I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We...
Bill McKibben: I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. The human nervous system wasn’t designed for the polycrisis. “Among all the other dangers these developments represent, they’re simply wearing us out.”
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How a Blind Photographer Shoots Portrait Photography
Diagnosed with extreme keratoconus over a decade ago, I never let that stop me being a photographer and doing things like portrait photography. So with the world of finding articles in this AI-slop mess that we're in right now, I decided to go super personal and blog about how I…
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Why Hasn’t China Tried to Make a Digital Leica Clone?
Almost 10 years ago, I flew to Photokina and published a first-impressions review of the Zenit M Digital rangefinder. In this case, Zenit and Leica collaborated on making the camera. That, of course, was a Russian company. And this collaboration has had me questioning something…
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In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US,...
In 1996, the Blondin family drove all around the US, blogging about it all before “blog” was even a word. “We were doing something that had no name and no manual, and we were doing it over a dial-up modem while living in a motorhome.”
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Chasing a Plane Across the Moon
Agustín Ferrando Trenchi became a little obsessed with the moon as a kid. As an adult, he’s taken tons of photos and hundreds of hours of footage of the moon. After seeing an airplane fly close to the moon while he filmed, Trenchi began a quest to capture a plane flying acros…
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Is The Canon 24-105mm F4L Worth Your Time In 2026?
Canon's L-series lenses have been quite fantastic in varied ways. They not only offer some great image quality, but they are also far more durable than many other lenses. But what happens to those lenses that are now turning a decade old? Do they continue to be relevant or do th…
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Abolish Frat Culture. “This is going to be uncomfortable...
Abolish Frat Culture. “This is going to be uncomfortable for anyone with a kid in a fraternity to hear: If your son finds himself in a group that would send a ‘free pussy’ text, it’s too late. The group is the disease, the text is the symptom.”
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Sony RX10 V Review: We Found the Problems No One Else Mentioned
The Sony RX10 V has a problem that more reviewers aren't talking about. And suspiciously, there's a lot of insanely positive press about the camera despite a few problems that really should be talked about. The Phoblographer wasn't part of the initial wave of reviews of the Sony…
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Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some...
Any Human Ever randomly picks an average person from some point in human history and tells you about what their life was like. Mine was a woman born in 1547: “Of all the sounds of her life, the loudest were thunder and the church bells.”
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Stutterer
Stutterer by Benjamin Cleary won the 2016 Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film and is now available to view online for free courtesy of the New Yorker. It’s a thirteen-minute movie about a young London typographer named Greenwood (Matthew Needham). Greenwood stutters, to…
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Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life...
Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again. “It is an astonishing indictment of our times that the cities of our picture books can seem like a radical utopia.”
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Bertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to Debate
Late in his life, the prominent English mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell was subject to an attempt in the early 1960s by Oswald Mosley to provoke him into a debate about the merits of fascism. Before WWII, Mosley had founded the British Union of Fascists. BUF had a…
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The Global Rise of Electoral Dictatorships. Is the U.S....
The Global Rise of Electoral Dictatorships. Is the U.S. Next? “Electoral dictators — who identify as presidents and prime ministers — hold uncompetitive and unfair elections after aggressively suppressing political opponents.”
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A short (too short?) video from Little White Lies on...
A short (too short?) video from Little White Lies on designer Saul Bass and his influence on the art of movie title design. They also did videos on Pablo Ferro and Kyle Cooper.
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What Nigel Barker Taught Me About Portraiture
Around 10 years ago, I conducted an interview with photographer Nigel Barker. The moment felt akin to encountering a legendary Pokémon of some sort -- at least if you're a millennial who loved video games. And as a photographer, it can sometimes feel like an other-worldly exper…
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