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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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HI Day
Your next Aurora From Spaceweather.com (slightly edited to explain stuff): A NASA model predicts a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun) will arrive on March 19th, mere hours before the northern vernal equinox (~10 AM EDST) This is perfect timing because auroras love equin…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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Gorgeous: rural Kyoto in the heavy snow .
Gorgeous: rural Kyoto in the heavy snow.
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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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This Glass Filter Is Giving Photographers Dreamy Photos at Just $99
Lens filters have a special place in the hearts of many photographers. One reason is that they let you achieve the desired results in-camera, without having to sit through lengthy post-production edits. Among the various brands in the market, Prism Lens FX is one such company th…
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Gullible, Cynical America . “They’ll insist...
Gullible, Cynical America. “They’ll insist that you can’t trust scientists, because they’re part of the conspiracy. The podcaster selling you his special creatine gummies, though? He seems trustworthy.”
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“In today’s new Gilded Age, the 900-plus...
“In today’s new Gilded Age, the 900-plus billionaires in the US have far too much influence over our elections, our economy, our government policies and our news media, and it’s urgent for Americans to create a movement to curb their power…”
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The Holocaust History Podcast : “In this episode,...
The Holocaust History Podcast: “In this episode, I talk with Andrea Pitzer about the long, global history of the concentration camp and its evolution over time. We talk about what the definition is, what qualifies something as a concentration camp…”
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The Louvre has the Mona Lisa. Here’s what other...
The Louvre has the Mona Lisa. Here’s what other institutions consider their Mona Lisas. For instance: the National Portrait Gallery in London has a portrait of William Shakespeare and MoMA has the Gold Marilyn Monroe.
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The 20 Best Food Scenes in Movies . Ratatouille, Big...
The 20 Best Food Scenes in Movies. Ratatouille, Big Night, When Harry Met Sally, Tampopo, etc. What’s missing?
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Tiny Puppet Sound
Would you like to watch a puppet DJ a chill set of French house music in a cool workplace meeting space? Trick question because of course you would. This went right into my Underscore collection. (via undermanager) Tags: music · video
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“Pay enough, and you can jump to the front of the...
“Pay enough, and you can jump to the front of the queue for almost anything.” Concierge Nation: Welcome to White-Glove America. “Exclusivity — even if it comes at the cost of social cohesion — is the business model.”
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“This Is Not The Computer For You”
Maybe it’s because I’m a little bit allergic to hype, but I just now got around to reading this review of the Macbook Neo by Sam Henri Gold that absolutely everyone has been recommending and, well, this might be the best product review ever written? The consensus is reason…
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Documentary Photographers: You Need Our 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 in a variety of both studio and natural lighting scenes stand out. This works for street photography, landscapes,…
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The Trump regime is deliberately destroying the...
The Trump regime is deliberately destroying the scientific community in the US. “This is not efficiency. This is not streamlining. This is the systematic elimination of scientific stewardship at the world’s largest biomedical research funder.”
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We Did the Most Anti-AI Thing a Publication Can Do
These days, websites are doing something really annoying. They're using AI to create a chatbot that is supposed to help you find what you're looking for. But it's failing. So recently, the Phoblographer did something very anti-AI. We build a custom search engine of our articles…
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Randomwire (Feed)
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Hiking the Kobotoke Pass
A winter walk along the old Kōshū Kaidō, over Kobotoke Pass to Mount Takao.
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KAIT Plaza: A Shell of Light
Tucked into a corner of the Kanagawa Institute of Technology (神奈川工科大学) campus in Atsugi, about an hour south-west of Tokyo, KAIT Plaza is a building you could walk past without noticing. Designed by Junya Ishigami + Associates and completed in 2020, it sits adjacen…
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Mapthread: Tell a Story with a Map
In 2016, Craig Mod and Dan Rubin published Koya Bound, a beautiful photo book covering an eight day hike on the Kumano Kodō pilgrimage trail in Japan. Alongside this they made a companion website with a map which scrolled alongside the narrative. The way the map followed the na…
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Postcards from Tokyo
Tokyo is a multitude of cities, blending residential and commercial spaces in unexpected ways. Its unique zoning laws allow small shops, restaurants, and businesses to exist seamlessly alongside homes in nearly every neighbourhood. Unlike many Western cities with strict separati…
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Strangers at Arms
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we came across an old, disused trail above our house, which led all the way up to a beautiful lookout point on the Kamakura coastline, where we lived at the time. We spent many happy weekends clearing the trail of debris to make it easier to walk, e…
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Autumn Between Journeys
Landing back in Munich after India and Sichuan felt jarring. Autumn had arrived and amid the crisp mornings and golden light it felt as if time had slowed down. We visited museums in Munich and across the border in Austria. It felt as if we had moved from a state of making histo…
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Chongqing
Though Anthony Bourdain visited neighbouring Chengdu twice—once for No Reservations (2006) and again for Parts Unknown (2016), he never visited Chongqing (重庆), which is a shame because I think it would have been right in his wheelhouse. This is what I imagine he might have…
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Sichuan’s Stone Carvings
Sichuan is renowned for its extraordinary legacy of Buddhist cave and cliff carvings, ranging from monumental statues to intimate grottoes. Many of these masterpieces, carved into sheer cliffs and forested hillsides, remain little known and rarely visited. Their remoteness has p…
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The Deep Salt Wells of Zigong
A weathered wooden derrick marks the site of an eleven-centimetre-wide borehole drilled 1,001 metres into the earth at Shenhaijing Salt Well (燊海井). Completed in 1835 during the Qing dynasty, it is widely regarded as the first artificially drilled well to surpass the thousa…
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The Road to Kangding
Our day began in the early morning chill of Xinduqiao, a town famed among photographers and travellers as a “paradise of light and shadow”. After breakfast, our taxi driver picked us up, and we headed south, tracing the winding roads toward the villages of Ritou and Dongfeng…
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We’ve Updated Our Canon S100 Review
Yes, nearly 20 years later, we've updated our Canon S100 review. Why? Well, you'll see in our review that we talk about how retro tech is back. And after being gifted one of these cameras, I found that it it's very capable of bringing me joy that Japanese cameras once brought me…
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