All those tabs that remain open for months until “I write about them later” … they have to get purged somewhere. This is that somewhere.
A website with anecdotes about the making of the original Macintosh. (Link goes to “the signing party” – about the team’s signatures on the inside of each case.)
Connecting art and the brain: an artist’s perspective on visual indeterminacy.
I still think about these early AI-generated images of objects, where you can’t quite pinpoint what any of them are. This is exactly how my own brain represents background information in dreams, and even in real life. Perhaps, in this area, AI can give us an insight about how our brains work behind the scenes:
We Wade Awake – interesting 3D environment that is driven by a musical performance.
Icelandic strippers with laser boots. Made partly by the artist who made We Wade Awake.
Photos from a trip to the Faroe Islands. I’ve been curious about the Faroes ever since I worked at a software company named Maintenance Assistant (now “Fiix”) in 2013. We had at least 3 separate customers in the Faroes, including their inter-island ferry service. I would fantasize about going there on an all-expenses-paid business trip.
The Caodaist religion:
Reminds me a little of Theosophy.
The image is from Maxwell Forbes’ posts from his 2023 travels in Asia (link to his Hanoi entry). His blog is fantastic – he is a kindred spirit.
Speaking of kindred spirits: Howard Tam made https://dragoncentrestories.ca/ – I love nostalgia for an old mall – and he does a lot to share his love of Scarborough with the rest of Toronto. I spent my highschool years in Scarborough and it is an underrated part of the city.
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary. You can look up words in the 1913 dictionary here: https://www.websters1913.com/
To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like.
Roget’s original thesaurus had concepts and their opposites side-by-side.
Thesauruses before ~1962 have this side-by-side layout pictured here. Newer ones do not.
Frank Chimero’s “Eels are Fish” (archive link).
Their thoughts contaminate yours, their feelings contaminate yours. Their bad habits disturb any semblance of peace you once had. It’s relatively easy to remain calm around a pet or a child, because we don’t expect them to know better. But an adult knows better! How can it be that they are intelligent, capable, fully possessed of free will… and yet they use their free will to be annoying?
The essence of love is… annoyance?
(This essay makes me feel exposed. Like, someone left the door open and you can actually the little rodent inside operating the Jacob Suit)
Uranium Orange pottery, and other radioactive collectibles:
Pink Lustreware – a style of pottery for ordinary people in the 1800s:
Cornish Ranges. Cornwall had a lot of iron and coal, and regional blacksmiths would each have their own take on these decorative ovens:
Ahhhh… now I can close all those tabs. Hope you enjoyed!
