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[…] If you can get one, there’s nothing quite as satisfying as hammering out a few words on a real typewriter—especially after you’ve found yourself staring at a blank page on a computer screen for a […]

April fog

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Eclipse ’24

Didn’t make an effort to take photos, but was lucky to catch a minute or so of totality from a clear and quiet spot in the middle of the woods.

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Digital Eclipse tells the Jeff Minter story

Really looking forward to this after what Digital Eclipse did with Atari 50.

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Northern shore

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Pencil Typography

This image is just a portion of a collection of typography on pencils from Present & Correct, which is both a store and a blog focused on stationary, office supplies, and design.

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Reading list: March 27th

“Despite its name suggesting otherwise, Dune II was a first – a real-time strategy game that sprang out of the box with almost every gameplay attribute and control system seen in every RTS since.” Cam Winstanley digs into the origins of one of the most influential computer games in this Read-Only Memory feature from a couple of […]

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Pixies in Paris

Here’s the Pixies at the Olympia in Paris courtesy of a recent ARTE livestream. The network’s YouTube channel has lots more full concerts all freely available.

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Baseball classic

That was something. Shi Davidi on the World Baseball Classic: Even before the dream final pitting Japan against the United States and the dream ending of Shohei Ohtani versus Mike Trout with two out in the ninth, this was already the best World Baseball Classic ever. High drama at nearly every turn. Pandemonium in the […]

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Reading list: March 20th

Xerox Alto, Ray Bradbury, kottke.org, a landmark climate change report, and more.

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The long game of space exploration

NASA announced this week that scientists have found the first direct evidence of recent volcanic activity on Venus. It’s another example of a new discovery based on old data—in this case, radar images collected by the Magellan spacecraft in the early 90s—something that’s only set to increase as future missions collect exponentially more data. That […]

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