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Things I liked this week (Week 49, 2022)

I wonder, if in my lifetime, I'll ever own a cool futuristic truck.

Or take a ride in a luxury space balloon. "No rockets. No g-forces. Experience a gentle, meticulously crafted spaceflight in our one-of-a-kind Space Lounge during your six-hour journey, complete with meal and cocktails."

#35
December 9, 2022
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Things I liked this week (Week 48, 2022)

Hello everyone,

I hope these links bring some minor distractions to your day:

  1. ooh.directory is a collection of 900+ blogs. From the creator: "For years I’ve seen people moan that “nobody blogs any more”, all while my feed reader was overflowing with new blogposts I never had time to read. I want to demonstrate that there are lots and lots of people blogging, about all kinds of subjects!"

  2. I'll also take this opportunity to plug 1feed, my favorite feed reader. It's pretty chill as feed readers go. Note: you can also subscribe to this newsletter via RSS if you want.

  3. It's that time of year for gift guides: Ugmonk's shop small list, Rands' 10 things I love and why, and Robin Sloan's gift guide.

  4. It's also that time of year for Tom Whitwell's annual 52 things I learned post.

  5. Also, The Sounds of Christmas, a playlist. Lots of new (to me) holiday/winter tunes.

  6. Two shallow rabbit holes I travelled this week:

    • Three-legged crows as a result of Japan's national football team logo.

    • Mysterious booms called Seneca Guns.

  7. Somewhere in Ontario

It's getting cold and dark here. If winter is coming to your neck of the woods I hope it comes peacefully, bearing warm drinks, and some time to relax.

#34
December 2, 2022
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Things I liked this week (Week 47, 2022)

It's "Friday" here in the US so that means some links flying your way.

  1. Spend the 5 minutes to watch these "wild" guinea pigs waddle around their garden.

  2. "I had only met him in passing; but his paper notebooks held a kind of self-portrait, touchable records of what was on his mind. Like a piece of clothing or jewelry from someone you love, those physical objects created a fragile bridge beyond death for his family." From A Life in Pocket Notebooks

  3. Orions Belte is nice music to work to. "The sound of wood, the sound of the cold autumn air. [...] the perfect hangover album."

  4. Filing Aegir under "sites I like." Just neat how the site colors shift based on the media used.

  5. Grass under a microscope looks so happy.

  6. Somewhere in Virginia.

Until next time, stay safe!

~ Guy

#33
November 23, 2022
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Things I liked this week (Week 43, 2022)

I’m sure I linked to this before, but if not, here is a great shot of an awesome house. Photo by Hisatoshi Matsumura.

  • Before Trick-or-Treating, There Was Mostly Tricks. Bonus link my ongoing collection of spooky art, podcasts episodes, and articles.
  • I recently finished reading Ragged by Christopher Irvin. Woodland noir may be my new go to genre. You can get it from Book Depository if you’re interested.
  • Listening to the 1001 albums you must hear before you die playlist.
  • Slow Roads is a chill driving game. I was terrible at it.
  • Remember that no one has any idea what they’re doing.

I hope that your Halloween is the correct amount of spooky for you and yours!

~ Guy

#32
October 28, 2022
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Things I liked this week (Week 39, 2022)

↑ The art of Kyle Scott.

  • Ghost, Aliens, Burritos is a podcast episode of Here Be Monsters about growing up with a father who called himself a researcher in the shadow world.

  • fuzzy.town is the site of artist, Zachariah OHora. Visit for the animated logo alone.

  • Why some music fans are quitting Spotify and going back to MP3s, CDs, etc..

  • An online mix tape? Try DJ mode.

  • Waffle house vistas.

Stay safe out there!

#31
September 30, 2022
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Things I liked this week (Week 38, 2022)

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  • It's fall around here (and the start of spooky season) so here are some Autumn based links:

    • The story behind the smiley face above.

    • A reminder to live seasonally.

    • A list of new horror books to add to your pile.

  • Some great apps I've been using:

    • MyMind a super simple bookmarker, knowledge management, mood board maker thingy.

    • Hark takes snippets of podcasts to make daily mix tapes.

  • An optimistic look at building the future from Kevin Kelly.

  • A climate themed short story.

  • A car graveyard, I thought they were matchbox cars until I spied the drone pilot.

  • An interactive map of bird migrations.

  • Nature themed live cams.

I hope you have a great weekend!

#30
September 23, 2022
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clouds, pocket knives, solar powered websites, and more (things #36.22)

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↑ Trevor Paglen, CLOUD #865

  • "Always carry a pocket knife. You might have to open a package or avenge a loved one’s death." - Life advice from Chris Coyier.

  • The story behind a perfectly maintained ghost town in the middle of the Canadian wilderness.

  • Low Tech Magazine is a " ... a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline."

  • A map of wolf pack movements.

  • An excellent hip-hop mash-up.

  • Be Drunk.

I hope all is well in your world!

#29
September 9, 2022
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Things I liked this week (Week 30, 2022)

Hi!

I hope you don't mind this intrusion on your Sunday morning, but I have some links for you.

  1. First, a look at my browser/search history from the last week:

    • Listens to this episode of Endless Thread.

    • Learns about Eggs Tyrone and spends way too much time watching all of their fantastic videos (this one is probably my fave, so much joy).

    • Watches this one (a bit more somber) and searches for the track from the video: "Turtles All the Way Down" by Sturgill Simpson.

    • Realizes it's not your typical alt country song and searches for lyrics (There's a gateway in our minds / That leads somewhere out there, far beyond this plane / Where reptile aliens made of light / Cut you open and pull out all your pain).

    • Searches for the meaning of Turtles All the Way Down and finds this Wikipedia article about the expression of the problem of infinite regress.

    • From podcast to philosophy, it's links all the way down.

  2. A small scoop of seawater contains so many squiggly monsters.

  3. Buying an MP3 Player, not new, but new to me, and hilarious.

  4. I'm Nobody

  5. Sleepbaseball.com

#28
July 31, 2022
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Things I liked this week (Week 29, 2022)

A speed round of links for your clicking enjoyment:

  1. Bonfire's website is just great. Even if you have no interest in "federated tools and communities for the post-capitalist world" just click the link for the illustrations of woodland animals sitting around campfires.

  2. Mini-Forests.

  3. Hippo Trails.

  4. Hip-hop stamps.

  5. An Ol' Dirty Bastard action figure.

  6. The Reddit compound pejorative dataset. Click for the matrix, it's like a create your own swear word tool.

  7. Abandoned suburbia.

  8. New choices appear.

I hope you're staying cool! Remember, it's only 101 days until Halloween.

~ Guy

#27
July 22, 2022
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Things I liked this week (Week 25, 2022)

Good morning,

  • The Best Science Fiction Books You've Never Heard Of. Added some titles to my to-read pile from this list. Related, Daydreaming is better than doomscrolling, Carry a book everywhere.

  • A Trail Tale is an 8-bit game? Journal? Travel guide? I don't actually know, but it's cool! Related, view sun and shade along hiking trails.

  • A very low key summer checklist.

  • Friendship, an are.na channel.

  • Filed under destruction: atom bomb photos + an embroidered tornado.

  • Somewhere in Denmark.

The signal from this newsletter may become spotty as I head into the depths of summer. If we don't talk soon I hope you and yours stay safe, healthy, and are able to carve out some time to relax or do something you really enjoy.

~ Guy

#26
June 24, 2022
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Things I liked this week (Week 24, 2022)

Hi,

I come bearing links for your Friday morning:

  1. Employers don't like the idea of a four-day week. Let's cancel the afternoon.

  2. The word of the day is "alloception" — the perception of another, the detection of other. It’s an alloception event when a person working with an AI says, “I see someone in there.”

  3. Making an easy one page a day diary by Austin Kleon.

  4. Urban bear photography!

  5. Good news, drinking beer is good for your gut health.

  6. The author of Meet Me by the Fountain was on 99% Invisible. Learn all about the American mall.

If it's summer where you live I hope you take a moment to get some sun on your face, or pause to watch fireflies emerge at dusk, or go get a cold treat with some people you care about, or whatever makes summer special for you.

#25
June 17, 2022
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Things I liked this week (Week 23 2022)

Hiya,

A menagerie of links today:

  1. Top 100 90's Hip Hop Samples 1990 - 1999. 20 minutes well spent if you're a hip hop head. A bonus 90s music link, probably better than the preceding link if you have to choose.

  2. I like the idea of a whatever journal.

  3. A foggy sunrise in my town.

  4. Creepy English countryside: a real photo and a short story told in miniatures.

  5. We Are In A "FOURTH TURNING" breaks this newsletter's rule of no doom, but it's interesting. If you're not feeling that this fine Friday morning then check out this AMC Amitron from 1967.

I hope you have the best day!

#24
June 10, 2022
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Things I liked this week (Week 22, 2022)

Some tiny things this week:

  1. My Hero performed by the Foo Fighters and a whole lot of other people. Pretty amazing.

  2. Drone photos of polar bears feeding on a whale carcass. Gruesome, but amazing in that nature doing nature things kind of way.

  3. Art created by AI via text prompts (e.g. A portrait of an avocado made of yarn). Not awful.

  4. Thunk Notes is yet another notes app, but maybe it's the little fox mascot that has me giving the free trial a spin.

  5. Better Computer Grants is a " ... microgrants program focused on people working on projects that make computers better."

  6. Upward lightning!

I hope you have a most excellent weekend!

#23
June 3, 2022
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Things I liked this week (Week 21, 2022)

Mornin'

I hope these links bring you some distractions today.

  1. First some things for your eyes:

    1. storm (illustration),

    2. landscape with clouds and rainbows (computer generated wool art?),

    3. Loryn Engelsman (portfolio),

    4. booms (comic book art),

    5. "Knobby terrain" on one of Jupiter's moon (space photos)

    6. and some new paintings by Oliver Jeffers.

  2. Next some shopping recs (I get no kickbacks from these links, just great things I want to share):

    1. Dan Cederholm's SimpleBits shop is having a garage sale, 50% off everything. I can confirm the t-shirts are top notch.

    2. Welly bandages work great and they look cool too. I've been using them to patch up many a skinned knee for the last couple months and I just restocked with their Camping Bravery Badges.

    3. I finished up Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel and I really liked it. A tight little time travel story. If you read it and liked it (or if you like time travelly stuff) check out The Electric Kingdom by David Arnold.

  3. And lastly, how about a song about work since it's a Friday.

As always, I hope you and yours are safe, happy, and well.

#22
May 27, 2022
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Things I liked this week (Week 20, 2022)

It's been awhile. I hope you've all been well. Here are links for your Friday morning enjoyment:

  1. The Art of Telling Campfire Tales, just in time for summer nights by the fire.

  2. Readlists allows you to cobble together articles into a bookish like thing to read in one go.

  3. The final dance in Dirty Dancing, but they’re dancing to The Muppet Show theme tune. This works better than expected.

  4. Fantasy Mapping: Drawing Worlds. I haven't purchased this book, but I'm happy it exists.

  5. The Asshole Test.

Have a great weekend!

#21
May 20, 2022
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Things I liked in week 3 of 2022

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↑ From Freeze frames: the epic wilderness of Greenland – in pictures

  1. Moth Minds is " ... a platform that makes it extremely easy for anyone to start their own grants program." Which is a great idea, but even if you aren't ready to start a grant program, check out the site for an alternative to the typical product page.

  2. Macklemore's Next Year (which is now this year), linking to this mostly for the marching band energy.

  3. Watch how a 3D-Printed home is made, new to me, pretty rad.

  4. Modern for Wikipedia, a Chrome plugin that gives Wikipedia a new look.

  5. Watch a volcano blow from space, terrifying.

"Grant me the courage of someone who is willing to share their entire desktop on Zoom in this day and age…"

#20
January 21, 2022
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Things I liked this week (Week 51, 2021)

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↑ From Tecznts

Ok, I lied, one more quick email this year. As you peer at your very long shadows on this Winter Solstice here are some end of the year lists that I enjoyed:

#19
December 21, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 50, 2021)

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↑ By Chris Burkard

  1. Leon Kass on friendships based upon character: "The best of those friendships — and this, I think, over a lifetime, I’ve come to endorse — the deepest and richest and most permanent friendship, he says, is the friendship not of doing deeds in common, but the friendship of sharing speeches and thoughts, a friendship of seeking understanding, a friendship that is in some way philosophical. There’s no topic’s off limits. And you can spend a lifetime and never get to the end of the conversation." From David Brooks Interviews Leon Kass for The Ezra Klein Show. I have some of these friendships and they have buoyed me through these tough times. My holiday wish for you is to have/find/cultivate relationships like this!

  2. Now let's do some travelling for this last message of this year:

  3. Sail through streamers of the Sun's plasma.

  4. Talk to a robot in Estonia.

  5. Take a nighttime train ride in Japan.

  6. Float in space with one of Saturn's icy moons.

  7. Fly above some winter boats in my town.

  8. Check out some Mammoths made of lights.

#18
December 17, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 48, 2021)

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↑ The Road to Braemore by Fred Ingrams

Lots of little bits this week:

  1. What is the podcast episode you think everyone should listen to? A Reddit thread to fill up your play next queue.

  2. Speaking of podcast episodes, The Ballad of Mount Doogie Dowler from Seth Rogen's Storytime podcast is banana pants. Not for the feint of heart.

  3. The catastrophic effect of the the Telecommunication Act of 1996 on Gen X and the Xennial's music. Nostalgia aside, I feel like music (and radio) used to be so weird, in a good way.

  4. Rare Red Sprites are like nature's fireworks.

  5. Stack some pebbles on the beach.

  6. Sad Lunch Break, a friend for your lonely lunch.

  7. A Showcase Of Lovely Little Websites.

  8. Cold and Desperate.

  9. A "tree" house.

  10. Slugs.

#17
December 3, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 45, 2021)

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↑ The heavy frost and autumn colors of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin By Adam Senatori.

  1. Largehearted Boy's annual list of best annual best book lists (not a typo).

  2. An Esty shop of old paperback books, I think each page contains a book I used to own (still have some classic CYOA books).

  3. Adding Hip-Hop (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano on the to-read list. Art by Arturo Torres.

  4. A thread of Northern Light photos and videos from last week's southern drift.

  5. Airline reservations before computers, somehow still a relevant enterprise software mental model (it's a giant spreadsheet!).

  6. This is actually fine (I was this dog for Halloween).

  7. A forest portal.

#16
November 12, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 44, 2021)

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↑ by Oliver Jeffers

#15
November 5, 2021
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A quick update and SPOOKTOBER

Hi All!

Long time, not email.

I hope you and yours are doing well, staying safe, and sane.

My kids are back in school and I started a new job in August. The job is really great and challenging, but with that comes less time for other like .

#14
October 1, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 26, 2021)

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June 29, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 24, 2021)

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June 17, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 22, 2021)

  1. ↑ This is the “” from Sir Goony Golf in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Part of the Library of Congress’s .
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June 4, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 21, 2021)

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May 28, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 20, 2021)

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May 21, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 19, 2021)

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May 14, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 18, 2021)

  1. Earth Rise “…taken by Richard Gordon, alone aboard the Command Module while the others were down on the lunar surface.” From the Apollo 12 mission by way of .
#7
May 7, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 17, 2021)

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April 30, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 16, 2021)

  1. ↑ by Melanie Richards
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April 23, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 15, 2021)

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April 16, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 14, 2021)

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April 9, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 13, 2021)

  1. by Martin Stranka
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April 2, 2021
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Things I liked this week (Week 12, 2021)

  1. Photo by , some real album cover vibes.
#1
March 26, 2021
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