This newsletter began as reason to filter through all the links I had flagged to read and actually read them. I aggregate my favorites and share them here.
Newsletter
December 2025
The days of men and women, rubber chicken tunes, bird feathers, charge the mound, that S symbol from school, tech market treemap, MLB Slugfest
November 2025
National Parks signs, ambigrams, fast food report, hacker laws, 2 billion fps, Dallas Cowboys pants, automobile colors, pencil erasers, 123 instruments, pro parallel parking, unrealized projects
October 2025
Leave me alone, bringing impossible products to life, life of a baseball, HBO's logo
September 2025
Don't buy anything, a billion pixels, lightning maps, sun ejection, drawing fish, color test, dodge ball game, every word on Bluesky, Panama Playlist, Sesame Street's design, dictionary of slang, Adrian Beltré's statue
August 2025
Photos from England, obituaries of remarkable people, instrument guys, best sports moments, F1 reaction times, tectonic plates, earthquake fault line, barf bags, every cocktail
June 2025
Carnivorous caterpillars, alive in 536, subway, slime ball, animals on wine, conversation with Jony, New Yorker living rooms, how good is good, pruney fingers
May 2025
Synth database, Conan, Tubman, Mercator, Chickens, 404 pages, aspect ratios, animals made from circles, today's miserable airports, Trackman Mario golf, WD-40
April 2025
Cup stacks, Rolex, algo's, flight attendant uniforms, the decline of bands, AD/BC, free stuff, Antartica without ice, cars in Severance, the art of DJing
March 2025
2340, bad coffee, Tiktok Wikipedia, Nokia designs, what Google sees, tunes to refine to, travel tips, fire maps, Concord snapshot, abandoned sites
February 2025
Title cards, six degrees, rugs like dogs, mass of structures, synth, pottery with Lego, cynics, gas vs. electric cars
January 2025
Rickey, retro PBS, barcode jams, the 'cube rule', soccer goals, Honeycrisp, hand drawn vhs labels, NYC neighborhoods, realistic pencil drawings, occlupanids
December 2024
Running it back, index fingers, a missing ring, visualizing cocktails, 500-mile email, subway maps, passport photos, titles, love songs, an overdue book, Pokémania, camcorder flight simulator, bubble game
November 2024
Names of things, kids and their socks, Halloween candy, Dookie demastered, grocery lists, a misinformation test, tennis balls, uncrustables in the NFL, making microchips, pencil art, scrambled maps, ancient voilà
October 2024
Moleskins, pick-up basketball, professional tennis, MLB revenue, blue vs blue, Radioshack catalogs
September 2024
Lennon's Patek, Olympic recap, counterfeit Rolex, dark patterns, art as sports, brain cells, drone on Everest, Blockbuster VHS template, space shuttle printer, calories, music fans outside of concerts, TicketMaster barcodes
August 2024
Butterfly scales, how we pee, Champagne sizes, leap seconds, forecast accuracy, Kermit spittin’, a maze, swearing, what beats rock, banned gymnastic skills, Olympic torches, a bit about flight.
July 2024
NK Hacker, have some Pride, the best decade, lightning, motion capture, fire hydrants, lil chips, trendy baby names, calculator words, leave a note, coloring books, when to visit national parks, explanations, Chaucer phrases
June 2024
Guinness stats, actors memories, drinking fountain buttons, Uber's lost and found, pin numbers, trains and tornadoes, the Death Star's trash compactor, pencil sketches, air travel design, tEXts, brain mapping, boozing the Dew, temperature of water
May 2024
Surviving an asteroid, lifeforms merging, ANGC, satellites are everywhere, a robot dog, Endor, movie maps, restoring books, root systems, penguins taking a leap, Nintendo cartridges, shell companies
April 2024
Car washes, the rules of the Iditarod, eggs, fast drones, closed captioning, rock stars and the holy grail, are you a bot, one-handed polyrhythmic performance, weather forecasting
March 2024
Fast Car, living alone, 1001 albums, rodent pics, movie budgets, aviation maps, Doom on a cell, Vision Pro teardown, wings en route, center of the galaxy, Mighty Ducks, Pluto vs. USA, tv beers.
February 2024
Rediscovering the Mason-Dixon Line, where your lost luggage goes, a spinning guitar, buying a firetruck, Taylor + Treadmill, yams, reading QR codes, NSA and Furby
January 2024
Happy New Year, an online labor scam, about asbestos, a whole section on Home Alone, 52 things, 'Paper Planes' on piano, 'gay voice', Ask a Sober Oldster
December 2023
World Series-ish story, Louie, where you've been, pool cue tips, a bag, sit/stand guys, goalies, stock bots, y'all/youse/you guys, keepy uppy, more Bluey, Mayflower loses, pant cuffs, Michelangelo's basement, Coooookies, clouds in rooms, sharks are very old
November 2023
Batting stances, School of Rock, rail cars, flappy Finder, talking watches, buying a private island, Taylor's economy, Apple's rounded corners, movie grid, hyper-realistic paintings, video game storage, data about names
October 2023
Pockets, car makers and privacy, buzzers, Pluto, the end of time, Mario speedrun, fake texts in marketing, Psy's stage entrance, lightsabers on airplanes
September 2023
E-commerce returns, Bob Barker profile, Death Row D&D, WWII Movies, dead money, songs in movies, the smell of books, Jar Jar, batting gloves, making space images
August 2023
Stealing a Porsche, killing Google Reader, idiot-spotting, a two-handed bowler, icon galleries, SVGs, Wimbledon's grass, the pizza emoji, tying your shoes, TOS, the modern day Willy Wonka
July 2023
Stealing art, golf and male friendship, 11 Hiroshimas per second, Macintosh inception, eyes on The Shining, phone museum, the Mars surface, mid-air squabble, wandering, a couple of games
June 2023
Memoirs, ugly houses, repossessing airplanes, backpack fabrics, Jony Ive's typeface, "Roulette Dares", hair salon art, moderating social networks, old skateboarding pictures
May 2023
Vending machines, Bourbon, living with colorblindness, snake v. egg, Tooth Fairy economics, worms of the earth, animated bicycles, volume knobs, human keyboards, trumpeting sound waves
April 2023
A lot of kettlebells, surrendering it Disney, snapshots, J dudes, floppy's, lunar landers, old menus, new dice, rubik's cube magic, lists of lists, lists of falsehoods, the inverse Cramer, Sony design archive
March 2023
Boring people, a blurry analogy, time on the moon, will your flight be bumpy, jock tax, computer handwriting, story telling, 50 pitches, lithium, a game of dingers
February 2023
Pizza boxes, a special cab ride, respiratory infections, more pizza, highway signs, ‘dun dun’, magnets, trucks, xbox design, Everest, subtitles
January 2023
VCR+PBJ+AI, MI6 spies, time, dog names vs. human names, how long to build a watch, minding your business, photos from the Northern Lights, LIV golf explained
December 2022
No more key changes, Jony Ive, pie and parents, NBA players are better than you see, helping Elon, a pep talk, bubbles, the Manning brothers, apples, parasites, wine, beer, grass
November 2022
Shatner in space, keeping time on the Internet, naming military operations, the cost of goods, doodle freak, killer larvae, light speed, rotisserie chickens, stuff in our sky, logistics of concert tours
October 2022
Ants, waffles, floppy disks, aliens, a puzzle, walking pace, drifting drones, a Halo Toy Story map, what’s in a QR code
September 2022
Tsundoku, fajitas, good conversations, who is your daddy, pointless goals, paper airplanes, The Bear, Janet Jackson, the 2000's
August 2022
Tennis umpires, family photos, misconceptions, where to move, Neal’s games, normalcy test, Tiger wearing read, Dino-bellies
July 2022
Dissenting, high fives, freezing credit scores, probabilities, frisson, The Wire quotes, banning books, making nuclear weapons, going viral
June 2022
Yacht Rock, Little Big League, The Onion Onion-ing, Stanford golf, crude acronyms, seeing blue, eating potatoes, autocorrect, look who's inside again
May 2022
Twisting Oreos, dining at Six Flags, plumber pay, a(x)sk, Martini’s, game show sets, cork, movie frames, using the web
April 2022
The third man on the podium, a wife who plays Tetris, not Pong, cattails bursting, Bionic Reading, the best commercial, movie-making details of the best picture nominees
March 2022
Money moves, Weird Al, watching oxygen, illusions, 53 less days, fight night, Steph doing Steph things
February 2022
The grind of genius, how to drive, dog shit, Wordle, straw instruments, horses in the sky, sharks part the waters, gerrymandered golf
January 2022
My media stats, malls, coffee dumps, port congestion, gift card intel, shop based on privacy
December 2021
Credit cards, reasons to be thankful, monopoly, pumpkins, humans, CPU's are rocks, F1 impersonations, color grading Bond, Ski holes, ways to be decent, daily routines of the masses
November 2021
Rickrolling a High School, Bond’s health exposures, the music genre ecosystem, F1 trophies, colorized history, 100 MPH baseballs, an oversized prototype
October 2021
Rebranding Chernobyl, overdosing melatonin, fucking vaccines, climate change, seahorses, flamingos, fall foliage, say cheese
September 2021
Clocks, clicks, bowling balls, vfx, cord cutting, RIP Donny,
August 2021
Emmett Till, South Korean military service, Tiger’s perspective, money-free living, Olympus Mons, Drawing Peanuts, timing the Olympics
July 2021
Interests, Thiel’s Roth IRA, Owning Artists, Wikipedia, Star Wars, Monaco, Jesus, Parenthood, Dogs, Jetpacks, 3D animations
June 2021
Pi, Booze, drums, microwaving hamsters, polluted minds, real ads, compan etymologies, where in the world is...
May 2021
Yahoo Answers, MBAMBAM, Teller's shadow, replica airplane, Space Jam + Hamilton, combined racing and golfing,
April 2021
Paper, Effort, F1 is better than..., Fermi? I barely know her, drive a boat, why you aren't an athlete, volcanos, and flying along side golf balls.
March 2021
RNG, a second chance, goalie gear, understanding efficacy, portraits, big mountains, the local dive if that's your vibe, physics, helping the blind.
February 2021
Zoom bookshelves, COVID vaccines, *sighs*, cooking chicken, road lines, umarell, Apple beige
January 2021
House keeping, who is really running the show, bodies in blackholes, Mickey D'z recipe'z, vaccines, river basins, a view from The Matrix, gettin' streaky.
December 2020
A hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon, bonding over poker, shaving a yak, broken sniffers, buttons and switches, holes in cheese.
November 2020
The only perfect umpire is a robot umpire, sim life, swimming speed, Formula One software, words words words, shakes, and the history of bicycles.
October 2020
A participation opportunity and not much else.
September 2020
A couple of eggs, government iPods, chocolate milk, popcorn, a mega typo, Ted Williams balls and/or strikes, where did that get its name?
August 2020
Tiger going low at your muni, AOC going ham, some advice, some thicc cables, window blinds, Guess Who
July 2020
Black Lives Matter
June 2020
Dave Grohl rocks, MJ gonna MJ, a match-up in the desert, one mile an hour, a man doing a Sudoku, and a $hit font.
May 2020
Restaurant’s transformed, there won’t be no stinking sports, bad/sad brains, a quiz, some art, and a trippy camera rig.
April 2020
Cartographer pranks, a missing tune, HEB's preparedness, Covid Corner
March 2020
Spying on your friends, Pebble Beach Pro-Am, a real spy story, robot eyes, Tony Hawk Pro Skater, TV graphics and dirty hands
February 2020
Federer's finesse, James Bond watches, charting MLB pitches, scissors, maps, Roy family theme songs, and more
January 2020
Where is everybody, college golf powerhouses, spinning planets, landing on boats, hot ice, the king is dead, long live the king
December 2019
Scalpers, the most unethical team in baseball, a cameo by Nixon, empty NYC, fancy algorithms, golf course gambling
November 2019
A heap of computer code, robot written articles, what does money buy you, F1, circles, YouTube compression, our planetary neighbors, 2 hour marathon, and G's.
October 2019
The bubble boy, chess diet, 58008, other body parts, pencils, and pianos
September 2019
The Monday golf scene, the placebo effect, nostalgic screenshots, be a better Amazon shopper, state flags, and the direction of every U.S. airport runway
August 2019
Dumps in the dark, Amazon's Ring surveillance, Americans and driving, the first day at Disneyland, waste, a man in a bush, and the scale of the Apollo 11 landing site
July 2019
Prison tattoos, Apollo 11 in real time, perfect pitch and Synaesthesia. Plus, toy restoration, knot tying, and Pebble Beach in the 20's
June 2019
Mueller's PDF, Na's struggles, mechanical movements, airline logos, baseball, dirty cars
May 2019
A lot of legos, a word from number 12, robot umpires, daylight hours, sunshine, animating Into the Spider-Verse, Banksy authentication
April 2019
iPhone prototype, 52!, algorithms, ocean cables, what happens every second
March 2019
Aberdeen's Heliport, Neighborhood Golf Association, creating SNL
February 2019
Honnold's brain, Putting, being a cable guy, the most meaningless game of baseball
January 2019
Good enough, Charles Barkley's bud, hydraulic press channel, some books
December 2018
New kilogram, Angels with Filthy Souls, and the behaviors of AI
November 2018
Being Darius Miles, creating Stardew Valley, Mercator scale, 1px Moon
October 2018
NYC ping pong documentary, sports fan's brains, where lightning strikes, sports logo quiz
September 2018
Goldeneye 64, rigging McDonald's Monopoply, the sounds of English, yellow things that hurt
August 2018
Dryptosaurus, good design, Bo Burnham's POV
July 2018
World Cup soccer balls, Hell in a Cell, athlete's bodies, delivering Amazon packages
June 2018
Architectural photographers, zippers, making friends, the flow of Manhattan, Homer's route
May 2018
Y.M.C.A, addictive foods, canine gaits, Rocky choreography
April 2018
Mr. Rogers, battle royale, phone scams
March 2018
Bendy straws, Olympic fanfare, verbs, mosquito memories
February 2018
Prime numbers, garbage collection, eyes, ears, and the inner workings
January 2018
Paperclips, Planet Earth, movie props, drone view of NYC, Hey Arnold