Newsletter

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.

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December 2025

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