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Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.

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  1. They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert. A recent...
  2. The Match Archive
  3. An analysis of 59 studies (including a 24-year Danish...
  4. “Are sperm counts declining? Are microplastics and...
  5. We Have Star Wars at Home
  6. From filmmaker Kevin B. Lee, a story about seeing Platoon...
  7. A call for more “mindful underparenting” from...
  8. KDO Search Now Available to Everyone
  9. Bain Capital Acquires Tibetan Buddhism For $35 Million....
  10. Anthropic has new rules for its Opus 5.5 model to “steer...
  11. And in other news, the NY Times is trying to buy...
  12. Salon, one of the last OG general interest web...
  13. Video captured by Amy Yolland of three humpback whales...
  14. Subvocal’s glasses turn your silent speech into text at...
  15. Foursquare was recently acquired and co-founder Dennis...
  16. Grocery Shopping With a Bow & Arrow
  17. Paul Ford: “The web browser is very, very, very powerful...
  18. Women who die postpartum often do so because they lose...
  19. A growing list of brands to avoid because they are...
  20. Stunning Image of Our Satellite-Choked Night Skies
  21. I Thought I’d Left Authoritarianism Behind. “To anyone...
  22. See You Thursday
  23. How Human Civilization Began
  24. Do you think you could write down the names of 3000...
  25. “Our attention is all we have. And we already gave away a...
  26. What’s causing this unusually long cloud on Mars?
  27. The soundtrack for Wipeout XL (aka Wipeout 2097) was...
  28. 10 Years of Kottke.org Membership
  29. Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data...
  30. Simon Willison: The October Inflection Point for Vibe...
  31. Arkivism is a search and visual discovery engine for...
  32. Ted Chiang: “There’s no way to write fiction and...
  33. Let’s get this out of the way: Olivia Colman will be...
  34. Are contemporary technologies like GPS, phones, and AI...
  35. Love the idea of a volta, a pivotal point. “The moment...
  36. The Collectively Drawn World
  37. Babe, wake up! New potato just dropped. It tastes like...
  38. Trailer for season four of The Gilded Age, which started...
  39. Readwise announces Readwise Books. “We’ve built Readwise...
  40. The Ten Best Captain Picard Episodes of Star Trek
  41. Great Art Explained: Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio....
  42. The top 10 paintings of Judith beheading Holofernes. “I...
  43. Three-Body Orbits
  44. James Bridle on making chairs with LLMs. “What we have...
  45. In a late-stage trial, personalized mRNA vaccines for...
  46. Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Site Search!
  47. Listen to a Long-Lost Daft Punk Mix From 1997
  48. Rest In Peace, Patrick Stewart (1940-2026)
  49. An Italian farmer planted some decades-old seeds he found...
  50. Star Wars: The Radio Drama
  51. Dumpster Archeology. “Lew Blink’s passion for dumpster...
  52. What’s the largest tweetable number? You’ve got 280...
  53. Rolling Stone: The 200 Greatest Rock Songs of the 21st...
  54. The Remarkable Serbian Election
  55. The NY Times recently asked readers “what they can no...
  56. Old Newspaper Headlines About the Name Doppelgängers of Current Celebrities
  57. I made a small tweak to Prometheus (gift link discovery...
  58. Errol Morris shot ads for Theranos and recently revealed...
  59. Remember the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game? Turns out:...
  60. A bunch of items from Stanley Kubrick’s personal archive...
  61. The Moving Image Archive
  62. It’s Hard To Be A Rich Radical. “It was disappointing how...
  63. Scientists are studying whether “many chronic diseases we...
  64. Paleovirology: How HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed
  65. They Stopped 57 Shootings. Everyone Was Just Fired. “A...
  66. Sprout is planning to sell replacement motherboards for...
  67. Have We Confused Having Good Taste With Being Creative?
  68. “Local Wikipedia is Wikipedia, but only for things a half...
  69. John Oliver on the Republican Party and the Far Right...
  70. Once Upon a Time in Harlem
  71. Apple Music’s 404 page features a fully functional iPod...
  72. Short video teasing an new collab between Daft Punk and...
  73. The American Divide on Empathy
  74. OMG, the height of these waves hitting a seawall in...
  75. Michael Pollan reflects on what has and hasn’t changed in...
  76. Matt Webb is bunkering down, bracing for more LLM-driven...
  77. Harry Kane is this year’s men’s winner of the Ballon...
  78. A poignant short documentary about a mother who only...
  79. From Charles Mann, a quick history of porcelain, which is...
  80. Russian and East European Posters
  81. Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as...
  82. How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American...
  83. NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven
  84. Simon Willison: “Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded —...
  85. This exhibition of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) by Utagawa...
  86. Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026
  87. How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64. “Oh, don’t...
  88. The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers...
  89. The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea...
  90. “US households are paying 62% more for drinking water...
  91. Open Thread #Potato
  92. “an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this...
  93. The Flipbook of the Rings
  94. An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the...
  95. Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window...
  96. This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison....
  97. The Winners of the 2026 International Pano Awards
  98. “Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the...
  99. The title of this video is The Fastest Downhill Run Ever....
  100. Meet Prometheus, a Gift Link Search Engine
  101. “A SpudCell can grow, copy its DNA, divide in two, and...
  102. Bastardica is “a foundry for bastard web fonts. Mix,...
  103. How did life on Earth arise? Three of the biggest...
  104. NYC’s Fastest Bike Messenger (1985)
  105. The Library Is Closed. Feel Free to Come In. “In...
  106. Tiny People in a Big World is like a birdwatching guide,...
  107. Link Loop is basically a 2D version of Portal. Looks fun!
  108. Ambient Earth
  109. “Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a...
  110. Find the Place You Love. Then Move There. “The reward...
  111. I remember this 90s TV commercial for 93.7 The Edge, a...
  112. Why Do Some Places Just Feel Right?
  113. New book from James Gleick about the history of the...
  114. “Astronomers for the first time have identified a green...
  115. The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300 Million Games
  116. Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without...
  117. Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through...
  118. How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made
  119. Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the...
  120. NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds...
  121. Do you believe in life after death? This is a great...
  122. A Tiny 24 FPS E-Ink Game Boy Emulator
  123. A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past...
  124. Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and...
  125. Hyperland, a Prescient 1990 TV Show by Douglas Adams
  126. Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours,...
  127. Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from...
  128. Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Consequence of Donald Trump
  129. Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black...
  130. Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out....
  131. Chromatic Inkscapes
  132. Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s...
  133. Roooobot. Huuuuuman.
  134. The trailer for Blade Runner 2099, a new limited series...
  135. Going 94 MPH on a Skateboard (New World Record)
  136. I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care...
  137. Good headline: Nine Inch Snails.
  138. Beautiful Seamless Ride
  139. Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element...
  140. Fishdraw is a single JavaScript file that generates...
  141. How Hunting Owls Use Sound to “See” Under the Snow
  142. How many shots are in the average movie? How does it...
  143. Big Math: The Hidden Codes That Run Our World. “The epic...
  144. Where You Should Live: Five Factors to Keep in Mind
  145. Teaser trailer for season three of The Lord of The Rings:...
  146. Tiny Little Office is “an office suite with no accounts...
  147. The Muffled Thud of Fire in the Hole
  148. It’s time to de-privatize the US government. “The problem...
  149. Q: “An AI tool with all your passwords or a bear in the...
  150. May Peace Prevail on Earth
  151. “‘Digger’ has a lot of haters. Here’s why they’re wrong.”...
  152. Anthropic says that, as of Sept ‘26, they were merging...
  153. Whoa, the Lion Nebula!
  154. The Case for Quitting: The Surprising Benefits of Opting...
  155. “If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields...
  156. The first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The...
  157. Girls is coming back to HBO for a 5-episode run. Lena...
  158. So Many Different Mes
  159. ArtCraft is building open source versions of what looks...
  160. Reelizer: A Trove of Movie Art
  161. Thing I am going to make time for in the next few days:...
  162. The People Holding Up the Internet. Amazing to see how...
  163. Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net...
  164. “I’m forced to admit that these AI-decompiled web browser...
  165. Improving Conversation on KDO
  166. Prompting as Self-Portrait. “We need the blank page and...
  167. Nearly 4M Records of Enslaved People in 20 Former British...
  168. Why I Did Not Leave Nazi Germany in Time. “Many of us...
  169. The Worst Way To Get To Space. I’d never heard the story...
  170. All the Percents on Star Trek: TNG
  171. My friend Matt was recently here for a week in Tokyo and...
  172. Crossword Clues Where It’s Clear the Puzzle’s Creator Got...
  173. Unseen Places: Rediscovering the Art of Observation by...
  174. Every US Electrical Outlet Explained
  175. Japanese book rave. A club in Tokyo spread carpets on the...
  176. Weball allows you to roll up websites into a Katamari...
  177. Destroy Any Website
  178. Is This Weird Quiz Game the Toughest F1 Video Game Ever?
  179. I just went down a rabbit hole of incense seals. So cool.
  180. Open post
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  182. Chasing a Plane Across the Moon
  183. Open post
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  185. Open post
  186. Bertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to Debate
  187. Open post
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  189. Great Deals on Apple Stuff Today
  190. Reply · 2
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  192. Wildwood
  193. Open post
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  195. Lots and Lots and Lots of Control Panels
  196. Reply · 2
  197. Blue Planet III
  198. Reply · 2
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  200. Silent Friend
  201. Reply · 9
  202. Open post
  203. Watch One of Radiohead’s Best Live Shows: Bonnaroo 2006
  204. Reply · 2
  205. The Best Sandwich Shop in America?
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  213. O Superman, Laurie Anderson
  214. Reply · 1
  215. Open post
  216. The 2026 Comedy Wildlife Awards Finalists
  217. Open post
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  220. The 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
  221. Reply · 0
  222. my recent post about control rooms
  223. Open post
  224. Open post
  225. Prince Was One of the First Players of The Oregon Trail
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  227. Open post
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  231. Map of the Lighthouses of the World
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  233. Open post
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  235. previously mentioned
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  237. Ominous Thunderstorm Rolling Across the Fields
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  241. The “Insane” Cinematography of Pride and Prejudice
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  245. On The Joy Of Ownership
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  248. Kim Tschang-Yeul, Water Drops
  249. Open post
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  251. What’s On Your To-Do List?
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  253. Open post
  254. The MN Stolen Neighbors Quilt
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  256. Open post
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2025 1

  1. Inside NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center (c. 1966)

2024 2

  1. sandwich overthinker
  2. a couple of years ago

2021 1

  1. A Blinking Map of the World’s Lighthouses

2020 1

  1. The User Experience Design of Lego Interface Panels

2018 1

  1. Lots and Lots of Control Panels

2017 1

  1. The Future Library

2016 4

  1. Stutterer
  2. Film Meets Art
  3. How to Make Perfect Soft-Scrambled Eggs
  4. Rosa Parks on To Tell the Truth

2015 3

  1. the John Malkovich movie that no one will see for 100 years
  2. Beautiful Hand-Painted Globes
  3. Blue Line Air Express

2014 1

  1. a square Japanese omelette pan

2008 1

  1. this post from 2008