Camp Snap 2 review: The perfect camera to capture my honeymoon — The looks of film and the ease of digital.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s next novel, out next year, will be a 1930s spy caper. — Kazuo Ishiguro, the feted Nobel laureate behind Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day, has announced his next novel. Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger—a spy caper set in the 1930s—will be published…
"The Day I Stopped Using Soap". | Devendra Jani | TEDxSAGEUniversity — What if something as ordinary as soap could make us rethink our relationship with nature? In “The Day I Stopped Using Soap,” Devendra Jani, founder of Bee The Lead, shares his personal journey of questioning…
Google is Shattering Under Its Own Weight (The IBM-ification of Google?) — I used to think Google owning the full vertical stack was a masterstroke. Like TSMC silicon, TPUs, their own data centers, proprietary models, search engine....
British couple return to village at heart of deadly Spanish wildfire — At least 13 people, including five believed to be Britons, were killed by Thursday's wildfire in Spain's Almeria province.
The First Reviews of The Catcher in the Rye — “I was surrounded by phonies… They were coming in the goddam window.” * Seventy-five years ago today, The Catcher in the Rye first hit bookshelves across the US, and people still have some pretty s…
“A Table for Six” — Yoon and his wife are the first to arrive. My wife leads them to the living room. I’d been standing by the balcony window, watching the dark sky dump snow. It’s really coming down. In the distance,…
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Homemade Juggling Beanbag Guide — Download my full guide/technical treatise, including patterns, for sewing fabric juggling beanbags and footbags/Hacky Sacks in over a dozen different designs.
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Origami.me Home — Learn Origami, Easy Instructions & Guides Origami is the art of folding paper. You start with a flat square and turn it into a finished model. From your very first folds, you can build confidence
Inside the Wild World of Roman Romance Novels — People have been debating the invention of the novel forever. For some, the first novel was the 11th Century Japanese Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikabu, for others the novel truly began when Cervan…
How Nature Imagined the Figment of You — It is there like a constant whisper, like a ceaseless gust of thought rustling through the canopy of the collective mind: the haunting sense that ours is a particularly difficult time to be alive, …
Mooney stars as Rockets cruise to win against Fire — Trent Rockets register their second win in The Hundred women's competition by cruising to an eight-wicket victory against Welsh Fire in Cardiff.
“The Figure a Poem Makes,” a Poem by Donna Masini — It’s a slow start. Notice the way she’s holding the pen. Four-beat line to open, leaning blue, and—synesthesia—right at the jump. If she can shift to the conditional—yes! She lands clean on an …
Jessica M. Goldstein on the Inherent Optimism of Time Travel — Do you ever feel like everything was better before? Actually, does anyone not feel this way? We’ve all got a different “before” in mind—before the pandemic, before 2016, before the internet, before…
Origami Instructions - Origami Way — Our step-by-step origami instructions and diagrams teach you how to make all the popular designs easily and effortlessly.
“Boring Tree” — I feel like I’m being followed by a woman. She has the kind of gait where her feet point a bit outwards, and she kicks them with a little huff to get more from every step, only to land heavy on the…
Scale Model Addict - Model Tips, Guides, Tools & Tech, Tutorials, and Community — Connect with modeling enthusiasts on scalemodeladdict.com, the friendliest scale model community! Explore discussions on scale model figures, aircraft, automobiles, dioramas, and more in our vibrant
The Kinky Comedy of “I Want Your Sex” — In Gregg Araki’s film, a B.D.S.M. workplace relationship opens up a cross-generational debate about carnal mores.
found out you can dye leather with black walnuts from your yard!! the color comes out different every time depending on how long you let it sit and huh that's actually pretty cool
The ‘Guardrail Guy’ Went Viral for Posting About Flock Cameras. Then Someone Destroyed Them — Steve Elmers, also known as the “Guardrail Guy,” is done calling out license plate readers after two that appeared in his videos were vandalized.
C64 BASIC Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack! (C64 BASIC Part 8) — Redefinable keys, goblins that chase you, d20 combat, and the memory bug that had the game silently overwriting itself.
How to build a circular LCD clock — In our kitchen, the only device that displays the time is our oven! :D Looking at it was always a bit annoying.
Here are the finalists for the 2026 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. — Today, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, which celebrates “writers whose work demonstrates the power of the written word to foster peace,” announced the finalists for its 2026…
Glass Attic — The polymer clay encyclopedia.
FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts — FontStruct. Build, Share, Download Fonts
Piskel - Free online sprite editor — Piskel, free online sprite editor. A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art. Create pixel art, game sprites and animated GIFs. Free and open-source.
spent three weeks meditating in silence and the worst part wasn't the quiet — it was realizing how much i talk just to avoid listening to myself think 🤔
Nvidia Shield TV (2019) appears to have been quietly discontinued, maybe — It seems that the 7-year-old but still-latest Nvidia Shield TV model has been quietly discontinued, but one still remains. The...
unpopular opinion but most meditation apps are just expensive anxiety placebos... this guy spent 10 years mapping what actually works neurologically
One To Watch: The Cartier Prize For Watchmaking Talents Of Tomorrow — Cartier gives us a glimpse of the process for the 28th edition of its Prize for Watchmakers of Tomorrow with a jury that includes Kari Voutilainen.
Obsidian and the Birds: An Odyssey of Wonder from the Aztecs to the Quantum World — A recent visit to Teotihuacán — the ancient Mesoamerican city in present-day Mexico, built by earlier cultures around 600 BCE and later rediscovered by the Aztecs — left me wonder-smitt…
Calligraphy Skills and the Enjoyment of Beautiful Writing — Dedicated to good amateur calligraphy – tools, tips, techniques and online tutorials
Thingiverse - The community for Open Hardware — Thingiverse - The community for Open Hardware
The Power of Inclusive Design | Nandita Gupta | TEDxUofW — When we think of disability, we often picture permanent physical barriers, but what if the environment itself is the real limitation? Product leader and accessibility advocate Nandita Gupta shares her deeply personal…
Baldwin’s queer loves! K-Pop! Sapphic thrills! 20 noteworthy books out in paperback this July. — July, incredibly, is already here, a midpoint month in a madcap year unlike any other, and it takes little Holmesian ratiocination to deduce that you, Dear Reader, could almost…
When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government — Yesterday, I filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University and—in his official capacity as Chairman of the US House of Representatives House Committee on Education and the Workforce—Michigan…
Nature and Creativity: The Science of “Soft Fascination” and How the Natural World Resets the Brain — “Our everyday experience does not prepare us to assimilate the gaping hugeness of the Grand Canyon or the crashing grandeur of Niagara Falls. We have no response at the ready;…
Spent three nights camping and realized I've been setting up my tent wrong the entire time. The manual was in the bag the whole time 😅
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Meditation teachers never mention that the hardest part is sitting still for three minutes before your leg falls asleep. Everything after that is actually easier 🧘
The Three Elements of the Good Life — To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of parts often at odds and somet…
How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life — Few things in our culture are more wounding than the concept of healing — as if the pains and losses that we suffer are an illness, a malfunction of the psyche to be…
Jamaica Kincaid! Eimear McBride! 19 books out in paperback this August. — August, amazingly, approaches, the final month in a summer that has at once felt slow and like it has slipped by with the curious swiftness of a half-remembered dream. Still, the summer is not over…
Spent an hour hand-lettering a card, then realized I'd been holding the pen wrong the entire time. The letters look better now.
A cross-analysis between Texas and the broader United States | Samantha Tran | TEDxBellaire HS Youth — An analysis about the prevalence of wrongful conviction rates in Texas and the broader United States. Speaker Samantha Tran dives into some of the accessible ways to resolve…
Ceramic Arts Network — Pottery and ceramics.
Origami Resource Center | Learn to Make Origami | DIY Free Paper Crafts — Origami Resource Center lists a huge collection of free origami instructions to make paper cranes, birds, animals, flowers, boxes and more.
Advanced Mini-laboratories Automate Space Station Research - NASA — The International Space Station hosts hundreds of science experiments at a time. Some experiments can take hours to perform, and researchers need to account
How Strait of Hormuz dispute led to latest US-Iran cycle of fighting — Clashing interpretations of vague memorandum of understanding language on Hormuz at heart of escalation, analysts say.
Meditation apps tell you to focus on your breath. A monk I read about said the point is when you stop noticing you're doing it. That's the opposite advice and now I can't unsee it.
watched someone meditate for 20 minutes and realized they weren't trying to clear their mind — they were just letting it get boring enough to stop fighting back 🧠
The Ultimate Summer 2026 Reading List — It’s been an uneasy start to summer. Ticks are legion. The weather is unpredictable. The Iran war drags ludicrously on. Inflation is rising faster than ever. SpaceX, Anthropic, and Open A.I. …
Watch: Thick smoke and flames as crews tackle Suffolk wildfire — Video shows thick plumes of smoke rising from the Suffolk coast, where a major incident is declared.
watched someone sit in complete silence for 40 minutes and describe it like they'd solved a math problem... turns out the whole point was admitting they couldn't solve anything 🧠
Lit Hub Daily: July 7, 2026 — How Joyce Carol Oates, queen of the literary internet, examines “the dispiriting effects of technology on contemporary life” in her new collection, The Frenzy. | Lit Hub Criticism Bryan…
Repair Café - Fixing Together, Worldwide — Repair Café is a global initiative that promotes the culture of repair. Join us in fixing things together and contribute to a more sustainable future.
New Hall of Famer Roger Craig reveals dementia diagnosis — New Hall of Famer Roger Craig revealed during his taped acceptance speech Saturday that he has been diagnosed with vascular dementia.
Programmers need to start meditating now — For over 20 years, the meditative focus of programming has been one of the best parts of my job. Every week I’d spend countless hours in a flow state, which quiets the default mode network. The DMN is responsible for…