AnydayGuide - Holidays, Festivals & Events Calendar — Discover holidays and observances worldwide for May 25, 2026. Your daily guide to celebrations, events, and important dates
Happiness and Life Satisfaction — Self-reported life satisfaction differs widely between people and between countries. What explains these differences?
This MacBook Pro just fell below its pre-price-hike MSRP (Save $500) - 9to5Mac — Yes, we did get some sizable (and unfortunate) price hikes on the MacBook lineup recently. But, alongside the summer sale...
What’s On the Sandwich Named After You at the Local Deli? — Following a prompt from Joanna at Cup of Jo… The local deli or sandwich shop names a sandwich after you. What would be on it? Perhaps another way of asking the
Eagles' Saquon Barkley, family OK after attempted home burglary — Eagles running back Saquon Barkley and his family were unharmed after an attempted burglary of their home Saturday morning, according to the Tredyffrin Township Police Department.
Do You Believe in Magic? | Jayant Patwari | TEDxNHCE — There's something disarming about watching a 15-year-old walk onto a stage with the composure of someone twice his age. Jayant wrote a 250-page novel at 11, an age when most kids are still figuring out chapter books and has…
Pluralistic: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pushing the limits: Infinite Machine's Olto is barely a bicycle — Scooter layout makes pedaling a bad experience. But it does have pedals.
MangaUpdates — Manga is basically the Japanese equivalent of what you might know as comic books. They have a very unique style which has developed over many years. We hope here you can learn to appreciate the art that is manga and become an avid manga fan!
Apple billboard featuring toddler with iPhone causes controversy in Italy - 9to5Mac — An Apple billboard showing a toddler holding an iPhone has drawn criticism in Italy, prompting the country’s children’s rights watchdog to refer the ad to three regulators for review.
There's a database of every panel where Spider-Man's web actually breaks, organized by year and tensile strength, it's weirdly thorough
Safebooru - Anime picture search engine! — Safebooru is a anime and manga picture search engine, images are being updated hourly.
Learn Toon Boom Animation Skills in Days with New Training Courses | Toon Boom — Learn Toon Boom Animation Skills in Days with New Training Courses
Dell's new budget XPS 13 puts the MacBook Neo on notice — Keyboard backlighting? A 2.5K touchscreen? Let's gooo.
The Continuous Creative Act of Holding on and Letting Go: 10 Beautiful Minds on the Art of Growing Older — A great paradox of being alive in this civilization is that we have come to dread and devalue the triumph of having lived, forgetting that to grow old is not a punishment…
An American privacy emergency: Guest post from Cynthia Dwork et al. — Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and a pioneer in the fields of differential privacy and algorithmic fairness. On my recent travels to…
Studio Ghibli Collection - Madman Entertainment — Studio Ghibli is one of the most acclaimed animation studios in the world, and the home of some of the most revered and beloved animated works to have ever graced the screen.
Ancient Pages - All About The Ancient World — All About The Ancient World
LeBron James launches YouTube golf venture with Cavs reunion — New 76ers star LeBron James has launched his latest off-the-court venture, starting a new YouTube channel focused on golf.
Leander Schaerlaeckens Recommends 5 Books to Better Understand the World Cup — Soccer derives its beauty from its simplicity. Twenty-players and a ball on a rectangle of grass; put the ball in the other team’s goal; don’t use your hands. What makes soccer popular, I believe, …
Patrick Collison's reading list is half a CS degree disguised as recommendations. https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf
How Not to Dwell on the Past — “We can never go back,” bell hooks wrote in her moving reckoning with love. “We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the l…
This archive lets you read every page of Sandman in order — Neil Gaiman's full run, legally, and the art detail you catch on a real screen is SO good.
This Week in Literary History: Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is Published in The Atlantic Monthly — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Robert Frost’s most famous poem, “The Road Not Taken,” “has confused audiences literally from the…
Stealing Time: In Praise of Writing at Dawn, at Midnight or Whenever We Can — At 5 AM and it’s me and the birds. This is how I like it: when the house is asleep. Outside, the slow rumble of a sanitation truck. A lone scooter screams down the block. Sometimes a helicopt…
This Week in Literary History: O. Henry is Released from Prison — This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. Famously, O. Henry (the pen name of William Sydney Porter), author of “The Gift of the Magi,” and one of the most celebrat…
Anime News, Top Stories & In-Depth Anime Insights - Crunchyroll News — Stay on top of anime news and updates straight out of Japan with Crunchyroll News. From breaking stories to evergreen content, get all your anime and manga news updates in one place. You heard it here first!
French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56 — French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her entourage said Thursday. She was 56.
How we contain Claude across products — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of Integrity — How Bill Watterson Stuck to His Guns — and Vanished
At least one killed as Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv — Russian missiles struck Kyiv and the surrounding region early on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring nine.
Index of / — Every cartoon, catalogued.
The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering — “Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.”
Do babies dream of baby sheep? — This is my submission for the June 2026 IndieWeb Carnival. The theme is “No way!?”, hosted by Alex Hsu. It is widely known that people don’t remember the first 1-3 years of their childhood, only have episodic memory at 3-6 years old, and only…
A woman spent three years documenting the visual language of manga panel layouts. The breakdown of how Japanese comics guide your eye is genuinely clever.
Best Animation Scripts (Free PDF Downloads) — Here are the best animation movie scripts. A library of the most iconic and influential screenplays you can read and download right now.
5 things I never back up to the cloud — Cloud storage is convenient, but it's not the safest place for everything
A Poet’s Account of the Power of the Yodel — The yodel: the perfect acknowledgment of that which cannot be hidden anymore and therefore also that which we have always had to hide. The yodel: the flickering Adam’s apple. Not unlike a sound we …
AI avatars in Google Vids are now available for free users — Google Vids announced today that it’s making AI avatars available to free accounts, with Workspace’s video creation tool...
writing tip: say something surprising
The Library of Congress digitized 150,000+ comic pages and made them searchable by panel. You can actually find every appearance of a character across decades.
Character Design References — Galleries, tutorials, interviews, reviews and animated shorts for your daily dose of inspiration! Discover the most gifted and influential artists working in animation, comics and illustration, today.
Anime-Planet — Anime recommendations.
Homepage - Public Books — Think in public.
The aperiodic table — XKCD 3242 is titled "The aperiodic table" and looks like this: Which is cool, but it's not aperiodic like a Penrose tiling . So, with a li...
40 Life Lessons I Know at 40 (That I Wish I Knew at 20) — When I turned 30, I shared some life lessons that you guys apparently loved. So here's more of the good stuff now that I've turned 40.
3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever — Loneliness is the fundamental condition of life — we are born by another, but born alone; die around others (if we are lucky and loved), but die alone; we spend our lives islanded in our one …
Best TV deal: LG's 65-inch C5 OLED is $1,300 off — This TV peaked last year — the price just caught up.
Explore 1,300+ Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century, Now Restored and Available Online — Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online.
A reparative mini-reading list, in honor of America’s 250th. — Happy (belated) 250th, America! We’re not exactly in the party mood this rainy Monday, but que sera. This weekend brought Washington a militaristic display, and most states a conundrum: how d…
An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection — “We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship.”
Complicating the Marriage Plot: A Reading List — For the past six years, I’ve been working on a project that I describe to strangers and casual acquaintances as “a book about flowers,” and to friends and family as “a book about flowers and my not…
This comic artist draws the same panel over 100 times to show how their style changed in one year. By month six you can barely recognize their own handwriting.
Comic book artists used to trace photos and nobody cared. Then one guy got caught doing it in the 1990s and the internet decided it was cheating forever.
'What a ball!' - Wonderful Wong gets three for the Southern Brave — Issy Wong finishes with 3 wickets for 15 runs as she helps Southern Brave restrict Sunrisers Leeds to 116 in the women's Hundred.
How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Overlooked Story Collection Helped Me Write My LA Novel — A Princeton University dropout who spent much of his life in New York, F. Scott Fitzgerald is often associated with the East Coast, but the themes that come up in his work again and again—old…
The Open Championship highlights: Best sights, sounds and shots from Sunday — Can Sam Burns hold on? Check out the highlights from the final round of the Open Championship.
Sam Altman suggests parents generate AI podcasts about their kids — "cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night..."
Gateway 2000’s descent from awesome to bad ads in the 90s (Part II) — What started as endearingly bootstrapped marketing descended into soulless corporate sales.
Zuckerberg’s yacht crew did not hear call for help, says spokesperson — A skiff off Alaska coast received help from a nearby cruise ship after Zuckerberg's yacht crew did not respond in time.