Zanagrams - free daily word puzzle — A free daily word puzzle. Drag across the letters to find the hidden words and watch the grid shrink as you solve it.
For 50 Years the Major Oil Companies Have Known They’re Destroying the Planet — Near the end of the first century AD, in the highlands of northern Spain, the Roman governor, philosopher, and naturalist Pliny the Elder watched as mining cleaved a landscape. “What happens is far…
How Medieval Doctors, Christian and Muslim, Treated the Black Death — Many physicians sought to treat patients struck down by the Black Death. These doctors typically turned to the extant body of medical knowledge, derived from the ancient world and Arabic texts writ…
Lit Hub Daily: June 26, 2026 — How is queer history “admitted to the historical record?” Demetris Papadimitropoulos on Tennessee Williams, Daniel Ciba’s Blue Roses and the ambiguity of proof. | Lit Hub Criticis…
Here’s the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. — The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has announced the shortlist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which annually awards $25,000 to the author of a book who best represents the legendary wri…
“We Live Inside the Sun.” Who Studies the Universe Changes How We See the Universe — On Wednesday, the small slice of humanity which is scattered across rural Russia, northern Spain, eastern Portugal, Iceland and Greenland will experience (and, if we’re lucky, actually see) a…
speedrunner beat a souls game with a ddr pad. the input lag made it somehow easier 🎮
Surrendering to Subjectivity: In Praise of Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts — As a writer and thinker, my life is divided into a B.N. and A.N.: a before-Nelson and after-Nelson. Before cracking open Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, I’d been all phobic about the first-per…
Book Prizes Don't Work How You Think — all the beans that's fit to spill
When Someone Wants to Publish Your Correspondence With a Famous Writer — For most of my life I didn’t read books of letters. I wanted what I read to be deliberately shaped. I wanted art. And in middle age, I lost some vision. I read more slowly, so every word had to be …
Remembering Gloria Steinem, author and agent of the second wave. — Gloria Steinem, the trailblazing feminist journalist best known for embodying the American second wave, has died at 92. Steinem was a co-founder of Ms., a magazine that debuted the honorific unrela…
How Accusations Against Black Academics Point to the Real End of “Woke 1.0” — This week, the British academy was rocked by a scandal that curdled into a tragedy. Jason Arday, a neurodivergent Black Cambridge professor who was feted as a wunderkind by some and denigrated as a…
NBC is turning Wordle into a TV show - Engadget — The NYT's word game has been pretty much everywhere else.
How to Hold Death and Carry Life: A Zen Master Explains Existence to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind — “Zen practice … requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning.”
watched someone beat a 20-year-old game using only the sound design to navigate — no visuals at all 🎮 the way they just knew where to go by listening gave me chills 💖
How to Read the Signal of Your Life — Sitting atop a Spanish mesa one sweltering August night, watching the Perseid meteor showers streak the sky with the debris of a comet burning through the atmosphere against the backdrop of a billi…
Saudi Arabia Says Energy Sites Near Yemen Halted After Attacks — Saudi Arabia said operations at several energy facilities in the kingdom’s south were halted after attacks ignited fires, the latest escalation in the region bordering Yemen.
Wordle: Savannah Guthrie to host TV adaptation of New York Times puzzle — The online word game from the New York Times will hit the small screen in the UK and US from next year.
A Room of Her Own: What Women Writers Sacrifice to Pursue Their Passion — In the mid-2000s, the Guardian weekend magazine ran a regular feature called “Writers’ Rooms.” As a secretly aspiring writer (is there any other kind?) I couldn’t get enough, poring ove…
OpenCritic - The top critics in gaming. All in one place. — The top critics in gaming. All in one place. OpenCritic is a review aggregator for video games, collecting reviews from the top publications in gaming such as IGN, GameSpot, Polygon, and Eurogamer.
Mikel Merino strikes late again to tee up huge last-four clash with France — Mikel Merino comes off the bench to break Belgian hearts after slip from sub keeper Senne Lammens.
Tuscan Beef Stew (Peposo) — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//tk/photo/2026/05-2026/2026-05-tuscan-beef-stew/tuscan-beef-stew-399-crop"> It's perfect for the start of fall. <a…
LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years (Part 1) - AlphaPixel Software Development — LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years (Part 1)
9to5Mac Daily: September 9, 2026 – iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo are here - 9to5Mac — Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts...
TheGamer - The Leading Source for Gaming News, Reviews, and Interviews — TheGamer delivers the biggest video game news, in-depth interviews, honest reviews, timely previews, and surprising stories.
The BBC Tetris Companion — Overview and history of the BBC Bridge Companion home game console, and a brief overview of a composite video mod, repairs, the design of a game cartridge PCB, and the development of a new puzzle game for the obscure system.
Preserving glow-in-the-dark art and fashion for future generations — Understanding unique photochemistry of such materials will help in conservation, storage, and exhibition.
Counterpoint: the best gaming writing isn't about winning. This archives every major game balance patch since 2010 — you can literally watch designers argue with themselves across years.
“The Rival” — It was winter when Laura left her husband without warning, and summer when she returned. A livid evening, fluorescent sunset; she was standing, dazed by the heat, outside her house. The curtains of…
Retronauts | America's favorite classic gaming podcast, probably — America
Anthropeum — A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
OSE SRD — Classic dungeon crawling.
Tabletop RPG News & Resources - D&D - Tribality.com — Tribality.com provides D&D and tabletop RPG reviews, news, homebrews, tools, research, and other stuff for Gamemasters and Players.
Discord's Nitro subscription now includes a slightly nerfed Xbox Game Pass - Engadget — The Nitro Rewards program also includes discounts on Logitech G and SteelSeries gear.
DUNGEONFOG | Free RPG Battle map editor for D&D — Unleash creativity with DungeonFog - the ultimate TTRPG map-making tool. Design custom battle and world maps for Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Cthulhu, and more. Craft epic adventures now!
Neil the Seal - 3D Browser Game — A free browser game where Neil barrels through suburban Tasmania, pushes cars, flattens fences, and causes lovable mischief.
“You’ve Told Me This Joke Before” — It started with a toaster and ended with a Maytag washerdryer combo and four new steel-belted radials. In between, the UPS, FedEx, Lowe’s deliverer, or mail carrier set down on my front porch a Cui…
TheRPGSite - Index — TheRPGSite - Index
Here’s the longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize. — Today, the Booker Prize committee announced this year’s “Booker Dozen”: a longlist of 13 books nominated for the UK’s most prestigious literary prize, which this year celebrates l…
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The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother — “It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger.”
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update — To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Quake, we have collaborated with MachineGames to create a new episode, Dawn of the Machine, now available as a free update to Quake.
Beyond All Reason ★ RTS — Beyond All Reason is the ultimate epic-scale RTS game for Windows and Linux. Command colossal armies in battles with thousands of units in fully simulated environments. Wage war across land, sea, and air with 2 factions and 400 unique units. Enjoy…
I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It Went — While I spend most of my time reviewing modern ‘retro’ handhelds (devices built to emulate everything under the sun) I’ve found myself wanting to go back to the roots of everything. The first‑party machines that actually star
Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life — “To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its ta…
“Expatriate’s Pantoum.” A Poem by Maria Nazos — Today, we’ll wake again and drink pineapple juice spiked with Bacardi, then curl up in a hammock. We’ll do another line, then you’ll play me more Bruce, then we’ll cash another unemployment check. …
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction — Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Association. …
OPEC+ Sticks With Plan to Keep Oil Production Quotas Unchanged — Major OPEC+ nations stuck with their plan to keep oil production quotas unchanged, while the Iran war continues to shutter vast swathes of output in the Middle East.
Don't Wordle — Don't Wordle is a daily word game: try not to guess the hidden word. Use clues from your guesses to narrow down valid words while avoiding the Wordle answer. One new puzzle every day.
MTG Bench: Testing how well LLMs can play magic | MTG Auto Deck — MTG Bench tests how well LLMs can play Magic.
Child among three Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza — Gaza’s Health Ministry says the son of its director general, Munir al-Bursh, is among those killed.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Unleash Your Hero! | Paizo — Pathfinder Second Edition is easier to learn and faster to play, with deep character customization options that let you build the perfect character.
Brazil Funds Rare-Earth Project in Effort to Tap Vast Reserves — Viridis Mining and Minerals Ltd. secured Brazilian government funding for a rare-earth project, as the country seeks to tap more of the world’s largest reserves outside China.
31 Best Butternut Squash Recipes — Like maple-bacon chopped salad and canned butternut squash orzotto.
Encountering the Ghost of Ted Hughes in His Childhood Home — During my tempestuous teenage years, I was attracted to the work of Sylvia Plath. I voraciously read her poems, as well as The Bell Jar and Paul Alexander’s 2003 biography, Rough Magic. Her work re…
Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain — “Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”
Capturing a Literary Icon: Beowulf Sheehan on Photographing Cormac McCarthy — Tuesday, August 12. My photo assistant Chika and I arrive at the Santa Fe Institute, Cormac’s home away from home, and load equipment into the library. Cormac is early, chatting up the kitchen staf…
Cosmos Update - No Man's Sky — Become director of a space station, join a galactic alliance, construct a space base and discover deep-space marvels in No Man's Sky Cosmos. Navigate space with a new star system map, strip colossal hulks for parts before hull integrity fails,…
Como dar una mala noticia sin perder la humanidad | Juan José Espinoza García | TEDxUMAE34 — Esta charla aborda uno de los momentos más difíciles dentro de la atención en salud: comunicar una mala noticia a un paciente. Desde la perspectiva de quien tiene la responsabilidad de…
Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity — “The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do [only] whatever we know how to order it to perform,” Ada Lovelace inveighed upon composing the…