Hacker News
- What Happens When a Group of 12-Year-Olds Left with No Supervision for 5 Days? https://kottke.org/22/12/boys-girls-alone 35 comments
- Russian Bear Steps on Ukrainian Lego Illustration https://kottke.org/22/03/russian-bear-steps-on-ukrainian-lego 2 comments
- The inventor of the screw-in coffin https://kottke.org/22/03/the-inventor-of-the-screw-in-coffin 113 comments
- Video: At one trillion frames per second, you can see light move http://kottke.org/12/08/extreme-slow-motion-photography 28 comments
- If you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider... http://kottke.org/10/09/putting-your-hand-in-the-large-hadron-collider 39 comments
Lobsters
- Permanent Redirect: digital art that moves to a new URL when someone views it https://kottke.org/18/01/permanent-redirect-digital-art-that-moves-to-a-new-url-when-someone-views-it 11 comments art , web
- "It's a Unix system, I know this" http://kottke.org/15/07/its-a-unix-system-i-know-this 7 comments programming , unix
- The Mediterranean Sea of America https://kottke.org/17/10/the-mediterranean-sea-of-america 11 comments europe
- Putin’s playbook for discrediting America and destabilizing the West http://www.kottke.org/17/06/putins-playbook-for-discrediting-america-and-destabilizing-the-west 7 comments politics
- Foundations of Geopolitics - Putin’s playbook for discrediting America and destabilizing the West http://kottke.org/17/06/putins-playbook-for-discrediting-america-and-destabilizing-the-west 14 comments politics
- Map showing the homeland of every character in Homer’s Iliad http://kottke.org/17/02/map-showing-the-homeland-of-every-character-in-homers-iliad 52 comments europe
- The end of the NASA window http://kottke.org/15/09/the-end-of-the-nasa-window 6 comments space
- GoPro, circa the 1960s http://kottke.org/14/04/gopro-circa-the-1960s 3 comments formula1
- The myth of NASA's expensive space pens http://kottke.org/13/10/the-myth-of-nasas-expensive-space-pens 106 comments technology
- The standardization of chess set design http://kottke.org/13/04/the-standardization-of-chess-set-design 4 comments chess
- A robot with a chainsaw for an arm makes a few cuts into a log and, voila, chairs. http://kottke.org/13/01/chainsaw-wielding-robot 5 comments robotics
- The Onion, often the most emotionally honest media source http://kottke.org/12/12/the-onion-often-the-most-emotionally-honest-media-source 22 comments politics
- Apollo 11 TV coverage presented exactly 43 years after it originally aired -- begins at 1610 EDT http://kottke.org/apollo-11/ 3 comments history
- Everybody poops, even competing athletes http://kottke.org/12/06/everybody-poops-even-competing-athletes 3 comments sports
- Worst password requirements ever. http://kottke.org/12/06/the-worlds-worst-password-requirements-list 5 comments technology
- "Flexible e-ink displays are here": you want? http://kottke.org/12/03/flexible-e-ink-displays-are-here 14 comments books
- The main characters in Spongebob represent the seven deadly sins. MIND. BLOWN. http://kottke.org/10/03/spongebob-squarepants-and-the-seven-deadly-sins 4 comments reddit.com
- Letters between David Foster Wallace and Don DeLillo (warning: pdf) http://kottke.org.s3.amazonaws.com/dfw/DFW-DD.pdf 9 comments books
- The unpleasant Roald Dahl http://kottke.org/11/06/the-unpleasant-roald-dahl 6 comments books
- How much would you pay, per month, for instant (Netflix-style) digital access to ever book that has ever been written, or ever will be? http://kottke.org/11/05/a-budget-for-babel 9 comments books
- Antilibraries http://kottke.org/09/06/antilibraries 6 comments books
- 1899 trip across the Brooklyn Bridge filmed by Edison http://kottke.org/10/11/1899-trip-across-the-brooklyn-bridge-filmed-by-edison 16 comments history
- WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG http://kottke.org/10/09/floating-nuclear-power-stations 3 comments reddit.com
- David Foster Wallace on iPhone 4's FaceTime http://kottke.org/10/06/david-foster-wallace-on-iphone-4s-facetime 8 comments apple
- The universe is mind blowingly large... http://kottke.org/09/12/the-known-universe 79 comments reddit.com
- Honest Advertising http://kottke.org/10/04/the-best-tv-commercial-ever 4 comments reddit.com
- An experiment to detect gravitational waves may indicate that our universe is a holographic projection. http://kottke.org/10/02/life-is-but-a-holographic-projection 518 comments science
- The Known Universe -- 6 minute video traveling from the earth all the way out to limits of we can map/see.. truly amazing to watch. http://kottke.org/09/12/the-known-universe 36 comments science
- The economics of the new Yankee Stadium -- Cheaper to fly to Seattle to watch a Yanks/Mariners game http://www.kottke.org/09/05/the-economics-of-the-new-yankee-stadium 3 comments baseball
- Intrusive advertising at its worst: TBS pauses Family Guy to run an annoying Bill Engvall ad. Die in a fire, TBS. http://www.kottke.org/08/06/tbs-and-their-annoying-interstitial-commericials 5 comments reddit.com
- Mythbusters Liveblog by Kottke: Airplane on a Conveyor Belt. Guess What Happens? http://www.kottke.org/08/01/mythbusters-airplane-on-a-conveyor-belt 6 comments reddit.com
- kottke.org's best links of 2007 (great quality stuff for when you're done with all those top 10 crazy videos of '07 lists) http://www.kottke.org/08/01/the-best-links-2007 2 comments reddit.com
- This beta version of the AOL site looks a bit familar. http://www.kottke.org/remainder/07/04/13320.html 7 comments reddit.com
- Spotting psychopaths online http://www.kottke.org/06/12/the-blog-commentors-gaze 2 comments reddit.com
- Why does HAL sing "Daisy, Daisy" in 2001: A Space Odyssey? http://www.kottke.org/06/04/hal-daisy-2001 3 comments reddit.com
Linking pages
- Pluralistic: Leaving Twitter had no effect on NPR’s traffic (14 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/14/freedom-of-reach/ 194 comments
- Is White Hat SEO Dead? Google and Bing Aren't Rewarding It https://www.johnwdefeo.com/articles/future-of-white-hat-seo 86 comments
- Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future — Wait But Why https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html 63 comments
- Perfume that smells like new books | Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/07/25/perfume-that-smells-like-new-b.html 58 comments
- Premature Blogging Death Notice #357 https://onemanandhisblog.com/2021/10/premature-blogging-death-notice/ 48 comments
- Read This If You Hate Meetings - Freakonomics http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/read-this-if-you-hate-meetings/ 31 comments
- The Man With A 'Battery Operated Brain' : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/06/25/195521917/the-man-with-a-battery-operated-brain?f=1007&ft=1 27 comments
- The word entrepreneur and its baggage – Signal v. Noise http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1685-the-word-entrepreneur-and-its-baggage 20 comments
- The world's 50 most powerful blogs | Blogging | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/blogs 20 comments
- Can We Please Kill This Meme Now | by Steven Johnson | stevenberlinjohnson http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/2006/05/can_we_please_k.html 18 comments
- The Internet's First Family | Hazlitt http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/longreads/internets-first-family 16 comments
- Pluralistic: 24 Jul 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/24/software-is-cake-too/#massmarket 13 comments
- How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars — Page 5 of 5 — Wait But Why | Page 5 http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html/5 13 comments
- How Kazuo Ishiguro wrote "Remains of the Day" in 4 weeks | Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2014/12/24/how-kazuo-ishiguro-wrote-rem.html 10 comments
- Roger Ebert on how the press reports mass killings | Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/12/15/roger-ebert-on-how-the-press-r.html 10 comments
- Tienanmen Square erased | Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/02/tiananmen-square-era.html 9 comments
- Bananas are atheist nightmares! | Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/09/bananas-are-atheist.html 6 comments
- Pluralistic: 16 Apr 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/16/new-old-apples/#library.json 6 comments
- I miss the old blogosphere — we’ve gained a lot, but we’ve also lost something – Old GigaOm http://gigaom.com/2014/04/27/sometimes-i-miss-the-old-blogosphere-weve-gained-a-lot-but-weve-also-lost-some-valuable-things/?curator=MediaREDEF 6 comments
- Densely-linked cluster of 147 companies control 40% of world's total wealth | Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2011/10/22/densely-linked-cluster-of-147-companies-control-40-of-worlds-total-wealth.html 4 comments