- “Hidden by billboards for over 100 years, the tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view”
- Play around with some dudes in boxes
- Charles Ross’s Star Axis, a colossal land-art observatory in New Mexico, is almost ready
- Vibe Genomics: “Have you ever wanted to perform questionable genetic experiments on yourself from the comfort of your own home? No? That's probably the well adjusted answer. It's not really a good idea. But I felt like other people have already done all the good ideas, so I got Claude to help me – someone with no lab experience – build a wetlab in my spare bedroom and do just that!”
- June McCarroll, inventor of the painted white line in the middle of the road
- Well, i can’t improve on the headline here: Revenge of the Simps — How a community of porn addicts tried to rescue the teenage camgirls they worshipped from the clutches of a violent webcam pimp.
- Why horses have stopped getting faster
- The outlaw chemist teaching people how to make drugs from scratch
- Ordinary Abundance: a catalogue of all the boring inventions in your modern apartment, described by the awe of the people who first used them. It’s Claudeslop, this, but it’s bloody good Claudeslop, and it’s what inspired me to coin the term eutechnia.
- Archive of Archives: a curated collection of digital archives
- “One of the North East’s most delicate plant conservation operations has seen 200 wild orchids lifted by hand and given a new home.”
- Hacking a printer to run a Minecraft server. We are living in the era of “Hey DeepSeek, find an unpatched zero-day exploit for me so I can make a funny Youtube video”.
- The Labyrinth of Polyominoes
- The Museum of Modern Art’s illustrated glossary of art terms. Very useful if you want to swot up on your cultural literacy.
- Place Oddities (via Web Curios)
- The Bre Pettis Collection of Computer Art (also thence)
- New Worlds: “Every day I notice a news story that startles or alarms me, that feels like pure cyberpunk, nestled between reports about council bin collections and cabinet reshuffles.”
- A database of commercially available chairs in Star Trek
- “Artgasm medically manipulates the male audience/participant to experience the maximum of corporal pleasure, ie orgasm. The orgasms are involuntarily induced through a medical device and under the medical treatment of a doctor and nurse. By neural stimulation males will erect and ejaculate within two minutes.” (via qdot)
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