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Against political analogies
It’s a common and (on its face) rhetorical move: take something that’s happening now and map it onto the past. Better yet, take something atrocious that’s happening now and show how it maps onto...
View Article1927 documentary on how to dial a telephone
This charming short film (part documentary, part cartoon) explains how to use a dial telephone:read more...
View ArticleNoticing Excerpt: Getting lost on the internet
Each week (more or less), I write a newsletter for Kottke.org called Noticing that summarizes the previous week, looks for deeper connections between some of the material, and expands on one or more...
View ArticleThe United States of Guns
Like many of you, I read the news of a single person killing at least 10 people in Santa Fe, Texas today. While this is an outrageous and horrifying event, it isn’t surprising or shocking in any way...
View ArticleMore trippy audio illusions
Hot on the heels of the Yanny/Laurel audio illusion, many people shared other illusions that are just as weird and fun.read more...
View ArticleThe coup has already happened
I’ve been thinking about Trump’s presidency in terms of a coup to come, but Rebecca Solnit makes a compelling case for that event already being in our rear view mirror.read more...
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David Foster Wallace was terrible to women
In an Atlantic piece titled The World Still Spins Around Male Genius, Megan Garber writes:read more...
View ArticleAsk An Ice Cream Professional: AI-generated ice cream flavors
Hello, it is I, once and future Kottke.org guest editor Aaron Cohen. In the years since my objectively wonderful and technically perfect stints posting skateboarding and BMX videos here, I opened an...
View ArticleThe political alignments of Mario Kart characters
In this short video, Art House Politics goes through all of the characters in Mario Kart 8 and describes their political alignments.read more...
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The Songs of the Years, 1925-2018
Back at the end of 2010, Ben Greenman created a playlist for the New Yorker’s holiday party that featured one song from each year of the magazine’s existence ordered chronologically.read more...
View ArticleBill Gatesâ reading recommendations for Summer 2018
As he does every year, voracious reader Bill Gates has recommended five books worth reading this summer. Gates’ recommendations often have a Wizard bent and the video he produced for the list probably...
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