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🔗 Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, But Something Else Does, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
Venting when angry seems sensible.
It’s not.
🔗 An interview with Mary Ruefle - Austin Kleon
Conducted via typewriter and the postal service
🔗 Karl Wallinger, Who Sang With World Party and the Waterboys, Dies at 66 - The New York Times
As a songwriter and instrumentalist as well, he blended pop and folk influences into music that helped define college radio in the 1980s and ’90s.
The Waterboys were something else. RIP.
🔗 Man Pretending to Read “Gravity’s Rainbow” Envious of Man Pretending to Read “Infinite Jest”
Local man and ostentatious snob William Huller was struck with an intense wave of envy as he pretended to read ‘Gravity’s Rainbow” in a local cafe after spotting another man pretending to read “Infinite Jest” nearby, exasperated sources report.
🔗 Japanese bookshop stocks only one book at a time [archive]
This bookstore that sells only one book could also be described as ‘a bookstore that organises an exhibition derived from a single book’. […I ask the authors and editors to be at the bookstore for as much time as possible. This is an attempt to make the two-dimensional book into three-dimensional ambience and experience.
(via @dajb@social.coop)
🔗 Spotify’s exclusivity era nears its end [archive]
Call Her Daddy, the streamer’s second-biggest show, is getting wide distribution. That leaves The Joe Rogan Experience as the only show exclusive to the platform.
About time!
🔗 How to Build an Origami Computer [archive]
Fascinating! Hull (and Demaine) are legends in the folding world. I miss my origami obsession (neuropathy in my fingertips makes it too frustrating to pursue now).
🔗 Cathedral, Mountain, Moon (Astronomy Picture of the Day 12/25/23)
Finally, just ten days ago, the weather was perfect, and a photographic dream was realized. Taken in Piemonte, Italy, the cathedral in the foreground is the Basilica of Superga, the mountain in the middle is Monviso, and, well, you know which moon is in the background. Here, even though the setting Moon was captured in a crescent phase, the exposure was long enough for doubly reflected Earthlight, called the da Vinci glow, to illuminate the entire top of the Moon…
🔗 All The Jimmy Carr Standup Specials | MetaFilter
I’m so-so on Carr as a standup comic, but there is some great conversation—and links—in the comments!
🔗 📚 Wrapping Up 2023. Looking Toward 2024
I think Warner has one of the best explanations of, and takes on, the Substack problem that has led me to drop all my subs there. And some good book recommendations too :)
🔗 Top 20 charts of 2023 – Kevin Drum [archive]
By the way: by “interesting,” I mostly mean “something you might find surprising.”
(includes “Remote teaching didn’t cause learning losses during COVID,” “Kids are pretty safe these days,” and more)
🔗 New York Times Super Mega 2023 Crossword
Online (and collaborative) version provided by a kind soul
🔗 Time, Online: How technology is changing prison as we know it.
A fascinating series of essays and articles, written by currently and formerly incarcerated folks, delving into technology and the prison industrial complex.
Announcing our picks for the best visual and data-driven stories of 2023
This archive (particularly the Fall 1980 issue) of the legendary Whole Earth Catalog brings back particularly intense memories of information, knowledge, and sexual awakening. This mammoth publication was formative for me as parts of the web are for kids that age now.
Science shows crying can relieve stress for a week.
Click to watch a tear-inducing video and take a moment to let yourself feel something.
Refresh the page for a new video. Visit once a week for a stress-free life.
🔗 It’s time to vote for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award. There are some stunning shots to choose from!
And don’t forget to check out the 2023 winners, which you know must be good to top the People’s Choice entries.