things, week 40, 2024
↑ Mississippi River Elevation Study by Tim Wallace I finished reading Moonbound by Robin Sloan this week. I know I’m late to the party, but it's really...
Space art, feral chickens, alternative phones and more
Using the gravity of Jupiter ↑ ‘It’s getting worse’: Hawaii’s feral chickens are taking over downtown Honolulu: This summer, neighbors spontaneously joined...
things, week 33, 2024
This edition covers 8-bit lens, community connection, research as fun, suburbs' horror movie, and more - all jam-packed!
things, week 26, 2024
by Nevin Johnson Cassidy Williams shares what it’s like to be a personal software engineer for a billionaire:Both of them work on absolutely random projects...
things, week 24, 2024
↑ The art of Felipe Bedoya. Gather is a “local-first app for archiving, cultivating, and curating your data collections” created by Spencer Chang. Looks...
things, week 23, 2024
sun spots from 1957 ↑ The Hand-Drawn History of Tracking Sunspots: “Why do scientists continue to hand-draw this phenomenon when more modern techniques...
things, week 22, 2024
↑ From Sky Cowboys by Matt Fain Jaime Derringer, founder of Design Milk, and online curator of 22 years, asks herself: So what does “sharing things on the...
things, week 21, 2024
Hi, It’s been a week so lets just look at some pictures together. Here are some of my favorites that I stashed away on are.na or mltshp.com over the last...
things, week 20, 2024
Aruba Conservation Foundation ↑ How&How’s rebrand of the Aruba Conservation Foundation is pretty cool. Great colors, icons, etc. “Once you hold a Palma, you...
things, week 19, 2024
cafe ↑ Cafe by anh, also used as the cover for her week notes isnpired by The New Yorker. Designer Mike Monteiro on the definition of we: “I kept getting...
things, week 6, 2024
↑ From photographer Anne Lass's series on Berlin’s disappearing gambling dens. Greetings fellow Internet dwellers, I come bearing some links for you: On why...
things, week 49, 2023
"a model for affordable and flexible housing" ↑. An illustration from Assemble's Still Strasse project page. It's that time of year again, Tom Whitwell's 52...
things, week 48, 2023
Hi! This episode of 99% invisible about the cassette tape culture around the Grateful Dead was pretty neat. It also reminded me of all the GoGo tapes that I...
things, week 45, 2023
⬆ I dig these reading cubbies in the Vennesla Library. Hello! Long time, no links. I hope these distractions guide you peacefully into weekend mode: The word...
Things, Week 32, 2023
⬆ From the Screw Project Hi, I have some links for your Friday. Dusking is a " ...verb stemming from a time when people preferred to leave the lights off as...
Things, Week 27, 2023
⬆ “Blue”, oil on wood panel by Seth Armstrong. Hi. It's been a long time. Let's ease our way back into this. How I Became a Better Morning Person, it's all...
Things I liked this week (Week 49, 2022)
I wonder, if in my lifetime, I'll ever own a cool futuristic truck. Or take a ride in a luxury space balloon. "No rockets. No g-forces. Experience a gentle,...
Things I liked this week (Week 48, 2022)
Hello everyone, I hope these links bring some minor distractions to your day: ooh.directory is a collection of 900+ blogs. From the creator: "For years I’ve...
Things I liked this week (Week 47, 2022)
It's "Friday" here in the US so that means some links flying your way. Spend the 5 minutes to watch these "wild" guinea pigs waddle around their garden. "I...
Things I liked this week (Week 43, 2022)
I'm sure I linked to this before, but if not, here is a great shot of an awesome house. Photo by Hisatoshi Matsumura. Before Trick-or-Treating, There Was...
Things I liked this week (Week 39, 2022)
↑ The art of Kyle Scott. Ghost, Aliens, Burritos is a podcast episode of Here Be Monsters about growing up with a father who called himself a researcher in...
Things I liked this week (Week 38, 2022)
It's fall around here (and the start of spooky season) so here are some Autumn based links: The story behind the smiley face above. A reminder to live...
clouds, pocket knives, solar powered websites, and more (things #36.22)
↑ Trevor Paglen, CLOUD #865 "Always carry a pocket knife. You might have to open a package or avenge a loved one’s death." - Life advice from Chris...
Things I liked this week (Week 30, 2022)
Hi! I hope you don't mind this intrusion on your Sunday morning, but I have some links for you. First, a look at my browser/search history from the last...
Things I liked this week (Week 29, 2022)
A speed round of links for your clicking enjoyment: Bonfire's website is just great. Even if you have no interest in "federated tools and communities for the...
Things I liked this week (Week 25, 2022)
Good morning, The Best Science Fiction Books You've Never Heard Of. Added some titles to my to-read pile from this list. Related, Daydreaming is better than...
Things I liked this week (Week 24, 2022)
Hi, I come bearing links for your Friday morning: Employers don't like the idea of a four-day week. Let's cancel the afternoon.The word of the day is...
Things I liked this week (Week 23 2022)
Hiya, A menagerie of links today: Top 100 90's Hip Hop Samples 1990 - 1999. 20 minutes well spent if you're a hip hop head. A bonus 90s music link, probably...
Things I liked this week (Week 22, 2022)
Some tiny things this week: My Hero performed by the Foo Fighters and a whole lot of other people. Pretty amazing. Drone photos of polar bears feeding on a...
Things I liked this week (Week 21, 2022)
Mornin' I hope these links bring you some distractions today. First some things for your eyes: storm (illustration), landscape with clouds and rainbows...
Things I liked this week (Week 20, 2022)
It's been awhile. I hope you've all been well. Here are links for your Friday morning enjoyment: The Art of Telling Campfire Tales, just in time for summer...
Things I liked in week 3 of 2022
↑ From Freeze frames: the epic wilderness of Greenland – in pictures Moth Minds is " ... a platform that makes it extremely easy for anyone to start their...
Things I liked this week (Week 51, 2021)
↑ From Tecznts Ok, I lied, one more quick email this year. As you peer at your very long shadows on this Winter Solstice here are some end of the year lists...
Things I liked this week (Week 50, 2021)
↑ By Chris Burkard Leon Kass on friendships based upon character: "The best of those friendships — and this, I think, over a lifetime, I’ve come to endorse —...
Things I liked this week (Week 48, 2021)
↑ The Road to Braemore by Fred Ingrams Lots of little bits this week: What is the podcast episode you think everyone should listen to? A Reddit thread to...
Things I liked this week (Week 45, 2021)
↑ The heavy frost and autumn colors of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin By Adam Senatori. Largehearted Boy's annual list of best annual best book lists (not a typo).An...
Things I liked this week (Week 44, 2021)
↑ by Oliver Jeffers Wow, it's November and Things to Click has been on hiatus way too long. Fear not, I'm back to shepherd you through the cold dark months...
A quick update and SPOOKTOBER
Hi All! Long time, not email. I hope you and yours are doing well, staying safe, and sane. My kids are back in school and I started a new job in August. The...
Things I liked this week (Week 26, 2021)
By Luis Mendo by way of dense discovery. A 58-foot-long map of a postman's route, drawn over 17 years. It includes "... drawings of birds, fishermen –and...
Things I liked this week (Week 24, 2021)
By Owen D. Pomery as seen on Airbnb "a bunch of meticulously planned three-ring-binders at NASA beats a still non-existent HAL" - Dan Hon on conversational...
Things I liked this week (Week 22, 2021)
↑ This is the “whale hole” from Sir Goony Golf in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Part of the Library of Congress’s Roadside America collection. Kinda related to #1,...
Things I liked this week (Week 21, 2021)
Little Island from Overview What would be your dream setup? “A wooden desk in a bright room with nice windows looking out onto something natural – trees,...
Things I liked this week (Week 20, 2021)
Las Vegas airport, 1982 by Harry Gruyaert Unable to resist the urge to wave at the end of Zoom calls? You’re not alone. OMG, it me! A People Map of the US,...
Things I liked this week (Week 19, 2021)
↑ By Ismail Inceoglu “Being in groups is important. If you don’t want to join a sports team, consider starting a shitty band. It’s the closest you’ll get to...
Things I liked this week (Week 18, 2021)
Earth Rise “…taken by Richard Gordon, alone aboard the Command Module while the others were down on the lunar surface.” From the Apollo 12 mission by way of...
Things I liked this week (Week 17, 2021)
My desired state of mind by Samantha Buttrick. "‘A map is not the territory’ is a helpful phrase to remember whenever you’re confronted with studies,...
Things I liked this week (Week 16, 2021)
↑ Good Things by Melanie Richards "It feels like the entire world (or at least my corner of) is consumed by the “how” of note-taking. Tools, workflows,...
Things I liked this week (Week 15, 2021)
↑ By Jean Jullien Here is a virtual six-demon bag full of links for you today. ” … more hybrid/remote work doesn’t lead to increasing levels of loneliness,...
Things I liked this week (Week 14, 2021)
↑ By Masashi Wakui Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat, chat etiquette is underrated. I used to have a boss who would chat me the word Calling, right before...
Things I liked this week (Week 13, 2021)
Until You Wake Up by Martin Stranka A childless adult on parents: " ...they claim to be much happier and more fulfilled than ever before, even though they...