NASA Image and Video Library

If you need new wallpapers, NASA have great shots from the Artemis 2 mission.

Eclipse photos, lunar imagery, mission footage, all of it sitting there waiting to be browsed.

Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult

This video goes into why color TV took so long to appear, and the answer is not just “the hardware was bad”, it is that the whole system had to be invented in a way that wouldn’t break everything that already existed.

DIY soft drinks

I’m a sucker for obsessive hobbyist projects. This is one of those: a detailed log of someone reverse-engineering cola, orange soda, and almond soda at home with essential oils, gum arabic, and more food chemistry than most sane people want in their weekend.

yFilm Guide — The Top 250 Movies of All Time

This “best movies ever” list tries to make the methodology explicit, blending IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and Letterboxd, then adjusting for sample-size weirdness. If you don’t know what movie to watch this evening, try this.

RetinaDisplays.com

I love tiny, obsessive websites like this. It is a database for high-resolution monitors that work well with MacOS. There aren’t many, because MacOS can only render UI in two resolutions and most displays on the market doesn’t have enough pixels per inch to work well with it — gamers prefer 4K 27’’.

Bonus: Tools that surround us talk more than they listen: it’s time to change that

A good piece of product criticism usually names a feeling you already had but hadn’t fully articulated. This one does that well: modern software has moved from asking to suggesting.