brownstone: Gotham Gothic rowhouses as playing cards
wall of eyes: Radiohead spinoff artist Jonny Greenwood’s latest album
scrabblegram: a form of constrained writing using all one hundred tiles of the game
blackula: a look at the brave inversion of exploitation cinema
research purposes: profiles in the pornographers of Wikimedia who image and caption—see also—human sexuality, via Web Curios
parks & rec: a map of sites in the US funded by FDR’s New Deal programme—via Waxy
best laptop 2024: readership, AI and the collapse of media outlets
nullification: Texas governor, alleging the US federal government has failed to protect the country from an immigrant invasion, hints at secession
the compaynys of beestys & fowlys: revisiting how animal groupings (see previously on the subject of venery) received such colourful names—via the morning news
schluckbildchen: sixteenth century edible devotionals
mixtape: Kim Gordon, formerly of Sonic Youth, raps her grocery list in new song Bye Bye
ephemerama: a growing archive of modern illustrations from circa 1950 to 1975—via Things Magazine
synchronoptica
one year ago: more trompe l’oeil paintings, assorted links to revisit plus pie-chart studies
two years ago: morphing logos plus more links to enjoy
three years ago: zorbing, the Council of Trent (1545), Australia Day, more links worth the revisit plus Tubman on the twenty
four years ago: modular, prefab kiosks plus the first television demonstration (1926)
five years ago: the longest government shutdown in US history, architect Sir John Soane plus all the world’s writing systems
