a stranger quest: an award-winning documentary about map collector David Rumsey (previously) available in full online
stimulation clicker: a new distraction from Neal Agarwal—see previously—see also
studio city: deadly, life-altering wildfires continue to rage through Los Angeles, reaching Hollywood and threatening landmarks
lemon8: TikTok ushers US users to sister-site in anticipation of ban
show bible: a rare copy of the storyboard for Alejandro Jodorowshky’s unmade adaptation of Dune recently sold at auction—see previously
hangman: a Wordle variant called Phrazle
camp century: revisiting the Greenland military installation and the US Army Corps of Engineers’ failed Project Iceworm to build a nuclear launch site
datastorm: a synthesiser with presets from the 1981 arcade game Defender sound-effects—via Pasa Bon!
not to scale: an illustration of how polar flare and distortions of Mercator projections affect perception—see previously
