reference desk: harness Google’s secret card catalog—via Kottke
nitrate divas: a remarkable 1928 amateur film adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe short story “The Fall of the House of Usher”
๐: a Scrabble Map commissioned for the word play game’s (previously) international commemoration, celebrated yesterday
middle powers: Carney’s Liberal Party secures supermajority in parliamentary special elections
print gallery of an artist: an MC Escherque exploration of recursive spaces—via Waxy
infallibilitร papale: ally Meloni (previously) breaks with Trump over criticism of Pope, cancels security arrangement with Israel
dutch cartocubism: an overlooked approach to simplify mapping from the early 1930s from the figures behind ISOTYPE—via Quantum of Sollazzo—see also
connie converse: rediscovering the forgotten folk-music genius
ะพะณะฐั: the 1960s proto-internet that the Soviet Union passed on—see previously