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  1. 34 People You Probably Didn’t Know Were On Seinfeld

    I still don’t recognise a whole bunch of these. But the other night I noticed A.J. Langer, Rayanne off of ‘My So-Called Life’, looking much more grown-up than in MSCL, which was only a year or so earlier. The suit helped. (via Kottke)

  2. BuzzFeed’s strategy - Chris Dixon

    “Many publisher sites … are Frankenstein products bolted together by a tech team that integrates other people’s products instead of building their own.” (via Kottke, bookmarking because I’ve needed it twice now)

  3. Visiting NYC? Where to Eat in New York, The Best Restaurants And More | Serious Eats : New York

    Because one day I’ll visit again, and this looks a good list. (via Kottke)

  4. Caine’s Arcade on Vimeo

    Lovely. Tears of happiness by the second half. (via Kottke)

  5. Why French Parents Are Superior by Pamela Druckerman - WSJ.com

    This crazy “French method” of parenting… isn’t it also known as “common sense”? if this is supposed to be eye-opening I now understand why so many small kids seem to do whatever they like. (via Kottke)

  6. Between the Lines - Features - Los Angeles magazine

    Fascinating long article on the history of parking, parking meters, parking lots, parking costs, and how they all affect towns and cities. (via Kottke)

  7. NFL: The All-22 Football Footage the League Won’t Show You - WSJ.com

    Almost funny, how the NFL doesn’t want fans to see footage that would help them understand the game better, because then the mistakes of players and coaches might be more obvious. (via Kottke)

  8. 11 Sounds That Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard - Mental Floss

    Sounds of things that you no longer hear. I started making a list of these ages ago, but didn’t even get this many. (via Kottke)

  9. Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby - Hyperpolyglot

    Handy comparison of features of Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby, for when my brain has trouble switching. (via Kottke)

  10. ‪The Grand Rapids LipDub (New World Record)‬‏ - YouTube

    I’ve watched this through twice now. It’s so happy-making and nicely done. (via Kottke)

  11. The best intro book for any topic | BestIntroBook.com

    Suggesting the best book to start learning about many topics. Needs more context and justification, but an interesting thing to browse. (via Kottke)

  12. The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle - Technology - GOOD

    Kids today are going to go through so many handles, unless they’re all just using their names. Which is what I do these days. I’m just me now. (via Kottke)

  13. Poor Yorick Entertainment

    Posters, graphics etc created for all the movies, brands, etc in ‘Infinite Jest’. Lovely. I assume it’ll be a book at some point… (via Kottke)

  14. A Complete Guide to Seinfeld’s Sneakers | Complex

    Not that Jerry’s style is one to be emulated, but top marks for obsession. (via Kottke)

  15. Generation PC, 1964-73 - Brainiac - The Boston Globe

    A guide to the names of different generations. Generation X etc. (via Kottke)

  16. The Dan Plan

    Spending 10,000 hours (a la Gladwell) over six years to learn to golf from scratch, hoping to become a top professional. I often wonder how late in life you could still become expert at something new. (via Kottke)

  17. Who Is Arcade Fire??!!?

    If I ever feel out of touch for not knowing who some young pop star is, I can feel comfort that people who know who young pop stars are often don’t know who Grammy-winning bands are. (via Kottke)

  18. Global Village Construction Set - Open Source Ecology

    Creating the fifty “tools/technologies for building post-scarcity, resilient communities” and open-sourcing the plans. (via Kottke)

  19. Is Mobile Affecting When We Read? « Read It Later Blog

    Interesting graphs of when ReadItLater users read stuff online, whether on desktop, iPhone or iPad. I definitely read less on my computer now I have an iPad. (via Kottke)

  20. Boardwalk Empire VFX Breakdowns of Season 1 on Vimeo

    I love watching these kinds of effects reels. It’s amazing what you see these days that’s so realistic you don’t really notice the effects. (via Kottke)

  21. The battle of Towton: Nasty, brutish and not that short | The Economist

    Fascinating account of a War of the Roses battle from an excavated mass grave. I didn’t know men of the time weren’t much shorter than the average today (people shrank in the Victorian era). (via Kottke)

  22. Isle of Tune

    Really lovely thing for making music out of cars driving round a pretty isometric road layout. Worth firing up Flash for. (via Kottke)

  23. Flickr: Elspeth and Evan’s stuff tagged with digitalcollage

    These are very interesting, although they don’t feel like they’re quite there. It’s almost a shame that they’re based on existing photos (and that a lot are naken women (ooh, Art!)). It feels like it’s close to something though. (via Kottke)

  24. Facebook News Feed Settings: Random or Not, Biggest Secrets Revealed - The Daily Beast

    Reverse engineering how Facebook’s Top News feed decides what to show you. (via Kottke)

  25. Core77 - The True Story of Automoblox

    From 2005, about the struggles to get a toy car product line manufactured in China. A good read. (via Kottke, a while ago)

  26. Human landscapes in SW Florida - The Big Picture - Boston.com

    Every single aerial photo is stunning, go look. Photos of housing developments, many undeveloped. I wouldn’t want to live in any of them. (via Kottke)

  27. A unified theory of New York biking | Analysis & Opinion |

    Yes, yes, yes. The same for London too. Cyclist vs car and cyclist vs pedestrian conflicts arise because cyclists act more like pedestrians (ignoring rules) than cars (which by and large obey rules). (via Kottke)

  28. Awkward Stock Photos

    Can’t. Stop. Looking. Just. One. More. Page… (via Kottke)

  29. This column will change your life: Are you an Asker or a Guesser? | Life and style | The Guardian

    Yes, Askers vs Guessers. I’m such a Guesser. See also the Metafilter post linked to here. (via Kottke)

  30. Caring for Your Introvert - Magazine - The Atlantic

    Fantastic article about what introverts are like. Hello. “We tend to think before talking, whereas extroverts tend to think *by* talking.” (via Kottke)

  31. MoMA | @ at MoMA

    A bit weird, but some nice history of the @ sign. (via Kottke)

  32. From Fish to Infinity - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

    The start of a series explaining maths to adults. Sounds good. There’s a link to Steven Strogatz’s own RSS feed at the bottom of the right column. (via Kottke)

  33. NGM Blog Central - The Cost of Care - National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com

    Nice infographic. Not understandable in a very quick glance but it shows a lot of info after a couple of seconds. Also, the UK looks nicely average. (via Kottke)

  34. YouTube - Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review (Part 1 of 7)

    Wonderful. Not only a really interesting and thoughtful (and critical) look at the film, but also very funny and by a fictional character. Set aside 70 minutes and watch… (via Kottke)

  35. Detainee 063

    Real-time account of the interrogation of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, seven years on, Pepys’ Diary style. (via Kottke)

  36. Reocities , rising from the ashes - RIP Geocities…

    Wonderful - one guy raced to copy all of GeoCities. Worth reading ‘Making of’. He should win medals, awards, certificates, etc. (via Kottke)

  37. Hiddenloop’s paging_keys_js at master - GitHub

    Could be handy - javascript for doing the j/k up/down navigation thing through a page. (via Kottke)

  38. 100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words - Ars Technica

    How companies have complained that new technologies will destroy content industries over the past century. Like when home taping killed music. Wasn’t that terrible. (via Kottke)

  39. It’s double art history with Mr Tate | Will Gompertz - Times Online

    I really like the three paragraph summary of art history (from the word “jottings”). (via Kottke)

  40. Hilobrow | Middlebrow is not the solution

    (Re)Naming the generations from 1844 onwards. I’m fascinated by these kinds of divisions and identifications. (via Kottke)

  41. Netflix - Reference Guide on our Freedom & Responsibility Culture

    Interesting readable presentation about Netflix’s culture. Although I haven’t worked in a company for years, I’m fascinated by this kind of thing. (via Kottke)

  42. 100 Years of Design Manifestos — Social Design Notes

    I wish there were more early twentieth century manifestos (there must be more, right?) but a good list otherwise. (via Kottke)

  43. New York Review of Ideas

    Looks like rather a nice new online journal thing, marred only by having its articles split over several pages. Maddening. (via Kottke)

  44. New Liberal Arts // Snarkmarket & Revelator Press

    A free PDF book on many interesting-sounding topics. No idea what the quality’s like, but it’s another PDF to never quite get round to reading. (via Kottke)

  45. Emptyage : Are You Going to San Francisco

    How to make the most of living in SF. Wouldn’t that be very lovely? Anyway, I think these could probably be generalised as to how to enjoy any city. (via Kottke)

  46. Asian Poses - The Definitive Guide to Asian Poses

    A blog describing all the common standard poses people in that part of the world use in photographs. Fascinating. (via Kottke)

  47. Systemic - Too cheap to meter

    Trying to calculate the monetary value of distant planets. I’d like to see calculations with a different example at the start, and different measures of inflation.

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