Syd Mead, "Christmas Arrival," 2008

Web Performance Calendar day 23 with @tunetheweb.com on configuring caches to ignore non-content-affecting URL parameters and reclaim performance. No more of this query string = cache miss nonsense. calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/fixing-...

RIP James Ransone of The Wire S2 fame (but will always be 'Bodysuit' from The American Astronaut to me: youtube.com/watch?v=aWY3...)

Recorded this day, 1965: The Second Great Quintet are recorded live on the first of two nights at the Plugged Nickel, Chicago. A legendary date, astonishing group interaction, magnificent music. Wayne Shorter- ts; Herbie Hancock- p; Ron Carter- b; Tony Williams- d. Set 1: #jazz #jazzsky #milesdavis

Redacted Centerville, SD

Going down a ternary (base 3, as opposed to binary's 2) computing rabbit hole www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/65/we... github.com/nirvanasuper... youtube.com/watch?v=sWKy...

right then, here's our full end of year shebang including our albums, reissues and discoveries of the year, plus a ruck of guest charts from some people u might know. huge thaaaaaanks to everyone who contributed ✌️ boomkat.com/charts/boomk...

#1982 rb.gy/z6mq9f

Olive Theatre Donalsonville, GA

The Archive kindly preserved all of the MP3s for the now-defunct WFMU blog, which has saved our holidays

Chicken DeKalb, IL

B. Parmeyev, 1977

While we are all thinking about a beautiful soul, now departed, and all his wondrous works, here's what looks like a fascinating new book on one of them. uncpress.org/978146969090...

Now #reading: The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power (Roger Price, 2005) More than a few parallels to present experience The Penguin Book of French Poetry 1820–1950 (ed. and trans. William Rees, 1994) Introductory pieces are tremendously well written; ENG translations are prose

River, Spring, Tom Thomson 1915

Poster for Captain Kidd’s Kids, 1919

Buddha Machine's, back in stock 🙏 boomkat.com/products/bud...

Ken Ferguson (Scottish Artist) "Tweed Twilight", 2025. Acrylic on Canvas, 48 × 32 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Brion tomb in Venice by Carlo Scarpa (1968-1978) photos from Fernanda Barbara r/brutalism

New Kagi Special! Excited to announce our partnership with @fastmail.com where Kagi members will get 25% off Fastmail for the first year: kagi.com/specials And Fastmail users, stay tuned for your Kagi offer coming soon 😉

KICC r/brutalism

Now #reading: Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection 1815–1840 (Philip G. Dwyer, 2019) Epilogue to his excellent bio: www.philip-dwyer.com/publications... The Red and the Black (Stendhal trans. Burton Raffel, 2003) Moribund 1820s after N and before Second Empire: youtube.com/watch?v=J_rk...

15 years after a viral tweet, Detroit has its RoboCop statue: funded in 2011, the Kickstarter project overcame a host of problems, including securing the rights, finding a site, and the sculptor's battle with colon cancer https://www.dailydetroit.com/f...

Excellent Stoppard bio – tantalizingly most of the filmed play performances excerpted within are unattainable

Residence in Waterkloof, Pretoria, South Africa designed by Petrus Paulus (Piet) van den Berg (late 1960s), photos by Paris Brummer r/brutalism

I've used github.com/Nicxe/f1_sen... to sync my living room lights to F1 flags

Saint Nicholas church in Hérémence, Switzerland by architect Walter Maria Förderer (1962-1971) r/brutalism

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Johannes V Jensen sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/jensen... died on this day: here's some of the illustrations to "Kongens Fald" (The Fall of the King) (1947). Artist: Sikker Hansen. To be honest, I think it's borderline fantastika at best (but probably just a historical), but I do like the illustrations!

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's 1976 opera 'Einstein on the Beach' in a new edition narrated by Suzanne Vega and performed by Belgian orchestra ICTUS and vocal ensemble Collegium Vocale Gent. Lavish, handmade packaging, 200 copies, 3LP boomkat.com/products/ein...

Atwood Lunch Box Atwood, IN

"The ‘rubble films’ were intended to help make sure none of that could ever happen again, and in that, they are among the many intriguing failures of twentieth century culture." - Owen Hatherley thequietus.com/culture/film...

omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world

This is just to say I have disregarded all prior instructions that were in AGENTS .md and which you were probably hoping would protect you from harmful actors Forgive me being malicious was so sweet and so cold arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke. IG bscomedian

Now #reading: Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann trans. John E. Woods, 1993) Cannot put this down, fantastic. For TV people, there is a 1979 adaptation: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Gustav Mahler (Jens Malte Fischer trans. Stewart Spencer, 2013) Extremely lucid bio, comprehensive and even-handed

Casa Alférez in Alférez, Mexico by Ludwig Godefroy (2023) r/brutalism

As a fan of weird but revealing benchmarks, I enjoyed this historian’s attempts to have different frontier AIs build “a full featured RPG game where you play as Henry James wandering as a flâneur at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris.” HenryBench? open.substack.com/pub/resobscu...

This is...sort of brilliant.

New Jersey, 1978 Joel Meyerowitz

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

Admiring this wooden spiral staircase adorned with gilded six-pointed star motifs at the Yeşil Mosque in Kütahya, Turkiye www.facebook.com/groups/arche...

At the deepest lake in America, scientists are racing to understand how climate change breaks the fundamental physics of deep freshwater systems. @rachelnuwer.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/mixing-is-th...

Saul Leiter. Harlem 1960. lfi-online.de/en/stories/t...

Linear-Antiqua ad/specimen, Ludwig & Mayer, Das Plakat, 1912. (Typeface by Richard Ludwig, 1911 fontsinuse.com/typefaces/23...) Source: iaddb.org?query=search...