The mysterious cartoonist who goes by pseudonym Olivia James has left the comic strip Nancy which she revitalized with sometimes surreal, absurdist and self-aware humor in 2018. Starting today Nancy is by Eisner winner Caroline Cash. Exciting times for Nancy fans! www.gocomics.com/extras/nancy...

That is correct for $2000! (Your current score: $182000)

I can’t believe tomorrow’s Gisnep is #500!! That’s a lot of puzzles. If you aren’t already playing, a vast archive awaits you! gisnep.com

God this is heartbreaking. I read many of his books. I’d seen him speak. One of my prized possessions was hand-written correspondence I received from Oliver Sacks. I feel so let down.

Good read — Becoming a Centenarian www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

No newsletter this week, but it’s a good opportunity to catch up on the last edition in which I attempted to find every giant model whale in the world, in size order. (Spoiler: the blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History is not the biggest!) ironicsans.ghost.io/there-be-wha...

@kottke.org This struck me as potentially of interest to you: youtu.be/uBwM8oy7_Ok?...

The last episode of Pluribus comes out on December 26, just one day too late to call the episode A Christmas Carol.

Carol Sturka is an anagram for Our Car Talks. Also: Ocular Karts, A Solar Truck, and Orca Ark Slut. This reveals everything.

This Vectrex version of Donkey Kong is incredible! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO0t...

Gen X comedy nerds, assemble! youtu.be/Bw2bJZl990I?...

This is a good time to remind everyone that I disliked these people so much we rolled our own Whitney alternative to avoid giving them more money, and gave it away for free so that nobody else had to either nebulasans.com

Aside from everything else, Sora has the absolute worst feed algorithm of any feed that has ever algorithmed.

Johnny Carson's house is for sale for $110,000,000.00 www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

NEW PERSONAL RECORD!! I solved today’s #Gisnep in 00:56. 🎉 No. 433 | October 14, 2025 gisnep.com

The great thing about AI is that you can remake movies the way you remember them

A classic from @ironicsans.com I have always enjoyed. Can you tell Arial from Helvetica? I can, though I was tripped up by the same three that a lot of folks seem to miss. ironicsans.com/helvarialqui...

I wrote about people who write blurbs. Huh. Blurb. That’s a funny word. Blurb. Why do we call a little quote of praise a blurb anyway? Well, I wrote the answer to that, too. Blurb. ironicsans.ghost.io/the-king-of-...

I love to see a writer as the subject of an SNL documentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMgF...

🚨The movie “Cube” (1997) is now free to watch on YouTube. It’s one of my favorite examples of a movie that does a lot with a little, basically one set used so cleverly in different ways. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TrW...

Am I the only one who has no recollection of there being a PS2 or PS4? If you told me they only made odd numbered PlayStations, I’m not sure I could refute you.

They put a trampoline on the Great Pyramids. A trampoline. On the pyramids! ironicsans.ghost.io/the-trampoli...

In 1977, a plan was hatched to put a trampoline on top of a Great Pyramid. Best pyramid scheme ever. ironicsans.ghost.io/the-trampoli...

Just saw a product for making “AI Generated UGC” (that’s User Generated Content) and my head’s about to explode

Heck of a week for doomscrolling. Might as well have fun while you’re at it. gisnep.com/doomscroll

Wow this Liquid Glass on iOS is so awful. They have really shot themselves in the foot by needlessly breaking something that didn’t need to be fiddled with.

Wow, PC Gamer really doesn’t like my new web game. Actually, they did like it until they realized it was vibe coded and that changed their opinion. The commenters largely disagree with the article. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

This is so fucking good that I had to use a profanity in this sentence.

In the last 24 hours more than 10,000 people have played the web game I announced on Tuesday. Here’s the story behind why and how I made it: ironicsans.ghost.io/doomscrollin...

I just Doomscrolled 1028 meters and killed 590 monsters. How far can you get? gisnep.com/doomscroll What a neat little web game.

DOOMscroll: a game you play just by scrolling, the NYT headlines ripped from their homepage are a clever touch https://gisnep.com/doomscroll/

I added #Gisnep to my morning puzzles a few months ago and love it. Easy second-place in my tier list right behind #squardle but before #nytconnections.

Dadgummit... my record is 59 seconds, and thought I might have beaten it this time. Recommended for those looking for a word puzzle to add to, or perhapos replace, their others. I solved today’s #Gisnep in 01:00. 🎉 No. 397 | September 8, 2025 gisnep.com

Fun concept: gisnep.com/doomscroll/

I just Doomscrolled 566 meters and killed 312 monsters. How far can you get? gisnep.com/doomscroll

I shared an early version of this a few weeks ago, but I've made a lot of improvements and I think I'm done with it for now. It probably has bugs, so please let me know if you run into them. I present to you: Doomscroll, the game you play just by scrolling! gisnep.com/doomscroll/

Noted art historian with PhD in Italian Renaissance Art just launched a new YouTube channel. Oh also he’s RoboCop. youtube.com/@drwellerworld

Making my annual pilgrimage to the Classic Arcade Museum

M1ke and Mik3 are my obsession of the day. The whole channel is just like this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NubL...

I've added new features to my new DOOMScroll game prototype! New: Simple weapon upgrades, and flames chasing you to keep you moving. More to come, but you can play the prototype now at ironicsans.com/doomscroll/

This has become part of my daily routine, it's a fun challenge as well as an interesting source of quotes and quips that can send you down a Wiki rabbithole for a while!

My first GPT-5 vibe-coding experiment is a game I’ve been wanting to make for a while and now I have a simple but playable prototype. I present: DOOMscroll! The game you play just by scrolling. ironicsans.com/doomscroll/

One year ago today I launched a little daily puzzle called Gisnep. Thank you to everyone who has played over the last year! And pre-thanks to everyone who is about to start playing! gisnep.com

It's the first birthday for Gisnep, the exciting daily puzzle that I try to play on a daily basis! Article about the game from creator @ironicsans.com ironicsans.ghost.io/one-year-of-...

I had no idea when I switched to Ghost that it has this TK Reminder feature. I only discovered it because I've habitually used TK as a placeholder since forever. The first time I typed TK in Ghost and saw it stick a little TK in the margin, I was blown away. So smart. ghost.org/changelog/tk...

If you're looking for something a bit different to play: gisnep.com

I solved today’s #Gisnep in 20:34. 🎉 No. 352 | 25 July 2025 gisnep.com This is a good game 👏

I can’t believe I never heard about this experiment in hijacking how eyes and brains work before ironicsans.ghost.io/the-optical-...

Turns out I can’t touch-type “koi pond” without first typing “koi poind”