- I cannot remember where I found it, but this World Monitor App is wild. You can configure your own sort of hyper cyber dashboard of world news and events like you always see in pretend CIA headquarters in spy movies.
- WalkmanLand pays tribute to the pocket tape devices of yesterdays. (My entire life changed when I got my first Sony Walkman, sometime around 1986.)
- I am loving these incredible color photos of Rome that Jason found at the Library of Congress. And I might have already blogged this, but in case you missed it he also found these awesome Real Photos that Look Fake.
- Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible
- Drew Struzan: The Man Behind Your Favorite Childhood Movie Posters
- I dig this cool odometer effect implemented purely with CSS. – via cassidoo
So Much Bad News:
“There are few things more liberating in life than having your worst fear realized.”Conan O’Brien
- The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”
- Students in Savannah grieve teacher killed in crash with driver pursued by ICE.
- A Call to Conscience, by Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago
- A little-known group stacked with lobbyists for the artificial intelligence industry has been sending congressional staffers on upscale trips over the past year to tour AI companies in San Francisco, London, New York City, and Los Angeles.
- The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Current Administration Officials Scrapped It.
- Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release.
- Administration Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms