Kottke.org Posts and Links for Sep 17, 2024
Hi, Jason here. This newsletter is a digest of posts and links from kottke.org, published every Tuesday and Friday. It's not absolutely everything from the site, but it's durn close. Unsubscribing is easy if you'd like to get off this ride. As always, you can read kottke.org on the web, via RSS, on Bluesky, on Mastodon, and in several other ways. Ok, onto the links!
A man named Alan Adler invented both the Aerobie Flying Ring and the AeroPress Coffee Maker. [ironicsans.beehiiv.com]
Ayrton Senna's Heel-and-Toe Braking Technique [kottke.org]
The Power Broker at Fifty, a conversation with Robert Caro at the New-York Historical Society moderated by Elliott Kalan & Roman Mars. Oct 7. In-person tickets are sold out but livestream tickets are still available. [nyhistory.org]
To Understand Mississippi, I Went to Spain. "Enslavement, sharecropping, the rise of cotton, and the physical and economic coercion that fueled the whole global system — this [480-year-old] map made that future possible." [theatlantic.com 🎁]
Congrats to Jason Snell & Dan Moren for ten years of Six Colors. "These days, direct support from readers and listeners makes up a very large proportion of my salary. Thank you all for helping me continue to do this." [sixcolors.com]
Holy moly, William Peterson set a new Fastest Known Time on Vermont's Long Trail: 272 miles with 67,000 feet of elevation gain in 3 days, 21 hours, and 10 minutes. [thetrek.co]
Gamebaby is an iPhone Pro Max case that doubles as a gaming controller for the Delta video game emulator (which lets you play play GB, NES, SNES, N64 games on iOS). Clever. [bitmolab.com]
The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group is dedicated to the study and classification of plastic bread tags (occlupanids). "They take nourishment from the plastic sacs that surround the bagged product, not the product itself, as was previously thought." [kottke.org]
How journalists can stop sanewashing Trump and other politicians. "Sanewashing is the act of packaging radical and outrageous statements in a way that makes them seem normal." [poynter.org]
A recent dating fad in Spain involves available singles cruising the aisles of a particular grocery store chain from 7-8pm with an upside-down pineapple in their carts. "Hanging around the aisle with frozen products could signal a one-night stand." [nytimes.com 🎁]
Recent research indicates that Europeans have been coked up for hundreds of years earlier than previously known. "In this paper, we report the exceptional finding of Erythroxylum spp. in human remains dated to the 1600's in Milan, Italy." [sciencedirect.com]
Well what a surprise in the ol' inbox this morning: Edith Zimmerman is posting her Drawing Links newsletter again. [drawinglinks.substack.com]
Black and Blue and Read All Over. I crashed my bike this weekend. I'm fine, but the site might be a little slow this week as I recover from my injuries. ✌️ [kottke.org]
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