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The "sensitive content" in question is a buttcrack in a Titian painting. 🤡

New analysis of Leonardo da Vinci's papers show that he did some remarkably prescient work on gravity, demonstrating that it's a form of acceleration and estimating the gravitational constant to 97% accuracy. kottke.org/23/02/leonardo…

Well, I was not expecting Tetris to be the next video game to be turned into an edgy drama (an 80s Cold War techno-thriller, no less), but here we are. The trailer looks....good? kottke.org/23/02/theyre-m…

I saw Dune 2 trending and I thought: finally people are excited about one of my all-time favorite video games

In 1955, the Ford Motor Company hired poet Marianne Moore to name their revolutionary new car. She suggested names like "Utopian Turtletop" and "The Intelligent Whale". Ford ended up going with their own name: The Edsel. kottke.org/23/02/ford-mot…

Last call for Kottke Hypertext Tees. If you want one of these fabulous shirts, you've got another ~24 hours to order one before they're gone. If you've ordered already, thank you! They've proven surprisingly popular. kottke.org/23/02/last-cal…

Uh, paging Open Culture openculture.com/2023/02/when-a…

In the next couple of weeks, I'm going to be doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) and I'm collecting questions for it today. So if there's anything you'd like to know about me, the site, or the world, ask away! kottke.org/23/02/ask-me-a…

The Ukrainian postal service has released a stamp featuring artwork by Banksy to mark the first anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion. It also says "FCK PTN" on it in Ukrainian. kottke.org/23/02/new-ukra…

The self-own is the purest form of own

To mark the 25th anniversary of his death, here's a 17- year-old Notorious B.I.G. freestyling on a street corner in Bed Stuy in 1989. Even then, you could tell. #RIPBIG kottke.org/13/11/17-year-…

I was recently on John Gruber's The Talk Show podcast! Our time together was pretty limited, but we still managed to talk about the history of blogging, my recent sabbatical, Stellar, the 25th anniversary of the site, and more. Give it a listen! kottke.org/23/03/kottke-2…

Kottke[dot]org turns 25 this week and if you find value in what I do here, please consider supporting the site by purchasing a membership today. And thank you to past & current members for supporting the site – I appreciate you! kottke.org/23/03/kottke-2…

Unbelievably, kottke[dot]org turns 25 years old today – the site predates Google! "That's more than half of my life, spanning four decades and ~40,000 posts, almost cartoonishly long for a medium optimized for impermanence." Thx for reading! kottke.org/23/03/kottke-i…

In case you missed it somehow, kottke[dot]org turned 25 years old this week. Thank you so much for all the lovely comments; it really means a lot. kottke.org/23/03/kottke-i…

Hey cool, Christina Warren is wearing a Kottke Hypertext Tee on her show today! youtube.com/watch?v=qcu05s… You can get a shirt of your own right here. cottonbureau.com/p/EGM9Q5/shirt…

An absolutely gobsmacking image of the Sun shot in the "hydrogen-alpha band of the visible spectrum", which reveals an unbelievable amount of texture & features, including a solar tornado that's 14 Earths tall. kottke.org/23/03/the-sun-…

Finally, the Kottke AMA! All day today, I'll be answering reader-submitted questions on a new website that I built specifically for the AMA. Check it out! kottke.org/23/03/kottke-a…

ChatGPT Made Me Cry and Other Adventures in AI Land. "I keep using the word 'we' here because coding with ChatGPT – and this is where it starts to feel weird in an uncanny valley sort of way – feels like a genuine creative collaboration." kottke.org/23/03/chatgpt-…

As you might have noticed, this acct is no longer active. Twitter has shut off API access to the app I've used since 2008 to post links here. Until a change in ownership (or in the owner's stability & political views), there will be no more kottke[dot]org content posted here.