Mangos. Manuals. Media. : librarians, heroes of the apocalypse. Science Fiction Movie Lettering : “Glowing letters were a big trend that started in the late 80s, most likely set off by the Alien franchise. And I can never get enough of the 3D type in early films.” /via The Future is Like Pie Examples of Good and Bad UX in Improvised Signage in Movie Theaters : answering is there an end or…
A memorial gallery of useless websites that once lived on The Useless Web and have since gone offline, been squatted, or otherwise vanished. theuselessweb.com/sites-we-lost
"The practice economy is what keeps a community running. It’s knitted together through relationships, reputation, and service. It’s t he most resilient form of work in human history, compressed by every economic revolution. It always comes back." schoolofthepossible.substack.com
"When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark." theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/05/billionaire-consequence-free-reality
"Making memories with my family. Going to bed early instead of watching another episode. Amazingly waking up (earlier!) feeling rested. Walking in the woods. Making more room to eat, drink, and be merry. (And play Magic: the Gathering.) All of those things are, by nature, slow, unproductive (depending on who you ask), and, perhaps because of their inherent slowness, compounders of joy over time."…
There exists for each of us a geographical fulcrum, a place so saturated with memory that within its precinct the past is always present. The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin