Offset lithograph in colors featuring an Olivetti typewriter flying through the air along with winged spheres, all above a portion of the moon.
Milton Glaser poster for Lexikon 83 DL Typewriter by Mario Bellini for Olivetti (1976)
IT IS TIME FOR THE WINTER PARALYMPICS!!!!
The Paralympics are the most consistently mind-blowing sporting event on the calendar. I promise you simply reading about how various Paralympic events work will make you say WHAT?!? or HOW?!?!? out loud at least once
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
JOB OPENING! If you want to work as a reporter with Nature's US news team, this is a VERY RARE opportunity. The beat is physical sciences/energy & environment/technology. DC or NYC location. Deadline 3/27. Join our awesome team! #journojobs
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I love everything about this! The conviction that a major figure was not struck by a bolt of lightning but worked to understand the system he would ultimately critique and help dismantle. The scholarly sleuthing rare books — all of it. 😎🤓
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Finishing up Day 3 in the Paralympic Village, great to see my mixed doubles teammates starting off with a big W against a very good Latvian team! 🇺🇸🥌
In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth, check out this blog post highlighting the many records we have documenting women in Boston! This Teacher Qualification record for Wilhelmina Crosson is just one example. ow.ly/w9KS50Yoy7r
the computer is NOT conscious. until you put googly eyes on it
A Boston man discovered a document passed down through his family: his ancestor’s freedom papers. “When he touched that paper he was touching the same place his relative touched in 1834.” [youtube.com]
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
ok Richard Scarry
Little red dragon with blue horns and golden wings, surrounded by gold foliage, illustration from illuminated MS.
A little marginalia.
Dragonlet, Book of Hours, Paris c.1410.
It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
Gorillaz "The Mountain" 8-minute short film is now online.
Directed by Jamie Hewlett, Max Taylor & Tim McCourt at The Line studio.
An homage to the golden era of 2D animation, produced with a hybrid analogue-digital workflow.
>> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-02...
LOGGING ON
Brooklyn Public Library ends passport services after order from State Department www.brooklynpaper.com/brooklyn-pub...
The next time someone says, "Oh, I'm just going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit, what's the big deal?" you should show them this
Because of new USPS rules, voters who mail registration forms near the deadline may risk being left off the rolls. One solution: requesting a manual postmark at the retail counter of a post office.
I know it is easy to doomscroll, especially today. Please plan for yourself at least one or many more offline activities. Buy a pastry, read a book, go to a museum, see a friend, cook a meal, play with a pet, or even a trip to Costco. Try to limit time on your phone and avoid stewing in anxiety.
JOB ALERT 📜📚
Librarian & executive director of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library (Farmington, CT)
•Research center for 18th-century Britain
•You’d report to the fabulous Michelle Light
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I'm not an expert in YouTube metrics. If you are, I would love to know whether you think it's normal for a video to get 2.4 million views and only have one comment.
À ma soeur (2001) dir: Catherine Breillat a woman sits despondantly in the ocean staring out at the incoming waves in the next image she is lying flat in the surf
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Flatiron building in front of bluesky at sunset
Flatiron - Blue Hour - New York City #FridayPhoto 🗃️📷📸
A black and white dog with black eyespots and a large boopable nose lies on the carpet and looks over at you with a calm expression.
Emergency dog photo
I have this cancer in remission (nearly 20 years now). I'm convinced the only reason I'm still alive is because I was (for a neuro knock-on catastrophe) treated with immunoglobulin donated by strangers. Their antibodies taught mine, got me out of a wheelchair.
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The shadow of a heron standing on a low wall with. Its feet are visible towards the top of the frame.
Heron, Osaka. This guy was hanging out happy as can be by the art museum. I *did* take a picture of him as well but I like this better.
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
So vastly limited smartphone growth -- the primary device of billions for personalized communication, learning & info access & sharing...
How will this affect education, app development, informal leaning possibilities & opportunities?
www.reuters.com/business/med...
Interesting details about Lego's new Smart Brick, how the digital brick works & how it could expand users' mashups & unique creations
www.wired.com/story/exclus...
