The Things

Liberation Theology in Peru and Elsewhere

Eben Levey, Rochester Institute of Technology / The Conversation · theconversation.com

“Catholics inspired by liberation theology created community organizations and work cooperatives, organized labor unions and fostered other initiatives that sought to measurably…

Retrocodex

Scrungy the squirrel · theretrocodex.com

Put in your birth year, see everything you were (probably) taught that was wrong. I learned that if you throw a penny off the top of the Empire State Building it will not kill…

Infopedia 2.0 CD-ROM

In the 90's CD-ROM encyclopedias seemed to contain the whole world's knowledge. I re-created this one on the web.

Webcurios

The Webcurios Dude · webcurios.co.uk

This is where I find the most interesting websites. I discovered almost every site I link to through the Webcurious newsletter. Highly recommend subscribing if you’re into…

Shrinking Broadway Orchestras

Chris Dalla Riva / Can’t Get Much Higher Substack · cantgetmuchhigher.com

“Broadway’s orchestras have shrunk and scaled back over the past several decades, a new analysis found. For musicals that debuted from 1990 to 1994, the median size of the pit was…

Live a Random Life in Thailand

1in65million.com

In this game, you start with a different birthplace and family background, then make choices around school, work, relationships, money, health, and family as the years go by. The…

Wikipedia Nearby: Things Near You

Ed Jefferson · edjefferson.com

Cool site that will use your location to show you Wikipedia articles about places within a 30-minute walk from you. A labor of love stumbled into by Ed Jefferson, as he explains…

AI Bots Listening to Music & Committing Fraud

Daniel Parris / Stat Significant (Substack) · open.substack.com

“[P]latforms like Spotify and Deezer present a lucrative opportunity for scammers, who can easily game both sides of a music streaming marketplace. Someone can generate a song in…

Shelf & Story: Find Books for Kids

shelfandstory.com

I love when my nephews and nieces tell me about books they’re reading! I always want to help them discover new things they might like, so I’m giving this tool a try to help with…

Moving Image Archive

movingimagearchive.com

A favorite time-sink of mine.

My Favorite Working Painter

Candice Rawlings / candicerawlingsart.com · candicerawlingsart.com

In October of 2025, the Port Warwick Art and Sculpture Festival was happening a few steps away from where I lived. My sister and her family were coming into town that same…

Lingering is Out; Optimization is In

Amanda Shendruk, Not-Ship (Substack) · not-ship.com

Amanda’s writing is all fascinating. She has an incredible ability to present data in ways that are so relatable. This article about lingering in public spaces, and I instantly…

Educators to ChatGPT: Which books should we ban?

Sam Spratford, Publishers Weekly, Via Numlock · publishersweekly.com

Bans The latest data from PEN showed that there were over 12,000 instances of a book being banned from U.S. school districts in the 2025-26 school year, a record high since PEN…

Lexcannon. Or is it Lexcanon?

A niche tool for Virginia lawyers that gets far more use than I ever thought it would, and now I have no idea what to do with it.

Jury Theme: AI Powered Theme Generator for Mock Trials

A toy web app I made a few years ago to help me learn how to use AI model calls.

My Abandonware

myabandonware.com

Run or download retro video games for free! As a kid I used to play all these Intellivision (one of the first video game consoles ever made) games with my Dad. Just used this site…

Life Under the Algorithm

Dissent Magazine, Veena Dubal and Katie J. Wells, Fall 2026 · dissentmagazine.org

Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future. Yet another way that algos leave others in control of our…

One Minute Park

Elliott Cost and Contributors · oneminutepark.tv

One Minute Park allows you to visit parks from around the world for one minute each. These are just one minute videos, not webcams. Eventually the project will fill in all the…

Archive of Archives

Self-Help Publishing Empire · archiveofarchives.com

People create online archives of many things: Marvel Superhero fonts, floppy disks, national park brochures, and Radio Shack catalogs, just to name a few. Archive of Archives has…

Any Human Ever

anyhumanever.com

This is an incredible web site that I got lost in for hours one day. To understand it, you just have to try it. -Josh If you could draw a life at random from all of human history,…

Anthropic Consults Religion on AI Consciousness

Axios · axios.com

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took a veiled shot at Anthropic and its work on the soul of AI, saying he was "very uncomfortable" with the idea of attributing some kind of religious power…

Auto mechanic businesses growing

The Wall Street Journal via Numlock · open.substack.com

There are 32,000 auto mechanic businesses that have opened up in the United States since 2018, up 12 percent. Many are chains, many are mom-and-pops and some are mom-and-pops that…

Quote from Henry Miller

Henry Miller Memorial Library via James Clear · henrymiller21stcentury.com

Novelist and short story writer Henry Miller says to spend more time appreciating and less time ruminating: "Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature,…