kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
WEBThe Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook. Published in 1961 with an introduction by Alice B Toklas, The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook features recipes and wisdom from dozens of writers and artists, including Harper Lee, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Pearl Buck, Upton Sinclair, John Keats, and Burl Ives. Lee shared her recipe for …
Free, Well-Designed, Public Domain Ebooks - kottke.org
WEBDec 14, 2023 — Free, Well-Designed, Public Domain Ebooks. A group of volunteers at Standard Ebooks is producing well-formatted editions of public domain ebooks. Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.
About Kottke.org
WEBAbout Kottke.org. Founded in 1998, kottke.org is one of the oldest blogs on the web. It’s written and produced by Jason Kottke and covers the essential people, inventions, performances, and ideas that increase the collective adjacent possible of humanity. Frequent topics of interest among the 26,000+ posts include art, technology, science, visual culture, design, music, cities, food ...
The most beautiful suicide - kottke.org
WEBJul 16, 2008 — The most beautiful suicide. On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death. The photo ran a couple of weeks later in Life magazine accompanied by the following caption:
The Evolution of Hokusai’s Great Wave - kottke.org
WEBMay 20, 2024 — The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai is one of the world’s most iconic pieces of art. Hokusai created the woodblock print in 1831 at the age of 71 as part of his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. But in some sense, he’d been working on it all of his life. In 1797, at the age of 37, Hokusai made what could be interpreted as ...
The Kottke.org Archives
WEBA growing number of posts on kottke.org have been "tagged" with keywords. Some of the tag pages have dozens or even hundreds of entries, almost like they're slow-moving topical blogs. Warning: you will get lost down some rabbit holes with these. Some recommended starting points. Recently popular topics. All-time popular subjects.
“Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a ce...
WEB4 days ago — posted 2d ago by Jason Kottke. “Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago,” but polling is now the centerpiece of American politics, with “the media obsessing over each statistically insignificant blip”. Why do we pay so …
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
WEBThe knives are available for sale from John Neeman (for $650), along with axes, chef’s knives, longbows, and other handmade items.. Damascus steel was a legendarily tough and resilient steel used to make Middle Eastern swords. The original process for making Damascus steel was lost, but many modern bladesmiths claim to have rediscovered the process or gotten close enough to call their steel ...
Fighting Authoritarianism: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century
WEBNov 29, 2016 — Here are twenty lessons from the twentieth century, adapted to the circumstances of today. 1. Do not obey in advance. Much of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then start to do it without being asked.
Behold Our Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with ...
WEBOct 21, 2019 — Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at NASA have predicted that our own Milky Way galaxy and the nearby Andromeda galaxy (M31) will collide about 4 billion years from now. As part of the announcement from 2012, they produced a video of what the collision would look like and a series of illustrations of what our sky will look ...