Dan Olson is an Alberta based documentarian making videos on a broad range of subjects rooted in stories and how they reflect and shape the world around us.
Jonathan Blow on Deep Focus
Cognitive Debt and ChatGPT
Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology
Hawkins-Weeks Photography
A blog about photography, featuring landscape, nature, abstract and macro subjects, plus articles on art, music and books (oh, and coffee!)
rheingold's brainstorms: rheingoldian writing
MOOSE Crossing is a text-based virtual world (or "MUD") where kids, in Bruckman's words, "are imagining new places and objects, and creating them with words and programs. In their spare time for fun they are reading, doing creative writing, and writing computer programs. Through these activities, they are learning in a self-motivated, self-directed, peer-supported fashion." Imagine combining the educational value of a well-designed curriculum in writing, history, programming, mathematics or other subject areas with the innate fascination that kids exhibit when they play with video games or college students exhibit when they stay online for hours on end, engaged in the role-playing games known as MUDs.
Video Essays | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Laying off half the company?
chenxiachan/textfold
Fold papers, web pages, files, and AI replies into five levels of detail. Zoom from an overview to the original text.
Weird Studies
Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."
Eric Garza - Storyteller, Scholar, Educator
Eric grew up in the Midwest United States, and now lives in Vermont’s Champlain Valley. A childhood spent fishing and wandering the field and forest remnants near his suburban home inspired him to study ecology, environmental science, and systems thinking throughout his college years, and coaxed him to ask deeper questions about how the human enterprise engages with the landscapes it inhabits. His formal education, along with his well-developed senses of curiosity and wonder, informs his trans-disciplinary understanding of how the world works and how things came to be the way they are. These understandings are still very much evolving.
Maggie Appleton
Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology
Man Walks All Day to Create Spectacular Snow Patterns
Artist Simon Beck spends days plodding through the snow in raquettes (snowshoes), creating these sensational patterns of snow art.
DeepSeek
Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology
UI/Design
The hardest working font in Manhattan
The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing
Goudy Oldstyle in use
Steve Simkins
A corner of the web for builders.
The 1960s Art School Experiment That Redefined Creativity