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Jason Kottke — Blogger since 1998
Curated tech and culture links. One of the longest-running blogs (since 1998).
kottke.orgOne of the oldest and most beloved blogs on the web. Jason Kottke has been curating links to interesting things since 1998 — science, design, culture, technology, art — with a voice that's curious, warm, and never cynical. Reading kottke.org feels like having a friend who's always finding something fascinating and can't wait to share it.
Written by Jason Kottke since 1998.
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Satellite’s Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse Photo Taken From Orbit
During the recent annular solar eclipse on February 17, the ESA’s PROBA-2 satellite captured this great shot of the Moon passing in front of the Sun. Cue up the Johnny Cash. Tags: astronomy · Moon · photography · science · Sun
“ Eclipses have been connected with the fate of...
“Eclipses have been connected with the fate of rulers since at least ancient Mesopotamia, around 4,000 years ago.” But more recently: “In 1581, Queen Elizabeth I of England made it a felony to use horoscopes to predict her death or her successor.”
Calculating the longest line of sight on Earth : 530km...
Calculating the longest line of sight on Earth: 530km (329 miles) between “an unnamed Himalayan ridge near the Indian-Chinese border and Pik Dankova in Kyrgyzstan”.
“ x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86...
“x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. Yes, the Cascading Style Sheets CSS. No JavaScript required. What you’re seeing above is a C program that was compiled using GCC into native 8086 machine code being executed fully within CSS.”
Ali Akbar, the last newspaper hawker in Paris, has been...
Ali Akbar, the last newspaper hawker in Paris, has been awarded a knighthood by French president Emmanuel Macron. “Macron went on to refer to Akbar as ‘the most French of the French — a Voltairean who arrived from Pakistan.’”
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