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A game called “It is as if you were on your phone”...

2025-03-08 06:56:48

A game called “It is as if you were on your phone” is designed to make you look like you’re on your phone. “You’re just pretending to be on your phone! On your phone!”

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A collection of movie clips containing inaccurate binocular shots, “(i.e., two overlapping...

2025-03-08 06:10:47

A collection of movie clips containing inaccurate binocular shots, “(i.e., two overlapping circles instead of one, as you would see in real life)” — including Rushmore, Das Boot, Ronin, Chinatown, and Superman.

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From Ben Fry, a visualization of the 5,000+ covers of the New...

2025-03-08 05:20:23

From Ben Fry, a visualization of the 5,000+ covers of the New Yorker from the past 100 years. “The horizontal line/artifact comes from the way that they re-run their first cover (and more recently, a variant of it) each year on their anniversary.”

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Star Trek: TNG Opening Credits, But the Theme Music Is Coming From the Enterprise

2025-03-08 04:41:36

This is the dumbest thing but it had me rolling in the aisles this morning: Star Trek TNG Theme but the theme music is coming from the Enterprise-D. It takes a bit to get going, but I laughed so hard when the ship whooshed by for the first time.

The same creator has made a number of videos in this vein, including The Imperial March but it’s coming from Vader’s chest control panel and Star Trek DS9 Theme but the theme is coming from DS9 Ops.

Tags: music · remix · Star Trek · TV · video

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This is fantastic and very much worth your time: Marcin Wichary’s deep...

2025-03-08 03:56:19

This is fantastic and very much worth your time: Marcin Wichary’s deep dive into a staunchly utilitarian font called Gorton, which you see almost everywhere in American cities, especially NYC. “Gorton is everywhere in Manhattan.”

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I Took My Work Outside Every Day for a Month This Winter....

2025-03-08 03:15:40

I Took My Work Outside Every Day for a Month This Winter. (“My work” = typing on a laptop.) “Even though I’m not perfectly warm, it lifts my mood to be outside. I can hear the community of songbirds holding their morning conferences, a barking dog…”

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