Silkscreen font - kottke.org
WEBSilkscreen is a typeface for your Web graphics created by Jason Kottke. Silkscreen works on the Mac, Linux, and Windows and is free for personal and corporate use.There is more information about Silkscreen in the FAQ below.
Adam Hale makes these fantastic brain-busting time- & perspe...
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Adam Hale makes these fantastic brain-busting time- & perspective-slicing animations. There’s something a bit Python about them. In order to leave a comment, you need to be a current kottke.org member. This is the name that'll be displayed next to comments you make on kottke.org; your email will not be displayed publicly.
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WEBAyrton Senna’s Heel-and-Toe Braking Technique. There’s a driving technique called heel-and-toe where the driver uses all three pedals (brake, clutch, throttle) at once to make deceleration smoother, especially in the turns.. Heel-toe or heel-and-toe double-declutching is used before entry into a turn while a vehicle is under braking, preparing the transmission to be in the optimal range of ...
The Museum of Endangered Technology Sounds - kottke.org
WEBApr 6, 2022 · The Museum of Endangered Technology Sounds. The Museum of Endangered Sounds is a soundboard of dozens of sounds from old technologies, from the ICQ message notification (“uh oh!”) to the Windows 95 startup sound to a rotary telephone to a dial-up modem. Suuuuper nostalgic. See also …
41 Questions We Should Ask Ourselves About the Technology We …
WEBAug 13, 2021 · In an issue of his newsletter, The Convivial Society, L.M. Sacasas posed 41 questions that we should ask ourselves about technologies to help us “draw out the moral or ethical implications of our tools”. Here are a few of the questions: 3. How will the use of this technology affect my experience of time?
Meet Aerospace Engineer Judith Love Cohen - kottke.org
WEBMay 14, 2019 · Judith Love Cohen was, at various times in her fascinating life, an engineer who worked on the Pioneer, Apollo, and Hubble missions, an author & publisher of books about women in STEM and environmentalism in the 90s, a ballet dancer with the New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, an advocate for better treatment of …
kottke.org posts about blogs
WEBJan 18, 2019 · At the same time, the blogosphere, while crucial, has only offered so much velocity and so much gravity. By which I mean: it’s only propelled my career so far, and the blogs I’ve written for (Kottke notwithstanding) have only had so much ability to retain me before they’ve changed their business model, changed management, gone out of ...
Welcome Back to the Site, Edith! - kottke.org
WEBFeb 19, 2024 · Welcome Back to the Site, Edith! Hey, everyone. I’m really excited to announce that Edith Zimmerman is joining kottke.org as a regular contributor! Edith guest edited the site back in December and sent me an email a few weeks ago saying how much fun she’d had and that if I needed any help around the place, she’d be down for that. I hadn’t really been planning to add anyone to the site ...
The Forgotten Craft & Community of Ice Harvesting
WEBSep 23, 2021 · Ice Ball is a short documentary that follows legendary polar explorer Will Steger and the community that he’s built up around harvesting ice from frozen winter lakes near Ely in northern Minnesota. Steger lives off the grid and uses the harvested ice for refrigeration — the ice keeps everything cool in the ice house for the whole year ...
Miniature Life - kottke.org
WEBAug 19, 2021 · Miniature Life. Since 2011, Tatsuya Tanaka has been creating daily images of miniature people in the midst of everyday items that resemble bigger things (think broccoli as trees, rows of staples as countertops, floating leaves as boats). Here’s a short video of Tanaka at work on his miniatures: You can follow his work on his website or on ...