Jason Kottke

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- Mixed on Total Recall 26 Nov 2025
  
  Total Recall. First time! Maybe a little too Verhoeven/B-movie for me. (C+)
  
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- Mixed on Fantastic Four 26 Nov 2025
  
  Fantastic Four. It was ok? Aside from a few things, I’m having trouble getting excited about post-Infinity Saga Marvel. There was just a special alchemy about that whole arc that is proving impossible to reproduce. (B)
  
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- Liked Tron: Ares soundtrack 26 Nov 2025
  
  Tron: Ares soundtrack. Better than the movie. (A-)
  
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Liked Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season three) 26 Nov 2025

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season three). Maybe didn’t enjoy this quite as much as the previous two season, but I love spending time with these people and look forward to doing more of that when season four drops. (B+)

kottke.org 26 Nov 2025

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Loved Iyoshi Cola 26 Nov 2025

Iyoshi Cola. Craft colas are often disappointing, but this one was absolutely delicious. Wish I could get it in the States for less than $14 a can. (A)

kottke.org 26 Nov 2025

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Loved A House of Dynamite 26 Nov 2025

A House of Dynamite. A very tough watch, but I thought this was fantastic as a tour of some of the different kinds of people who hold the fate of every single person on the planet in their hands every damn day. They’re tired, stressed, distracted, at cross-purposes with themselves, set in their ways, more celebs than leaders, and mediocre. And none of them have ever seen Dr. Strangelove? (A)

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Loved Princess Mononoke 26 Nov 2025

Princess Mononoke. I saw this in the theater on my last full day in Tokyo; they recently released a 4K remaster. Absolutely breathtaking. (A+)

kottke.org 26 Nov 2025

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Loved Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 26 Nov 2025

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Great spy thriller. Gary Oldman is fantastic in this. Cold War? Spies? Britain? I will pretty much watch as many of this type of movie as you can make. (A)

kottke.org 26 Nov 2025

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Loved One Battle After Another 26 Nov 2025

One Battle After Another. Great. Especially Sean Penn. And it reminded me of a Wes Anderson movie for some reason? Like one that he would have made had he followed the Bottle Rocket path instead of the Rushmore Path. (A+)

kottke.org 26 Nov 2025

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Liked Leaving America 26 Nov 2025

Leaving America. This is a 12-part podcast on the logistics, benefits, and challenges of leaving the United States. Oh, no reason. (B+)

kottke.org 26 Nov 2025

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Mixed on Awakening Your Ikigai 26 Nov 2025

Awakening Your Ikigai by Ken Mogi. Perhaps a little over-simplifying when it comes to Japanese culture, but I appreciated the message of having a purpose. (B)

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Liked In Praise of Shadows 26 Nov 2025

In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki. Read this book about Japanese aesthetics while visiting Japan — it provided an interesting context. (B+)

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Liked Shopkeeping 26 Nov 2025

Shopkeeping by Peter Miller. This was recommended from a couple of different vectors — pretty sure one was Robin Sloan. Lots of resonance to my work here and how I think about it (and want to think about it). (A-)

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Loved Deacon King Kong 26 Nov 2025

Deacon King Kong by James McBride. This was my first time reading anything by McBride and maybe I have a new favorite author? I love everything about this story and the way he tells it. (A+)

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Uses Proust Was a Neuroscientist 27 Jan 2012

My white desk doesn't work so well with the optical mouse, so for some dumb reason I'm using a 242-page book called Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer as a mousepad.

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Uses Sequel Pro 27 Jan 2012

I also use Terminal, Mail.app (though I mostly check email on my phone these days), TextMate, iTunes (cannot get into Spotify or Rdio for whatever reason), Photoshop (grudgingly), Sequel Pro, and very little else.

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Uses TextMate 27 Jan 2012

I also use Terminal, Mail.app (though I mostly check email on my phone these days), TextMate, iTunes (cannot get into Spotify or Rdio for whatever reason), Photoshop (grudgingly), Sequel Pro, and very little else.

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Uses Safari 27 Jan 2012

Three browsers running all the time on OS X. Safari is my blogging browser, Firefox is my development browser, and Chrome is my fun browser.

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Uses Magic Mouse 27 Jan 2012

I REALLY should go and get that new mouse. [Twenty minutes pass.] I now have a Magic Mouse.

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Loved Emeco 111 Navy Chair 27 Jan 2012

So, I switched from a wheeled chair to a plain old chair and voila, no more back issues. I ended up getting an Emeco 111 Navy Chair in green from Design Within Reach.

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Liked Shure SE115m+ 27 Jan 2012

Connected to the MacBook Pro is usually a pair of Shure SE115m+ earbuds, my third pair of Shure earbuds. They cancel office noise and play music into my ears. They hurt a bit for the first week I wore them, but they're better now.

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Uses Western Digital My Passport 27 Jan 2012

I am typing this on an Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad connected to a 23" Apple Cinema Display connected to 15-inch 3.06 GHz MacBook Pro connected to a 1 Tb Western Digital My Passport portable hard drive on which I back up my files with Time Machine.

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- NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds... 19 Oct 2026 d interviewed Panic’s Cabel Sasser about how they decided to refund their Playdate-buying customers for the tariffs surcharge they paid.
- Do you believe in life after death? This is a great... 19 Oct 2026 teractive piece by Alvin Chang about people’s beliefs about the existence of an afterlife and how those beliefs change over the course of our lifetimes.
- A Tiny 24 FPS E-Ink Game Boy Emulator 19 Oct 2026 This is really impressive: a software engineer got a Game Boy emulator running at 30 fps on a tiny e-ink screen. If you’re familiar with e-paper, you know that they normally refresh much slower (2-3 times a second), not…
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A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past... 19 Oct 2026 ntinuous exhibition at the Met. I hope I make it to NYC to see this before it closes in January.
Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and... 19 Oct 2026 wer defense games. “Nouns make buildings and other parts of speech make modifiers that you can add to a building to improve its stats.”
Hyperland, a Prescient 1990 TV Show by Douglas Adams 19 Oct 2026 I’d never heard of this before: in 1990, the BBC aired a program created by and starring Douglas Adams called Hyperland. It begins with a frustrated Adams throwing his TV out (too linear, too non-interactive) and Tom Ba…
Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours,... 19 Oct 2026 corded live at SF’s Castro Theatre. This one’s going straight into the earholes. Soundcloud, YouTube, and elsewhere.
Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from... 19 Oct 2026 ilding the Creature? “These are serious concerns. And I think we should all stop. Me, especially. Can anyone make me stop doing the thing I want to do? Apparently not.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Consequence of Donald Trump 19 Oct 2026 Writing for Vanity Fair (archive link), Ta-Nehisi Coates says that Donald Trump is the most visionary politician of his era. Through a mix of moxie, cynicism, and misanthropy, Trump has made himself into the dominant Am…
Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black... 16 Oct 2026 ople should have to pay for ancestry.com. Why do I have to pay you to figure out where you stole me from?”
Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out.... 16 Oct 2026 he only website that once a year becomes a book.” I have Book One and it’s lovely
Chromatic Inkscapes 16 Oct 2026 I love these digital illustrations by Adam Fuhrer; he calls them chromatic aberrations. It was difficult to narrow them down to the few favorites above. I posted about Fuhrer’s pen plotted art a couple of years ago…I li…
Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s... 16 Oct 2026 ry hard to control what young people get their hands on, especially if they’re told something is too old for them, or too evil, or too immoral.”
Roooobot. Huuuuuman. 16 Oct 2026 This woman does some amazing things with a series of white rings — lots of precision optical illusions. It’s mesmerizing watching people moving like machines — an interesting psychological thing. Like Avantgardey, which…
The trailer for Blade Runner 2099, a new limited series... 16 Oct 2026 emiering in late November and starring Michelle Yeoh & Hunter Schafer.
Going 94 MPH on a Skateboard (New World Record) 16 Oct 2026 Diego Poncelet recently set a new world record for the fastest speed on a skateboard. The old record was 146.7 km/h (91.2 mph) and he hit 151.8 km/h (94.3 mph). There are a couple of parts you can skip, but watching mos…
I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care... 16 Oct 2026 admit. “A multiplayer game where the multiplayer was about companionship, empathy, and comfort, instead of competition or even interaction.”
Good headline: Nine Inch Snails. 16 Oct 2026
Beautiful Seamless Ride 15 Oct 2026 A lovely little mountain biking video with some incredible locations and cinematography. The drone piloting is A+. Also available on Vimeo. (via alastair humphreys) ]]> Tags: cycling · video
Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element... 15 Oct 2026 ft in iOS?
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A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous exhibition at the Met. I hope I make it to NYC to see this before it closes in January. 19 Oct 2026 youtube.com
Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and tower defense games. “Nouns make buildings and other parts of speech make modifiers that you can add to a building to improve its stats.” 19 Oct 2026 franklantz.substack.com
Hyperland was a prescient 1990 BBC show created by Douglas Adams starring Doctor Who’s Tom Baker as an interactive AI agent who offers to do Adams' "every slightest bidding, to fetch and carry for you, to work tirelessly and selflessly on your behalf…" 19 Oct 2026 kottke.org
Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours, recorded live at SF’s Castro Theatre. This one’s going straight into the earholes. Soundcloud, YouTube, and elsewhere. 19 Oct 2026 youtube.com
Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from Building the Creature? “These are serious concerns. And I think we should all stop. Me, especially. Can anyone make me stop doing the thing I want to do? Apparently not.” 19 Oct 2026 mcsweeneys.net
Ta-Nehisi Coates calls the most visionary politician of his era. “The example that Trump has set, the scope of what is possible should one embrace the dark powers of the White House, will not dissipate." 19 Oct 2026 kottke.org
Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black people should have to pay for ancestry.com. Why do I have to pay you to figure out where you stole me from?” 16 Oct 2026 youtube.com
Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out. “The only website that once a year becomes a book.” I have Book One and it’s lovely… 16 Oct 2026 mundomendo.com
I love these digital illustrations by Adam Fuhrer; he calls them chromatic aberrations. 16 Oct 2026 kottke.org
Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s very hard to control what young people get their hands on, especially if they’re told something is too old for them, or too evil, or too immoral.” 16 Oct 2026 theatlantic.com
This woman does some amazing things with a series of white rings — lots of precision optical illusions. It's mesmerizing watching people moving like machines... 16 Oct 2026 kottke.org
The trailer for Blade Runner 2099, a new limited series premiering in late November and starring Michelle Yeoh & Hunter Schafer. 16 Oct 2026 youtube.com
Going 94 MPH on a Skateboard (New World Record). “I cannot believe how closely the camera car is following him — looks like only a few feet away. Bonkers.” The final run is breathtaking. Literally…I was holding my breath, 16 Oct 2026 kottke.org
I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care to admit. “A multiplayer game where the multiplayer was about companionship, empathy, and comfort, instead of competition or even interaction.” 16 Oct 2026 notsolitaire.com
Good headline: Nine Inch Snails. 16 Oct 2026 theatlantic.com
A lovely little mountain biking video with some incredible locations and cinematography. The drone piloting is A+. 15 Oct 2026 kottke.org
Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element left in iOS? 15 Oct 2026 jarrettfuller.blog
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A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous exhibition at the Met. I hope I make it to NYC to see this before it closes in January. 19 Oct 2026 youtube.com
Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and tower defense games. “Nouns make buildings and other parts of speech make modifiers that you can add to a building to improve its stats.” 19 Oct 2026 franklantz.substack.com
Hyperland was a prescient 1990 BBC show created by Douglas Adams starring Doctor Who’s Tom Baker as an interactive AI agent who offers to do Adams' "every slightest bidding, to fetch and carry for you, to work tirelessly and selflessly on your behalf…" 19 Oct 2026 kottke.org
Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours, recorded live at SF’s Castro Theatre. This one’s going straight into the earholes. Soundcloud, YouTube, and elsewhere. 19 Oct 2026 youtube.com
Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from Building the Creature? “These are serious concerns. And I think we should all stop. Me, especially. Can anyone make me stop doing the thing I want to do? Apparently not.” 19 Oct 2026 mcsweeneys.net
Ta-Nehisi Coates calls the most visionary politician of his era. “The example that Trump has set, the scope of what is possible should one embrace the dark powers of the White House, will not dissipate." 19 Oct 2026 kottke.org
Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black people should have to pay for ancestry.com. Why do I have to pay you to figure out where you stole me from?” 16 Oct 2026 youtube.com
Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out. “The only website that once a year becomes a book.” I have Book One and it’s lovely… 16 Oct 2026 mundomendo.com
I love these digital illustrations by Adam Fuhrer; he calls them chromatic aberrations. 16 Oct 2026 kottke.org
Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s very hard to control what young people get their hands on, especially if they’re told something is too old for them, or too evil, or too immoral.” 16 Oct 2026 theatlantic.com
This woman does some amazing things with a series of white rings — lots of precision optical illusions. It's mesmerizing watching people moving like machines... 16 Oct 2026 kottke.org
The trailer for Blade Runner 2099, a new limited series premiering in late November and starring Michelle Yeoh & Hunter Schafer. 16 Oct 2026 youtube.com
Going 94 MPH on a Skateboard (New World Record). “I cannot believe how closely the camera car is following him — looks like only a few feet away. Bonkers.” The final run is breathtaking. Literally…I was holding my breath, 16 Oct 2026 kottke.org
I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care to admit. “A multiplayer game where the multiplayer was about companionship, empathy, and comfort, instead of competition or even interaction.” 16 Oct 2026 notsolitaire.com
Good headline: Nine Inch Snails. 16 Oct 2026 theatlantic.com
A lovely little mountain biking video with some incredible locations and cinematography. The drone piloting is A+. 15 Oct 2026 kottke.org
Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element left in iOS? 15 Oct 2026 jarrettfuller.blog
Link verified 4 Sept 2026. Recent items update automatically from the channel.

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