Text from the book, the will of a character obligating those who attend the will reading to eat pancakes based on the music chosen for the funeral.
Today’s old book dive didn’t give me life goals…but it did give me a death goal: obligatory pancakes at my funeral.
bring back "software bug of the month"
BYTE choose violence / named and shamed a broken FORTRAN binary search used by Turing Award winner Robert Floyd—a literal pioneer of program correctness
imagine getting roasted in print and then having to wait 30 days for the magazine to publish the solution
A pair of Bugs Bunny shoes being worn shot from the front the big white toe cap is molded to look like Bugs Bunny’s toes and they are grey and furry shoes
The same shoes, unworn, and a diagonal
The shoes again from the side, they are gray with white souls and a big bunny toe cap
The source of the shoe which would leave an imprint like the skeleton foot and toes of a cartoon rabbit
How have I never seen the Bugs Bunny shoes until now? www.bbimpworld.com/products/bbi...
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
The Oscars are Sunday. For @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I paid tribute to 10 great movies from 2025 whose names we won't hear once during the show. Which is a shame.
These pen and ink pieces by @taylormazer.bsky.social are incredible.
Spencer as a toddler peeking out of a Little Tikes kitchen set.
This week's post:
Just A Peck 0035 // Penka, Pella, Powers
justapeck.net/2026/03/08/j...
I love @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social’s writing. I also love the online arts bookstore he runs with his partner Judith. You should buy something from them and support their great work.
Minnesota Star Tribune critics and friends have come up with the ultimate list of the most famous people to ever call this state home.
The Music Box has been listed at #9 on TimeOut's "100 Greatest Cinemas In The World Right Now!"
Honored by the recognition, and proud to be in such good company!
www.timeout.com/film/the-100...
Impressive. It’s interesting to see the 5th Ave and train sides reconstructed.
A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg
Rivers are living beings.
“Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with meaning. Recognizing this makes the feeling more endurable.” [theatlantic.com]
We are partnering with Object podcast for its new season, Imagined Futures, exploring the visual culture of retrofuturism. First episode — Early Sci-Fi and Electric Visions — is out!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Lumière, Le Cinema! is a new documentary film by Thierry Frémaux about Auguste & Louis Lumière and the early days of motion pictures. "The restored footage from short films that are 120, 130 years old is astonishing." [kottke.org]
When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...
Jansson's illustration of a huge Gollum meeting Bilbo.
Tove Jansson illustrated the Swedish translation of the Hobbit?! The image below is how she imagined Gollum.
tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolki...
37 million years old whale spine found in the hot dunes of Egypt. This is a complete skeleton, the first-ever find for Basilosaurus, a large, predatory, prehistoric archaeocete whale uncovered in Wadi El Hitan, preserved with the remains of its prey.
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1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads!
www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
"But if AI instead triggers a rapid reorganization of work—compressing years of change into months, affecting roughly 40 percent of jobs worldwide, as the International Monetary Fund projects—the consequences will not stop at the economy."
Screenshot of the Méliès film, Gugusse and the Automaton
This week's post:
Just A Peck 0034 // Méliès, Slide Rules, Bald Eagles
justapeck.net/2026/03/01/j...
I ask myself this about 3x a day
Beautiful diagrams from a circa 17th-century copy of Muslim polymath Ismail al-Jazarī’s *Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices*, originally published in 1206: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/arabic-machine-manuscript
David Lynch saying ‘One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.’
A friend reminded me today of this hilarious @garygulman.bsky.social stand-up bit about state abbreviations.
youtu.be/dLECCmKnrys?...
“But I think much more importantly, dreaming big is a muscle. You have to exercise it from time to time. Each time I come up with a grand vision and sink dozens to hundreds of hours into it, only to walk away unfinished, I learn a bit more about how to make a dream become real.” @notjack.space
An Archive of Commercial Illustration (c. 1950-75). So much throwback inspiration here! [kottke.org]
Directional arrow in an historic map indicating which way a river flows.
The Art and Design of Expression in Historic Maps
exhibits.stanford.edu/cartosym/bro...
Nano banana 2: "Show me a photo taken of pages 113-114 from the books":
"Eldritch Horrors as Pets: A Guide"
"How Womblenauts Work"
"Photographs of the People of New York Who Look Like Birds".
"Cakes shaped like fish shaped like cakes"
