- Ye Olde Blogroll: “You are viewing a humanly curated list of fine personal & independent blogs that are updated regularly.”
- Tree House by Lake: One of the Best Houses of 2023.
- Heavyweight — the big-hearted podcast that’s looking for a home. One of my favorite podcasts, I hope they are back next season. Also, one of the best podcast theme songs.
- Somewhere in Maryland.
I’m such a sucker for these what’s in my bag posts. This one from Matt Mullenweg.
Here we are at the bottom of the year. The pit of darkness, cold and grim. From here we begin the ascent to glorious summer! Sun! Warmth! Leaves! Flowers! Light!
Scarface’s Tiny Desk Concert1 is pretty cool, but the best part is when he performs Mind Playing Tricks on Me. The link starts the video right at his emotional preamble about fatherhood and his craft leading up to the performance. All the feels. Plus he gets the audience to rap Bushwick Bill’s2 part. What a great nostalgia bomb!
Basically, the starfish was all headlike. This contradicts textbook descriptions of echinoderms, the evolutionary group that includes starfish, as animals that have lost their head. This study shows that “rather than losing their head, they’re almost entirely head, and they’ve actually lost their trunk,” Lowe says.
Via the always great Curious About Everything Newsletter.
What it’s like to be … is a podcast about exploring the world of work, one profession at a time, through interviews with people who love what they do. The first episode about a ballpark beer vendor is really great!