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The Quilters is a short documentary about a group of men in a Missouri prison who spend 40 hours a week making birthday quilts for foster kids and kids with disabilities.. The Quilters follows the daily …
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies...
May 19, 2025 · Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95. “He and about 60 other engineers had less than two days to invent a solution using materials already …
PBS executives forced the makers of an Art Spiegelman docume...
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kottke.org posts about Shirokuro
May 19, 2025 · Whoa, look at the interior of this new Japanese restaurant in NYC called Shirokuro — all of the surfaces (floors, chairs, walls, counters, etc.) are painted to look like a 2-dimensional …
Fairy Pools is an excerpt from Patricia Lockwood’s upcoming...
May 19, 2025 · Fairy Pools is an excerpt from Patricia Lockwood’s upcoming novel, Will There Ever Be Another You. “Arugula, she thought. I’m going to die alone in a Scottish castle because people …
Scientists have invented (or discovered?) a new color called...
Apr 28, 2025 · Scientists have invented (or discovered?) a new color called “olo”. “Verifying that [the] participants had indeed seen a novel color was tricky. Only one person witnesses the experience …
kottke.org posts about Philip Larkin
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Stephen King used to “grant permission to students and aspir...
Apr 18, 2025 · Stephen King used to “grant permission to students and aspiring filmmakers to adapt one of his short stories for $1”. He called them his Dollar Babies. Frank Darabont made one of …
Supercut of Every Time Norm Enters the Bar on Cheers
May 21, 2025 · George Wendt, who played lovable barfly Norm Peterson on Cheers for 11 seasons, died yesterday at the age of 76. Here’s an 18-minute supercut of every time Norm entered the …
The Courage to Be Decent. “What matters is that acts we once...
Apr 25, 2025 · The Courage to Be Decent. “What matters is that acts we once took for granted as virtuous, routine, and safe — telling the truth, representing those oppressed by the state, … basic …