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Quick Links for February 2015

WOW. The Chicago Bulls' official site has reverted to its 90s design, which I remember very clearly. Nostalgia bomb.
The fitness version of "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." is Zeynep Tufekci's "Lift. Move. Regularly."
Entertaining recap of Will Smith's career peaks and valleys from the Grantland gang
The rise of boxer briefs; they're now the most popular men's underpants in the US
Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting "will NOT be doing a Wes Anderson video essay"
Thanks to The Quarter Century Pant for sponsoring the site. Made in America w/ a 25-year guarantee; get yours today:
_\\// RIP Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015.
Harrison Ford is confirmed to return as Deckard in the upcoming Blade Runner sequel
Serious Eats takes a tour of the cheese caves at Murray's
After feeding crows in her garden, a Seattle girl started getting gifts back from them
Net Neutrality wins the day: FCC votes to treat all internet traffic equally
The fear of children being kidnapped by strangers is a vastly overrated issue in the US
The Verge is liveblogging the FCC net neutrality meeting, Apple keynote-style
Bingeclock tracks how long you'll need if you plan on binge-watching various TV shows. Law and Order? 19 days.
Design Ah! introduces kids to design concepts
Rdio gets the Led out…Led Zeppelin's albums are now available on the streaming music service
Wow, HTML natively supports autocomplete w/o JS
Your father is a convicted serial killer. How do you forgive something like that?
Line of the day so far: "London is now a set of improbable sex toys poking gormlessly into the air"
Russia will withdraw their modules from the ISS in 2024 and form their own space station
How P.T. Anderson uses long shots to emphasize the isolation of his characters
I never knew how much I wanted to hear Christina Aguilera do an impression of Britney Spears until I watched this
How to find your family history online, especially if you're African American
An unvaccinated 18-month-old boy has died of measles in Germany
Everything is more energy efficient these days but we're just using more stuff, so we're not actually saving energy
The companion book for Gary Hustwit's trilogy of films (Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized) is out
Ten years ago yesterday, I started working on as my full-time job. Thanks for reading. -@jkottke
"The lack of movement and rigid restrictions associated with modern schooling are killing my son's soul."
Short fiction from Junot Diaz, The Cheater's Guide to Love
Currently listening to The Theory of Everything soundtrack
Thanks to Sophia, The Smart Jump Rope, for sponsoring the site. It's a fitness tracker w/ companion smartphone app
This new book looks interesting... Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
A recent photographic tour of the solar system, courtesy of all the various probes, rovers, and spacecraft out there
Visualization of the diversity among winners at the Oscars. Unnecessary spoiler: there's not much.
From Serious Eats: a massive guide on where to eat good Chinese food in NYC
Why the Oscars are so lame: a "longtime" member of the Academy shares her picks the awards
Stripe now supports Bitcoin; charge is 0.5% per transaction compared to 2.9% + 30¢ for CC transactions
The forthcoming memoir by Oliver Sacks is called On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sachs writes beautifully about his recent diagnosis w/ terminal cancer.
Kobe Bryant: branding isn't 100% commercial; "That's like saying every wizard within Slytherin House is a villain."
An Amazonian tribe sent a 10-yo boy to the US so he could return as an adult to save their village. Did it work?
Drug decriminalization has worked for Portugal, in part b/c resources were shifted to health & welfare services
Greg Allen explores the stagecraft of Utah's firing squad execution chamber; "the person wears an actual target"
Opening next week at the Museum of the City of New York, an exhibition on uber-designer Paul Rand
The scientific consensus is in: birds are living dinosaurs
Available for pre-order: John Seabrook's The Song Machine, an account of how contemporary pop music is made
Kanye: "I had a heartfelt discussion with my Tumblr."
For hardcore SNL fans: Taschen's beautiful Saturday Night Live: The Book
Long piece on Apple and Jony Ive in the New Yorker this week
Jason Polan went to Kanye's fashion show to draw ppl. "I said, 'Hi Beyoncé,' and she said, 'Heeey,' and smiled."
The Day After Tomorrow increasingly nonfictional: upcoming New England blizzard will be hurricane size & strength
When scientists say "the Big Bang," they mean two possible things. But only one of them is still correct.
What stores, foods, and shoppers do you find at the contemporary American shopping mall?
This is great: after getting lost, an LA man made and installed his own freeway exit sign
A highlight reel of the amazing things NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has seen in its 5 yrs watching the Sun
What?! The NY Times' David Carr is dead at 58.
Japan's oldest businesses have lasted for 1000+ years, why are they failing now?
The weirdest moon in the solar system is super-dark on one side b/c it orbits thru debris from another moon
"Thanks Obama"
World Press Photo announces the winners of their 2015 photo contest
The Whiskey Cabinet is a jargon-free guide for the whiskey enthusiast
Obama: climate change kills far more people than terrorism (and he's right)
11 great choices to replace Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show
Typewriters "set typography back by centuries"
Jon Stewart is leaving The Daily Show
Atul Gawande's Being Mortal is on PBS's Frontline tonight
This is the WORST: "Melanie's Marvelous Measles was written to educate children on the benefits of having measles"
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
Last Week w/ John Oliver is back and he's railing against the marketing practices of pharmaceutical companies
The visual pollution and shadow-casting of Central Park by new skyscrapers continues
Thanks to Tic Tac Toe Tee, the t-shirt you can play, for sponsoring the site
BuzzFeed's Ben Smith scores a sit-down interview w/ Obama. The half-life of those LOL listicle jokes grows shorter.
Jessica Coen does the impossible: she uses every single item in her CSA allotment
For their 10th anniversary, Lifehacker published their 10 most popular posts ever
How to lose weight in four easy steps. Step 3 is difficult but really works.
From Dave Wiskus, a brief history of computer user interfaces. Engelbart, Xerox, and Jobs, oh my!
A new iron/aluminum alloy has the strength & lightness of titanium alloys but is 10x cheaper
Video supercut of 105 movie robots in 2 minutes
Name that Beep: how good are you at matching sounds to the gadgets that make them?
The worst Our Incredible Journey yet: we sold our company to Google so we're deleting your kids' videos in 27 days!
Love this: the Mars Orbiter snapped a pic of the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars
Ross Ulbricht found guilty on all counts in Silk Road trial, faces life in prison
Climate change, vaccines, evolution. Why do so many reasonable people doubt science?
57 ways you can be a better cook right now
In a clear victory for net neutrality advocates, the FCC will seek to reclassify the internet as a utility
This is potentially unfortunate: you should be suspicious of the new Harper Lee novel
Whoa! Dashcam footage of a plane crash in Taiwan.
The Queen Of Code, a short documentary on Grace Hopper, a computer pioneer who generally kicked ass
Alarmed to hear that Hellmann's may have changed their recipe or manufacturing process, resulting in a "soupy" mayo
A pixel art version of The Simpsons opening credit sequence
An American adaptation of Black Mirror is coming w/ new stories, not just remakes of the old ones
You can already pre-order Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird sequel on Amazon:
New book from Harper Lee out in July, a sequel to (but written before) To Kill a Mockingbird
An extensive oral history of Chipotle. At the start, "the break-even was he had to sell 114 burritos a day".
Hearing about this book everywhere now; The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering...
Word on the street is that Radio Shack is going out of business
Michael Pollan: after decades of stigma, scientific research into psychedelic drugs is on the rise again
Actually, America's Founding Fathers would have hated the anti-vaccination movement
Roald Dahl on measles vaccines: It is "almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunized"
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