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Quick Links for September 2016

Julia Child facts; "I think also on the television you want to do things loud. People love the whamming noises."
7 Types Of Violence You're Picturing Wrong Thanks To Movies
The 1966 Live Recordings, a 36-disc box set of every known recording from Bob Dylan's 1966 tour
A Commodore 64 is still being used to balance driveshafts in a auto repair shop in Poland
So proud of Mike Essl, now the acting dean of the School of Art at The Cooper Union!
The Beauty of Terraced Fields, photos from China, Switzerland, Vietnam, Peru, the Philippines, and Japan
Michiko Kakutani's NY Times review of a Hitler biography is a thinly viewed subtweet of Trump
Want to keep your grown kids in your life? Learn to be the impartial neighbor.
You can now buy tshirts designed by @polan at Uniqlo. All my interests, converging.
101 small ways you can improve your city. Some great suggestions here.
A guide to the 58 terms for bodies of water – like rivulet, meander, gulf, tarn, loch, or fjord
We're in The Age of the Wordless Logo
From Delmonico's to Howard Johnson's to Chez Panisse, Ten Restaurants That Changed America
The Hamilton Cult: because of @lin_manuel's play, the conservative hero has become a liberal darling
How to ship a bike without damaging it: label it as a flatscreen TV
Kirk Douglas, nearing 100 years old, imparts some wisdom and perspective to prospective American voters
Canned pumpkin isn't really pumpkin at all
Roger Angell is 96 and will be casting his 19th vote for President in Nov (for HRC). His first was for FDR in 1944.
Kevin Garnett retires after 21 years in the NBA. Glad that I got to see him play in person several times.
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy would you start a job at Apple and allllllllllllllso try to keep your job at The Verge?
On Oct 4th, there will be 10th anniversary screenings of Idiocracy all over the US
The Tetris Effect, a book about how Tetris took over the world
Great take by @mattzollerseitz on the second season of Mr. Robot
"All non-Africans today trace their ancestry to a single population emerging from Africa 50-80,000 years ago"
Nice report on some of the nifty features of the Portland bike sharing system
It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
Another kids book about evolution: Grandmother Fish: A Child's First Book of Evolution
This looks great: a children's picture book adaptation of Darwin's On the Origin of the Species
A comparison of how much better the iPhone 7 camera is vs the first iPhone's camera
Oh shit, git! What to do when you screw something up in Git.
A list of Chris Rock's favorite standup specials
Andrew Sullivan's doctor asked him during his last year of blogging: "Did you really survive HIV to die of the web?"
Bret Victor: What can a technologist do about climate change?
Chillwave version of the Seinfeld theme song.
The economics of running a NYC restaurant. This is bleak...NYC restos are a bubble propped up by dumb money.
Jay Z in a NY Times Op-Ed: The War on Drugs Is an Epic Fail
Ernest Hemingway writes some sequels to "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn."
Tyler Cowen: Brexit will result in a long-term economic hangover for Britain
AirPods are not just headphones, they're Apple's second wearables platform
This biography of Jane Jacobs comes highly recommended by @tylercowen
Climate change is about "maintaining the stability of our civilization"
Climate change is happening and that means that NYC will flood "beyond recognition"
10 Ways to Adapt to Prison
Ikea is upping their design efforts (but not prices). Also: "1 in 10 Europeans is conceived in an Ikea bed".
How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat. This stuff makes me ANGRY. Fucking shady scientists.
The Little House on the Prairie books are "brimming with casual racism"
How's your day? Tough going? Check out these photos of Paralympic athletes doing their thing and get back to me
Nice relaunch/redesign over at The Morning News today. More linky/bloggy.
PT Anderson's next film is about fashion and stars Daniel Day-Lewis
American cheese is perfect
How kids around the world get to school
Astronomers have discovered a new kind of galaxy, one made up of 99.99% dark matter
Jodi Ettenberg (@legalnomads) shares some of her most embarrassing travel stories
How Edward Snowden escaped Hong Kong
Webrecorder: Create high-fidelity, interactive recordings of any web site you browse
A 24-year-old American tries a Coke for the first time (first Warhol mention just 5 sentences in, btw)
A cool look at how Laika 3D prints faces and bodyparts for their stop-motion animation (Kubo, etc.)
Mina Markham: Pantsuit is the design system for Hillary for America
Bizarre ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker
Schrödinger puzzles are crosswords w/ squares that have 2+ correct answers...and this one is extra special
How teens use Snapchat and Instagram, an interview with a high school freshman
My Dead Girlfriend's Bot
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