• Hawaiian MVNO Mobi collapses

  Taking my cell service and phone number with it. The CEO allegedly failed to pay T-Mobile for it’s network, then fled to Brazil.

• A ’Night Green Blues’ Primer

  “It is undoubtedly a rap album. however, to truly understand it, one must approach the album as if it were blues”

• Lady Chatterley’s Lover

  The trial to ban a book was rooted in a false moral superiority born from a widening class disconnection.

• Dark patterns in physical spaces

  How grocery store layouts manipulate our shopping behavior.

• STOOR Live in Paradiso (2025)

  Five people improvising live techno for seven hours.

• Fran Sans

  Beautiful font (with a perfect name) based on SF Muni destination displays.

• Becoming More City-Like

  A data driven top 10 list of US cities that are changing for the better.

• Firing Someone Into the Sun?

  Practical advice.

• An Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain

  1.Prioritize long-term relationships 2.Fund art not ads 3.Put humans in control

• Weird Studies — Episode 192

  Phil Ford: “Walking is a dream of landscape.”

• Wooden Bluetooth Sound Bar

  Assembled from start to finish (no talking).

• Synth Library Portland

  Featured on a local morning news show.

• We Are The Internet

  Leah Reich: “Do you want to be inventory? Or do you want to be a human being?”

• Branding ‘Nothing Personal’

  Talking about brand design is awkward - Doubly so when that brand sets out to be counter-cultural.

• What Makes a Movie Feel Real?

  Big words like: perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia.

• I Am a Creative

  Jeffery Zeldman ponders the moments of inspiration, the hours of plodding, and the ultimate mystery at the heart of a creative career.

• Personal Business

  “That sounds nice, but how is a tiny software company supposed to compete with huge and well-funded companies?” The answer is that you don’t really have to. You just have to get an understanding of the proper pace and scale of whatever your endeavor is.

• How Do You Survive With Integrity?

  “We get into what it means to build trust with an audience, how community gets harder in a platform-driven world, and why ‘working for the people’ still feels like the best job [Jesse Thorn’s] ever had.”

• Cardinals vs Reds (06/01/1986)

  After 17 failed pickoff attempts, Vince Coleman steals second base.

• The Origins of Film Noir

  Guillermo del Toro: “In a way America is the carnival, but America would be a better carnival if all of us knew the games were rigged.”

• In Our Time — The Moon

  Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the origins, science, and mythology of the moon.

• The Rise of Whatever

  “[The web] used to mostly consist of little things made by people, and that was pretty cool! You would see more than four websites in a day. Websites would have colors!”

• A Secret Web

  There’s a lot of web out there, it’s just gotten harder to find it…

• Good from Afar, But Far from Good

  How do various AI models perform when prototyping in real design contexts?

• Atypical UX & the Power of Time

  Fruity Loops was initially dismissed as a toy. Now FL Studio is one of the most popular DAWs in the world.

• Esoteric Synth Design

  Blush Response examines the tradeoff between artistic aesthetics and user friendly interfaces in synth design.

• Creative Agency in the AI Landscape

  Frank Chimero: “I want to carve out a small creative place for myself in everything that is happening. Is it possible?”