Josette Torres, MFA

Playing Boards of Canada on a DEC PDP-1 from 1959 This is so so cool and an arrow-splitting bullseye in the middle of my wheelhouse: a short Boards of Canada tune played on a DEC PDP-1, one of the most significant machines in the history of computing. Here’s a descri

Playing Boards of Canada on a DEC PDP-1 from 1959. This is so so cool…they wired the debugging light bulbs on the first hacker-friendly computer to speakers to play a short Boards of Canada tune. [kottke.org]

Marble racing has become a viral sport on YouTube, drawing millions of fans to intense marble league tournaments, high-speed marble runs, and oddly satisfying competitions. Jelle’s Marble Runs is the world’s most popular marble racing channel, created by Jelle Bakker, an autistic YouTuber whose prec The Neurodivergent Genius Who Invented Formula 1 For Marbles

The Neurodivergent Genius Who Invented Formula 1 For Marbles. “This is the story of how one creator on the autism spectrum redefined online sports through marbles, community, and viral spectacle.” [youtube.com]

The big man is back

Ticket and program discovered for historic Michael Jordan game at East Chicago high school gym A Region resident found a ticket from Michael Jordan's first game in the Chicago area in a Bulls uniform, played at Washington High School in East Chicago.

"Junior Bridgeman's name was bigger at the time than Michael Jordan."
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oh my god the transition from the SD laser-peacock to HD holy shit it's amazingf

My first months in cyberspace Recalling the difficulties and wonder of getting online for the first time in 1995, including diary extracts from the time.

Phil Gyford, writing about when he first got online in 1995: My First Months in Cyberspace. “It was a miracle and it changed my life. All of our lives.” [gyford.com]

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

Outrageous vandalism.

Great Moments In Preemption: 

Angry or sad Tennessee fans.

Guessing Zohran Mamdani loves this NYT Magazine cover. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...

Exclusive | How a Handyman’s Wife Helped an Hermès Heir Discover He’d Lost $15 Billion Nicolas Puech says his wealth manager isolated him from friends and family and siphoned away a massive fortune. Then came the clue that began to reveal the deception.

How the Hermès heir lost a $15 billion fortune. The moral of this story is never trust your wealth manager.

Picture of a hand in a claw shape hovering over a cat which is snarling with text overlaying it which reads "please do not the cat"

#caturday Here's your weekly reminder to please do not the cat

THE BUS TO DC STOPPED AT BUC-EE’S. THIS IS A GOOD OMEN

Kinda handy when these people sign the papers and identify themselves, don't you think? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

these are illustrations of all four artists' songs being played on SiriusXM Outlaw Country. (Oppenheimer by Old 97's is on right now)

when i was 21 I mostly listened to Patty Griffin, Steve Poltz, Neko Case, & the Old 97's. if you hold told me then that 25 years later they'd all still be active artists and that there was a linear radio station with actual DJs and everything that played all four of them, I'd have walked out

Dispute Over Indiana College Newspaper Draws Censorship Accusations

Indiana University fires adviser to student newspaper and bars print publication www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/b...

IU hamstrung student newspaper's ability to use Mark Cuban donation, fired adviser says
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it looks like one of those youtuber poster frames, it says DUG UP EVIDENCE and then scrawled in red paint FROM PUBLIC RECORD HELL and then there's this sort of surveillance style spycam shot of a reporter in a vest labeled JODY BARR

amused by this promo for a Charlotte TV news reporter

Every Televised and Filmed Joy Division Performance One hour and twenty-five minutes. That’s apparently all of the footage that exists of Joy Division playing their music on TV and in concert. Open Culture’s Colin Marshall writes: Brian Eno once said of the Velvet Un

Every Televised and Filmed Joy Division Performance. “One hour and twenty-five minutes. That’s apparently all of the footage that exists of Joy Division playing their music on TV and in concert.” [kottke.org]

Blacksburg Town Council approves project turning former hotel property into apartments Housing has continued to be a struggle for Blacksburg - But now, there’s some hope.

“There’s a shortage of available housing in the town of Blacksburg, and this project and projects like it help meet some of those needs,” said Vice Mayor Michael Sutphin.

Blacksburg Transit bus 1807, a 35' 1998 New Flyer low-floor model, photographed at a timecheck in the rain circa 2001. The front sign reads "GO HOKIES!"

Women don't like the vehicle? Couldn't be me.

Blacksburg council considers 320 new apartments at site of old Days Inn " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/cardinalnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image.jpeg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/cardinalnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image.jpeg?fit=780%2C780&ssl=1" /> Blacksburg’s housing shortage has emerged as a key issue in the town’s mayoral and town council elections. The post Blacksburg council considers 320 new apartments at site of old Days Inn appeared first on Cardinal News.

Blacksburg council considers 320 new apartments at site of old Days Inn

the generational divide between “grew up on the pre-YouTube internet” vs “grew up developing parasocial relationships with YouTubers” is extremely evident here, where the QTs are all either “I always believed this was true & have never been prouder of anyone in my life” or “who are they?”

There are cupcake non-conference schedules and then there’s whatever this is

Quan Barry on Writing a Horror Novel Set in Antarctica Quan Barry is an award-winning playwright (and poet) as well as a novelist, skills which show in the virtuosity of the ensemble of characters she has created in The Unveiling. Her primary narrator …

@janeciab.bsky.social talks to award-winning playwright, poet, and novelist Quan Barry about writing a horror story set in Antarctica.

view from the beach looking inland to Boggle Hole youth hostel and the trees behind it. the tide is out so lots of rocks are exposed on the sand. a steep causeway leads down onto the beach.

This week's episode is another *sleep safe* treat.

Episode 283 - Night trees of Boggle Hole (51 mins)

Up the beach from Robin Hood's Bay to the trees behind the Youth Hostel. A perfect location. No road noise, no planes.

Listen on podbean > bit.ly/LenBog

NO WE ARE NOT DOING HOLIDAY ADS ON OCTOBER 13

Poynter launches public editor project to serve news audiences in Indianapolis - Poynter Partner newsrooms will publish the editor’s independent analysis of local news coverage across the market.

Interesting idea. A entire news market will get a public editor.

Indianapolis will be the first local media market to get its own Public Editor, who will monitor all the newsrooms in town. tinyurl.com/2s44zxe8

‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs More than 10,000 images of signs, placards, quotes, photos and more are part of the crowdsourced effort from over 300 national park and monument sites around the U.S.

A publicly-sourced archive of more than 10,000 national park signs and monument placards went public as part of a massive volunteer project to save historical and educational placards from around the country that risk removal by the Trump administration.

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