A gorgeous tour of Antartica by drone.

Visualizing Ship Movements with AIS Data. “Explore the beautiful, intricate paths of ships over a year — tracked from America’s busiest ports to the open ocean via AIS marine tracking data.”

A famous lecture given in 1982 by computer science pioneer Grace Hopper, “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People”, has long been publicly unavailable but is now on YouTube.

Horndog, a rotating hot dog robot that scrolls photos of bread on “Instagrain”. It’s art!

I love these cover designed by Rodrigo Corral for Nathaniel Mackey’s poetry collection Double Trio.

Monopoly, But COMMUNIST? No Rolls Barred, a YouTube Channel about board games, has a series of videos featuring Monopoly but with different rules.

Ian Bogost on the death of the “perfect vehicle”, the minivan. “It is useful because it offers benefits for families, and it is uncool because family life is thought to be imprisoning.” Conversely, SUVs & trucks offer a sense of freedom.

Oh hey, a new book from Oliver Burkeman coming out soon: Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts.

Taffy Brodesser-Akner on the kidnapping that inspired Long Island Compromise. “The actual kidnapping is not what this story is about, if you can believe it. It’s about surviving what you survived, which is also known as the rest of your life.”

Serena Rios McRae makes hand-carved stamps out of pink erasers and recently stamped all 185 erasers onto one sheet of paper.