posted Mar 7 @ 11:24 AM by Jason Kottke · gift link · via @capndesign.com Some graphs showing how people’s Letterboxd ratings of the Star Wars films have changed over the past few years . The prequels’ rankings have increased while the Rey/Ren movies have fallen.

Founded in 1998, kottke.org is one of the oldest blogs on the web. It’s written and produced by Jason Kottke and covers the essential people, inventions, performances, and ideas that increase the collective adjacent possible of humanity.

2023年3月14日 · Kottke.org was the first membership program I supported back in the day and today I'm happily wearing my fine hypertext shirt. Thank you for all the posts, all the links and all the insights. Here's to the next 25!

2024年12月4日 · The 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide. Since 2013, I’ve done a holiday gift guide that’s basically a curated roundup of stuff from the best gift guides I can find. I always do it a little bit differently from year to year, and this year I’m going with a simple list. It’s gonna be dense…let’s go! 1. Charitable giving.

posted Feb 27 @ 09:00 AM by Jason Kottke · gift link · via nytimes.com The United States has fallen to a score of 65 (on a scale of 0-100) on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (calculated before Trump’s 2nd term).

A growing number of posts on kottke.org have been "tagged" with keywords. Some of the tag pages have dozens or even hundreds of entries, almost like they're slow-moving topical blogs. Warning: you will get lost down some rabbit holes with these.

Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter · kottke.org. JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, VT, a 15-minute drive from where I li ...

posted Feb 7 @ 06:30 PM by Jason Kottke · gift link Extinction Burst Explains MAGA Voters’ Racist Anger This fantastic two-minute video , from a guy named Rich, neatly explains why the anger and frustration of Trump’s supporters has been growing over time — why the pushback on things like diversity, equity, inclusion, trans rights, and ...

2025年1月27日 · Oh this is just delightful: for the opening of his documentary film on the history of music on SNL he co-directed with Oz Rodriguez, Questlove produced what the NY Times calls “a high-speed, six-minute DJ mix of SNL music highlights”. So. Good. From the same piece in the Times, Questlove explains how it came about: It’s impossible for me to phone anything in, …

posted Mar 7 @ 04:20 PM by Jason Kottke · gift link From Ben Fry, a visualization of the 5,000+ covers of the New Yorker from the past 100 years . “The horizontal line/artifact comes from the way that they re-run their first cover (and more recently, a …