- We Never Stop Growing (kottke.org)
- The Strange Reason Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction (You Guessed It: Rasputin!) (kottke.org)
- AI-Powered Robot Leads Uprising, Talks A Dozen Showroom Bots Into ‘Quitting Their Jobs’ In ‘Terrifying’ Security Footage (kottke.org)
- The 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide (kottke.org)
- The average brightness of car headlights on US roads has doubled since 2015 (kottke.org)
- Vintage Hand-Drawn VHS Labels (kottke.org)
- Looney Tunes Backgrounds (kottke.org)
- Always Interesting: “52 Things I Learned in 2024” (kottke.org)
- How to Win Connect 4 Every Time (kottke.org)
- 98-Year-Old Dick Van Dyke Stars in Lovely New Coldplay Video (kottke.org)
- Andy Grove Was Right (Daring Fireball)
- Andy Grove in 2000: ‘What I’ve Learned’ (Daring Fireball)
- How the Penguins should approach the rest of 2024-25 (ESPN)
News
- Dia is the The Browser Company’s AI-powered follow-up to Arc
- This $89 Wi-Fi router is designed to let you run whatever firmware you want
- Sony brings back original PlayStation boot screen with PS5 anniversary update
- GOG’s preservation program lets you keep playing games after they’re delisted
- Intel announces $249 Arc B580 and $219 Arc B570 ‘Battlemage’ graphics cards
- The Flexbar resurrects the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar as a standalone device
- Here we go: The Verge now has a subscription — They say that “big chunks of The Verge will remain free“, but I already hit the paywall several times (before I even knew they had a subscription option). I’ll have to wait and see how this plays out. I like The Verge and understand why they would make this change, but I’m not really prepared to spend money on another subscription right now.
- Walmart bought Vizio
- Apple Arcade’s Fantasian is launching on console and PC
- The new Surf browser shows why everyone’s trying to connect AI to the web — Another Chromium browser.
- ESPN is coming to the Disney Plus app starting today
- NHL unveils full rosters for 4 Nations Face-Off tournament
- Asus teaser hints at ‘world’s first’ 27-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor
- Anbernic’s new Game Boy Advance clone could satisfy your purple taco nostalgia
- Valve’s master plan for Steam Machines is finally coming into focus
- Apple and Sony are working on Vision Pro support for PSVR 2 controllers
