Saturday, November 29, 2025

Friday, November 28, 2025

Fun Neal Stephenson blog speculating about how a reading list came to misrepresents his books

The "a16z Infra Reading List" includes a four-line entry for Stephenson that misspells his name and concludes, "Fair warning though, most of these books don’t have endings (they literally stop mid-sentence)." His books don't end that way, and in his latest newsletter he offers some interesting guesses as to how the list came to make that specific error (and what it means for future AI summaries of his work).

Netflix released a website for the Art of K-Pop Demon Hunters

Can listen to the soundtraclk as you stroll. (Preorders for the actual book are expected next month)

- DO NOT GET DISTRACTED BY VERY HANDSOME FACES + BODIES - LITERALLY EVIL - THEY KILL PEOPLE - tax evasion

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— Amanda Wong (@amandawtwong.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM

New video game Humble Bundle featuring games by Maximum Entertainment

Including Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons.

Field Notes posted the solution to their murder mystery

This was the special edition free with any order recently. Here's the solution described in detail.

Today's news and jokes

@mystapaki Public bathrooms in China #chinatravel #chinatrip #shanghaitravel #shanghai ♬ Yi Jian Mei (xue hua piao piao bei feng xiao xiao) - Yu-Ching Fei


Xbox wireless controllers are 39% off

at Amazon. $39 for mundane colors, $49 for the translucent Pulse Cipher.

The Wirecutter's favorite portable power station is 45% off right now

ECOFLOW Solar Generator RIVER 2 Pro by itself is $299 at Amazon, $474 with solar panel. Also, Darn Tough Men's Hiker Micro Crew socks are 15% off (guaranteed for life).

Super7 Tiamat is 40% off right now

One of the doorbusters at Entertainment Earth this morning. Action figures are buy one get one 50% off.

Beautiful Elden Ring book (Art roundup)

We are excited to announce Lore Bound: Elden Ring Explained, @vaatividya.com's full lore analysis of Elden Ring. Encompassing Elden Ring, Nightreign and DLCs, this work is the essential reference for any lore aficionado. www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/...

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— Tune & Fairweather (@tuneandfairweather.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 5:34 AM

Full-colour interior illustrations by @devlinart.bsky.social.

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— Tune & Fairweather (@tuneandfairweather.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Webstore. And some Elden Ring illustrations by Devlin:





Thursday, November 27, 2025

"The ultralight gummy bear power bank just got yanked from Amazon"

I've seen it recommended by backpackers watching every ounce of their gear (can't remember if I posted about it, or maybe set a post in the future). Here's a write-up, and also there's a long thread:


Black Friday deals are up at the BBTS

Some recent Marvel Legends are 25-30% off, inclusing evil Psylocke and the huge Gamerverse Venom. And the Hiya Toys Godzillas look fun, are 25-30% off.

The Wirecutter's favorite travel backpack is 25% off right now

The Cotopaxi Allpa 35L is 25% off in most color options.

Dracula's Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving roundup)

happy Thanksgiving from this old one

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— LEE GATLIN (@neilaglet.bsky.social) November 28, 2024 at 7:05 AM



since we're talking about pies- one of my favorite internet traditions is r/costco every year, without fail, featuring multiple top-of-page posts of people completely agog at the scale of the costco pumpkin pie display. it must feel like walking onto a sherman tank factory floor in 1944

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— lauren (@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com) November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM



My niece is drawing everyone's picture, one by one revealing our deepest insecurities like a she's in a Stephen King book

— weeder (@weeder.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM



Still up when I looked


1930s Macy's Day Parade balloon designed by Tony Sarg.

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— Vincent Alexander (@nonsenseisland.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM



Dying at the first time Swedish Chef sees Big Bird

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— BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs.bsky.social) December 25, 2024 at 9:45 AM





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— Phineas (@phineas.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 6:18 AM





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— Star Trek Minus Context (@nocontexttrek1.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM






thanksgiving is a time for people to come together, to celebrate the spirit of unity despite our differences, and to demonstrate that, here is busta rhymes performing "break ya neck" with raphael the ninja turtle

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— Brian Grubb (@briancgrubb.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM


(This)

I cannot stop laughing at this

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
(This, too)






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— Bryan Fischer (@bryandfischer.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
(Madden (if he didn't know what mirliton was) would have been delighted to discover something knew, and would have made it the star of the show) (also, I'd like to see what freak food nonsense Brady gets up)

New Humble Bundle features Image comics , fourteen volumes for $1

Image comics in the '10s.

Today's news and jokes



How to paint a heat effect on a miniature tank cannon

@frog_anarchy little help with heat effects. #miniaturepainting #warhammer40k #warhammer #miniatures #warhammercommunity ♬ original sound - Frog Anarchy miniatures


This makes it look really easy

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

The versatile MUID Benson Lying Flat Duck Night Light is 20% off at Amazon

$13.59 right now at Amazon.


Three $1.99 books from my wishlist

at Amazon:

The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West

Star Wars The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella

Also,

Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, from the Black Death to the Space Age is $2.99

New Humble Bundle featuring four volumes of Doctor Who comics for $1

Including "The Wheeping Angels of Mons." There's also a bundle featuring Worms video games, starting at seven ganes for $6 (classic, pinball, golf etc.)

New video game Humble Bundle for Black Friday

Not sure what the connective tissue is for the "black friday bundle," but Steam scores displayed (15 gamed for $15).

Today's news and jokes

My husband Dan figured out how to rig up a video camera beneath a clear glass water bowl so we can take a video whenever Miles takes a drink of water. 🐶

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— Kathryn Yu (back No Proscenium on Patreon!) (@kathrynyu.com) May 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM


McDonald's x Stranger Things figurines (not for the USA)

Glow in the Dark Cloche Neuron hat

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

OK, here's my ranking of the best Star Wars of the last 25 years (non-movie edition)



11. Baby Yoda S1 

10. Darth Vader Book III #16-19: The Shu-Torun War


8. The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel


6. KOTOR 1






These were good, too:

Ranking the best of Star Wars: 1.) Andor 2.) Any SW movie when you’re 8 years old 3.) Knights of the Old Republic 4.) Knights of the Old Republic II 5.) Tattered Star Wars expanded universe paperback you found for $1 6.) Empire Strikes Back 7.) A New Hope 8.) Christmas in the Stars holiday album

— Mike Drucker (@mikedrucker.bsky.social) November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM

The best star wars is the comic book where luke dumped water out of the millennium falcon and it formed giant ice cubes in space and darth vader crashed his spaceship into the giant ice cubes and almost died

— Christopher Livingston (@chrislivingston.bsky.social) November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM

MAFEX Halle Berry (Joh Wick 3) up for preorder

Includes her two dogs (the other new Mafex figures are both from Batman Hush).

Today's news and jokes

@chase_hofer #fypシ #guys ♬ original sound - Chase Hofer


Great paintjob on the current Warhammer+ subscription miniature Infinity's Lament



Monday, November 24, 2025

If you're in LA, The Getty Villa is doing a special Percy Jackson contest

Getty:

Dec 6 and 7, 2025

Dec 13 and 14, 2025

Drop-in

10:30am–3pm

Tickets are free, but required for event entrance. Your event ticket will also serve as your Villa entrance reservation. Please note, there is a fee for parking.

Calling all fans of Percy Jackson! To celebrate Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, all demigods (and ancient world enthusiasts) are invited to join a quest through the galleries and gardens of the Getty Villa Museum. Test your knowledge of Greek mythology and the world of Percy Jackson—complete the quest to receive a prize!

Prizes are limited and are available while supplies last.

Today's news and jokes

Gets a huge pop from the crowd at the end

Here's what the Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory "shared reality" experience looks like at Cosm

@geekandfab A feast for the senses at the premier of @Cosm @CosmLosAngeles Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory last night. #willywonka #imagination #cosm #sharedreality #experience ♬ Pure Imagination - Kathleen



@cosmlosangelesca Step into the Premiere of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in #SharedReality ♬ original sound - Cosm Los Angeles



@cosmlosangelesca Enter a World of Pure Imagination… don’t miss Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in #SharedReality at Cosm! 🎩 #movie #fyp #immersive #wildlife ♬ original sound - Cosm Los Angeles



@cosmlosangelesca Turns out Veruca Salt is a good egg after all! 😂 #WillyWonka #Cosm #SharedReality #verucasalt ♬ original sound - Cosm Los Angeles



(Big miss, huge, if The Unknown isn't wandering around)

Lego San riding a wolf (Princess Mononoke)

Sunday, November 23, 2025

Holiday gift guide by the Room Escape Artist website

Big variety of puzzle-related gift ideas. I bought "How to Fool Your Parents: 25 Brain-Breaking Magic Tricks" as a gift, it's currently 56% off at Amazon, and also ordered the "iDventure A-Maze-ing Safe" from their prior gift guide--29% off right now at Amazon.

Today's news and jokes

lol

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— Jerad Walker (@jeradwalker.bsky.social) November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
("An attack dog from the local Minsk police force got a little too snappy with players from CSKA Moscow and Dinamo Minsk, biting two of them")

Excellent tutorial for painting liquid-filled glass vials on miniatures

Saturday, November 22, 2025

These blindboxed animal adventurers look like great stocking stuffers, and 30% off

$6.99 each right now at Amazon, and intended for use with a board game.

Today's news and jokes



The audiobook for Iain Bank's novel "Matter" is fabulous

My favorite Culture novel (slightly abridged), wonderfully performed by Toby Longworth. Available at Amazon, although I listened to it in the Libby app.