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Cambodian herbs
Great list of local ingredients, the fishwort was really interesting
2025-02-27 cambodia • cooking • food • herbs • khmer • tourism
Nom Banh Chok
My favorite Cambodian food so far, rice noodle with a fish curry soup
2025-02-27 cambodia • curry • fish • food • noodles • tourism
Urban Forage Cambodia
Company offering street food tours, we had a really excellent time with them
2025-02-27 cambodia • food • markets • streetfood • tourism
Jackie Kennedy in Cambodia 1967
Visit from the president's widow, at a very inauspicious time in Cambodian politics and US foreign policy
2025-02-27 cambodia • history • jackieo • kennedy • usa • vietnamwar
the King of Cambodia
Fascinating personal history of the titular monarch of Cambodia, Norodom Sihamoni
2025-02-24 bachelor • ballet • cambodia • history • king • politics
LGBTQ survey in US
New Gallup poll on identity: younger people are identifying as queer much more than older generations
2025-02-22 demographics • gay • lgbt • poll • queer • us • uspol
Project 2025 Tracker
Simple line item tracking of the agenda to destroy US government
2025-02-19 politics • project2025 • trump • uspol • via:kottke
Thai Boys Love shows
TV craze for LGBT entertainment from Asia
2025-02-18 gay • lgbt • television • thailand • tv • vietnam
Tearoom NSFW
Documentary about 1961 gay sex with film from a police entrapment operation
2025-02-18 civilrights • films • gay • lgbt • mansfield • movies • ohio • police • tearoom
NSFW: Keith Haring
Joyful, sexy gay art at the LGBT center in New York
2025-02-16 art • erotica • gay • keithharing • lgbt • newyork • nsfw • streetart
Nevada County water shortage
Second year in a row that PG&E incompetence means a bunch of people in California won't have enough water
2025-02-16 corruption • infrastructure • nevadacounty • pge • water
Wrong about GPUs
Cloud hosting provider Fly discovers their customers don't want to lease GPUs
2025-02-15 ai • cloud • computing • fly • flyio • gpu • hosting • llm
Gorton font
Marcin Wichary's loveletter to a workmanlike font
2025-02-14 design • engraving • fonts • gorton • singlestroke • typography
50501
Growing grassroots protest movement against Trump's destruction of our government. Next big protests are Monday Feb 17
2025-02-14 50501 • musk • politics • protest • trump • uspol
Schwurbler
German slang for someone who talks nonsense
2025-02-13 conspiracy • funny • german • language • slang
Little Sisyphus
Remarkable physics platformer for NES, built with NESfab
2025-02-13 games • nes • nesfab • nintendo • physics • platformer • retro
DOGE team
Online tech press continues to do remarkable work figuring out who's actually running the US government
2025-02-13 corruption • coup • doge • journalism • politics • trump
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
A well designed font for readability gets major update
2025-02-12 accessibility • blind • fonts • opendyslexic • typography • vision
minisearch
Javascript search engine for small document stores
2025-02-09 development • javascript • search • web
Heat pumps in US
Details on finding a good installer and why it's hard
2025-02-09 consumer • electrify • globalwarming • heating • heatpump • home • hvac
Kottke on #uspol
Thoughtful comments from an O.G. blogger about covering the current awful political situation in the US
2025-02-07 blogs • kottke • linkblog • mentalhealth • outrage • politics • uspol
Pearblossom Hwy., 11
David Hockney collage from 1986
2025-02-07 art • california • collage • desert • hockney • polaroid • socal
David Hockney's A Rake's Progress
Gay artist in the 60s does an homage of a famous 18th century moral work
2025-02-07 art • davidhockney • drawing • hockney • hogarth • moral
Special government employees
Insider explains the SGE role in the US government, a way for outsiders to come in as a short term consultant. Trump is abusing this position now to attack the bureaucracy.
2025-02-06 consultant • eeob • government • musk • politics • sge • trump • uspol
Alley Cat (video game)
1983 videogame that's a predecessor to Stray and Little Kitty Big City
2025-02-05 alleycat • atari • cats • games • stray
gcode2dplotterart
A Python framework for making plotter art. Also 3d printers.
2025-02-05 3dprinter • art • axidraw • coding • plotterart • python
Risk at al-Hol
How Trump's destruction of foreign spending has immediately threatened global security with a specific example of an IS prison / home base
2025-02-04 is • isis • politics • syria • terrorism • trump • uspol
Musk's government sabotage
Major overview article from NYTimes about the chaos Musk is wrecking inside the federal government
2025-02-04 chaos • doge • eeob • elonmusk • politics • treasury • trump • usaid • uspol
USB 3 vs 2.4GHz
USB 3.0 ports emit interference at 2.4GHz, the frequency popular with wifi, controller dongles, etc
2025-02-03 8bitdo • interference • radio • tech • usb • usb3 • wireless
Musk's lackeys
Some information on the people who have illegal access to US government systems right now
2025-02-02 doge • elonmusk • gsa • musk • opm • politics • usaid • uspol