Welcome back! I’ve had a stress-filled month, and i just saw Disclosure Day and thought it was naff, but let’s ignore that and focus on the beautiful things of the world for a moment. Like these links i found you. Please enjoy each one equally. :-)

• A history of Arabic typography, and why it’s still so sucky on the web
• Where to find the colours your screen can’t show you. There’s some beautiful stuff out there in the world.
• CrankGPT: A small language model running on a hand-cranked computer. “Provided the electronics are kept dry and at a reasonable temperature, there’s no reason this thing won’t still work in a hundred years.”
• “List of anachronistic contemporary”
• What Rothko is the weather today?
• Banana youth
• The Star Gauge (璇璣圖), a fourth-century Chinese poem written in a 29-by-29 grid that can be read in three thousand different ways
• In similar vein: “On the Page Lays Language”, one of many poems submitted to a writing contest for aliens
• A fun showcase of some Winogradsky columns and other jarred terraria
• Plot.fyi: “Film discovery for film lovers”, recommending similar films based on plot/tropes/director quirks/&c.
• I Spy but for Wikipedia pictures
• Heikki’s Garden of Flowers: a compendium of pre-Ascii typographic art
• A site devoted to Coventina, a Roman British Goddess of wells and springs
• “Society’s Resilience to a Total Loss of Agriculture”: or, how to use natural gas and microbes to feed the population in the event that farms suddenly stop working
• This one’s just for the real transhumanist sickos in the audience: A talk for mental-health professionals about the coming explosion of non-human minds. “The road to transformative regenerative medicine leads directly to freedom of embodiment.” Yes… yes!!!!
• Some deliciously nineties panoramas of the view from various hills