Nice to see the Cabin Porn blog is still active.
And here's one of my own cabin photos, from Paradise Cove, Vanuatu:
Hundreds more cabins on Cabin Porn's blog.
Nestflix is a site for cataloging movies within movies and shows within shows. "Fictional movies within movies? Got ‘em. Fake shows within shows? You bet. Browse our selection of over 750 stories within stories."
For example, remember in Robert Altman's The Player, there's a film starring Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis? Yup, that's Habeas Corpus.
Nestflix
A platform for fictional films and shows within other films and shows.
Lynn Fisher
Last year, Rotating Sandwiches took the top prize at the Tiny Awards. They're back for 2024 and nominations are open until June 23.
The Tiny Awards exist to 'celebrate people making stuff on the internet for the fun of it and the love of it and the hell of it." Their site is here:
Tiny Awards
Tiny awards, tiny prize, tiny trophy, big love
You can view all of last year's nominees in this Google Doc and visit winner, Rotating Sandwiches, below.
Rotating Sandwiches
that’s it
Dead simple, drag & drop websites for anything can be created using mmm.page. A Tiny Bell was not made with this platform but it looks fun and like something others will find useful.
mmm.page — Your Corner of the Internet
Websites don’t have to be so cookie cutter. Make a website that feels uniquely you in under five minutes.
Want to know what it's like to drive in Barcelona? What about Glasgow? Beijing? St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Rio, or Paris? DriveAndListen.com has you covered. The audio defaults to off but you can toggle it on the right under where you choose your city. And yes, they have Toronto.
Click a city repeatedly to change cars / streets.
Drive & Listen
Listen to local radio stations while driving through the cities around the world. Istanbul, Berlin, London, Paris, New York City and many more
Andy Rutledge's book, Artistic Foundations of Bonsai Design, is online and free to read:
Artistic Foundations of Bonsai Design
The fundamentals of meaningful bonsai composition.
Andy Rutledge
"iN-PUBLiC was set up in 2000 to provide a home for Street Photographers. Our aim is to promote Street Photography and to continue to explore its possibilities. We are a non commercial collective. All the photographers featured here have been invited to the group because they have the ability to see the unusual in the everyday and to capture the moment."
Some truly fantastic stuff here.
"The entry is dated June 1981, and while I have no memory of writing it, the penmanship is unmistakably my own. There, between accounts of my grandfather dying and a game-winning double I hit in Little League, is an account of my being raped three years before. I concluded the entry by wondering what I would do if I ever met the man who'd raped me on the street once I myself was a grown man."
The above is from David Holthouse's article in Westword: Stalking the Bogeyman.
There is a follow-up: Arrested Development.
This American Life also did a piece on it.
Holthouse's website is here.
Wax Heads is a forthcoming game from Steam that allows you to "run a record store."
I have not played it as I don't have Steam and no longer play video games, but The Guardian did a piece on it yesterday. Sounds neat.
