GPS, Galileo & More: How do they work & what happened during the big outage?
This article is fascinating. GPS is so critical and it is ubiquitous that it not working would be shocking. Makes you think about all the people who have to show up at their job for our modern life to continue on as always. It's an underrated accomplishment of humanity.

What’s the Point? Pondering the value of art in this trying time.

Pricing niche products: Why sell a mechanical keyboard kit for $1,668? That this happens and works is amazing.

Corey Robin teases out the philosophy of Clarence Thomas It's always interesting to dig into people's thoughts and philosophy particularly when they have so much influence.

These Guys Just Drove an E63 AMG Across America in a Record 27 Hours 25 Minutes
I found this style of race when I was a teenager on the early web. It was a teenage dream of mine to go on such a run. It involves a lot of work and a lot of luck.

It's the time for the Illusion of the Year and what a wonderful time it is. I've seen a number of posts about the winner but I think the true standout is the second place. It's one of those rare illusions that is very easy to change simply by changing perspective.

Glass artist Satoshi Tomizu has been making these glass pendants for a couple of years but I just came across them. Sadly most of the information about them is in Japanese. They are absolutely stunning works of art that appear to contain a whole solar system in the palm of your hand. He has a lottery going on right now to allow people to purchase the next batch of them but it looks like it will only be going on for a couple more hours so move quickly if you want one.

I'm always a sucker for series of great photos and the Guardian has an excellent writeup on the Historic Photographer of the Year with the top submissions. The original site also has a gallary with all the submissions if you want to scroll though for a long while.

This is really a wonderful edition of Euclid's Elements that has been done by Nicholas Rougeux. I'll confess to having not read or looked at Elements since my schooling. This got me to site down and look though it for a while. I just love the little touches that they have done.