TIL that there are tiny Kaaba replicas used to teach kids about Hajj.

From the mid-1980s until just a few years ago, Aadam Jacobs recorded thousands of club shows, including an early Nirvana performance. Volunteers are adding them to an online archive.

Incredible story at the Nytimes

• Pascal-Joseph Taskin was a Holy Roman Empire-born French harpsichord and piano maker
• Only 8% of "moderates" actually want moderation
• Why do old mountain diagrams look like that?
• A visual guide to getting out of a creative slump

Maurice Prendergast

• The image boards of Miyazaki
• The Kawi script - this (apparently?) got more edits on Wikipedia than Artemis II last week
• About Australian pedestrian buttons
• "Wright wanted an architecture that taught people to expect more of life, not less"
• What Claude's code tells us about AI programming

By Arthur Streeton