asteroid's recent activity

1. Bingebuster: a fully explorable 3D recreation of a Blockbuster Video store that you can visit from your browser

   ~movies Link

   10 votes

2. Moist Towelette Online Museum

   ~design Link

   10 votes

3. "Over the course of this article, we'll unravel the mysteries of elevators. The way you push their buttons, and how they push yours."

   ~engineering Article 996 words

   32 votes

4. “Hope is a method: If I do something about this situation, I might change it enough so that I can do something else about this situation.” -- Cory Doctorow

   ~humanities Article 2038 words,  published Oct 3 2021

   37 votes

5. Poems about cheese

   ~books

   • poetry

   Article 545 words,  published Jun 17 2015

   12 votes

6. The Oregon Trail’s hidden graves are being found by cadaver dogs

   ~humanities.history Article 232 words,  published Jul 16 2026

   16 votes

7. Audubon’s Bird Migration Explorer visualizes migration patterns across the Americas using data contributed by researchers and conservation organizations

   ~enviro Link

   9 votes

8. The jungle huntsman spider of Queensland, Australia, is officially the world’s fastest spider

   ~enviro Article 395 words,  published Jul 11 2026

   20 votes

9. A free interactive night map of the world's great castles, fortresses and palaces

   ~travel Article 701 words

   11 votes

10. He saw a pit on Google Maps. It turned out to be a 390-million-year-old meteor crater.

    ~space Article 647 words,  published Jul 14 2026

    15 votes

11. How Die Zeit built a searchable database of Nazi party members

    ~humanities.history Article 2101 words

    14 votes

12. Watch orcas ram a sunfish so hard it explodes

    ~enviro Article 402 words

    49 votes

13. Comment on The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill in ~tech

    asteroid (OP)

    July 21

    Link Parent

    Absolutely. I got my current job because a casual friend posted about an opening in his department. Our initial conversation was in a LinkedIn DM, then a phone call.

    Absolutely. I got my current job because a casual friend posted about an opening in his department. Our initial conversation was in a LinkedIn DM, then a phone call.

    2 votes

14. Your cookware got worse on purpose: who owns Pyrex and All-Clad now

    ~food Article 1026 words,  published Jul 15 2026

    68 votes

15. The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill

    ~tech

    • social media

    Article 1282 words,  published May 18 2026

    33 votes

16. LGBTQ+ Legislative Tracking project has compiled anti-LGBTQ+ US legislation stretching back more than twenty years

    ~lgbt

    • transgender

    Link

    23 votes

17. A Roman scroll that should be ash has just been read without ever being opened

    ~humanities.history Article 1236 words

    42 votes

18. DEI isn't dead: New research finds most companies still back workplace inclusion

    ~finance

    • business

    Article 546 words,  published Jun 22 2026

    44 votes

19. Feels so good: in defense of instrumental pop

    ~music

    • pop.instrumental

    Article 2485 words

    10 votes

20. Comment on Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem in ~tech

    asteroid (OP)

    July 15

    Link Parent

    The Moon is a Harsh Mistress would be my pick.

    The Moon is a Harsh Mistress would be my pick.

    3 votes