Brian Jones @jonesbp@sunbeam.city

In the final week of a project I’ve been working on all summer and fall. Looking forward to being able to talk about it.

20 years of late-20th century contemporary music journal Contact archived by Goldsmiths, University of London https://www.contactjournal.gold.ac.uk/

_The Public Domain Review_’s Selected Essays Volume VI is available for order today. https://publicdomainreview.org/product/the-public-domain-review-selected-essays-vol-vi

Bless the nerd who put this list of Dutch-language Smurfs DVDs and their episode titles on Wikipedia. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_dvd%27s_van_De_Smurfen

I have the Berlin/Kantstraße issue of Flaneur, but haven’t kept up with it. This new Taipei issue looks like it has some amazing colors and typography. https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/flaneur-studio-yukiko-publication-250919

Columbus Marathon starting area

🎵 Quality time with the PayPal Subscriptions API and the Friends of Dean Martinez cover of “Wichita Lineman” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf7Xhb3R83o

This episode of Upgrade with James Thomson is interesting throughout, but particularly enjoyed the final third or so where a history of DragThing provided lots of 90s Mac shareware development nostalgia (ColdWarrior, Kagi, etc.) https://www.relay.fm/upgrade/267

So stoked on Kipchoge’s sub-2-hour marathon yesterday in Vienna. Seems like it must be only a matter of time now that one will happen in proper race conditions. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/sports/eliud-kipchoge-marathon-record.html

When trying out a Chromebook a few years ago, I remember being impressed by the Markdown editor Caret, but more as a parlor trick than a reliable tool. Revisiting it at version 4.0, and it has come a very long way. https://caret.io/

Avoiding starting to work by creating unnecessary git repositories that will never be filled with documentation.

I miss Phinery tapes. Always simple, beautiful packaging. Writing documentation and listening to this 2017 Vales release. https://phinery.bandcamp.com/album/tile

Pre-sunrise, post-rain frog song coming in through the window over the heavy drones from this Luciernaga/John Lindaman split from Oxtail Recordings. https://oxtailrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/split-6

Proud of Amy for bothering to say something about the Nike “Lost Cause” campaign and making something happen https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/04/12/how-historians-got-nike-pull-an-ad-campaign-under-six-hours

1970s space colony art from NASA Ames Research Center https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s/