Ftrain, by Paul Ford

Mar 20, 2016 · Article · Medium

Some (other) interesting newsletters

Some (other) interesting newsletters

If you like Postlight’s newsletter, you may enjoy these:

Image from “The Above Chart Manifesto"

Scott Klein, “Above Chart”
Brand new! Just started! Scott likes to celebrate the beautiful results that come out of journalistic drudgery.

I’ve been studying this forgotten history of data in journalism for a few years, and have collected hundreds of amazing examples. I’ll republish maps, charts, diagrams and stories published in newspapers from the 18th century through the early 20th century (and a few even before that).

Laura Olin, “Everything Changes”
Laura likes progress. The official newsletter of The Awl. Full of welcome surprises. One issue was all Dolly Parton facts. One was “Rhythmic Gymnastics is Metal as Hell.” This newsletter is confident that you are smart, basically kind, and open to experimentation.

Try to remember the last time you saw what Dolly Parton’s bare arms look like. Not coming up with anything? It’s because she always wears long sleeves to cover up secret tattoos. (When finally asked about them last year, she said “they’re mostly for my husband.”)

Various authors, “Tomorrow Looks Bright”

“A curated newsletter highlighting creative projects from Black women around the globe sent directly to your inbox every Sunday.”

It’s really good. The things they highlight and promote don’t often bubble up into my personal (and obviously limited) media/technology socialmediasphere. Fashion, design work, beauty products, mobile apps — the only thread is that the things shown were made by Black women. Full of hard work and beautiful things.

Charlie Loyd, “6”
Charlie likes geography and massive social systems. Representative quote:

There’s been an appeal in the monkey selfie case, and many of the copyright cool kids are talking again about how silly it is. For them, I think, it exposes the absurdity of the copyright system that a monkey — which, having no intellect, patently can’t produce intellectual property — is suing for its intellectual property.

Anonymous, “To Be Read”
TBR is written by someone who wants to remain anonymous but who loves good, cheap sci-fi, fantasy, and horror e-books. This person keeps an eye out for sales on Amazon and other e-book sellers, and as a result you’re able to pick up Ursula LeGuin for $2, or a Poul Anderson sword-and-sorcery novel for the same amount. If you are a cheap person who likes high-quality genre fiction this is hard to beat.

This is a small, lonely operation competing against gigantic lists harvested by heartless corporations. Our humble hope is that someday we will have enough subscribers that we might help books top the junk that dominate the top SFF charts at our largest online bookstores. Any support you can bring to that cause would be welcome.

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From our friends

Rob Stenson writes:

I know you’re a web partisan, so I thought you might enjoy this interactive hearing loss simulator http://tonal.goodhertz.co/hearing-loss/ (uses the Web Audio API) — answers the question on everybody’s mind: what does music sound like when you’re 90 years old?

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