1 hour of silence occasionally broken up by Michael Jackson sounds
Exactly as advertised. Sixty minutes in which the only noises are silence and, occasionally, Michael Jackson. You will not regret a single minute.
Links
An ongoing collection of links and short notes.
August 2026
April 2025
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
A field guide to why the logos of every AI company appear to be converging on the same conclusion. Once seen, cannot be unseen.
January 2025
GifCities
The Internet Archive's search engine for GeoCities GIFs. The visual language of a dead internet, preserved like amber.
April 2024
Umarell
The Italian word for a pensioner who stands around watching construction work. Italy got there first because it needed the word.
November 2023
Prisencolinensinainciusol (Remastered)
Adriano Celentano's 1972 single sung entirely in invented American English — gibberish that sounds, to Italian ears, exactly like American pop. He was proving a point. He was right.
September 2023
Chimney Sheep
A felt plug for your chimney. British, woolly, and does one job beautifully — the kind of product that makes you wonder why everything else exists.
Replica Train Departure Boards
A replica train departure board for your home, wired to live national rail data. Now you can experience the anxiety of a late-running service from the comfort of your kitchen.
July 2021
The strange case of the Bristol hum
The BBC investigates the low-frequency drone that has bothered Bristol for years and has no agreed source. The mystery endures; the hum remains.
Dumb Cuneiform
A service that presses your tweets into actual clay tablets. Permanent, insufficiently sceptical, and probably exactly what the ancient Sumerians would have wanted.
Doctorin' the tower: KLF maverick in a small Antrim town
A small Antrim town, a KLF maverick, and the relentless pursuit of turning things that shouldn't be art into art.
January 2020
Dogs poop in alignment with Earth's magnetic field
A peer-reviewed study confirms dogs prefer to relieve themselves aligned to the north–south axis. The funding for this was presumably hard won.
We Become What We Behold
Nicky Case's five-minute playable essay on how surveillance and social norms feed each other. You will be mildly complicit within seconds.