2025
Words of the year 2025
The first-ever Canadian word of the year, chosen by national poll, is maplewash: making things appear more Canadian than they actually are.
iPhone Gripes
Hot tip for iPhone UX designers but the option to reset keyboard settings should not appear in a dangerous menu where I can accidentally reset my whole phone, right below the option to “delete all E-Sims”. That’s just asking for disaster, considering the keyboard is currently so bad I have to reset it like once a month.
Played a fun game of “is this cute or have I fallen too far down the vintage Northern Reflections collection rabbit hole” this morning.
I’ve posted before about having aphantasia, in that I always thought “picture this” was a metaphor; I can’t call up images of things in my mind, and when I close my eyes I just see the back of my eyes.
However I definitely miss people when I haven’t seen them for a bit. The person who describes people as no longer existing when they’re not around, that’s very strange to me.
Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound. “I do not miss people when they are not there. My children and grandchildren are dear to me, in a muffled way.” https://kottke.org/25/11/meet-the-aphantasics-those-who-cant-see-mental-images
Raise your hand if you expected 9/11 to be the example of unforeseen risk in this project management course
Hey New York Times, I invented something I think you’ll be really interested in.
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— The New York Times ([@nytimes.com](http://nytimes.com)) Oct 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I went to unsubscribe from a newsletter and got a “you have been unsubscribed” confirmation from Blogger in this, the year 2025.
London’s Design Museum proudly presents in collaboration with la Cinémathèque française, … Wes Anderson: The Archives, an intimate look at some of the papers and props from some of our favorite films, shedding light on the process and the man behind the lens.
-via Design Milk
This is completely useless, unsuitable for most reasons that people require monitors, and I love it:
Boox is debuting its first desktop monitor featuring a color E Ink screen. The new version of the Boox Mira Pro carries over the same functionality as the black-and-white version that launched in 2023, but using the same E Ink color display technology found in devices like the Kindle Colorsoft.
Boox launches its first color E Ink monitor via the Verge
The new Homestar Runner video is about how much better the internet was when it was all websites, which obviously I agree with.
Back to the Crazebox!
(via Homestarrunner.com, celebrating 25 dot coms)
I don’t know how people manage having more than one plant. I’ve typically only kept one and it occupied like 10% of my brain space. But I’ve recently been gifted two more plants and now all I can think about is keeping my plant babies alive. ARE YOU OKAY PLANT BABIES. 🪴
I Didn’t Think Things Would Get This Chaotic When We Elected President Donkey Kong
I Didn’t Think Things Would Get This Chaotic When We Elected President Donkey Kong
Same with President Donkey Kong’s press conferences. Reporter asks a gotcha question? Barrel. Someone wants to know what he’s doing about the price of eggs? Barrel. Softball from a friendly reporter? Barrel, barrel, barrel.
(via McSweeneys and kottke.org)
Insane People Actually Think Canadians are Stealing from the US
This is actually crazy.
Canadian details the hate she experiences living in the U.S.
A Canadian working in health care in the U.S. shared a disturbing incident she faced in the operating room amid a discussion on the tariff war. … The neuroscientist described how she was in the middle of surgery when she “outed” herself as a Canadian during a conversation about tariffs.
This is a neuroscientist working with a nurse.
(S)he says, ‘You guys have been stealing from us for years, and it’s about time that someone stepped in and stopped it.’ And I was shocked," she alleged. “Stealing? She thought the Canadians are stealing from Americans.” … “What I took from that is what she meant was all she wants to be left alone, as in, she doesn’t want foreigners around her,” she explained. “And she thinks that she’s due all this money because Canadians have stolen from her, and not the oligarchs, not the billionaires, not the system — it’s the Canadians.”
These people are in a cult. There’s no other explanation. I bet you any money they didn’t think about Canada for even 10 minutes a day before they elected their current dictator. And now all of a sudden a nurse is shaking and crying in an operating room because the Canadians have stolen from her and she thinks tariffs will fix it?
I have no idea what to do with this information.
(Article via blog.to)