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An em dash with a drop shadow on a light purple background.

You can take my em dashes from my cold, dead hands

Are em dashes really a telltale sign of AI writing?

A marker drawing of the Titanic sinking—it's tail end sticks up out of blueish-green frothing water.

10 years of drawing the Titanic every day

3654 days after they started, an anonymous artist looks back at ten years of Titanic drawings

Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott announce the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards.

The Night Water 2025 Oscar Ballot

Plus: Steven Seagal and an update on the Movies Fantasy League

Close-up of a tortilla with pulled mushrooms simulating the look and texture of carnitas, along with other ingredients.

A BritMex Veganuary Fast Food Tour

The best vegan “Mexican” food London has to offer

Scrubs Power Hour: Selections from Season One

Scrubs Power Hour: Selections from Season One

Featuring hits from David Gray, Nil Lara, Cheap Trick, and more

A still from A Charlie Brown Christmas. Charlie Brown and Linus discuss life in the snow.

Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits #2: Christmas

Another holiday special from the NYU Local archives

Statler and Waldorf (Muppets) type furiously on a computer keyboard.

A liquid cat in your mailbox

Plus: Muppet extras, fantasy league updates, and MF Doom

A staff member introduces the Greatest Muppet Movie Marathon at the Prince Charles Cinema.

Late Night Vibes: The Greatest Muppet Movie Marathon Edition

“What fools are we… that go to all night Muppets marathons?”

The remote end of the iPod Radio Remote on a purple background.

iPod Radio Remote, 18 years later

Is this the most inconvenient way to listen to radio in 2024?

Artwork from A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, showing the Peanuts gang at a large dinner table.

Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits #1: Thanksgiving

A holiday special from the NYU Local archives

Greggs’ Vegan Festive Bake is a worthy train treat

Miracle on the high street

An iPod nano running Sonic the Hedgehog on a purple background.

Meet the developer saving the iPod’s click wheel games

Finally, you can play LOST: The Video Game with a click wheel

internet

Swifties have shown us the future of Bluesky

The mass migration of Taylor Swift stans reveals the power of Bluesky’s features for building community

A person in a beat-up Spider-Man costume thumbs for a ride on the sidewalk in a city.

nightcap

Austin Powers saying “Yeah, baby!”

Plus: Don't forget to check Disney+ for your homework

Let's drink Pocari Sweat

food & drink

Let's drink Pocari Sweat

Recording podcasts and drinking a Japanese sports drink at 11 pm on a Tuesday evening

Caption: "iMod Diaries" with photo of iPod running Rockbox operating system

Day Soda

iMod Diaries #3: Rocking with Rockbox

A deep dive into an alternative software stack

Screenshot from Tricky Madness showing a big air trick in a forest

games

Tricky Madness channels the spirit of SSX

Developer Nathan Dearth wants to bring “simple, arcade-y fun” back to the snowboarding genre

An iPod without a face plate and the caption "iMod Diaries."

Day Soda

iMod Diaries #2: A classic rebuild

Featuring a classic mistake

The Clementoni Talking Motorbike on a purple background.

mailbag

What is this motorbike singing to me?

And more reasonable questions about a talking motorcycle

film & tv

Join Night Water in Vulture’s Movie Fantasy League

Taking our Oscar Ballot to the next level

A photoshopped image of an iPod inside of a diary, with the caption "iMod Diaries".

Day Soda

iMod Diaries #1: A classic shopping list

Building a new iPod, brick by brick

A well-planned ancient city in Memoriapolis, with multiple large cultural buildings surrounded by housing.

games

Two Early Access city-builders with a twist

Memoriapolis and The Wandering Village take city-builders into parts unknown

It’s time to bring back the iPod

nostalgia

It’s time to bring back the iPod

1000 songs in your pocket

The Myth of "Consensual" Smoking meme

hot water takes

Hot Water Takes: Smoking in pub gardens

It's open season on cigarette smokers in Britain

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