7 Things This Week [#161]
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not.
1️⃣ Apple’s annual holiday ad gets a big thumbs up from me this year. [▶️ youtube.com]
2️⃣ James G made his own little web reader that updates once per day so that he can read his favorite websites like a daily newspaper. I love when people build tools to meet their own specific needs. [🔗 jamesg.blog]
3️⃣ For the Apple New+ readers out there (and probably regular Apple News publications, too), Parker Ortolani has a good tip for quickly getting to your favorite news sources from the Home Screen. [🔗 mastodon.social]
4️⃣ The folks behind Trello created a 40-second audio track designed to banish earworm songs stuck in your heads. I can’t speak to its efficacy, that’s just what it says on the tin. [▶️ youtube.com]
5️⃣ If this Mufasa story has been told before, I’ve missed it. And that’s okay! It’ll be fun to go into something new without comparing it to an older film, one that’s been long-held dear. [🦁 youtube.com]
6️⃣ Jack Wellborn worked on an AppleScript to automatically mark items in NetNewsWire as read if they’re older than 36 hours. Helps keep things from piling up in the read-later queue. [🔗 mastodon.social]
7️⃣ Thanks, Kottke, now I want this $420 one-time use timer that counts up for over 2,000 years. [🔗 cwandt.com]
Thanks for reading 7 Things. If you enjoyed these links or have something neat to share, please let me know. And remember that you can get more links to internet nuggets that I’m finding every day by following me @jarrod on the social web.