Time's running wild.
The latest lockdowns in China are throttling factories and ports, further disrupting supply chains for companies like Samsung, Volkswagen, and Nike. / Sky News Australia
Pfizer's Omicron-specific vaccine will be ready by March—though that's likely too late, given the current speed of infections. / CNBC
A new Senate bill seeks to repair the electoral ambiguities Trump and his allies attempted to exploit. / The Washington Post
Biden wants the Senate to change its rules to pass the two voting rights bills that have now been stalled for months. / BuzzFeed News
See also: Play mini-golf on a course of gerrymandered districts. / The Washington Post
New York could soon require the fashion industry to disclose its societal and environmental impacts. / Hyperallergic
Jeannette Cooperman: Before we were repelled by plastic, we were seduced by it. / The Common Reader
"You may be forgiven for believing that China has actually launched an artificial sun. Like, into the sky." / VICE
Snowball fights depicted in medieval art and literature. / Open Culture
"You can't prove that there's not a unicorn in a teapot that's orbiting the sun right now." Life as an alternative historian. / Input
A stop-motion animation of surreal woodworking, by omozoc. / The Morning News
On the 50th anniversary of David Bowie's Hunky Dory, a track-by-track review of why the album still resonates so loudly. / PopMatters
Rembrandt's The Night Watch in eye-poppingly high resolution, with some of the painting's missing pieces restored. / Rijksmuseum
Cue the fun Wordle spoofs.: Sweardle, Queerdle, Letterle, and the like. / The Verge
See also: Apple has removed a number of Wordle clones from the App Store, including one that plagiarized the word game's name and interface. / @waxpancake
This is exciting: Roxane Gay announces the Joel Gay Creative Fellowships. / The Audacity
At the Restaurant of Mistaken Orders—whose servers are all living with dementia—not all the orders come out right, and that's OK. / MetaFilter
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