content: 2026-07-17 capture run — 26 finds across 9 productive sources

Shortlisted 11; review candidates: porcelain-room-aranjuez,
we-are-rewind-pink-floyd-cassette, best-made-sailors-knife.

Dedup caught 11 re-serves from 07-16 before writing, plus 2 items
re-served after being dropped on the bar yesterday (Samsung Music
Studio 5, Project AirLink pants) — dropped again on the same grounds.

Verification corrected the record on three finds: Gear Patrol's
Sailor's Knife hook was wrong (the century-old salvaged Cumarú is the
handle, pulled from the Panama Canal after 113 years under water — the
blade is new Robert Herder stainless); the Armenia "Donatello" is
studio-of, not autograph; the Transformers set is a September preorder.
Two vendor stats omitted as unverifiable. hock (A.Word.A.Day) dropped
on the alcohol rule despite a strong etymology story.

Amazon: 2 links added, 2 dropped on the same-model rule.
Sources: no maintenance changes; 3 Reddit subs held on 429 throttling
(not skipped — r/macapps succeeded from the same host). 2 new nominees.

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 ### 2026-07-16 capture round
 
 - **No new nominees this run.** The organic feeds surfaced no fresh outbound "via/h-t" credits worth adding. The standing backlog remains the priority for vetting — highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, and **Nomadico** (the last three all read a step downstream through Kottke / Cool Tools already). Adding any of these to sources.json is a user decision.
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+### 2026-07-17 capture round
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+- **Book Freak** — https://bookfreak.substack.com/ — Mark Frauenfelder's book newsletter, from the same Cool Tools Lab team we already read. Surfaced this run as the credited origin of Recomendo #523's "Deep Cuts" item (a monthly out-of-print book resurrected as a clean EPUB/PDF). Honest caveat: same curators we already get via Cool Tools and Recomendo, so the marginal yield may be low — but it's a genuinely distinct beat (books, not tools) and the site has no books axis at all right now.
+- **Psyche** — https://psyche.co/ — Aeon's psychology/philosophy sister site. Surfaced as Recomendo's credit for a "cognitive shuffling" sleep-technique piece. Weaker fit than the standing backlog: it publishes techniques and idea essays rather than buyable/usable things, so most of it would fail the bar. Flagged for completeness, not advocated.
+- **Considered and not nominated:** Wired (credited by Recomendo for an iPhone-accessibility piece) — a mainstream tech outlet, not a curated-oddity source. Fails the brief.
+- **Backlog unchanged and still the priority.** Highest-conviction, repeatedly re-surfacing: **The Public Domain Review**, **Michael Tsai**, **MetaFilter**, **Colossal**, **Craig Mod / Ridgeline**, **Nomadico**. Now 10+ unvetted nominees standing — worth a vetting pass.