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StoneRed

The StoneRed project (SR) is a wide-area curiosity retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to one interesting document per day.

Everything there is online about SR is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, the document archive, today's SR news and other appearances.

Today's document: The one interesting thing for Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
What's out there?: Pointers to every previous document, by subject and date.
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Bored: A recommendation, for users with nothing to do.
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Case files: Unsolved matters. Restricted to users with a magnifying glass.
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The Merchants of Cool

2001 · 53 minutes · Colour

[FILM: The Merchants of Cool, 2001]

How corporations studied teenagers, bottled “cool” and sold it back to them. Even more relevant now than in 2001.

Streaming from YouTube, from the producer’s or official distributor’s own account. Watch it there ↗

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