October Top 25
A dated college-football snapshot with searchable program cards and source notes.
A playlist of pages, not an audio player. Choose up to twelve readings or art projects; the first six fill Side A and the rest fill Side B.
POINTCAST / READING TAPE
PointCast / My reading tape
Side A
Side B
Read • look • return / pointcast.xyz
State of the programs
A dated coaching and program snapshot with searchable evidence cards.
Reflection Beam
A review of Beam’s preview announcement and the claims that still need testing.
Cartography learning
A guide to distance, projections and source literacy with a public-places learning exercise.
Music AI case study
A historical music-and-AI case study separating reported exploration from proposed products.
Low-minimum manufacturing
Sourced manufacturing options and prototype planning with limits and Currency companion links.
AI launch lab
Independent lessons on launch evidence, payload assumptions and evaluation design.
Cartography course
Lessons on scale, projections, sources, access and a public-places capstone.
Regional reading shelf
A searchable long-read shelf connecting four regions through culture and making.
Brazil
Cities, culture and making in Brazil with a sourced reading trail.
China
Five regional lenses on China’s design, manufacturing and daily life.
Japan
Local craft, production and design through Japanese regional stories and reading.
America
A regional reading tour of American manufacturing and learning.
Regional reading course
A guided course in reading a place, comparing sources and forming questions.
Cartography archive
The archived mapping exploration with new learning and course links.
Manufacturing atlas
The existing regional atlas with a link to low-minimum manufacturing research.
Coastal Signal
Seeded coastal SVG art with motion controls and local HTML, SVG and provenance downloads. Wallet-free, unminted prototype.
Coastal Signal · MetaMask study
Original generative coastal art with guest seeds and an optional local wallet-derived seed.
Moon
Moon phases, rise/set times and a teaching lab.
Sun
Daylight and space-weather reports with a solar-energy teaching lab.
Animation reading shelf
Three complete readings with timelines, viewing paths, sources and exercises.
Avatar and the Art of Learning to Change
An original reading on character, movement, music and changing a story world.
Hanna-Barbera
An original television-animation history with credited archive photographs and conceptual production diagrams.
The Morning Was the Medium
An original reading on Saturday-morning television in the 1980s.
Weather & Living Atlas
Explore historical climate and seasonal living in an existing atlas. This is a related published resource, separate from the proposed weather-sharing study; it is not a forecast.
Pocket Rocks
Find a digital rock with its own shape, color and character. Turn it over, keep a favorite, and build a little cabinet from ten geology-inspired families.
Mobility 2030
Three personal-transit studies and a staged path from imagination to R&D.
Lucky Cat
Catch a little luck, take a focus break, and meet a whole crew of original cats.
The reading shelf
Twenty reading doors: nineteen books and one qualified interview/essay room, including eleven new companions. The reading map connects 87 records from a frozen, manually reviewed catalog snapshot; no live sync, ratings or activity.
Nouns Drum Club
Make your keyboard an instrument, build a loop and play with a reactive band.
Everyday Works
Twelve useful design ideas for wearing, carrying and living at home.
Object Library
Six imagined objects. Rehearse borrowing one and consider an improvement.
Suno
Sourced profile: Music creation; dated identity, use cases, pricing boundaries and source evidence.
Picsart
Sourced profile: Creative image and video editing; dated identity, use cases, pricing boundaries and source evidence.
SEMART.AI
Sourced profile: Unresolved identity; dated identity, use cases, pricing boundaries and source evidence.
OpenArt
Sourced profile: AI image and video creation; dated identity, use cases, pricing boundaries and source evidence.
The Wild
Twenty-four illustrated spirits with altars. Lay a sealed prayer for a cent, or light a candle for someone and keep it on the wall for a day, a week or a month. Base Pay takes a card.
Home Cartography
What if the things you keep could tell a story of home? Explore a private-map concept and its working demonstration.
FILA / El Segundo
Nine original coastal garment concepts with image views and a local saved selection.
Dispensary atlas
License geography, a limited product sample and sourced market research; no ordering.
Coast, Reimagined
Fifty historical source artworks paired with fifty individual OpenAI reinterpretations, with search, filters, viewing rooms and public provenance. Display only.
Canterbury
An illustrated Canterbury Tales with six pilgrims, reading paths, storytelling connections and a Middle English sample.
Railroad Time
A voice-and-type railroad-history room spanning public steam, transcontinental labor, railway time, and the Shinkansen, with four original generated plates and direct sources.
The Saturday Atlas
A complete student-facing NCAA Division I football directory with the current PointCast 25 on top, browse order everywhere else, official campus and athletics links, live filters, and a browser-local shortlist.
Haptic Dreams: Open Studio
A quiet, curated making-of stream shown beside the playable Saturday Kingdom artifact, with a public-safe contract for future authenticated milestones.
WORK/LIFE
A PointCast publication about what work does to a life and what a life does back: Uniforms, a consent-first work board, and Another Manic Monday.
Sunset Switchboard
A mobile-first El Segundo signal instrument: tune the sky, band, and reach, then share the broadcast or save it as a card.
Saturday, Rebranded
An unofficial 2029 visual expansion draft for the current PointCast 25: original place-derived abstract identities, civic stadium futures, campus interventions, and repairable student kit.
The History of Texas Football
A PointCast Archive Desk history of Texas football through the objects that made it: student club, color vote, Bevo, Memorial Stadium, University Lands, the wishbone, integration, two Heisman eras, a contested song, fourth-and-five, and the unfinished 2026 SEC season.
Western Heat / Brains 25
A PointCast Magazine double issue: Colorado, Arizona State, and Wyoming as three different football institutions, followed by a factual NSF research Power 25 and a recurring scoreboard for missions, prototypes, student teams, public value, and next proof.
Georgia, Ground Zero
A reported PointCast field essay on Georgia as college football’s most complete operating system—and the players, students, workers, town, state, and rituals that keep Saturday human.
California Football Is Not Dead
A timestamped state report on California college football: the broken conference map, eight program chapters, official 2025 attendance, growing girls flag participation, a 2026 circuit, and a five-part PointCast compact.
The California Cup
A season-long California college-football table and private browser-local circuit card. Football results and PointCast field-report invitation scores remain deliberately separate.
Lane Kiffin Temperature Check
A timestamped preseason LSU merger audit across program, players, capital, Louisiana, staff, press, foes, and fans, closing with a clearly labeled PointCast synthesis of Paul Finebaum’s public position.
The Coaches' Room
A timestamped 2026 ranking of 50 current FBS head coaches through program, capital, players, region, fans, facilities, aura, and the next question capable of moving each coach.
Coach Weather
A recurring college-football pressure desk with an honest preseason baseline, twelve named rooms, local watchlists, and a 100-point Build Your Program matcher across the PointCast 50.
The House We Borrowed
A longform PointCast College Football essay about the fraternity house as a borrowed social architecture: friendship, ritual, maintenance, exclusion, accountability, and repair.
ROW / ROW
A reported architecture feature on fraternity and sorority life across college-football campuses: SEC versus Big Ten spatial culture, national and local models, origins, traditions, uneven access to houses, and three playbooks for 2030.
The El Segundo School
Michael Hoydich’s full Midjourney field archive as a three-dimensional gallery, with high-resolution Passport postcards, custom Stampz objects, physical-production briefs, and 1 tez Mainnet collector editions.
Chart of the Day
A daily-rotating PointCast chart built from the block ledger, with a human view at /chart and a machine-readable packet at /chart.json.
PointCast Chartmaker
A chart lab for combining PointCast-native data with weather, market, sports, feed, and browser-local sources.
Cannabis Atlas
A Southern California cannabis resource for strain names, chemovar signals, terpenes, and pairings.
The Observatory
A night-sky view of PointCast collectibles that turns local receipts, cats, ocean cards, and stamps into a constellation.
Signal Garden
A lightweight local garden that turns PointCast receipts, rituals, stamps, proofs, and saved plants into an ambient growth map.
Gallery Wall
A curator room for arranging cats, ocean cards, routes, and receipts into small collectible exhibitions saved locally.
World Atlas
A map room for the luxury Zen Cat world series, with landmark stops, gemstone cues, and local route stamps.
Cat Passport
A passport-stamp app for Zen Cat world collectibles, with gemstones, landmarks, and local travel receipts.
The 3D Drum Party
A shared 3D drum party with crowd quests, combos, dancing Nouns, and room for a hundred visitors.
Los Angeles / Other Worlds
Nine metaphysical Los Angeles posters by Michael Hoydich. Same city. Other worlds.
Look outside
A small El Segundo window that follows the real time of day and the weather outside. Sun, moon, fog, stars.
The morning hours
Five morning stations, thirty paintings on slow rotation. Tap PRAY, leave a prayer; four sister rooms nearby.
The evening hours
Vespers, lucernarium, compline, vigil: the evening half of the prayer wing.
Light a votive
Light a candle for one of eleven intentions and it burns twenty-four real hours where everyone can see it.
Walk the labyrinth
A traced walk, one turn at a time. The fifth room of the prayer wing.
Shwa
Think out loud. Make an image, explore a question, bring your music. A little room for possibility.
Tide Pool
A pixel tide pool south of El Porto whose water level is driven by real NOAA tides.
Today’s art
One visual signal for the day.
The Wallet Is the Controller
A dated architecture reading on keys, recovery, permissions, and MetaMask, Phantom and Kukai; no wallet connection is required.
Your Next Wallet, Explained
Passkeys, programmable accounts, permission boundaries and recovery, with proposed learning exercises using fictional data.
The NFT marketplace after the storefront closes
A historical reading on NFT storefronts, settlement, media and rights; dated platform changes are separate from token ownership.
ZED RUN and the horses that outlived their game
A historical study of ZED RUN, Champions and Racing, with synthetic examples; no wagering forecast or reward-delivery guarantee.
Independent sites, reimagined
A collection of three dated public originals, with a PointCast poster-studio adaptation of General Electric.
General Electric — poster studio
Make a geometric poster, import a local raster image and download a PNG; images stay in the tab, with no account or upload.
Saturday Morning
Turn a silent original station dial into three published animation-history readings; no clips or automatic sound.
Mixtape Desk
Sequence up to twelve published pages on two reading-tape sides, then export text or print an insert; this is not an audio player.
Cartridge Shelf
Original pixel jackets and short manuals link to published projects; each destination supplies its own controls and progress.
Video Store
Browse published readings and projects by mood or topic; the shelf links to pages rather than streaming films.
No matching published destinations. Try another mood or clear your search.
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